Current Events > Wash. Post mocked for claiming Trump was wrong about violence in Dem-Ran cities

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-mocked-fact-check-trump-dem-cities

The Washington Post was lampooned over the weekend for running a story claiming to disprove President Trumps statement that most violence occurs in cities run by Democrats, but the data essentially backed up the president's case and the paper ran it anyway.
Washington Post correspondent Philip Bump wrote an analysis piece headlined, Trump keeps claiming that the most dangerous cities in America are all run by Democrats. They arent.
Bump criticized Trump for often noting that most of Americas major cities are run by Democrats.

You hear about certain places like Chicago and you hear about whats going on in Detroit and other other cities, all Democrat run, Trump recently said, according to the Post. Every one of them is Democrat run. Twenty out of 20. The 20 worst, the 20 most dangerous are Democrat run.
Bump then set out to prove the president wrong, admitting that he isnt sure what statistic is used for the claim, so he examined two related sets of data compiled by the FBI: most violent crime and most violent crime per capita.

When the Post examined the per capita data, none of the 20 most violent cities was run by Republicans.
The per capita data essentially backed up Trumps claim, while the first set of data also largely proved the presidents point, with the exception of Jacksonville. But the Post felt its data was enough to fact-check Trump anyway.
Trump would no doubt shrug at that detail, decrying as fake news the revelation that his assertion was only slightly wrong, Bump wrote.
The article was unearthed Saturday on social media and quickly mocked.

Original Article by WP:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/25/trump-keeps-claiming-that-most-dangerous-cities-america-are-all-run-by-democrats-they-arent/

Stat Chart They Used:



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Bullet_Wing posted...

What big cities are actually run by Republicans though?

This is like saying all the food in my freezer is cold.

Yeah it's a head scratcher, I imagine the safest cities are Democrat run as well.

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Bullet_Wing posted...

What big cities are actually run by Republicans though?

This is like saying all the food in my freezer is cold.

Jacksonville, apparently? Which, uh, yeah...I'll stick to Democrat run cities, thanks though Trump.

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Man I can't imagine how shitty it is having the Democrat/Republican duality infest municipal politics as well.
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Three of the top twenty biggest cities are run by republicans. Jacksonville, San Diego and Fort Worth.

Doe posted...

Yeah it's a head scratcher, I imagine the safest cities are Democrat run as well.

I guess it depends on your definition of city. I think wed all agree that safest would be something along the lines of crimes per capita, though.