Maddow Blog-White House's Stephen Miller claims inconvenient crime statistics are 'fake'

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Is Trump’s deputy chief of staff accusing police officers of lying, or does he think Kash Patel’s FBI is peddling false information about crime data?

White House’s Stephen Miller claims inconvenient crime statistics are ‘fake’ - MSNBC

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-houses-stephen-miller-claims-inconvenient-crime-statistics-are-f-rcna224722

Given these circumstances, White House officials basically have three options. The first is relatively straightforward: acknowledge the statistical evidence, but explain that the president and his team have decided to militarize the nation’s capital anyway.

The second option would be for the White House to present alternative data that paints a different picture that the administration considers more compelling.

The third option would be to pretend the statistical evidence the White House doesn’t like is “fake.”

Take a wild guess which one Team Trump prefers.

The morning after the president launched his D.C. initiative, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller — who recently made headlines for peddling weird claims about immigrant crime in Minneapolis — published an item to social media that read:

Crime stats in big blue cities are fake. The real rates of crime, chaos [and] dysfunction are orders of magnitude higher. Everyone who lives in these areas knows this. They program their entire lives around it. Democrats are trying to unravel civilization. Pres Trump will save it.

The falsehood-per-sentence ratio in this little missive was, in a rather literal sense, 1:1, though it is interesting to see Team Trump add crime statistics to its list of “fake” things, joining U.S. job numbers, census data, the president’s approval rating, and news organizations and reports the president doesn’t like.....

That was true, though if Miller correct, the boast from Trump’s FBI director should be discarded — because crime stats in cities led by Democratic officials are “fake,” which necessarily throws off the bureau’s figures.

The White House’s war on data and government statistics was already a mess. It’s apparently getting worse.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Miller does NOT have any credibilty

This made me smile

Link to tweet

Stephen Miller saying “crime stats in big blue cities are fake” is like me saying “Stephen Miller’s hairline is just shy and hiding.” The actual data, you know, from the FBI and not from Fox News fever dreams, shows that crime rates have fallen in most major cities and in many cases are lower than in Republican-led areas when adjusted for population.

If everyone “programmed their entire lives” around this supposed chaos, I guess that’s why NYC has 8.5 million people going to work, taking the subway, walking their dogs, and living their lives every single day without constantly dodging a “crime wave.”

And as for “unraveling civilization”… buddy, the only thing unraveling here is your grip on reality.

[maxsolomon]

2. I don't "program my life around it", gaslighting jackhole.

There's not a place in this city I'm afraid to go, and WITHOUT A GUN.

[C_U_L8R]

3. They're in a war with facts

And they’ll always lose. What blockheads.

[Turbineguy]

4. I wish he became a crime statistic.