Trump has long claimed that the nation's capitol was a violent cesspool"and that his National Guard policy fixed it. New reporting disputes that.

The Post found what experts had long suspected"that the numbers Trump so often touted"an 88 to 92 percent decrease in crime and an 18 percent decrease in homicides"were due to a downward trend in crime that appeared long before the National Guard did.

Not only that, but the study notes an increase in assaults with a dangerous weapon.