President Donald Trump on Monday claimed that crimes committed "in the home" should not be held against him on his record for lowering crime in Washington, asserting that enemies are overstating such events as "a little fight with the wife" in trying to delegitimize his efforts.
Addressing the Museum of the Bible in Washington, Trump again made a number of untrue statements regarding levels of crime in the nation's capital, which has seen a federal law enforcement surge introduced by him.
He asserted—unsubstantiated—that crime in Washington has essentially fallen to zero. While the overall crime rate in the city has decreased, with the mayor crediting a role for federal law enforcers in the turnaround, crimes committed by robbery, assault, and theft still happen every day.
Police records indicate that alone on Sunday, Washington had a single homicide, six car thefts, two assaults involving dangerous weapons, four robberies, and over 30 thefts.
“There’s no crime. They said, ‘Crime’s down 87%,’” Trump said Monday. “It’s more than 87% — virtually nothing.”
“Things that take place in the home they call crime,” he said. “They’ll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime scene.”
“Just a casual dismissal of domestic violence as a crime,” Sarah Longwell, a longtime Republican political strategist, wrote on social media.
Trump has regularly tried to revise crime data to defend law enforcement policies he supports. On Monday, he described Washington as previously having been "the worst, the most violent city" in the nation, despite significant reductions in major crime that had already been realized prior to his federal action.
“I don’t know why Chicago isn’t calling us saying, Please give us help,” Trump said Monday.
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