Through the combined effort of everyone here today, violent crime is now going down for the first time in a long while.”
— President Trump, remarks to Major County Sheriffs and Major Cities Chiefs Association joint conference, Feb. 13, 2019
President Trump ran for president warning that U.S. crime and murder rates were through the roof — repeatedly claiming, “We have the highest murder rate in this country in 45 years.”
Or, as he put it in 2018: “Before I took office less than two years ago, our nation was experiencing a historic surge in violent crime.”
View the complete February 15 article by Glenn Kessler on The Washington Post website here.