President Donald Trump on Monday held another Oval Office press conference riddled with false claims about his federal takeover of Washington, D.C., and cited several baseless statistics that were “nowhere close” to reality, according to CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale.
Earlier this month, Trump federalized the district’s Metropolitan Police Department and deployed National Guard troops to quell the supposed “bedlam” there. And he claimed on Monday that this month marks “the first time” in years that D.C. has gone 11 days without a murder.
Dale quite easily proved later on Monday that this isn’t true in the slightest.
“There has currently been the 11-day stretch without a reported homicide, but that also happened earlier this year,” Dale said Monday during an appearance on “News Central.” “In February and March, there was a 16-day stretch with no reported homicides in the district.”
“So the president is exaggerating again, and that wasn’t his only false claim, guys, on the subject of D.C. crime,” Dale continued. “He said that it was an all-time crime high when he took office. He said the worst day was the day he came back; not even close to true.”
