Federal data shows the national crime rate has dropped under President Biden

Donald Trump backed out of an interview after a local paper asked him for data to back up his continued baseless claims that crime is on the rise under President Joe Biden.

The Detroit News reported that Trump’s campaign had agreed to an interview with the former president on Tuesday after a campaign speech. However, the campaign suddenly claimed Trump no longer had time for the interview after a reporter began probing them on crime data.

“The Trump campaign had initially agreed that Trump would participate in an interview with The Detroit News on Tuesday,” state politics reporter Craig Mauger wrote. “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.”

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Pulling out of a scheduled interview as part of a presidential campaign because the interviewer wants you to back up your claim sure is a weird thing to do.

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back up your claim

i can’t recall a single claim he’s ever made that he “backed up” with anything other than “everybody says so” or something similar

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Oh he couldn’t possibly back up his lies. But I love that he’s so terrified of the press asking him to do it that he’s running away from them.

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I can think of one, around COVID, when his “data” evoked this response

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He had sharpy on a map to back up a claim once.

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Yet another crime to throw on the pile.

It’s illegal to misrepresent emergency weather information.

Drawing a sharpie to make people who were not in the forecasted path of a hurricane panic and seek shelter/evacuate should be a minimum fine/90 days in jail.

Obviously neither happened.

I’ve seen police show and threaten arrest up over someone using the emergency broadcast tones too loud at a park on a nice day. But (at the time) commander-in-queef gets free passes to do illegal shit at least once a week.

Totally the same legal system for ruling(owning)/non ruling(the poors) classes.

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yea, because it’s the people who make their entire living being experts on the weather who are wrong, not this blubbering moron who refuses to let his school transcripts be made public

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Aren’t the questions usually arranged beforehand? You think that one would prepare in advance.

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It was easier to cancel the interview than to provide a source for his claim.

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Convicted felon Trump’s kryptonite is a followup question.

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I really wish this had been more of a thing in the lead up to the first election. Yes um source?

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So your source is “trust me bro”?

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Pretty much… Weird coward still is a coward

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More like “being asked for proof of patently ridiculous and obviously false claims”

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If this is all you have to do, then EVERY MEDIA OUTLET should do this. Not even hardball, just “ok can you show me some numbers?”

If that’s all it takes to get this chicken shit weirdo to curl up in a ball, then fucking do it. He gets no airtime then other than his stupid rallies commemorating when he was pitted against an octogenarian.

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So the key to keep him running away is to have the media actually ask him real questions? Let’s keep asking and he’ll never be on TV again other than fox.

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But that would require media outlets to actually have editorial independence. Sadly those days are long gone.

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D’ya Like Dags?

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Dags?

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“Ma! Get me fookin’ Adderall from oot the caravan. Jaysos Chroist. Any o you lads seen General Kelly? I got dags to foire!”

NGL Pikey Trump would have been amazing to watch.

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