ABC is the new poster child for fake news.
But ABC attempted to influence the election by feeding the public misinformation.
And now ABC owes Donald Trump an apology after David Muir made this huge mistake.
ABC’s debate fact check fully debunkedÂ
One reason polls showed Americans thinking Kamala Harris won the September 10th debate with Donald Trump was the fact that moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis repeatedly “fact-checked” Donald Trump in real time.
When moderators correct a candidate, it gives the impression to viewers that the candidate is either a liar or ill-informed.
That happened during an exchange when Donald Trump made the commonsense point that any American who lives in a big city can recognize.
And that’s the fact that crime is surging thanks to the Democrat Party’s policy of coddling criminals through schemes like no cash bail.
“Crime here is up and through the roof. Despite their fraudulent statements that they made. Crime in this country is through the roof. And we have a new form of crime. It’s called migrant crime. And it’s happening at levels that nobody thought possible,” Trump stated.
Muir jumped in with his “fact check” to falsely claim crime was going down.
“President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country, but Vice President the-” Muir began before Trump cut him off with a correction of his own.
Trump told Muir that the FBI crime stats didn’t include cities like New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles, so it was fraudulent to say crime actually went down.
“Excuse me, the FBI — they were defrauding statements. They didn’t include the worst cities. They didn’t include the cities with the worst crime. It was a fraud. Just like their number of 818,000 jobs that they said they created turned out to be a fraud,” Trump declared.
But the damage was done.
As a result, Trump looked like an uninformed liar to viewers.
The FBI’s stealth edit
One month after the debate, the FBI admitted Trump was right.
The bureau stealth edited their crime statistics to show that a 2.1% decrease in crime was really a 4.5% jump in violent crime.
“But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent crime increased in 2022 by 4.5%. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults,” Real Clear Investigations reported.
College of William & Mary professor Carl Moody – an expert on studying crime statistics – told Real Clear Investigations he could find no precedent for this alteration in the numbers.
“I have checked the data on total violent crime from 2004 to 2022,” Moody stated. “There were no revisions from 2004 to 2015, and from 2016 to 2020, there were small changes of less than one percentage point. The huge changes in 2021 and 2022, especially without an explanation, make it difficult to trust the FBI data.”
But it was pretty obvious what was going on.
Republicans suspected the FBI left the fraudulent crime statistics in place as a talking point for Kamala Harris.
Once it no longer retained any political utility, the FBI put out the real crime numbers.
