“The last administration oversaw the largest increase in murders ever recorded.”
What PolitiFact found
Biden is right on the numbers, but he leaves out that a complex constellation of events outside Donald Trump's control drove the spike, including disruptions from the pandemic and George Floyd-related racial reckoning.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 24 May 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 June 2024, 17 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.