President Donald Trump delivered a barrage of false claims about crime in Washington, DC, during a series of Monday comments defending his takeover of the police force and deployment of the National Guard in the nation’s capital.

Touting an ongoing 11-day period with no reported murders in Washington, Trump falsely claimed it had been “many years” since the city had previously had a murder-free stretch of even a week; in fact, Washington had three such periods since late February of this year, one of them 16 days long. Trump falsely claimed Washington now has not only no murders but “no crime” at all; while reported crime is down during his takeover, there have still been hundreds of offenses.

Trump falsely claimed Washington had been at an “all-time” high in crime at the end of the Biden administration; in fact, it had been nowhere close to the violent peaks of the early 1990s. And Trump wildly overstated Washington residents’ support for the takeover, baselessly putting it at “95%” even after a poll showed overwhelming local opposition.

Here is a fact check.

Washington has had other murder-free stretches this year

Trump has repeatedly spoken of the fact that there has been a period of consecutive days during his takeover – 11 as of Monday afternoon – without a reported murder in Washington. Fair enough; that’s good news. But Trump has also repeatedly added false claims about the rarity of such stretches.

He told reporters Friday that this is “the first time in anybody’s...

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