In this episode, I interview Sean Hannity about his new book “Live Free or Die.”
It was about 37 days ago, and I was sitting here watching the great interview with Sean Hannity, but it was getting late, so I decided to put off watching and then posting this great interview until the next day. The next day went sideways from the time I woke up. That was on Monday, August 10, 2020. What I was witnessing seemed to be apocalyptic.
Now, I sit here, 36 days later, finally able to be on the internet. The thoughts I have that I want to write about will not fade away, so when I do transcribe the things I have been thinking about over the last five weeks will still be there as I find the time to write. However, this was the first thing that I wanted to do when my internet was finally hooked back up. People need to see this. And I know that getting my copy of "Live Free or Die" by Sean Hannity needs to be on the top of my list for things to do this week!
Yes, there will be much more to come. I haven't decided if I can get caught up here with Bongino Show episodes that I have missed. I'm still trying to devise a plan.
Davis, wearing a brown helmet, stood by with his hands clasped at his waist as his wife, Stephanie, addressed the media this morning for the first time since the March 29 assault.
“Tim is a new Tim,” Stephanie Davis said. “He will never be as he was before the incident, and all of our friends and family are trying to get to know the new Tim.”
The Davis family thanked the public and said support from strangers has been very humbling.
Officer Davis was assaulted while he investigated a mugging in 1600 block of First Avenue East. Stephanie Davis said she was told her husband was struck once in the face with a blunt object. She said the impact from the blow and from his head hitting the pavement fractured his skull and caused swelling and bruising to his brain.
Officer Davis has no memory of the incident. He spent 39 days in the hospital before being released May 7.
Once he became a police officer in Cedar Rapids, he convinced a girlfriend that spaghetti grew out of the ground. He was known to rile up an employee at Donutland by snatching the short woman’s jacket. He’d toss it on the street sign out front and cackle as she jumped to try to retrieve it.
“He was a jokester and liked to get everybody laughing,” said Gail Sunner, his youngest sister.
Monday marks the 25th anniversary of Bret Sunner’s death.
He was shot and killed on June 8, 1984, while responding to a domestic disturbance on Hamilton Street SW, making him the most recent of six Cedar Rapids police officers killed in the line of duty since 1885.
It was dark and drizzly the night Sunner walked up behind a house. He and his partner had been told a man was in the backyard with a gun, and the officers were using available cover. Officers suspect Sunner’s pant leg caught on a garage, and he clicked on his flashlight to take a look. The glow apparently outlined his figure and gave Leonard Berg, 55, a clear shot.
A slug from a 12-gauge shotgun struck Sunner in the forehead. Sunner’s girlfriend, a police dispatcher named Jackie Henderson, heard the gunshot as she drove to work.
At age 25, Sunner was gone in an instant.
Berg fired another shot that tore a 3-inch hole in the driver’s door of a patrol car, causing shrapnel to be lodged in the thigh of Officer William Hanse, who recovered. Berg later was convicted of first-degree murder and is serving a life sentence at the state penitentiary in Fort Madison.
Twenty-five years later, Bret Sunner’s mother, Bonnie, said it still hurts. She thinks about him every day, even when she doesn’t notice his badge in her bedroom.
“They think eventually you can get rid of that, but I don’t know how you ever would,” Bonnie Sunner said. “They call it closure, but there is no closure.”
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