Tuesday 19 June 2018

Trump just tweeted that "crime in Germany is way up." It’s actually at its lowest level since 1992.

Trump just tweeted that "crime in Germany is way up." It’s actually at its lowest level since 1992.

President Trump decided this morning to take a very odd step of sounding off about the domestic politics of a major ally, Germany. His core factual assertion that “crime in Germany is way up” is the opposite of true. On the contrary, in May, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer — who is actually the leader of the immigration-skeptical forces inside Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet — released new data indicating that Germany’s crime rate had fallen to its lowest level since 1992.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/18/17474600/trump-tweet-crime-germany?source=Snapzu

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