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Aug. 21, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Crime in D.C. and the Cover-Up - August 20th, Hour 3
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By the way, Cash Patel, FBI director, saying 25 illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds were arrested Tuesday night in our nation's capital.
And he said today that his agency will continue to pour resources into combating crime in Washington, D.C. until every community is safe.
He posted on X 550 people have been arrested in D.C. since Donald Trump moved to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department.
Of those arrests, 66 were on Tuesday.
Patel also said the FBI was involved in 41 of the arrests on Tuesday night with eight drug seizures, six illegal firearms that were recovered.
And he said the men and women in the FBI working side by side with local law enforcement partners have taken hundreds of dangerous criminals off the streets of D.C. and proof of what happens when good cops are empowered to do their jobs right away.
So they're not going to stop.
And the fact that Democrats want that to happen is inexplicable to me.
I played this earlier.
I'll play it again.
It's appropriate.
Robert Garcia, Congressman from California, shocker, you know, would rather shut down the government than let Donald Trump fix Washington, D.C. Now keep in mind as you listen to this that if you look at the homicide rate for capital for capital cities around the world, by far America's capital city, Washington, D.C. is number one in terms of the homicide rate, and that is 41 per 100,000 people.
Crime, homelessness, uh lifestyle issues, quality of life issues are out of control.
And since President Trump has gotten involved, I gave you the statistics yesterday.
I won't repeat them.
Every crime category is down dramatically because of, you know, getting away from this idiotic defund dismantle no bail law and immigration, I'm sorry, and and sanctuary city status mentality of the left.
But listen to this Congressman.
But do you think that your colleagues in the Senate, Senate Democrats, should refuse to fund the government?
That deadline is coming up at the end of September.
Uh should they refuse to vote on these spending bills using that leverage until they see President Trump uh reverse deploying troops in the seats uh in the streets of DC.
Yes.
I mean, first that should be on the table.
I don't think we should be ruling that out.
I think I think that Democrats in the Senate, the House, I mean everyone all of us should be united in using everything that we can do in all of our power to stop what Trump is doing right now, not just in DC, but across the country.
So absolutely that should be on the table.
Now, DC officials, thanks to our friends at the Washington Free Beacon, law enforcement officials in DC's Democratic control uh city government are now facing allegations that they actually covered up multiple murders in a bid to make their city staggering crime numbers look better.
Now remember, we have the distinction.
Every country in the world, we have the number one homicide rate of any capital city around the world.
By the way, even Baghdad isn't as bad, and Mexico City isn't as bad.
I can go through all the different countries.
And, you know, 41 per 100,000, and that's with doctored numbers and you know, this this massive, you know, uh manipulation of numbers.
Anyway, what we're discovering is a lawsuit filed by a veteran DC cop is citing four examples of obvious homicides that were classified as accidental or cause undetermined.
Now, I want to read to you, and we'll be joined in a minute by Anna Giratelli, and she's the Washington examiner, Homeland Security Reporter.
She does a great job.
I want to read an article that she wrote.
I'm going to read part of it.
Five years ago, I was violently attacked and sexually assaulted in broad daylight in Washington, D.C. by a homeless man.
He served time in federal prison for what he did to me, but if you look at if you if you look for evidence of the attack that happened in the city's crime statistics, you will not find it.
The truth of what happened to me and the DC government's role in it as much as a public scandal as it is a personal trauma.
DC police covered up this unspeakable wrong that this stranger did to me, even though a judge sentenced my attacker to a hard time in prison, DC police leadership would rather deceive the public and appear less dangerous than list mine and countless other sexual assaults on their website.
Anna Giratelli joins us now.
First of all, I'm very sorry about what you have gone through.
You do a great job at the examiner and we appreciate your time.
Sean, thank you so much for amplifying my story.
You know I don't it's interesting because the New York Post today, I couldn't believe my eyes when I read this story about this guy William Hathaway took a woman to a so how to a Soho house in New York City in the West Village where he was convicted of rape according to a Manhattan jury.
They found him guilty of of rape but even though the prosecution asked for four years in prison, the judge led him off with probation and quote sex offender treatment.
I mean for those people that have never been a victim of this kind of violent crime, I mean, I imagine it's the type of trauma that will stay with you for the rest of your life.
I can't imagine the horror that you live through.
It is it is and and you know it's taken years of recovery.
It's been five years since it happened and that's why it's taken time to speak out now and um you know I am a crime reporter.
I've been to the border over 60 times.
I work with the federal law enforcement every day, and I had no idea how covered up crime is in D.C. until I became a victim and said I have to speak out because no one's doing anything until now.
And you're right.
It's an incredibly personal thing, and I don't hold it against other victims for not speaking out, but I think if the Trump administration really wants to fix this problem, They need to know how deep it is.
And we don't even have accurate conclusions.
crime stats at this point to know how bad it is.
Let's go into your case.
I mean to the extent you're comfortable I I I don't want you to have to revisit the entire trauma but but just to paint the picture for this audience what did you go through what happened what time of day was it and and then the impact it had on your life and then the fact that DC, you know, police and prosecutors, whoever's involved in this are covering up the fact that your crime even ever took place.
Yeah it was a Saturday in April 2020 Saturday morning 930 I lived right outside Union Station a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol and I had a package I was going to mail at the post office on the other side of Union Station.
And I was walking down the street other people were out and a a stranger a large man uh came at me and lunged at me and in the process of trying to take me down he sexually assaulted me.
I was screaming for help.
He was screaming on top of me.
It was very uh you know you don't know what's going on very chaotic and someone did come initially run over and others came and and helped me he got away that day but police got DNA for my clothing and two months later told me there's been a match he has a criminal history he's homeless.
He lives close to your apartment building on 2nd Street Northeast and they arrested him a month later the judge ordered him released the following day and in the nearly two years it took us to go to trial uh he was arrested five more times including for having a machete in public and was released from jail all five times the following day after his arrest.
And so I think you're describing madness I I've got to imagine that has got to be infuriating for you.
It was infuriating and and and you know after that type of crime you're not in your right mind.
It was COVID in DC was was nuts because we were all locked in.
I lived by myself on the sixth floor of a building I saw no one every day and trying to overcome that and then understand at the same time that you know your your city is gaslighting you.
It's not a big deal we're we're gonna we're gonna try him by the feds you know it's a big deal but it's also not a big deal and at the end of the day saying I can't I can't you know rely on the city to have my back I was I felt physically unsafe but I felt so let down by the city I loved My my career is in DC.
I'm in politics and media.
There's no other place to do that.
And so I left with nowhere to go because I didn't feel like I had a choice.
All right, quick break.
We'll come right back more with Anna Giratelli.
She is the Washington examiner, homeland security reporter, uh a victim of a sexual assault herself, and of course, they're not keeping track of it.
And uh DC is now being uh faced with allegations that they're covering up major, major crimes to lower their their crime statistics.
We'll continue with Anna on the other side as and then we'll get to your calls 800-941 Sean as we continue.
Can we continue?
Washington Examiner, Homeland Security Reporter, Anna Ghiratelli is with us.
Let's talk about when you discovered that DC and the government there that they are purposefully not reporting sexual assaults like yours on their website and they're doctoring the numbers because this now is coming into the forefront.
Yeah, and that and that article you mentioned, I mean, that's just the tip of the iceberg for how deep it is.
And what I uncovered in 2020 after the attack, I was writing a story on violent crime.
Um I, you know, trying to get back to work myself, despite what I've been through.
And I noticed on the crime map at the time, they used to put pins on the map for exactly where a crime had occurred.
And I noticed there was no pen on the map where my what was a sex abuse crime had occurred.
And when I spoke with the police, they said we're only posting first degree felonies on our public safety crime maps.
And my charge was not a first degree sex crime.
It was a lower degree.
And so for the next five years, that I mean, that set the tone for you don't matter.
You know, what you went through, it was incredibly invalidating to me.
And then last week I reached back out to the police to to double check and see where things stand now.
What are they putting on that crime map?
They're no longer using pens.
They're being less specific and and color coding regions and neighborhoods in certain colors and not giving a detailed breakdown.
And they said to me, for sex abuse crimes, we're only placing first degree and some second degree crimes on the map.
And so first degree is rape, second degree, some of those are are attempted rape crimes.
Uh in this case, I wasn't one of those charges.
I was a different charge or different degree.
And so they said, no, your charge is not on here.
And I said, he went to federal prison.
Don't you think he should be listed?
And they didn't respond.
So that's where we stand today.
This guy is a repeat offender, and you have the typical, you know, defund dismantled, no bail law mentality in in DC, like New York, like places in California, for example.
How long did this guy go to jail for the crime against you?
Well, I found out at sentencing that he had attempted to hurt, if not killed, an off-duty female police officer in the same air area neighborhood, uh, just a few weeks earlier.
And so that sentence was combined with mine and with the five other arrests that were put down to misdemeanors, and he did around two years in prison for everything combined.
And he's been released since then.
And uh I hope he's not living five blocks from your house like you found out months after the assault took place.
No, I you know, I I chose to leave DC and I haven't returned.
Um I don't feel safe.
And I, you know, it's it's a really painful experience to to know what what could happen.
And uh, you know, I hope everyone there, no one should be a victim of crime, regardless of party belief.
I think you and I both agree with that.
And you know, I I hope anybody with a brain agrees with that.
Anybody.
Exactly.
You know, I I mean, look at this story.
I mean, it's the front page of the New York Post today.
I don't know if you get a hard copy wherever you're living.
I won't even ask you because I don't want you to disclose it.
But here's a 33-year-old guy, took a woman to Soho House, uh, then to his West Village home, uh, was found guilty, according to a Manhattan uh jury of rape, and even the prosecution in New York asking for four years in prison, the judge lets him off with probation and quote sex offender treatment.
I mean, I I don't know.
Uh uh I I don't know the mindset or the mentality that would ever let somebody convicted of this crime out on the street and not throw the book at them.
Well, I don't know if put if this is the right decision or not, the judge said in this case.
The right decision was to prevent more future potential crimes here and other victims uh from this guy.
That's the that's the purpose and to punish people for their crime.
Yeah, I I can't imagine how the victim feels.
It's it's doubly as painful to be physically sexually hurt and then to have have this happen.
To see the people who uphold the law feel like they're not defending you, feel like they're doing more for the criminal.
Um, I I hope the Trump administration looks into not only the judges deciding cases in DC, but also looks at, you know, how how bad is the crime situation.
You know, this is my story, but how many other sex abuse victims and victims of other lesser degree felonies are out there who don't even know they're not counted in the crime stats with DC police.
Well, Anna Garotelli, I'm so sorry.
That you had to go through this, live through this.
You still live with it today.
Uh everyone can completely understand that.
Uh I applaud you for speaking out and giving this the proper attention that it deserves.
Uh hopefully that will wake people up and we'll start punishing people for the crimes that they commit, especially violent sexual crimes like you had to experience yourself.
And I'm so sorry that happened to you.
And our prayers are with you.
Thank you so much, Sean.
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Jeff is in Virginia.
Jeff, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, Sean.
Uh thanks uh thanks for having me on.
Uh so you're gonna talk about uh some of the uh the topics you were uh you were speaking about earlier with uh Ukraine and Russia.
Uh first off on the um you had a previous caller, Dan was talking about the languages.
Um neither one of them is gonna have any any problem whatsoever uh discussing things in English or in Russian, although uh they are you are correct, you Russian Ukrainian are different languages.
Uh thanks to Katie, she did a great job, you know, all this call screening stuff.
And then last uh on the uh no on the prelude here.
Uh next time you're in Alaska, you gotta try moose.
Uh moose moose uh moose steaks moose.
I I thought I I thought I did a good job trying reindeer.
It's that was a big step for me.
And I had reindeer sausage and a guy gave it to me uh at a local breakfast place, and I'm like, tastes like regular sausage.
It tastes like a you know, a pork sausage to me.
Yeah, it is it is really good.
Moose is like the best uh uh roast I've ever had.
No fat whatsoever.
I think I'm gonna get more brave in my in as long as it's cooked, I don't really care.
I well, why shouldn't I try everything?
What's the big deal?
Okay, I don't want to now down to the topic, uh, you know, there of uh Russia Ukraine.
I mean, uh from my perspective, and again, I'm um I'm retired uh Marine.
I was a uh international relations guy, uh foreign area officer, studied that part of the world a bit.
Putin wants he he wants it all.
Uh but what he really wants is uh better warm and deep water forts.
He got those ten plus years ago uh with the Crimea.
But he also is Clayton interested in all the resources that's that that's a super resource-rich environment there on the uh the eastern side of Ukraine.
Lots of coal and gas and salt and minerals and all that kind of stuff.
But yeah, I think that I think it's coming down to the Donask region.
If in fact they both want a deal.
At the end of the day, there's only so much Donald Trump can do.
It's gonna be decided by Putin and Zelensky.
Europe will play some part in the decision, but really it's gonna it's gonna be Putin, it's gonna be Zelensky.
Either one of them can blow up the deal at any time that They want.
And if they do, I mean, that's on them at that point.
They're given an opportunity here to stop the killing and stop the madness.
And if they choose not to do it, there's nothing anybody can do at that point to stop them.
Right.
I I I I agree.
Um from Zelensky's point of view, I mean, yeah, his his his dream state would be the borders, you know, reset that, you know, twelve, fourteen years ago, and give me security guarantees.
Um I'm just being realistic.
I'm not saying what I want.
It is uh if you go back to when Clinton convinced the Ukrainians to give up their nuclear weapons, that was the biggest mistake Ukraine ever made.
All of these countries gave security guarantees to Ukraine.
So that this that's so what happened in Crimea in 2014 would never happen.
What happened under Biden would never happen.
And guess what?
It all happened.
And the big the lesson to be learned here is if you have nukes, don't give them up.
And if you're a country like Iran and the number one state sponsor of terror for the rest of the free world, don't let them have them.
That's my advice.
Man, I think that's the biggest lesson here.
Anyway, my friend, I appreciate it, Jeff.
God bless you, man.
Uh back to our phones.
Don is in the great state of Iowa.
Don, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hi, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm actually truck driving through Texas right now, coming up on Katie's next neck of the woods.
Why is everybody sucking up to Katie today?
Everyone's sucking up to Katie.
Um anyway, God bless you for being a truck driver.
Uh, I say this every time, and I mean it sincerely.
Uh the part that you play in America's food chain, and every store we go to, every item that's in there is because of a trucker like you.
Thank you for your hard work every day.
It's not an easy job.
It's a tough job.
Thank you, Sean.
I appreciate that.
I uh called because of uh uh what's going on with uh Newsom in particular.
He's he's really being a nuisance, and and the crime in DC and and Trump trying to put a uh end all the crime either via uh illegal alien or legal US citizens.
He's trying to put a stop to as much of it as he can, and that goes for in Ukraine and Russia right now.
I mean, the man is amazing.
And uh it's it's just fascinating.
Listen, the guy's trying everything he can do.
I mean, he's had great success worldwide.
I I think this is gonna be the the toughest peace deal to pull off because of the the people that were involved with and dealing with, and the tensions are that high.
But with that said, I'll take any progress.
I don't think any other world leader who could have gotten Putin to sit down.
I don't think any other world leader would would motivate Europe a day later to mobilize and come to the White House and Zelensky to go to the White House.
And he's working really hard on it, but at the end of the day, there's only so much of this heavy lifting that he can do.
At the end of the day, it's gonna be on them to decide.
So we'll see what they do.
I'm hoping for peace.
I mean, I'd like to see an end to the killing.
You know, both sides are you know, kind of dug in, and I hope both sides see it's in their best interest to come to a negotiated settlement.
And there's not gonna be a perfect negotiated settlement.
There just isn't.
And I I don't I can tell you ahead of time, whatever it is, I'm not gonna like it.
But I would like to see an end to the killing.
I mean, but you had an apartment uh complex attack with multiple drone strikes last night by Putin in Ukraine.
And you know, it's sad.
There's a lot of dying going on.
Anyway, Lorenzo, how are you?
Um, I did notice in in your in Boston, Lorenzo.
I did notice that your mayor uh had a very bizarre press conference yesterday.
I think we've got the tape of this, and I'm gonna play it for everybody.
This is your mayor and her press conference.
The cities that live in their minds They are totally against the residents who live in our cities.
And we are collecting the rest of their mistakes in the fulfillment of their promises.
This has always been a city of revolution, of innovation, of standing up for the public good and never bowing down to tyranny.
That is your mayor Michelle Wu hosting a Morachi band speaking Spanish as she refuses to back down from Boston's sanctuary status.
I'm sure you're very proud, Lorenzo.
I don't even I don't even want to comment on that, Sean.
Unbelievable.
It's unbelievable.
But uh what I would like to say is um you you were right on uh the way you handle some of the callers.
And yesterday you had a call uh that uh was like tr saying, oh let uh uh Russia and uh Ukraine fight.
Look, I'm a union cop and just like you were, Sean.
You were a ninety-four guy, right?
I was a sixty-seven guy before we had the merger.
But uh I work with Russian guys, Ukrainian guys.
Um you know, few some of the guys are even married.
Well, one one particular guy is a Ukrainian guy married to a Russian uh Russian girl.
That whole area, and well, all they tell us is they want the fighting stopped.
That both the Russian guys and the Ukrainian guys, they want the fighting stop.
So what Trump has done Friday, what he's done m Monday is unbelievable.
And I get mad when uh, you know, these people in the media try to attack him.
And you stuck up for him, he has your back.
Trump has your back like none, and I'm glad you use the platform to fight for him, Sean.
Well, I think he's doing the right thing.
He's had great success around the world.
Um he is showing what America's strength looks like.
Only he and a strong president could pull this off to this point.
He he can't force people to do things, but in the end, if let's say Vladimir Putin decides he wants the war to continue and the death to continue, I do believe President Trump when when Donald Trump says that the consequences will be dire, and he puts in place a deal where a trillion dollars in energy that would normally be used to purchase Russian oil will now be used to purchase American oil.
And when Donald Trump steps in and he puts a fifty percent tariff on India if they keep importing Russian oil, the the that is the the heart and soul of Russia's economy.
He will bleed them dry.
That's why you have this article out today about the reformers in Iran begging the Iranian mullahs to stop pursuing nuclear weapons to get the sanctions dropped so that they can, you know, once again uh bring financial stability to their country, otherwise they ultimately will be overthrown.
Had Donald Trump had two consecutive terms, the Iranian mules would have already been overthrown because they would have been bankrupt and people would have been rising up against them, including their own revolutionary guard and cuds forces.
That's my opinion.
I agree.
Sean, here's the other thing, too.
Uh, you know, uh the president, he always talking about you know, uh the election and how you can't have them mail in vo uh ballots and all this stuff.
And I remember when the election, you know, you said you had it we you know, you you said we had to do what they had to do the bat ballot harvesting.
I know you don't want that, Sean.
I know you want just like same day voting in person, and I I hope that you know before paper ballots.
I hope you drive that home with your platform.
And I got one more thing.
I'm gonna listen to you, Sean.
Sometime I'm gonna tell your story how how good Trump is and how smart he is to do with the um construction and you know, cop and his union and everything like that.
Um how he was gonna buy a company and um he decided to walk away because there was so much corruption and politicians being someday I'll tell you that story next time we talk.
And you're gonna read the art of the deal.
That if you're doing any deal, you gotta be willing to walk away up to the last second.
And I use that as I use that as a business model myself.
I'm willing to walk away from any deal.
You have to.
Otherwise you're willing to sign on to a bad deal.
Anyway, God bless uh God bless your hard work and all my best to my fellow construction workers.
Uh the work you do every day is vital.
By the way, I love that that our article I keep referring to, the next generation of millionaires is gonna be tradespeople.
Uh you can't replace them with artificial intelligence, Although you are seeing robotics that are able to do roofing, and you are seeing robotics now developing that they're able to do some framing.
However, you're still going to need craftsmen.
I don't see AI replacing all of that by any stretch.
Joe in Arkansas, next Sean Hannity Show.
What's up, Joe?
How are you?
I'm doing good.
What's going on?
I'm doing good, Sean.
Um I feel like that uh worker at the at the pilot school that thought it odd that all the Middle Asian students skipped landing day and uh didn't wasn't able to tell anybody what was going on.
I remember that.
I remember that came out after the fact.
Yeah.
You're talking about the 9-11 hijackers.
I'm I'm I'm talking about I'm I'm a I'm a trucker, and um I drive uh all over the United States and Canada on uh on a regular basis.
Things have changed in the last few years that are that are very scary since then.
Well, I mean, we learned that, for example, this this guy involved in the killing of these three people in Florida making an illegal U-turn.
We got an update today that he didn't have the ability to read English street signs.
That's number one.
Number two, we know that he came in through the sanctuary state of California where he got his commercial driver's license, and he was denied a work permit in Trump's first term, and it was Joe Biden that gave it to him.
And, you know, look at the disaster.
There's untold numbers of people that have died.
You know what pisses me off too?
I'm gonna tell you one other thing.
A sanctuary state like California, we have tried to find them.
They don't exist.
They don't keep crime statistics for illegal immigrants.
They don't do it on purpose.
And we don't know how many people may have been murdered and raped and victims of violent crime, because they don't want us to know.
Uh with that said, we're sometimes able to piece together a list of names.
And and trust me, I'm very prepared uh when this you know, for the next presidential election, if Gavin knew some things he can run away from his record, good luck on that.
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