According to Trump, ‘a little fight with the wife’ shouldn’t be considered a crime

Written by Luke Broadwater

President Donald Trump said on Monday that crimes that “occur in the home” shouldn’t be taken into account when evaluating his track record of reducing crime in Washington. He claimed that his opponents were using rumors of “a little fight with the wife” to discredit his crackdown.

Trump made a number of untrue claims regarding the crime rate in the nation’s capital, where he has ordered a federal takeover of law enforcement, while speaking at the Museum of the Bible in Washington.

The president asserted—without proof—that there was no crime in Washington any more. Robberies, assaults, and thefts continue to happen on a regular basis, despite the fact that crime is actually decreasing in the capital, a trend that Washington’s mayor has attributed to the federal law enforcement push.

On Sunday alone, there was a homicide, six motor vehicle thefts, two assaults with a deadly weapon, four robberies and more than 30 thefts, according to police statistics.

“No crime exists. “They said that crime has decreased by 87%,” Trump stated on Monday. “It’s almost nothing—more than 87%.”

Even though Trump has previously made such untrue statements, he sounded especially irate on Monday that he was being held accountable for domestic abuse crimes.

“They call things that happen in the home crime,” he stated. “They will stop at nothing to locate something. They claim that a small altercation between a husband and wife constitutes a crime scene.

Those remarks sparked immediate condemnation.

Sarah Longwell, a seasoned Republican political consultant, posted on social media, calling it “just a casual dismissal of domestic violence as a crime.”

In order to justify his desired law enforcement measures, the president has frequently attempted to fabricate an alternate reality of crime figures.

He claimed on Monday that despite data indicating a significant drop in crime in the nation’s capital even prior to his crackdown, Washington had been labeled “the worst, the most violent city” in America.

He has also targeted a number of other cities, such as Chicago, Baltimore, and New Orleans, that are seeing a decrease in crime.

Trump remarked on Monday, “I don’t understand why Chicago isn’t calling us and pleading for assistance.”