Though the Biden-Harris administration boasted of an FBI report that came out last month indicating crime was down, and ABC’s David Muir cited the report in one of his many fact checks of Trump in the first and only debate between the current presidential candidates, the FBI has quietly updated their report, ultimately vindicating the former president.
Fox News reports:
In last month’s political showdown between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump cited the rise of violent crime to hammer the Biden-Harris administration’s record.
Trump asserted, “Crime here is up and through the roof despite their fraudulent statements that they made. Crime in this country is through the roof.”
Muir inserted, “President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is actually coming down in this country.”
Trump shot back, “Excuse me. They were defrauding statements. They didn’t include the worst cities. They didn’t include the cities with the worst crime. It was a fraud. Just like their number of 818,000 jobs that they said they created turned out to be a fraud.”
Trump was likely referring to recent accusations of the FBI “cooking the books.” The Washington Examiner revealed that over half the country doesn’t share their crime statistics with the FBI and the bureau offers its reports based on “estimations” rather than hard data. The Washington Examiner found that contrary to the FBI’s conclusions, murders were actually up by 23% across 70 major cities. They also revealed that while the FBI reported a 13% drop in robberies in Milwaukee, their actual police department reported a 7% increase.
Fox News continues:
A recent FBI revision appears to back Trump. After reporting there was a 2.1% drop in violent crimes in 2022, the FBI now admits there was actually a 4.5% increase.
According to crime and data expert John Lott, the new numbers reflect a net increase of 80,029 violent crimes in 2022 over 2021. He found that under the umbrella of violent crime, there were an additional 1,699 murders, 7,780 rapes, 33,459 robberies and 37,091 aggravated assaults that year.
Following the debate, Trump fumed about the debate and the one-sided “fact checking” that lacked factual backing, insisting ABC violated the agreed-upon terms. “Now you don’t know this, but we had a deal with ABC that there will be no corrections of any kind, and they violated the deal. Why? Because they’re bad people, and they’re fake news. So he did it many times to me during the debate. He violated the deal. That’s the deal, because you can take anything and try and make up stories with it. We had a deal where that wouldn’t happen. You could do whatever you wanted as soon as the debate was over, but he did it in total violation of what our agreement was. And a lot of people standing right over there [as he looked toward his staff] will tell you exactly what it was, will show you what it was. David Muir has lost all credibility.”
After the debate, an ABC whistleblower came forward, swearing under penalty of perjury that the network colluded with the Harris campaign to create circumstances that favored the sitting vice president.
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It is a shame that you don’t send your story to national news outlets and call them out to write, “As reported in American Liberty News …President Trump was correct during his debate, the FBI revised and corrected its statistics, and major crime is up.”