President Donald Trump, when confronted with data showing crime here already declining before he took over the city's police force, has repeatedly dismissed the data as fake and manipulated. But with the same agency now reporting continued drops in crime, his White House is eager to tout data it once derided as untrustworthy. "Total crime in D.C. is down 19% and violent crime is down 30%," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during Thursday's press briefing, ticking off double-digit percentage reductions in homicides, robberies, car thefts and assaults. "These numbers prove the president's bold actions to make D.C. safe and beautiful again are working just like he said they would." The numbers come from the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, which the president had previously accused of releasing fake crime data to create a false impression of safety. (The White House confirmed to HuffPost it's using MPD numbers but declined to comment.)