Key Takeaways
- Crime rates, including murder, motor vehicle theft, and robbery, significantly declined nationwide and in specific cities from 2024 to 2025.
- Drug overdose deaths decreased by 21% between 2024 and 2025, attributed to border security and drug interdiction efforts.
- Mainstream media is accused of downplaying positive crime and overdose statistics, while Democrats are criticized for allegedly misrepresenting data.
- Special Counsel Jack Smith faces allegations of politically motivated prosecutions, constitutional violations, and reliance on unreliable witness testimony.
Deep Dive
- The hosts criticize mainstream media for allegedly downplaying or ignoring positive crime and overdose statistics linked to the Trump administration.
- They suggest media outlets attempt to disconnect improvements from administration policies.
- Accusations are made that Democrats misreported or reclassified crime statistics to make numbers appear better before elections.
- Nationwide murder rates reportedly dropped approximately 20% from 2024 to 2025.
- Major cities like Chicago (-30%), New York City (-20%), and Baltimore (-31%) saw significant decreases in murder rates.
- Other crimes, including motor vehicle theft (-25%), robbery (-18%), and aggravated assaults (-8%), also decreased in 2025.
- FBI Director Cash Patel reported a 100% increase in violent crime arrests and a 210% increase in gang disruptions.
- Drug overdose deaths reportedly dropped by 21% from 2024 to 2025, representing approximately 19,000 fewer deaths.
- In 2024, approximately 91,694 overdose deaths were recorded, decreasing to about 72,836 in 2025.
- This reduction is attributed to a 99% decrease in illegal border crossings, increased drug-trafficker interdiction, and enhanced border enforcement operations.
- Special Counsel Jack Smith is accused of conducting politically motivated prosecutions against Donald Trump.
- His actions are compared to abuses of power greater than Watergate, specifically citing indictments of Donald Trump and subpoenas of phone records from Republican senators.
- Smith's testimony before the House of Representatives is described as a 'disaster', particularly under questioning by Representatives Jim Jordan and Brandon Gill.
- Jack Smith acknowledged in a deposition that Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony about the President lunging for a steering wheel was second or third-hand hearsay.
- Representative Jim Jordan presented information from Secret Service agents Tony Ornato and Bobby Engel, who reportedly stated the steering wheel incident did not happen.
- Senator Ted Cruz stated he has no recollection of Hutchinson, despite her claim of interning in his office, and found her book's account of a conversation with him fictional.
- Hutchinson's testimony was reportedly relied on 185 times in the January 6th report, despite alleged knowledge of her unreliability.
- Representative Brandon Gill questioned Jack Smith about subpoenas issued for former Speaker Kevin McCarthy's toll records in January 2023, covering November 2020 to January 2021.
- Smith denied that subpoenaing McCarthy's records 16 days after he became Speaker violated the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause.
- Gill challenged Smith on the use of non-disclosure orders (NDOs) for these subpoenas, asserting they were used to hide the investigation from McCarthy and the public.
- Smith confirmed additional subpoenas were issued in May 2023 for toll records of nine U.S. Senators and another representative, also with accompanying NDOs.