Trump spent approximately 50 minutes talking about a bigly crime wave to a group of sheriffs and a gaggle of media on Tuesday in Howell, Michigan, a city with historic ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
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Trump cited inflated crime numbers, blaming the “open border” policies of the Biden-Harris administration.
“Since Kamala Harris took office … she’s presided over a 43% increase in violent crime,” said Trump, adding that his numbers were backed by data put out by her own administration.
But in fact, no such increase has taken place.
Violent crime spiked during the pandemic, both in the U.S. and in Michigan, but has been dropping since then, according to data compiled by the FBI.
“They go after guys like me, but they don’t go after people that kill people,” said Trump, who is awaiting sentencing in New York State on 34 felony counts related to false bookkeeping that aided the coverup of a sex scandal, and is awaiting trial on many other felony charges, some of them related to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol that was fueled by Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
