But his latest exaggeration was a real doozy, even for him.
“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,” Trump said on Tuesday during a visit to Howell, Michigan, while standing in front of two sheriffs. “You’ve seen it, and I’ve seen it.”
Currently, law enforcement in this country doesn’t keep track of how many rapes, shootings or muggings occur while someone is crossing the street to buy a loaf of bread.
But a study of FBI data by the Pew Research Center released in April shows that the violent crime rate fell 49% between 1993 and 2022, with large decreases in the rates of robbery (down 74%), aggravated assault (down 39%) and murder/nonnegligent manslaughter (down 34%) ― all crimes Trump mentioned in his fact-free diatribe.
Speaking of which: Here’s a link, courtesy of journalist Aaron Rupar.
Not surprisingly, many people on X, formerly Twitter, called out the former president’s bogus statements in hilarious fashion.