After the Justice Department recently released two reports documenting crime trends in the U.S., the liberal media seized on the less accurate of the two to portray crime as being down in spite of violent crime rates (primarily in Democrat-run parts of the country) actually being up compared to five years earlier. And aggravated assault levels appear higher than they’ve been in decades.
Most journalists used their misleading spin to portray Donald Trump as wrong to complain about high crime even though the former President quoted numbers from actual government reports documenting surges in crime from within the past several years.
As the story broke on MSNBC on Monday morning, NBC reporter Ken Dilanian claimed crime is “back down to around 2019 levels, which was historic lows…” As he appeared again an hour later, he complained: “That should be uncontroversial, but it’s not because…
