{"id":43269,"date":"2025-08-15T12:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=43269"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:48:17","slug":"fact-checking-trump-on-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/fact-checking-trump-on-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-Checking Trump On Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Fact-Checking_Trump_EXP_G_PH.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: August 14, 2025 (TheOnion.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Donald Trump has claimed that crime is \u201cout of control\u201d in the nation\u2019s capital and beyond.&nbsp;<em>The Onion<\/em>&nbsp;assesses the veracity of the president\u2019s claims.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Claim: D.C. has endured a record amount of robberies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Partially true: Some places in Georgetown sell a cup of coffee for $9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Claim: Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles are crime-ridden cesspools.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>False: These cities are safe, vibrant cesspools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Claim: The National Guard is being deployed to crack down on crime.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>False: The National Guard is being deployed to give Stephen Miller an erection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Claim: Just last week, a high-ranking politician was shot in the head at a D.C. theater.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>False: Trump is mixing up last week with April 14, 1865.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Claim: Violent foreigners traveled to D.C. to savagely beat Americans.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>False: The UFC fight on the White House South Lawn isn\u2019t until next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Claim: Basically anything.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>False: \u201cFalse\u201d continues to be a very safe assumption to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: August 14, 2025 (TheOnion.com) President Donald Trump has claimed that crime is \u201cout of control\u201d in the nation\u2019s capital and beyond.&nbsp;The Onion&nbsp;assesses the veracity of the president\u2019s claims.&nbsp; Claim: D.C. has endured a record amount of robberies. Partially true: Some places in Georgetown sell a cup of coffee for&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/fact-checking-trump-on-crime\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43270,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43269\/revisions\/43270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}