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Bannon: 'Nobody believes' Patel crime statistics
Key takeaways
- Kash, I love you brother, but I don t want to hear any more statistics about how crime s coming down, crime s coming down, all that, Bannon said Monday on his War Room show.
- Bannon later said he wants to see perp walks of the deep state, referencing an unproven network of operatives within the federal government that supporters of Trump believe has sabotaged him for years.
- Violent crime in the U.S. was down 9.1 percent in the U.S. from March 2025 to February of this year, according to the FBI.
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Kash, I love you brother, but I don t want to hear any more statistics about how crime s coming down, crime s coming down, all that, Bannon said Monday on his War Room show.
Bannon later said he wants to see perp walks of the deep state, referencing an unproven network of operatives within the federal government that supporters of Trump believe has sabotaged him for years.
Violent crime in the U.S. was down 9.1 percent in the U.S. from March 2025 to February of this year, according to the FBI. That includes robberies dropping by 19.1 percent, murders declining by 18.7 percent, rapes decreasing by 7.2 percent and aggravated assaults dropping by 6.9 percent.
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