Trump takes shot at ABC presidential debate moderator over crime rates fact-check during rally

President-elect Donald Trump took a changeable astatine ABC News' David Muir erstwhile recalling his assertion that "violent transgression is coming down" during the ABC Presidential Debate successful September.

During his pre-inauguration rally Sunday, Trump acknowledged the "hundreds and adjacent thousands of victims" of migrant crime, remarking that transgression was connected the emergence adjacent without amerciable immigrants. 

Trump past recalled however Muir fact-checked him during his statesmanlike statement against Vice President Kamala Harris successful September.

"Do you retrieve I did the debate, and I had David Muir from ABC saying, ‘No, nary transgression has gone down.’ I said, ‘No, no, it‘s gone done the roof.’ Crime has gone done the roof. David [said] no, nary transgression has gone down. I said it‘s gone done the roof. And past helium goes, ‘Uh, I disagree with that.’ The adjacent time they announced that transgression was up similar 40%. This feline is…the full happening is truthful bad," Trump said.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrives to be a rally the time earlier helium is scheduled to beryllium inaugurated for a 2nd term, successful Washington, U.S., January 19, 2025.  (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

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Muir, who served arsenic co-moderator with Linsey Davis astatine the time, insisted during the statement that Trump was not close erstwhile helium claimed that transgression was "through the roof."

"President Trump, arsenic you know, the FBI says wide convulsive transgression is coming down successful this country," Muir said.

"The FBI -- they were defrauding statements. They didn't see the worst cities. They didn't see the cities with the worst crime. It was a fraud. Just similar their fig of 818,000 jobs that they said they created turned retired to beryllium a fraud," Trump responded.

ABC Presidential Debate co-moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis were heavy criticized for perpetually fact-checking erstwhile President Trump but declining to close Vice President Kamala Harris.  (ABC News)

While ABC News did not denote transgression was up "the adjacent day," an FBI revision 1 period aboriginal successful October appeared to vindicate Trump’s archetypal comments. After initially reporting that convulsive transgression was down by 2.1% successful 2022, the FBI aboriginal admitted determination was a 4.5% summation with a nett full of astir 80,029 much convulsive crimes successful 2022 implicit 2021.

Muir did not admit the alteration connected his amusement "World News Tonight" aft the revision was released.

Fox News Digital reached retired to ABC News for a comment. 

Trump has repeatedly attacked Muir for fact-checking him during the statement portion ignoring Harris.

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"And during the debate, I mentioned that and David Muir, a existent lightweight," Trump said successful September. "I had 1 against three, but I deliberation we did great. But David Muir of ABC, fake news, erstwhile I said that transgression is mode up successful our country, helium corrected me, helium corrected maine and truthful overmuch and it was close what I said. He didn't close [Vice President Kamala Harris] 1 time, and what she said was wrong, perfectly wrong. So galore different— Charlottesville, she was wrong, each of the antithetic things, astir everything she said, and she was ne'er corrected.

Trump has often attacked Muir aft FBI revisions showed convulsive transgression had gone up. (Heidi Gutman/ABC via Getty Images; Win McNamee/Getty Images)

"But helium corrected maine connected crime. He said, ‘No, no, transgression has not gone up.' I said transgression has gone up massively. He said, 'I'd similar to authorities for the grounds that transgression has not gone up,'" Trump said. 

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