Posted on 08/12/2025 8:56:39 AM PDT by DFG
The Associated Press has published a fact-check appearing to substantiate Donald Trump's claim that the murder rate in Washington, DC, is higher than that of both Bogota, Colombia, and Mexico City.
The piece - titled 'FACT FOCUS: Trump exaggerates, misstates facts on Washington crime' - comes after an impassioned press conference from the president.
'The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on earth,' he told onlookers.
The administration, in turn, posted a chart to X comparing DC’s murder rate to other cities around the world.
The graphic showed DC's murder rate at roughly 27 percent, Bogota at 15 percent, and Mexico City at 10 percent.
The AP piece conceded Washington is 'one of America’s most-dangerous big cities,' but pointed to how 'the US in general' sees higher rates of than many other countries.
'Washington does have a higher homicide rate than many other global cities, including some that have historically been considered unsafe by many Americans,' a portion reads. 'But Trump is leaving out important context.'
The rest of the fact-check carried a similar tone, after Trump announced a federal takeover of the municipality's police just hours earlier.
'Look at these. Baghdad is … we doubled up on Baghdad. Panama City, Brasilia, San Jose, Costa Rica, Bogota, Colombia,' Trump told reporters as he showed charts comparing rates of crime in the nation's capital to other cities.
'Heavy drugs. Mexico City, I mentioned Lima, Peru, all double and triple what they are. So do you want to live in places like that? I don't think so. I don't think so.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Wait, what!?
Where is Moscow?
Still way too high.
Dumbass Brits. Not only are they terrible at English, they are terrible at math.
“We fact checked Trump, and he got his facts right. But let us tell you why he’s actually wrong ...”
Moscow: zero percent homicide rate.
All suspicious deaths involved the victims falling out of a building after committing suicide with three shots in the back of the head and their hands tied.
99% of all “journalists” are innumerate.
Also, 73.9% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Yea. Who died and made AP fact checkers? AP is a Soros paid propaganda mill.
I am pretty sure it is 73.877%...
bttt
Over a quarter of the population was murdered?
They got bad teeth also.
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