make it up then yammer "fake news"

Donald Trump is continuing his campaign of fearmongering by making up fake murders. 13

Just days after Kellyanne Conway made up a terrorist massacre, the POTUS is spouting off his own alternative facts about the country's murder rate. 4

Related: Trump's Pick For Labor Secretary Admits To Employing An Undocumented Worker

In a listening session with county sheriffs from around the U.S. on Tuesday, Drumpf dropped this nugget: 3

"And yet the murder rate in our country is the highest it's been in 47 years, right? Did you know that? Forty-seven years. I used to use that. I'd say that in a speech, and everybody was surprised. Because the press doesn't tell it like it is."

Yeah, they were probably surprised because it's not true. 3

According to the FBI's most recent data, the murder rate in 2015 was FactCheck.org.

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BTW, even the TOTAL number of murders was lower in 2015 than in 1970, by about 300 killings, despite a much larger population.

Near as anyone can tell, if Trump isn't just pulling the numbers out of his ass, he MAY have just been confused as to a specific statistic in The New York Times, which reported that the rise from 2014-2015 was the biggest one-year increase in about that many years.



just like the Trump cartel, lie. lie, and LIE.
 

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