“So our crime statistics are at a level that they haven’t been at.”
What FactCheck.org found
The U.S. murder rate was lower in 2014, and the violent crime rate overall has been lower in several past years, with the lowest levels decades ago, according to FBI data.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 8 June 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 June 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pe…
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