Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) had his lies about Biden and crime embarrassingly fact-checked on nationwide tv.
Video of the complete Scott interview:
Transcript by way of ABC’s This Week:
SCOTT: You understand, Jon, it’s merely this. We – we belief and consider and respect the choice of the Supreme Court docket. What we have to concentrate on, Jon, is the violence that we’re seeing throughout this nation. Beneath Joe Biden we’ve seen the best improve in violent crime in my lifetime. And so specializing in methods for us to scale back that crime means getting 4 extra years of Donald Trump. Beneath Donald Trump we really revered regulation enforcement.
Beneath Joe Biden, we’ve seen the motion to defund the police, leaving communities just like the one I grew up in devastated and ravaged by a wave of violent crime that we’ve got not seen actually in 5 a long time.
KARL: Truly, senator as I – as you most likely know, the most recent stats on violent crime and on the homicide charge, they’re really down this previous 12 months. However let me get again to my query concerning the Supreme Court docket’s resolution.
Tim Scott’s 2 Huge Lies
Tim Scott instructed two large lies on ABC’s This Week. The primary lie was about crime.
In keeping with the FBI’s quarterly crime statistics report, “The Quarterly Uniform Crime Report (Q1), January-March, 2024, offers a preliminary take a look at crime tendencies for January via March 2024 in comparison with January via March 2023. A comparability of knowledge from businesses that voluntarily submitted a minimum of two or extra frequent months of knowledge for January via March 2023 and 2024 signifies reported violent crime decreased by 15.2 %. Homicide decreased by 26.4 %, rape decreased by 25.7 %, theft decreased by 17.8 %, and aggravated assault decreased by 12.5 %. Reported property crime additionally decreased by 15.1 %.”
The second lie was about defunding the police.
As lately as 13 days in the past, Home Republicans tried to chop funding to regulation enforcement.
Republicans have tried on quite a few events to chop funding to regulation enforcement.
As president, Trump’s price range typically steered slicing police funding.
Everyone knows why Tim Scott is saying issues that he is aware of are usually not true. Sen. Scott needs to be Trump’s operating mate, however the one factor he seems to be engaging in is discovering new methods to embarrass himself.