Trump’s false claim that violent crime hasn’t gone down ‘in a long while’ - The Washington Post

President Trump ran for president warning that U.S. crime and murder rates were through the roof — repeatedly claiming, “We have the highest murder rate in this country in 45 years.” Or, as he put it in 2018: “Before I took office less than two years ago, our nation was experiencing a historic surge in violent crime.” Now that he’s been president for two years, Trump says violent crime is finally going down — for the “first time in a long while.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/15/trumps-false-claim-that-violent-crime-hasnt-gone-down-long-while/