The dissemination of misinformation on Washington, D.C., crime statistics and arrests is being exported to Democrats in other cities, according to President Donald Trump.
Trump hit Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for propagating fake news by claiming “only nine people have been arrested” in D.C. under the president’s crackdown on crime, homelessness, and illegal immigration.
“The incompetent mayor of Chicago just stated that, in D.C. — where crime has been brought down to almost nothing, there have been no murders in 9 days, something which hasn’t happened in years, and people are safe again — only nine people have been arrested: That is wrong, hundreds of criminals have been held, captured, and arrested, and their guns have been taken away,” Trump wrote Monday on Truth Social.
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