In a press conference from his Los Angeles-area golf club, former President Donald Trump revisited several topics from Tuesday night’s debate, repeating several false and misleading claims on issues including crime, the economy and immigration.
Here’s are the facts:
Trump again falsely claims crime skyrocketed under the Biden administration
CLAIM: New numbers show that crime has skyrocketed under the Biden administration.
THE FACTS: Violent crime surged during the pandemic, with homicides increasing nearly 30% in 2020 over the previous year — the largest one-year jump since the FBI began keeping records.
But FBI data released in June shows that the overall violent crime rate declined 15% in the first three months of 2024 compared to the same period last year. One expert has cautioned, however, that those figures are preliminary and may overstate the actual reduction in crime.
On Friday, Trump cited numbers he said were from the “bureau of justice statistics” to claim crime was up. This appears to …