A fact-check in the ABC News presidential debate has aged poorly after the FBI quietly made a stunning correction about violent crime rates in the U.S.
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.
"Crime here is up and through the roof despite their fraudulent statements that they made," Trump said. "Crime in this country is through the roof."
Moments later, ABC debate moderator David Muir attempted to fact-check the Republican nominee.
Former President Trump hammered Vice President Kamala Harris over the rise in violent crime during the ABC News presidential debate. (Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is actually coming down in this country," Muir responded.
Trump immediately pushed back.
"Excuse me," Trump told Muir. "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."
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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.
Muir has yet to acknowledge the FBI's stat change on "World News Tonight," according to Grabien transcripts.
Trump / Vance 2024 Never Harris!
Looks like to me the Dems lie trying to make things look better than they actually are! Jobs report they did the same thing. Wrong data shared and little mention after it was quietly corrected showing it was worse than initially spread all over the media.
