Lewzer falsely claims DC now has no crime at all

Wednesday, September 03, 2025

On Monday in Washington, DC, a man was shot dead. Two women were injured in a separate shooting. People reported dozens of other crimes to the police. The next day, in both public remarks and an interview, President Donald Trump claimed that Washington now has "no crime." He said Wednesday that "there is none," making clear that he has been making a literal assertion that crime in the capital has completely vanished. It hasn't.

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If Trump wants to make a case for his actions, there are lots of legitimate numbers he could cite. Instead, as he has for years, he is using a bigger but fictional number. "Washington, DC is a totally safe city. You're not reporting any crime because there is none," Trump said at the White House on Wednesday. "They said crime is down 87%, and I said, No it's not. It's down 100%.'" On Wednesday, Trump contrasted his false "down 100%" claim with a supposed claim from other unspecified people that "crime is down 87%." But overall crime in Washington has never been "down 87%" at any point of the takeover.

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Down by, what, 1700%?

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-04 04:18 AM | Reply

That is his standard playbook....

1. Create a fictional problem.
2. Do something grandiose and ineffective.
3. Claim the problem that did not exist is fixed.

And the idjuts are dumb enough to believe him.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-09-04 10:55 AM | Reply

"If Trump wants to make a case for his actions, there are lots of legitimate numbers he could cite."

There are not because he already made it clear that he does not believe those numbers are legitimate. That leaves him free to make up whatever BS he wants. He's going to do the same with unemployment. Coming up from Trump, unemployment is 0% and labor participation is 100%. We no longer need to offer unemployment benefits because everyone has a job and it will always be that forever as long as we never have another election.

#3 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-09-05 09:56 AM | Reply