Scarborough: ‘Donald Trump Is Lying When He Says Crime Rates Are Way Up, They’re Not’

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SCARBOROUGH: “There’s an NBC article that I just now posted on my Threads account, and it just shows the facts. I know the facts don’t matter to Donald Trump, but crime rates keep dropping. Crime, in fact, the rate is lower now than when Donald Trump was in office, lower than it was in 2020, even slightly lower than it was in Trump’s best year as it pertains to crime, in 2019. Murder rates over the past year in the big cities that he’s constantly harping on, down 20%. Rape's down 16%. You can go down the list, on and on, the most serious crimes way down, and again, the overall crime rate for 2022, the last year recorded, crime rates lower, again, than Donald Trump’s best year, in 2019. Certainly a lot lower than 2020. So, he’ll say what he says. Republicans will keep lying. Other news outlets will keep lying about it, and people will whip themselves into a frenzy and say, 'What about crime?' And you can show them the facts. Seriously, it’s just like I can show people, you know, maybe they’re UNC fans and they don’t want to know that Alabama won last night, I think it was 79-77, but Alabama beat UNC, and they go 'Nah, nah, nah, it’s not the truth.' It’s just the facts. It’s just the facts. They may not like it, but it’s the fact. And that’s how Trump extremists have gotten and it’s how cable networks run. It’s their business model to lie about the facts, to twist and distort reality for viewers day in, day out, night in, night out. And when you talk about crime, it’s not as low as I want it to be. It’s not as low as you want it to be. We’ve both said we think the bail issue in New York City is a joke. We think cops aren’t allowed to do their jobs enough. We think that’s a joke. That said, if you look at the numbers, Donald Trump is lying when he says crime rates are way up. They’re not. They’re down. They’re lower than they were when he was president."