Dem Podcaster Questions Decrease of Crime Polling in D.C. Then Says ‘I Think Those Numbers Are Probably Accurate’

SEAT: “‘No! Look at the statistics, look at the numbers,’ some of which we know were manipulated and not accurate. But now look at the statistics of the last week. Carjackings down 83%, robberies down 46%, car thefts down 21%. As of last night, seven days without a murder in the District of Columbia. This was a manmade disaster because D.C. was not doing what they needed to do to protect their citizens and make it a safe environment for people who live there and who visit there. And it took the president of the United States to act.”
LATHAN: “Can I ask you a question? Why do you trust the numbers?”
SEAT: “Why?”
LATHAN: “Yeah.”
SEAT: “Well, did you trust the initial numbers?”
LATHAN: “Well, I did, and I‘m sure that those numbers probably — “
SEAT: “So you don‘t trust these because they‘re Trump numbers, right?”
LATHAN: “That‘s actually not what I said. I asked you why you trust them. I think those numbers are probably accurate, but I think that the numbers before were probably accurate.”
SEAT: “Then you should celebrate these.”
LATHAN: “I think the numbers that also have said that over the past 30 years, we‘ve seen unbelievable safety in America — we‘re talking about D.C. in 2025. You go back to D.C. in 1995, then you have almost 450 murders. Anyone right now who is telling you that you are living in the most unsafe time in American history, they‘re just lying and it‘s just not true. It‘s statistically not true. And the question is not whether or not it‘s true or false. It‘s a lie. The question is actually, why are they lying to you? And what I would ask you is, if you didn‘t believe the numbers that said crime was this crazy albatross of the cities, why do you believe the numbers that — “