Former President Donald Trump pulled out of an interview after he was asked to back up comments he made that crime is on the rise under President Joe Biden, a newspaper has reported.
The Detroit News reported that Trump’s campaign had agreed to an interview with the newspaper on Tuesday after a campaign speech.
However, when the newspaper began probing about crime data, the campaign abruptly cancelled the interview.
“The Trump campaign had initially agreed that Trump would participate in an interview with The Detroit News on Tuesday,” state politics reporter Craig Mauger reported.
“But after the newspaper began asking about the Michigan crime data before the event, a campaign aide said the presidential candidate no longer had time for an interview after the speech.”
“The amount of crime that we have is unbelievable,” Trump said, later labeling this perceived rise the “Kamala crime wave.”
“During 2020, the last year of the Trump presidency, violent crime rose dramatically.
But violent crime has been falling during the Biden presidency.”
Recalling that President Joe Biden is increasing crime, former President Donald Trump left an interview when he was questioned about it, according to a newspaper.
Following a campaign speech on Tuesday, the Detroit News reported that the Trump team had consented to an interview with the publication. However, the campaign abruptly called off the interview when the newspaper started asking detailed questions about crime statistics.
In an interview with The Detroit News on Tuesday, “the Trump campaign had originally agreed that Trump would participate in an interview,” state politics reporter Craig Mauger said. However, a campaign aide claimed the presidential candidate had no time for an interview following the speech after the newspaper started requesting information about Michigan crime statistics prior to the event. “.”.
Newsweek sent an email requesting comment from the Trump campaign.
The alleged cancellation follows the former president’s Tuesday remarks at a campaign event in Michigan, where he claimed that there is a “crime wave” occurring at a scale “nobody has ever seen before.”. “.”.
“We have an unbelievable amount of crime,” Trump declared, going on to refer to this apparent increase as the “Kamala crime wave.”. “.
He claimed that you couldn’t get a loaf of bread by walking across the street in large cities, which are “almost all run by Democrats.”. You are shot. You experience a robbery. Someone rapes you. What ever it is, you get it. “.”.
Nothing in Biden’s record indicates that crime is increasing. According to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the national violent crime rate decreased during the first two years of the Biden administration. In 2022, there were 380.7 incidents per 100,000 people, compared to 398.5 incidents in 2020.
But the Trump campaign informed the newspaper on Tuesday that the FBI’s “estimated crime numbers” for law enforcement agencies that did not report numbers made the federal data “totally unreliable at the present time.”. The Marshall Project claims that as a result of a change in reporting requirements in 2021, one-third of the 18,000 police departments in the country do not submit crime statistics to the FBI.
Under Trump’s presidency, violent crime rose by 12% to 48,674 incidents between 2019 and 2020, according to data pertaining specifically to Michigan that was monitored by the Michigan State Police. The data indicates that in 2021, the first year of Biden’s term, violent crime increased by 1% to 49,073 incidents; however, in 2022, it decreased by approximately 7% to 45,449 incidents.
According to MSP data, instances of robbery and rape have generally been declining since 2018, but murders in Michigan peaked in 2020 and then began to decline in 2021 and 2022.
According to CNN, the murder rate nationwide increased by 30% in the final year of Trump’s administration—the biggest one-year increase ever.
“Director of the Public Safety Lab at New York University and political science professor Anna Harvey told CNN that Trump’s claim that crime is only going to get worse is untrue.”. “Violent crime spiked during 2020, the final year of the Trump administration. For instance, the murder rate saw its biggest one-year increase ever, rising by nearly 30 percent. However, during the Biden administration, violent crime has decreased. ****.
Trump used a recurrent background slide during his Tuesday campaign event, which stated that a Gallup poll from 2023 revealed that 63% of Americans believed crime would be a “extremely” or “very” serious problem.
Following the event, Republican Matt Hall, the minority leader in the Michigan House, said that crime is a “serious problem” in his state. “I examine the polling data. Public safety is a concern, too, he told The Detroit News, “not just illegal immigration and crime committed by illegal immigrants.
However, a July Detroit News-WDIV-TV survey of 600 likely Michigan voters revealed that crime was not the candidates’ top concern.
According to estimates from the Washington Post, Trump made over 30,000 false or misleading claims in his time as president.
Representative Tyrone Carter, a Democrat and a former sheriff, told The Detroit News that “facts don’t matter when it comes to him.”. The idea is to share a narrative that works in your favor. “.”.
