In a stunning and revealing moment on live television, the facade of the liberal media and its preferred politicians was brutally dismantled. Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, a prominent Democratic figure, thought he could step onto the FOX News set and disseminate his usual, fact-free talking points regarding the catastrophic crime wave his policies have helped foster in Chicago. He was in for a severe and immediate reality check from a prepared and principled journalist, Brett Baier, who served the truth to the governor without apology. This was not the safe space of a CNN or MSNBC panel; this was a forum where accountability still exists.
Pritzker, attempting to deflect from his city’s abysmal record, embarked on a classic bloviating monologue completely untethered from the facts on the ground. He arrogantly presumed that the American people would simply accept his hollow reassurances. The governor, with the typical condescension of the leftist elite, attempted to paint a picture of progress and safety that anyone with a newspaper subscription knows is a complete and utter fiction. He brazenly attempted to mislead the public, a tactic that has become the hallmark of the Democratic Party under the weak leadership of figures like Joe Biden.
The governor, in a display of either shocking ignorance or deliberate deception, made a claim so easily disprovable that it laid bare the entire strategy of the left: deny, deflect, and lie. Confronted with a direct question about the severity of Chicago’s violence, Pritzker offered a response that was immediately and visually eviscerated. Brett Baier: “Does Chicago have the highest murder rate of all the big cities?” 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 moment the governor’s house of cards collapsed.
In a magnificent act of real-time journalism, a concept foreign to the sycophants in the mainstream press, Brett Baier did not let the falsehood stand. He did not nod politely and move on to the next question. Instead, he presented the cold, hard, irrefutable data for the entire nation to see. The truth was displayed in a graphic that shattered the governor’s narrative into a million pieces. 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 map was clear: Chicago, under J.B. Pritzker’s watch, leads the nation in the big-city murder rate. There was no spinning it. There was no hiding from it.
Cornered by the facts, Governor Pritzker could only flail and repeat his debunked talking points, a pathetic spectacle of a man caught in a lie. His response was to simply talk over the truth, attempting to bulldoze reality with his own fabricated version of events. 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.” This desperate backpedaling and insistence on a false premise is exactly what President Donald Trump has tirelessly fought against. It is the “fake news” mentality in action, where a politician believes his own words can supersede objective reality. This encounter serves as a powerful reminder of why the American people need the strong, law-and-order leadership of President Trump, who will always prioritize the safety of citizens over the feelings of failed, radical politicians.