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Former President Donald Trump pulled out of an interview after he was asked to back up his claim that crime is on the rise under President Joe Biden, a newspaper has reported.
"The Trump campaign had initially agreed that Trump would participate in an interview with The Detroit News on Tuesday," state politics reporter Craig Mauger wrote. "But after the newspaper began asking about the Michigan crime data before the event, a campaign aide said the presidential candidate no longer had time for an interview after the speech."
It comes after the former president claimed at a Michigan campaign event on Tuesday that there is a "crime wave" going on at levels "nobody has ever seen before."
In big cities "almost all run by Democrats," he said, "you can't walk across the street to get a loaf of bread. You get shot. You get mugged. You get raped. You get whatever it may be."
There is no evidence to suggest crime is on the rise under Biden. Federal Bureau of Investigation data shows the national violent crime rate dropped in the first two years of the Biden administration, hitting 380.7 incidents per 100,000 people in 2022, down from 398.5 incidents in 2020.
Meanwhile, Michigan-specific data tracked by the Michigan State Police showed that violent crime increased 12 percent to 48,674 incidents from 2019 to 2020 while Trump was in the White House. Violent crime rose again by 1 percent to 49,073 incidents in 2021 during the first year of Biden's term, the data shows, before dropping in 2022 about 7 percent to 45,449.
MSP data also shows that murders in Michigan peaked in 2020, before dropping in 2021 and 2022, while incidents of robbery and rape have generally been decreasing since 2018.
"Trump's implication that the crime rate is only going up is false," Anna Harvey, a political science professor and director of the Public Safety Lab at New York University, told CNN. "During 2020, the last year of the Trump presidency, violent crime rose dramatically. The murder rate, for example, increased by almost 30 percent, the largest one-year increase on record. But violent crime has been falling during the Biden presidency."
Poor trump wants everyone to hate america as much as he does and be afraid to walk around. Also when he made these statements his lips were moving so.........