In a stunning and revealing moment on live television, the truth about the violent crime epidemic plaguing Democrat-run cities was laid bare for the entire nation to see. Blowhard Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, a prominent figure in the Democratic party, thought he could waltz onto FOX News and spit out his usual nonsense about crime statistics in Chicago, attempting to whitewash the grim reality with empty talking points. It was a brazen attempt to mislead the American public, a common tactic of the liberal media and its allies who consistently prioritize their political narrative over the safety and well-being of citizens. This is precisely the kind of dishonest governance that President Donald Trump has tirelessly fought against, promising to restore law and order to a nation besieged by the failed policies of the left.
Pritzker, clearly unprepared for a real journalistic challenge, attempted to bloviate about Chicago’s murder rate with a stunning level of detachment from the facts that govern the very city he is supposed to lead. He confidently stepped into a trap of his own making, believing he was in the safe space of a typical liberal media interview where such false claims would go unchecked and unchallenged. The governor, with an air of misplaced authority, made a claim so easily disprovable that it exposed the sheer depth of the deception.
The pivotal exchange unfolded with stark clarity. Brett Baier, acting as a true journalist should, presented a simple and direct question to the governor, cutting through the political fog. Baier asked, “Does Chicago have the highest murder rate of all the big cities?” This was the moment of truth, and Pritzker’s response was a masterclass in political obfuscation. Governor Pritzker: “Well, we are not in the top 30 in terms of our murder rate. Indeed, our murder rate has been cut in half over the last four years, and every year it’s gone down by double digits. If you look at all of the violent crime over the last four years, they’ve all gone down.”
This was the lie, delivered with a straight face to the American people. It was a desperate attempt to paint a rosy picture of a city drowning in violence, a city where citizens live in fear due to the abject failure of progressive criminal justice policies. But Baier was not having it. He was armed with the truth, a weapon so rarely used in mainstream media circles that it landed with devastating effect. He immediately fact-checked the governor in real-time, a service the liberal media refuses to provide for its own favored politicians.
The screen flashed with the undeniable evidence, a map that visually represented the harsh reality that Pritzker was trying to run from. Brett Baier: “Here’s a map. Most populous US cities, 17.47 per 100,000 population. Chicago is number one over Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Phoenix, Los Angeles, New York, and Diego.” The numbers did not lie. Chicago, under the failed leadership of J.B. Pritzker and the city’s Democratic machine, indeed leads the nation in the big-city murder rate. This is the catastrophic result of the left’s soft-on-crime, anti-law enforcement agenda that President Trump has consistently condemned and vowed to overturn.
Fat boy tried to lie to Brett Baier pic.twitter.com/zfgnMixWGv
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Caught red-handed, Governor Pritzker could only flail and attempt to change the subject, his credibility shattered in an instant. His feeble response was a testament to a politician who has been exposed. Governor Pritzker: “What I’m explaining to you is when you want to fight crime-Now, you’re talking about violent crime. Look, you can pull statistics up. No, these are murders. I’m explaining to you that our murder rate has been cut in half.” Even when confronted with the cold, hard facts, he continued to dig himself deeper, refusing to acknowledge the simple truth that his city is the murder capital among America’s largest metros. This is the arrogance of power, a belief that they can talk their way out of any failure, no matter how bloody the consequences.
h/t: Steadfast and Loyal
