Police checkpoints on and round Bourbon Road, after a automobile plowed into New Yr crowds at a vacationer district native authorities stated in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 1, 2025. | Supply: Anadolu / Getty
Donald Trump hasn’t even been sworn into workplace but, and already he’s giving us a glimpse at what we’re in for over the subsequent 4 years: lies, unmitigated xenophobia and a obvious lack of media literacy that may make something to come back out of the media seem like “pretend information” to anybody whose essential considering capability and talent to discern factual info are nearly non-existent. (So, Trump and your common Trump supporter.)
Simply hours after a person drove a pickup truck into New Yr’s Eve celebrators in New Orleans, killing 10 individuals and injuring many extra, Trump took to social media to let everybody know the information vindicated claims he made throughout his marketing campaign, everything of which he spent damning migrants (who he believes have murderous violence embedded of their “genes”) and bloviating a few rise in violent crime in America that, in accordance with all respected crime databases, doesn’t exist. (Extra on that in a couple of.)
“After I stated that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we’ve got in our nation, that assertion was continuously refuted by Democrats and the Pretend Information Media, nevertheless it turned out to be true,” Trump stated on his truth-averse web site, Reality Social, in accordance with the New York Occasions. “The crime charge in our nation is at a stage that no one has ever seen earlier than. Our hearts are with the entire harmless victims and their family members, together with the courageous officers of the New Orleans Police Division.”
“The Trump Administration will absolutely help the Metropolis of New Orleans as they examine and get better from this act of pure evil!” Trump added.
Yeah — what Trump ought to have accomplished was await the investigation to yield any actual info on the suspect in any respect earlier than leaping to the belief {that a} non-white terrorist have to be a prison who got here into the nation illegally.
Because it seems, the suspect, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, who was killed throughout a shoot-out with police following the assault, was a U.S. citizen from Texas, and a veteran of the U.S. Military. So, no matter what Jabbar’s ideology was or what the motivation was behind his heinous assault, we all know that he was a naturally-born citizen who was radicalized proper right here within the U.S. of A. He was a home-grown terrorist very similar to the mob of MAGA supporters who tried to overthrow the federal government on Trump’s behalf on Jan. 6 — or higher but — very similar to Payton Gendron, the white supremacist who gunned down 10 Black individuals in Buffalo, New York, and left a manifesto that confirmed he’s a believer of the identical white nationalist Nice Alternative Idea that Trump and lots of his supporters, together with GOP officers, additionally adhere to.
Now, in accordance with the Occasions, “Some early stories in regards to the assault stated the truck was pushed throughout the border from Mexico into america,” however that turned out to be false, and, at any charge, it’s no excuse for a supposed chief who would be the subsequent sitting president spreading misinformation as a result of he’s a moron who, regardless of his fixed bemoaning of the “pretend information media,” reacts instantly to each media headline he comes throughout that claims precisely what he desires to be true. That is no completely different than when Trump went on a nationwide debate stage and repeated debunked nonsense about Haitians abducting and consuming pets in Springfield, Ohio, even though each Springfield regulation enforcement official, together with its Republican mayor, reported that there was no proof that it was taking place.
We didn’t really need extra proof that Trump is the residing embodiment of the “pretend information” he complains about, however he retains giving us increasingly more to level to, together with his oft-repeated, provably false declare that “the crime charge in our nation is at a stage that no one has ever seen earlier than.”
Truly, we’ve got already reported on how crime knowledge doesn’t match Trump’s speaking factors:
Violent crime in America has nearly accomplished nothing however decline because the early Nineties, and crime analysts report that U.S. crime, usually, is at the moment at a 50-year low. However Republicans proceed to disregard the explicitly clear databases of the FBI and native regulation enforcement companies —the identical databases the place they get the Black-on-Black crime statistics they deliberately misread in essentially the most racist methods doable—to allow them to hold hammering away on the identical stale false narrative that crime, particularly within the Black group, is rising underneath Democratic management quicker than Trump rose for an influence fist-appropriating photo-op instantly after getting shot at.
From CNN:
Preliminary FBI knowledge for 2023 confirmed a roughly 13% nationwide decline in homicide and a roughly 6% nationwide decline in total violent crime in comparison with 2022, bringing each homicide and violent crime ranges under the place they had been in 2020. And preliminary FBI knowledge for the primary quarter of 2024 confirmed a good steeper drop from the identical quarter in 2023 – a roughly 26% decline in homicide and roughly 15% decline in total violent crime.
Crime knowledge skilled Jeff Asher, co-founder of the agency AH Datalytics, stated that if the ultimate 2023 figures present a decline in homicide of at the very least 10% from 2022, this could be the quickest US decline “ever recorded.” And he famous that each the preliminary FBI-published knowledge from the primary quarter of 2024 and in addition “crime knowledge collected from a number of impartial sources level to a good bigger decline in property and violent crime, together with a considerably bigger drop in homicide, to date this yr in comparison with 2023, although there’s nonetheless time left within the yr for these traits to vary.”
The reality is, because the first time Trump was sworn into the White Home eight years in the past, we’ve seen simply debunked propaganda spewed from the Oval Workplace “at a stage that no one has ever seen earlier than.” And now we are able to sit up for one other 4 years of the identical.
Unhappy.
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