ABC's Trump fact check blows up

 Mike McDaniel - American Thinker 

 Friday afternoon, Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt called on Muir, the anchor of ABC’s “World News Tonight” to “issue an immediate public apology to President Trump for wrongly and rudely fact checking him on the debate stage.”

"Crime rates are on the ballot in November. Donald Trump won’t be
 holding his breath while waiting for Muir’s apology."

"Now infamously, ABC’s David Muir, during the Trump/Harris debate, “fact checked” Donald Trump’s assertion that crime rates had increased under the Harris/Biden Administration, arrogantly sniffing they were decreasing. That was only one of several ludicrously false “fact checks” against Trump, as opposed to no fact checks at all against Harris. What a surprise. It was only a few days later that the truth came out, but first, let’s explore some of the reasons why statistics, particularly those of the FBI, are blatantly false.

"At one time, the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report (UCR) was the gold standard of crime statistics, but that hasn’t been true for a very long time, and during the Harris/Biden years, the FBI’s reporting has become purposely inaccurate.

"Part of the reason for this is the success of “Defund the Police” lunacy. Particularly in blue cities, cutting police budgets has created a crime doom loop. Wages comprise most of any police budget. Cut the budget, and officers are fired. Firing officers for political reasons makes recruiting qualified candidates virtually impossible. It also causes officers who can retire to pull the pin, and forces others to flee to states where police officers are allowed to do their jobs. Stuck with DEI mandates and few or no qualified candidates, blue city police forces dramatically reduce hiring standards, accepting even people with drug and alcohol abuse histories and criminal records.

"The officers that remain are grossly overworked and have high incidences of illness and stress. Overtime goes through the roof, depleting city coffers. Those blue cities also tend to harass and prosecute officers for doing their jobs, while simultaneously denying them necessary and constitutional tools like stop and frisk, so in self-defense remaining officers tend to do as little as possible, and particularly avoid contact with black criminals, who tend to commit the most crimes, largely against honest black people." . . .