Fact check:
Trump delivers wildly dishonest speech
Trump's lengthy address to the right-wing gathering in Maryland was filled with wildly inaccurate claims about his own presidency, Joe Biden's presidency, foreign affairs, crime, elections and other subjects.
Here are a few of trump's whoppers:
Crime in Manhattan
While Trump criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg,
who has been investigating Trump's company, he claimed that
"killings are taking place at a number like nobody's ever seen, r
ight in Manhattan."
Facts First:
It isn't even close to true that Manhattan is experiencing a number
of killings that nobody has ever seen. The region classified by the
New York Police Department as Manhattan North had 43 reported
murders in 2022; that region had 379 reported murders in 1990
and 306 murders in 1993. The Manhattan South region had 35
reported murders in 2022 versus 124 reported murders in 1990
and 86 murders in 1993.
New York City as a whole is also nowhere near record homicide levels;
the city had 438 reported murders in 2022 versus 2,262 in 1990 and
1,927 in 1993.
Manhattan North had just 8 reported murders this year through
February 19, while Manhattan South had one.
The city as a whole had 49 reported murders.