FBI Revises Crime States to Show Trump Was Right at the Debate

During the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Trump was fact-checked by the moderators regarding crime states in the United States.

Trump claimed violent crime was on the rise, but the moderators used a flawed FBI report to debunk his claim.

Well, the FBI finally revised its numbers, proving that Trump was right.

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The reason the crime stats were off for 2022 was because the FBI changed the way it collected the data.

Republicans have been on this from the start because some of the crime data from the largest cities in the country were not included in the initial release of information.

That omission led to Democrats claiming that crime rates went down in 2022 under Joe Biden, but it was a falsehood.

In reality, violent crime rose by more than 4%, a more than 6% swing from what the original data had claimed.

During the debate, Trump stated, "Crime here is up and through the roof despite their fraudulent statements that they made. Crime in this country is through the roof."

ABC debate moderator David Muir corrected Trump, stating, "President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is actually coming down in this country.”

Trump immediately called out Muir, saying they were “defrauding statements,” and he was right.

When the data was corrected, what was a 2.1% drop turned into a 4.5% increase in violent crime in this country.

In hard numbers, this was an increase of more than 80,000 violent crimes in 2022 over 2021.

As of the writing of this report, Muir has not corrected his fact-check of Donald Trump during his “World News Tonight” reports.

ABC took considerable flack after the debate for regularly fact-checking Donald Trump while allowing Harris to say whatever she wanted with no pushback at all.

Harris pushed numerous debunked narratives against Trump, and moderators never said a word.

This is likely while Trump has chosen to sit out any additional debates because while Harris claimed victory on the night of the debate, over time, the general perception of the debate was that ABC had rigged the debate in her favor.

Currently, Trump and Harris are in a virtual toss-up in all key seven battleground states that will dictate the outcome of this election.