“Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.”
What PolitiFact found
The crime rate spiked in 2020, Trump's last year in office, but it was still slightly lower than it was during the final year of his predecessor's tenure.
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In short
Tim Walz (Minnesota governor) made this claim around 6 August 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 August 2024, 1 day later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Tim Walz has 11 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/08/06/remarks-by-vice-pres…
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