Best of Hannity: Safety is Critical - August 29th, Hour 1
Best of Hannity: In this episode of The Sean Hannity Show, Sean discusses the alarming crime rates in Washington, D.C., comparing them to global capitals and emphasizing the need for federal intervention to restore law and order. Congressman Byron Donalds joins the conversation, criticizing the city's leadership for their weak-on-crime policies and highlighting the importance of accountability in maintaining public safety. The discussion also touches on the troubling trend of elected officials prioritizing their home countries over American interests, calling into question their commitment to the Constitution and the American people.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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If you want to join us, President Trump, when you look at the numbers, the statistics, the crime, we saw this Doge employee, better known as Big Balls.
We did not apply that name to him, but everybody knows him.
Everybody's reporting it as such.
He did something that was pretty brave and amazing.
There was a group of young kids that were out, and they were pummeling an innocent person on the streets of D.C., an innocent woman in this particular case.
And he decided he was not going to be like most people and stand by and allow that to happen.
And he got in the mix and he got the crap beat out of them.
I give him nothing but kudos and props for doing so.
Then, of course, we had the issue in Cincinnati where you had a mob beating the hell out of people.
As it comes to the issue of D.C., President Trump said he's taking over D.C. police, and here's what he said.
This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we're going to take our capital back.
We're taking it back under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States.
I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act.
You know what that is?
And placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control.
And you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that.
Very good people, but they're tough and they know what's happening.
They've done it before.
In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order, and public safety in Washington, D.C., and they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
Now, we have some statistics on this, and the president put these out.
Washington, D.C., if you look at the homicide rate, and these, this is data based on estimates from 2019 to 2024.
And the source of your care about it is the Congress and statistics and local government statistics.
The homicide rate of world capitals versus D.C., it's 41, I believe, per 100,000.
The next closest country is in Uruguay, and that's 16.1.
I mean, it's like almost three times the number.
Baghdad is 15.2.
Again, D.C.'s 41.
Lagos, which is in Nigeria, is 15.
Panama City, Panama, 14.3.
Brazil, 13.
Costa Rica, 13.
Colombia, Bogota, 11.
Mexico City, 8.
Lima, Peru, 7.
Buenos Aires, Argentina is 5.5.
And I can keep going.
Kenya, Nairobi.
is 5.
Havana, Cuba, 4.
How is it that things are that out of control in our nation's capital?
Well, I can tell you in large part, we know the answer.
It's defund, dismantle, no bail laws.
Now, I'm not exactly sure if there's a correlation to all of this, but we're going to talk to Byron Donalds about all of it.
Anyway, he joins us now, Congressman from my great free state of Florida.
Congressman, how are you?
Should the president, is he right, looking at that number, comparing it to other capitals around the world, countries that you would think have much higher homicide rates and violent crime rates?
Should the president somehow get involved and protect the nation's capital?
Absolutely.
President's absolutely correct.
The mayor and the city council of Washington, D.C. are not doing all they can do to protect D.C.
A lot of it are these weak on crime policies that they have, cashless bail and the like.
I don't know.
Most people don't know this.
In Washington, D.C., to be tried as a minor, you can still be 24 years old and be tried as a minor in Washington, D.C. Completely outrageous.
But what you have is a city that's not under control the way it needs to be, not secure the way it needs to be.
And it's the nation's capital.
It's outrageous.
The president's absolutely correct.
Remember when Ram Paul, I think it was at the Republican National Convention in 2020, got all the mob of people surrounding him.
Whenever I go to D.C., I have to have security with me.
I don't do that everywhere I go.
I really don't.
I don't want to live my life that way.
In the free state of Florida, I tend to protect myself.
I don't give away my personal safety security strategies, but I don't need the security that I need in places like New York City or places like D.C.
I mean, I think that speaks volumes, doesn't it?
It does.
And what it speaks to first and foremost is a commitment to police officers, a commitment to law and order, letting them do their job.
And then the secondary commitment is not having these woke DAs who refuse to prosecute or who water down heinous crimes based upon a woke ideology or DEI or whatever the case might be.
Look, at the end of the day, if you're going to have a safe community, people have to be held accountable.
That's the way this works.
All right.
Another issue that came up with you.
Now, we've had three people that have said that they identify more with their home country than they do with America.
Now, Representative Delia Ramirez says she's more Guatemalan than American.
This is an elected congressperson.
I'm like, that doesn't make sense to me.
Previously, we had Congresswoman Omar say she identifies more with Somalia.
Now you have this Democratic Party-backed, you know, Mamdani-like radical Fatah in Minneapolis saying the same thing.
He identifies more with Somalia than he does with America.
And I'm trying to understand.
I don't know.
And why, if you identify more with your home country, why are you even here?
It doesn't make sense to me.
And here's what you said this week.
Right.
A chance to meet Delia, but let me just say, you don't get to represent another country before you represent the United States of America.
David, you said it better than I could.
That is the oath we all take as not just members of Congress.
The president takes that oath.
Every governor and every state legislator in our country, they take the same oath.
And to say that you're more Guatemalan than American, I think is reprehensible.
You have a duty to represent the people, the American people, who voted for you to be their representative, not to put them in second-class status.
But this is, quite frankly, very typical of the left.
Because when you look at what they advocate for, doesn't matter if it's Hamas or some third world country where they think it's okay for people to come in our country illegally, regardless of the implications on the American people.
Too many elected Democrats are far too concerned about representing interests outside of the United States of America as opposed to representing the people that they were elected to serve.
That's not a white supremacist statement.
That's not a nativist statement.
That is a real statement.
That is a constitutional statement.
And it is the standard that every elected official should have.
Listen, I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
And if maybe people think Somalia or Guatemala are better countries than the U.S., I don't know how to interpret what they're saying.
Do you believe they're suggesting that they think it's that?
Or are you thinking that they have more of an allegiance to that country?
What's your interpretation of it?
I'm not even going to try to interpret it, Sean.
The eye of the beholder is the United States Constitution.
The eye of the beholder is the American people, not another nation.
If you want to have that stands, that viewpoint, if that's what you feel you want to portray when you're speaking, then go represent those countries.
Either be their ambassador to the United States at the UN, go do that, or go live in those countries and run for office over there.
But if you're going to take the oath of office in the United States, it doesn't matter if it's city council, mayor, state rep, Congress, Senate, governor, president, you take that oath.
It is an allegiance to the Constitution and to the people of the United States of America, first and foremost.
I agree.
All right, let's talk about some other issues that are going on.
What do you make of what we're learning from the declassified information Tulsi Gabbard has released?
To me, I think the investigation, Cash Fatelle, Pam Bondi, Dan Bongino that they're involved in.
Do you think when you look over a period of time that there has been and remains a grand conspiracy to destroy Donald Trump and put cinderblocks on the scales of presidential elections?
Yes, 100%.
I believe that.
And now we're seeing the declassified information that supports that.
It's not even a hypothesis.
It's now becoming a fact right in front of our eyes.
And I think what we're seeing is the deep state, is the weaponization of the government, of the intelligence apparatus, obviously against President Trump, but really against Republicans overall.
I mean, the president says it better than anybody that, you know, they're not after him.
They're after us.
He's just standing in the way.
And what this is about is having absolute power and control over the apparatus of the federal government.
And you have too many players in the deep state who are willing to subvert information, put out false information, weaponize our government, weaponize media against the American people so they can institutionalize their radical agenda on the American people.
At its core, that's what I believe is going on.
It just so happens that Donald Trump was the man in the arena at the time.
But they would do this to anybody else.
If they do it to him, Sean, they'll do it to me.
They'll do it to you.
They'll do it to anybody that they feel is a legitimate threat to them holding on to power in Washington.
The amount of collateral damage and the amount of money that people surrounding Donald Trump have had to spend and the sleepless nights that I'm sure was associated with it is incalculable to me.
All right, quick break.
We'll come right back more with Congressman Byron Donalds of my free state of Florida on the other side.
We'll get to your calls, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Congressman Byron Donalds is with us.
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We'll get to your calls on the other side of the half-hour break.
Here's how I see it.
We now, with this declassified information, know a couple of things.
We know that they knew and were warned ahead of time as early as July of 2016 that Hillary Clinton was going to go forward with what they knew to be a phony narrative that Donald Trump colluded with Russia as a means of distracting from Hillary's email server problems.
We know they were warned not to use her bought and paid for dirty Russian misinformation dossier, which even Bruce Orr warned James Comey about in August of 2016.
We then know that it didn't work.
They first initially tried to use it to prevent Donald Trump from winning.
And then afterwards, our senior career intelligence officials, they came out with an assessment and determined that there was no Trump-Russia collusion.
And this is in early December.
Barack Obama didn't like the outcome.
Apparently, he got with his top deep state group of officials and they decided to come up with another intelligence assessment, one that totally contradicted the real intelligence assessment.
That then was a plan to undermine Donald Trump's presidency as far as I'm concerned.
And for three years, I can tell you on this program and on my TV program, we were unpacking every single layer of that onion, and we did get to the truth.
The rest of the media, you know, peddled lies and conspiracy theories, which I think has led to their, they have no legitimacy left.
And I think that legacy media, for the most part, is dead, gone, and buried as a result because they lied all the time.
Is that in and of itself, that one presidential cycle, do you believe that these people need to be held accountable?
And will they be held accountable?
Because I don't want to raise expectations for people.
I do think they need to be held accountable.
The question now is going to be, what is the criminal standard that you're going to hold them to?
I think now I'm really happy that the president revoked all their security clearances because it's proven now that they never deserved them in the first place.
And so I'm glad their security clearances are revoked.
But they are the threat to our constitutional republic, Sean.
They're the threat to democracy.
And as much as they were trying to project onto Donald Trump and onto MAGA and onto Republicans, no, it's the radical Democrat power structure that is the threat to democracy.
So yeah, a lot of people need to be held accountable.
And I think that the top of that list, if you were going to ask me today, is probably going to be John Brennan and James Clapper.
They're going to be one and two, and then it really falls in line after that.
And the reason why I say that is because they're the ones that actually has to go carry out the work in the bowels of the intelligence agencies in order to weaponize the federal government against an American president.
You know, and then in 2020, I would argue they had verified in March of 2020 the authenticity of Hunter's laptop.
They went out and pre-bunked it all summer long, meeting weekly with big tech companies.
They knew the story would break because Bob Costello, Rudy Giuliani's then attorney, had a copy of it.
They knew he had a copy of it.
They knew it would be leaked.
And then when the story did break in the New York Post, they wouldn't verify what they knew to be true, that it was authentic.
And then I would argue from 2020 to 2024, the weaponization of the DOJ and lawfare that was designed to bloody up Donald Trump so we would not be a viable candidate.
Am I wrong?
No, that's absolutely correct, Sean.
Everything you just said there is 100% true.
It's a dang shame that the media lied about it.
Unbelievable times we're living in.
Hopefully these, if we don't hold these people accountable, and we often don't, I think we really are putting at risk the country.
Byron Donalds, we always appreciate you.
Thanks for checking in, as always.
800-941-Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Todd in my free state of Florida.
Todd, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hello, Sean.
Thanks for this opportunity.
I want to just touch on something that you guys, or you touched on in reference to how the Democratic cities and politicians are saying that crime is down.
I was a cop outside of Chicago for almost 27 years, and we had a stat guy, and his whole purpose was just to make the mayor and the chief look good.
They would cook the books when a crime was to take place.
They would reduce the charge or put it in a different slot just to be, you know, to look like the crime is going down when it really wasn't.
You see, and it's hard for rank and file guys like you to stand up against your superiors because if you do, then you're probably risking your job and your career.
And you're there to do a job every day, and they're there to play politics.
And that's got to be frustrating for you.
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely.
I had to get a lawyer and everything else.
I had a commanding officer go after my job just because I didn't put a political sign in my yard, which is one of his friends.
So, I mean, yeah, it is rough.
And like I said, they play games with the people.
They'll pull reports of certain crimes so the public don't know about it.
So it's sad that they just can't be honest and say, hey, we're working on it.
We're doing our best.
But no, they just want to hide everything from the public.
It's institutionalized.
It's happening all around the country.
And I hate to tell you that it's sad because you're putting your life on the line and you show up and there's a violent crime and they want to characterize it as something other than it really is to protect politicians that are failing the citizens in their small town or big city.
That's pretty disgusting.
Anyway, Todd, you're a hero.
Thank you, my friend, for all your years of service.
I'm putting your life on the line.
Let's say hi to Chuck in Pennsylvania.
Chuck, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, man, it's good to talk to you.
What's going on?
How are you?
Great.
I noticed, by the way, I noticed your governor now obviously must be thinking about running for president and obviously knows that the only way he can win the nomination is to go hard left.
And now he's supporting men's right.
He's championing the rights of men and women's sports.
And he's going after gender affirming care.
And I'm like, okay, somebody wants to be president.
What a coincidence.
That's kind of what I was going to talk about, the Democrats.
Trying to call your show to talk about Democrats.
Who would have thunk, right?
What's going on?
I was listening to you and Greg Jarrett talk yesterday, and Greg ended it with something to the effect is he's just can't understand.
I forget exactly how he said it, but he can't understand why the Democrats would sacrifice their political careers by doing the things they're doing.
Because they never thought they'd get caught.
They thought they were omnipotent and that they'd get away with it.
And the level of arrogance is breathtaking.
And they also think that they're on a mission from God if they oppose Trump.
And they have contempt for the voters is the short answer.
And other people I talk to, they all kind of think the same thing, that we're dealing with communists, not just Democrats.
And the communist is religion, you know, like the radical Islam.
They'll die for their religion.
The communist Democrats, they will sacrifice their political careers for the movement.
And the next Democrat that comes along, he said, well, we're not going to do what that guy did.
We're going to change things up.
And New York City is a great example because everybody that came after Rudy Giuliani has been further to the left until we get to communist Mendani.
And it's just, you know, that just proves the point where they just keep moving further and further and further to the left.
Each one promises to not do what the last one did.
They're going to give them all this great stuff.
And that's how they get into communism.
They will sacrifice their career to advance the movement, advance the revolution as it is.
And I think language is a big part of it because Democrats are a master at language.
And I think a lot of the language they use, Republicans and conservatives have kind of adopted this language.
You just, you know, subconsciously they use it, like saying illegal immigrants instead of, excuse me, illegal aliens.
No, they say migrants.
We say illegal immigrants.
I won't use the term migrant.
I refuse.
Right.
Because they're not migrants.
They're illegal immigrants.
Or if you want, illegal aliens, by the way, that's the official language of our government and had been forever.
And they tried for a while to say that if you use the term illegal alien, that somehow you're comparing people from other countries as aliens, like from outer space, I'm looking at them like, or that you're racist somehow for saying that.
But that's the game that they always play.
Republicans, remember, are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, transphobic.
They want dirty air and water.
They want to kill grandma and grandpa, take away Social Security and Medicare.
And now they're also, you know, Nazis and fascists, and they're Hitler-Stalid and Mussolini.
And that's pretty much their talking point.
And I think people are hip to it now.
I think people understand that the media is corrupt.
Well, when we use the language that they're using, when we say illegal immigrants, then the Democrats point at us and say they are anti-immigrant.
They just leave off illegal.
Well, it was sort of like that lady.
I forget her name.
We played it earlier in the week.
And she was making, they have no right.
They need to go to a cracker barrel.
And they have no right to go into a Chinese restaurant or a Mexican restaurant.
The implication is that race is the motivation for people that believe in the rule of law.
I mean, it's interesting because they wanted to throw the book at Donald Trump and they were willing to lie and make it up to go after him.
So ironic, we're getting lectured on the rule of law, just like the same people that cared so much about insurrection with one riot were either championing or lying about the 574 riots in the summer of 2020 as being mostly peaceful in the summer of love.
So they do an awful lot of lying.
They just do.
I think we're just playing different games, us and the Democrats, because the Democrats have a mission, and they're very disciplined on their mission.
Disciplined, but they're also losing, aren't they?
They threw everything they had at Trump.
They have pretty much the entire media establishment, legacy media establishment on their side.
And the American people because that was their plan.
Trump, he used their plan against them.
He may not have known it, but because each Democrat that comes in is worse than the last.
Biden was worse than Obama.
And they keep coming in and saying, I'm going to fix it.
I'm going to fix it.
Well, Trump came in and said he was going to fix it, and everybody jumped behind him because he was different.
But that's what the Democrats do, right?
I mean, Obama, he did.
The best politics, if you want to get re-elected and you're a politician, the best thing you can do politically for your career is keep your promises and get things done.
Well, listen, Chuck, I'm going to roll, man.
I appreciate your call.
Thank you for being out there.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Let's see, Rob in Ohio.
Rob, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
How are you doing?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
I'm not much.
I just wanted to call and talk about Cincinnati a little bit in correlation with what's going on in D.C. right now.
But everything has been in the news.
And this mayor, he's been all over the TV here saying that they're cleaning up everything.
And as soon as he gets done with his little speech, they have two, three murders a night here.
So I was doing a little.
I mean, what's happened to Cincinnati is terrible.
I was talking to Bill Cunningham for about an hour the other night.
You know, Bill Cunningham?
Oh, yeah, a great American.
Yep.
All right.
Tell me if I do a decent imitation because he asked me the other day, do I really sound like that?
I'm like, yeah.
Sean Hannity, you're a great American.
God bless you.
God bless America.
I want a full report.
Did I call him the Sean Hannity or a Bill Cunningham show?
I'm not even sure.
Pretty good.
Pretty good, right?
I have him down pretty well.
If you ever sit in the studio with Bill Cunningham, like he's all the way back here shouting in a room like you've never heard anybody shout for the entire three-hour show.
What do you know?
And he's caught up on his roof, and that's why he's so loud.
He was screaming for people ever since then.
He's one of the greatest talents ever in the history of talk radio.
He's amazing.
He's an amazing gift of talent.
You know, he does his nationally syndicated show on the weekend.
He's got like 600 affiliates.
He's kicking ass.
Very proud of him.
He's a great, great friend.
He's a true patriot, a great American.
We've been through a lot of wars together.
I'm glad he has you on his side.
He's on my side.
I don't know what you're talking about.
He's on my side.
He's on your side.
Sean Hannity, I need to know: will Donald J. Trump be the next president of the United States?
There you go.
But he told me the city shot is done.
I said, what are the odds JD's half-brother could win?
And he's like, it's 87% Democrat now.
Never used to be that way.
Hamilton County, all the areas, Cincinnati was never that liberal.
However, even though you have a concentration of Democrats in some areas of Ohio, it's a very red state now.
And thank God for that.
Proud of that.
Yeah, I mean, it used to be we worried about Florida.
You don't have to worry about Florida anymore.
It used to be we worried about Ohio.
You don't have to worry about Ohio.
Now we have to worry about Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and Nevada and Arizona.
And you got to play.
You know what the best thing, like I actually had a conversation with the president about this.
I said, you know, I love what he had done in Pennsylvania when he went there and he announced all of this money and investment that is going to be made in steel and the coal industry and manufacturing.
I wish he would do that in Wisconsin and Michigan and Arizona and Nevada and Georgia and North Carolina.
Because those states, I mean, I think that would go a long way to show people that once and for all, the Democratic Party is the party of coastal woke elites and Republicans are the party of working men and women.
I'm sorry, I interrupted.
No, no, you're fine.
If I were to ask you to just take a shot in the dark, for every 100,000 people in Cincinnati, how many with the death poll would be?
How many would you think it would be?
Per 100,000?
Yes.
It can't be as high as DC, which is 41.
Probably 30.
23.8, which is higher than Philadelphia.
But nobody talks about it.
The 23.8, it's too high.
I mean, Baghdad is safer.
Mexico City is safer.
It's unbelievable.
And these are innocent lives that are being lost.
Anyway, Rob, I'm going to roll, man.
Appreciate it.
Tell my buddy Willie that I said hello.
All right.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Chris in Mississippi, next on the Sean Hannity show.
Hey, Chris.
Hey, Sean, it's great to be with you today.
Let me start by saying I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for your coverage from Alaska with these presidents meeting.
It's going to be a monumentous occasion.
All my hopes and prayers are absolutely with Donald Trump that he can get another peace treaty going and end another war.
But my question for you today is: do you think that with all this evidence coming out, I heard John Solomon and you know, against Adam Schiff and Clapper, you know, Comey, do you think that we're finally going to get them held accountable for the lives of the American people, for all these years of Russia gate, all these, and like even Letitia James and all this stuff that, you know, I mean, 34 false felonies against our president.
Do you think we're actually going to see accountability?
Okay.
I'm going to give you my personal view and then I'm going to give you my professional admonition.
My personal view is: yes, I think there'll finally be some accountability.
I don't know to what level.
I think the evidence is now coming in overwhelming and incontrovertible.
That is my personal view.
Now, my professional view is I don't like to overpromise or create expectations that won't be fulfilled, and I'm not in control of this process.
So I'm cautiously optimistic, professionally, is my answer.
And if that sounds like I'm being a weasel and a wimp and that I'm backtracking, I'm not.
I'm just realistic because we've gotten our hopes up so many times before only to be disappointed.
And I don't like to overpromise and under deliver.
So I'm cautiously optimistic.
I'm very hopeful.
I've known Pam Bondi, Cash Patel, Dan Bongino for a long time.
I have way more faith in them than I guess some of my other fellow conservatives.
I do.
I hope that answers your question.
Anyway, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
That's going to wrap things up for today.
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