Bignorant Trump Touted the Homicide-free streak in DC as “the first time that’s taken place in years,” but DC went 16 days without a Murder Earlier this year

A man was fatally shot in Southeast Washington just after midnight Tuesday, snapping D.C.’s 12-day stretch without a homicide, an unusually long respite from violence for which President Donald Trump claimed credit at a news conference Monday.

“In the last 11 days we’ve had no murders and that’s the first time that’s taken place in years actually, years,” Trump said Monday morning, though city crime statistics show otherwise.

D.C. went 16 days without a homicide earlier this year, from Feb. 24 to March 13. But even 10 days without a killing is rare in the city, occurring once this year before Trump’s takeover of D.C. police and once in January of last year. The 16-day streak earlier this year was the longest in at least six years.

Members of the Trump administration have echoed the false claim that D.C. has not experienced 11 days without a killing in recent history, and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) took to social media Monday to say that 11 days straight with no homicides in D.C. should “top the list” of reasons Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.

“No police officer working in the city can remember a time in their lives when there has been no murders,” Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said during the news conference Monday. “We’ve checked the records, no one can even find a record of being murder-free as long as we’ve been murder-free under President Trump’s leadership.” [MORE]