Hannity: Claims that GOP played role in 'defund police' push is 'most blatant lie' in modern American politics

After a year of violence and mayhem throughout the nation, "almost no one" in the U.S. supports the "insane defund the police movement", "Hannity" host Sean Hannity exclaimed Tuesday night.

Citing new Harvard Harris and Pew polls which show only 18% of Americans support the "defund the police" movement and 70% of African Americans have a "favorable view" of law enforcement, Hannity claimed Democrats have "sat idly by" and spent the past year "vilifying the police, defunding and dismantling." Hannity went on to slam Democrats and the Biden administration over recent suggestions that Republicans were actually those responsible for the "defund the police" movement. "They're [Democrats] saying they're [GOP] the ones that want to defund the police. OK, I'm not making this up," he said. The comments come following recent statements from Biden administration and Democrat lawmakers suggesting Americans have been misguided on who actually spearheaded the push for defunding police departments and subsequent historic rise in violent crime rates across the nation.