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MSNBC Derails Trump's Big Crime Propaganda Event

As Trump claimed that crime was surging, MSNBC put the real national Washington, DC, crime stats on the screen beside him.

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Jason Easley
Aug 11, 2025
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MSNBC did something that needs to happen more often. As Donald Trump invented a complete fantasy about crime in Washington, DC and around the country, the network debunked him by showing the real crime statistics on the screen while the president lied.

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As Trump was saying:

 When you say, take a look at numbers, I just saw some charts. These are different cities throughout the world. Red is okay. The red is a place called Washington dc Look at these. Baghdad is, we doubled up on Baghdad. Panama City, Brasilia. San Jose, Costa Rica, Bogota, Columbia, heavy Drugs, Mexico City.

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