{"id":2030510,"date":"2023-09-13T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T16:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-disgraced-dem-convicted-criminal-tells-watters-we-dont-like-crime-as-he-covers-for-nyc-libs\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T12:44:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T16:44:39","slug":"watch-disgraced-dem-convicted-criminal-tells-watters-we-dont-like-crime-as-he-covers-for-nyc-libs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-disgraced-dem-convicted-criminal-tells-watters-we-dont-like-crime-as-he-covers-for-nyc-libs\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Disgraced Democrat and Convicted Criminal Claims &#8216;We Oppose Crime&#8217; While Defending NYC Liberals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-disgraced-dem-convicted-criminal-tells-watters-we-dont-like-crime-as-he-covers-for-nyc-libs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2030510&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Watch: Disgraced Dem, Convicted Criminal Tells \u200cWatters &#8216;We Don&#8217;t Like Crime&#8217; \u200das He Covers for NYC Libs<\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019re going to have someone defending \u2064the record \u200bof\u2063 New York City\u2019s Democrats on crime, it would probably help if that individual \u200bwasn\u2019t one of New York City\u2019s most famous convicted Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>But, 12 years after a sexting scandal ended his time in Congress and seven years after \u200che\u2062 was arrested for lewd \u200donline conduct with\u2063 a minor, Anthony Weiner \u2014 now working as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prager-trip-to-vietnam-reconfirmed-my-hatred-of-communism\/\" title=\"PRAGER: Trip To Vietnam Reconfirmed My Hatred Of Communism\">talk-show host<\/a> at WABC in NYC \u2014 went on with Fox \u200bNews\u2019 Jesse Watters to insist all was good\u2063 on the crime front when it came to things in his hometown.<\/p>\n<p>The appearance comes \u200das the \u200bmedia continues \u2064to wallpaper over New York City\u2019s\u200c crime problems by failing to acknowledge a massive spike in the city\u2019s crime \u200crate caused by a multitude of factors \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/national-retailers-nyc-worst-place-business-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pandemic shutdowns<\/a>, taking power away from police, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nyc-thief-thanks-dems-bail-reform-release-139th-arrest-cant-stopped\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bail reform<\/a>, etc. \u2014 noting \u2063that offenses are nowhere near the highs of the 1980s and 1990s\u2062 in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/analysis_and_planning\/historical-crime-data\/seven-major-felony-offenses-2000-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a> shows that New York City was safer than it had been in recent memory \u2014 before the long, hot summer \u200bof 2020 and the fallout from that. \u200dMayor Eric Adams won the office on a law-and-order \u200dcampaign in 2021, although\u200b he\u2019s been stymied in part by the city\u2019s progressive factions \u2014 particularly Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.<\/p>\n<p>During Tuesday\u2019s interview, Watters got straight to\u200c the point <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-ex-rep-anthony-weiner-ordered-to-register-as-sex-offender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with Weiner<\/a>: \u201cWhy do the Democrats have such a problem with crime?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t \u200dlike crime,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-disgraced-dem-convicted-criminal-tells-watters-we-dont-like-crime-as-he-covers-for-nyc-libs\/\" title=\"Video: Disgraced Democrat and Convicted Criminal Claims 'We Oppose Crime' While Defending NYC Liberals\">convicted sex criminal \u2064responded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t seem like you don\u2019t like it,\u201d\u200c Watters said. \u201cIt seems like you love it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not sure whether he was talking about Weiner or Democrats at large here. I\u2019m going \u2063to assume Democrats at large, although it\u2019s again worth pointing \u200dout Weiner spent 21 months in prison starting in 2017 for sexting with a 15-year-old and \u200bwatching\u200d her strip on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-idol-accused-of-using-conway-daughter-for-ratings\/\" title=\"\u2018American Idol\u2019 Accused Of Using Conway Daughter For Ratings\">social media apps<\/a>,\u200c according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12511739\/With-friends-like-Sex-offender-Dem-Anthony-Weiner-appears-Jesse-Watters-defend-Joe-Biden-Fox-News-host-warns-way-president-avoid-impeachment-QUIT-2024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.K. Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The confiscation of his laptop in \u2063the course of that investigation is also blamed, by some Democrats, for \u2064Hillary Clinton\u2019s loss in the presidential election; he was married to (and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/22\/anthony-weiner-spotted-at-event-with-estranged-wife-huma-abedin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technically still is<\/a>, somehow, \u200ceven if the\u2063 two are very separated) close Clinton aide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/huma-abedin-anthony-weiner-withdraw-divorce-filing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huma Abedin<\/a>, and then-FBI Director James Comey announced he was reopening the investigation into her handling of classified\u200d emails based on materials found \u200don the computer just weeks before the election.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton has publicly blamed\u200c Comey\u2019s decision\u2064 to reopen the \u2063investigation as one of the reasons she lost to Trump,\u200c although she\u2019s \u2064conspicuously avoided blaming Abedin\u2019s taste in men for having anything to do with it.\u200c But I \u200ddigress.<\/p>\n<p>Weiner went on to say that Democrats \u201care the ones who created the COPS [Office of Community Oriented Policing Services] program to [get] more cops on the street \u2014 crime came down dramatically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, but that was <a href=\"https:\/\/cops.usdoj.gov\/aboutcops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">back in\u200c 1994<\/a> \u2063 as\u200b part of what became known as the \u201cClinton Crime Bill\u201d \u200c\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-biden-uses-education-rollout-to-promote-his-1994-crime-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which modern progressives<\/a> have mostly\u200d disavowed. Now, as Watters pointed out, \u2062the Democrats have \u201cdefunded the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a disaster everywhere,\u201d Watters said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou mean reduce the funding of\u2062 police?\u201d Weiner said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, you defunded the police in a \u2063bunch of these metropolitan\u2063 areas. It\u2019s a mess,\u201d\u200b Weiner said.<\/p>\n<p>Weiner \u2014 who, in the\u200c 12 \u200byears since he left Congress, apparently hasn\u2019t managed to ditch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/video-hannity-holds-anthony-weiners-feet-fire-brutal-air-takedown-changed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stoat-like persona<\/a> that forbids him from answering a\u2063 question in anything but \u2063the most evasive terms \u2014 pretended to be clueless\u2063 about major cities that\u200b defunded the police and then either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/minneapolis-officials-abruptly-reverse-course-defund-police-crime-soars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refunded the police<\/a> or saw major crime spikes.<\/p>\n<p>Instead,\u2062 he said that lots of\u200d departments took cuts. Education, for instance! Money\u2019s \u2064tight, you\u200c know? I mean, except for those massive stimulus packages both the Trump and\u200c Biden administrations heaped upon America during the coronavirus pandemic, meaning there was no shortage of money for anything.<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Watters tried a redirect\u2062 here: \u201cCrime\u2019s up.\u200d It\u2019s crazy out here,\u201d \u200dhe asked. \u201cWould you\u200d go in\u200d the subway here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrime\u2019s\u2062 actually down \u200din New York,\u201d Weiner shot back. And yes, it\u2019s down from the highest of highs during the spike, but again\u2064 1) you\u2019ll notice\u2062 no answer to the question and 2) it\u2019s still historically high compared to the\u2064 low crime\u2063 rates that \u200bMayors Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg managed\u2063 to get the city\u2062 down to (and, until the very end \u200dof his progressive remake of New York City, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/former-nyc-mayor-de-blasio-wants-bidens-next-labor-secretary-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayor Bill de Blasio<\/a> somehow managed to maintain).<\/p>\n<p>And \u200bit still\u2064 doesn\u2019t answer the\u2064 question: Would you ride the subway when incidents like this are \u200bmore and more common?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>WARNING: The following \u200bvideos contain graphic footage that some \u2064viewers will find offensive.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A\u2062 60-year-old woman was beaten with her own\u200d cane on\u200b a Manhattan \u200bsubway platform on Friday, police said on \u200dTuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The two-minute attack was captured\u200c on video. It happened inside the subway station at 116th Street and Lenox\u2062 Avenue in Harlem, according\u2062 to the\u2062 NYPD. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KrRIJ3hBBl\">pic.twitter.com\/KrRIJ3hBBl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PIX11 News \u2063(@PIX11News) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PIX11News\/status\/1699173273446060468?\">September 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Man Stabbed Repeatedly Throughout Body at Train Station<\/p>\n<p>BRONX \u2013 Police are looking \u200bfor two\u2062 people who repeatedly stabbed \u2064a \u200bsubway rider throughout his \u200cbody on a Bronx train platform.\u200c Still no word on what was \u200dbehind the vicious attack.<\/p>\n<p>See \u2064More\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sxPEgX9n0Y\">https:\/\/t.co\/sxPEgX9n0Y<\/a>\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lE8YT31Zy5\">pic.twitter.com\/lE8YT31Zy5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bronx Voice (@Bronxvoice1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bronxvoice1\/status\/1699834476895908094?\">September 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">An\u2062 elderly man was \u200cshoved onto the New York City subway tracks in an unprovoked attack, police said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zu5xGExQVr\">https:\/\/t.co\/zu5xGExQVr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Action\u2062 News on\u2064 6abc (@6abc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6abc\/status\/1701755393905443088?\">September \u206413, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Weiner did finally say \u201cI do it [ride the subway] all the time\u201d\u2063 and said this wasn\u2019t \u201ca very substantive critique.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, \u200ca serious uptick in random attacks on the subway isn\u2019t a \u201csubstantive critique.\u201d Keep in \u2062mind that\u2064 Weiner had attempted his political comeback in \u20632013 \u2064by mounting a run for New York City mayor until news broke that he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/jul\/23\/anthony-weiner-new-york-explicit-photographs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continued sexting<\/a> \u200bwith women who \u200dwere\u2062 not his wife under the pseudonym (you can never make this stuff up with Weiner) \u201cCarlos Danger.\u201d\u200d The fake Mr. Danger lost to the real Mr. Danger, \u200cBill \u2063de\u2064 Blasio, whose policies (and those of his acolytes)\u200d led us down the primrose path to where \u200cwe are now.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I\u200d understand that political media is Weiner\u2019s grift\u200b now \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/anthony-weiner-veins-coming-neck-asked-deaths-around-clintons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">perverts with felony records<\/a> are generally not considered good candidates\u200b for\u200d electoral comebacks \u2014 but, in the 12 years since his first self-induced disgrace, has Weiner not\u2063 picked\u2062 up a \u200bshred of self-awareness? Did he not think, \u2062\u201cHey, you know who would be a good person to defend NYC Democrats\u2019 record on crime? \u2062Literally anyone but a sex criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apparently\u2064 not. Carlos Danger, along\u2064 with the rest of the\u2062 New York \u200dCity progressive \u200cbattalion, seems utterly \u200bclueless about how thoroughly\u2062 they\u2019ve wrecked their own city. Nice work.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-disgraced-dem-convicted-criminal-tells-watters-dont-like-crime-covers-nyc-libs\/\">Watch: Disgraced\u2062 Dem, Convicted Criminal Tells Watters\u200b &#8216;We Don&#8217;t Like Crime&#8217; as He Covers for NYC Libs<\/a> appeared first\u200b on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want someone to defend New York City Democrats&#8217; crime record, it&#8217;s best if they aren&#8217;t a well-known convicted Democrat. However, 12 years after a sexting scandal ended his congressional career and seven years after his arrest for lewd online behavior, this individual is still advocating for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":2030511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}