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Bret Baier humiliates Pritzker over big fat lie about Chicago's murder rate
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) attempted in an interview on Thursday to once again gaslight Americans about the bloodletting in his state's most populous city. Evidently immune to the Democrat's latest deception, Fox News host Bret Baier shut down Pritzker's attempt and confronted him with the facts about Chicago's obscenely high murder rate.
"Why does Chicago have the highest murder rate of all the big cities?" asked Baier.
'JB Pritzker just flat out lied about an obvious fact.'
Pritzker, whom President Donald Trump recently suggested should be jailed, responded, "Well, we are not in the top 30 in terms of our murder rate. ... Our murder rate has been cut in half over the last four years, and every year it's gone down by double digits, and if you look at all of the violent crime over the last four years, they've all gone down."
Baier then pulled up a map highlighting the apparent murder rates for America's biggest cities. The graphic indicated that Chicago led the way in blood with a murder rate of 17.47 homicides per 100,000 people.
By way of comparison, the reported murder rate for: Philadelphia was 16.91; Dallas was 13.62; Houston was 13.8; San Antonio was 8.39; Phoenix was 8.36; Los Angeles was 6.95; and New York City was 4.5.
According to the Illinois-focused research nonprofit Wirepoints, Chicago ranked first last year for total murders out of the nation's 75 biggest cities, with 573 homicides. It also reportedly experienced the most homicides per capita among the nation's 20 biggest cities last year.
Chicago Police Department statistics indicate that as of Oct. 19, the city has seen 347 known homicides so far this year.
After Baier noted that "Chicago is number one over Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Phoenix, Los Angeles, New York, and San Diego," Pritzker said, "Look, you can pull statistics up. I can too."
"No, no, no," said Baier. "These are murders."
"I'm explaining to you that our murder rate has been cut in half, and very importantly, Bret, and you gotta hear this, very importantly we’ve been doing the things that are necessary to bring crime down, right?" added the Democratic governor.
Critics had a field day with Pritzker's attempt to put a positive spin on Chicago's murder rate.
"JB Pritzker just flat out lied about an obvious fact," wrote Elon Musk.
Former National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch wrote, "Cut in half and still number one. Great job, @GovPritzker."
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Bernie Sanders hates oligarchs, unless it’s him: 'You think I’m going to be sitting on a waiting line at United?'
On May 7, Fox News’ Bret Baier interviewed Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on “Special Report” about Sanders’ and New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, which focuses on issues like wealth inequality and opposition to Trump’s policies.
During the interview, Baier cited a “Free Beacon” report noting that Sanders’ campaign committee, Friends of Bernie Sanders, spent over $221,000 on private jets in just the first quarter of 2025. He pressed Sanders on the apparent contradiction between his anti-oligarchy rhetoric and his use of private jets — a mode of travel associated with wealth and high carbon emissions.
One thing Pat Gray loves is when a hypocrite is exposed. He revels in the embarrassing footage of Sanders floundering as he attempts to justify his elitism.
“When’s the last time you saw Donald Trump during a campaign mode at a national airport?” Sanders fired at Baier.
“He’s also not fighting the oligarchy,” Baier countered.
“You run a campaign, and you do three or four or five rallies in a week. It’s the only way you can get around to talk to 30,000 people. You think I’m going to be sitting on a waiting line at United? … No apologies for that. That’s what campaign travel is about. We’ve done it in the past; we’re going to do it in the future,” Sanders defended.
Pat is disgusted at the hypocrisy.
Sanders’ point about Donald Trump taking private jets falls completely flat given that “Donald Trump isn't b***hing about income inequality all the time.”
“Donald Trump is not a socialist; you are! That's why there's a different standard for you, because you're a hypocrite,” condemns Pat.
If contradicting his stance on wealth inequality wasn’t bad enough, Sanders traveling on private jets also clashes with his position on climate change, which criticizes airplane travel for its high CO2 emissions and global warming impact.
“Donald Trump doesn't believe in man-caused climate change. That's why Donald Trump isn't asked that question. Nobody expects him not to take private jets,” says Pat.
Compare him to Sanders, who not only beats the climate change drum but also unapologetically travels via private jet, claiming he’s far too important to fly domestically.
“You expect me to be with the unwashed proletariat? No, no — not when I'm part of the bourgeoisie,” mocks Pat.
“I mean he is clearly stating that he is the oligarchy, and that’s okay,” says co-host Keith Malinak.
“The unapologetic hypocrisy there is staggering,” says Pat.
To see the footage of Sanders’ interview with Baier and hear more of the panel’s commentary, watch the episode above.
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'If a commercial company operated the way the federal government does, then it would immediately go bankrupt ... the officers would be arrested.'Juan Williams tries to blame Kamala loss on racism, sexism — then entire Fox News panel silences his narrative
As it became clear Donald Trump would become the next president, Democrat Juan Williams tried to blame Kamala Harris' humiliating loss on sexism and racism.
But his fellow Fox News panelists refused to let that excuse slide.
'To suggest that somehow black men are racist because they supported a white man is just too far.'
After first accusing Trump of having "led an insurrection against the United States government" — a crime for which Trump has never been charged — Williams doubled down on the media's most trite narrative to explain away Harris' loss.
"I'm not sold on this idea that it was the cost of eggs," Williams said. "I worry that it was, 'Well, I'm not voting for this woman.' Or, 'I'm not voting for this black woman.'"
Fox News anchor Bret Baier immediately fact-checked Williams.
"Well, no, that's not what we see in our data," he pointed out.
When Williams tried defending his position, anchor Martha MacCallum interjected to point out that many black male voters feel "that Democrats and elites put immigrants before" them. Undeterred, Williams responded by attributing Trump's win to a "bro strategy and the white male turnout and white grievance politics."
"He's trailing among his prior 2020 numbers with whites," Brit Hume shot back, putting a dagger in Williams' narrative.
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy then noted that Trump increased his share of support among black men and Hispanics, more evidence disproving Williams' narrative that Harris is a victim of political racism.
Finally, Karl Rove prescribed Williams a dose of reality.
"I just think it is extremely odd to suggest that black men are somehow prejudiced because they vote for a white candidate who says, 'I want to make certain that everybody has an opportunity to succeed in our great economy. I want you to be more prosperous, and I will do things that will make it possible for you to make a better life,'" Rove said.
"That is an appeal to their best instincts," he explained. "He did not go out and say, 'Vote for me because I'm not a woman. Vote for me because I'm a white man.' That would not have attracted those votes. They got attracted to him because they thought he was a strong, effective leader, and they thought he would do something about the issues they cared the most about, which is an economy in which they think they get the short stick, inflation, which has decimated their purchasing power, and illegal immigration, which has affected their communities deeply."
"And to suggest that somehow black men are racist because they supported a white man is just too far, Juan," Rove chided.
Unfortunately, Williams refused to budge. In the end, he claimed that men supported Trump because he talks about "women in the most disparaging way."
"I think they supported him in spite of that — not because of it. They supported him because he offered to make their life better," Rove fact-checked.
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