NBC’s Seth Meyers hyped on Monday’s Late Night some highly suspect fact-checking from CNN during President Trump’s press conference when he announced he is federalizing Washington, DC’s law enforcement because, for Meyers, the binary choice is between Trump and CNN’s “stat nerds.”
Meyers teed up a clip of Trump, “Trump is ordering what he’s calling a federal takeover of Washington, D.C., based on numbers that once again make no sense. And you don't have to take it from me. CNN fact-checked him live as he was talking.”
In the clip, Trump declared, “The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on Earth, much higher. This is much higher. The number of car thefts has doubled over the past five years. And the number of carjackings has more than tripled.”
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