MSNBC's Scarborough busts Trump over his mugged and rape claims with a brutal fact check
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough leveled Donald Trump Wednesday morning over what some say was a scare-mongering speech the former president gave in Howell, Michigan, on Tuesday where he claimed the streets of America are too dangerous for anyone to leave their homes to buy bread.
Speaking in front of law enforcement officers, a subdued and low-key Trump claimed, "You can’t walk across the street to get a loaf of bread. You get shot, you get mugged, you get raped, you get whatever it may be,” before adding, "You’ve seen it, and I’ve seen it.”
After sharing the clip, Scarborough lectured the former president with a barrage of facts.
After joking, "Donald Trump, of course, is describing the plot of [1981's] 'Fort Apache the Bronx,' it's great movie, a great reference, but it bears absolutely no semblance to what is happening right now because he says you get shot if you walk across the street."
"Or raped," co-host Mika Brzezinski interjected.
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"Or raped," Scarborough repeated, "If you want to get a piece of bread. Crime, I know that these facts, as Ronald Reagan would say, they are such stubborn things. I know it irritates people who support Donald Trump, but if crime keeps going on the trajectory that it's going right now, it's going to be lower than it was violent crime in 1950."
"Crime is going in an extraordinarily positive direction right now," he continued. "We have seen inflation continue to go down. And, again, I just don't know how many times I can say this, but it needs to be repeated because Republicans lie so much about immigration. Illegal border crossings were at a 50-year low when Barack Obama left office and Donald Trump became president of the United States it skyrocketed after Barack Obama left office."
"So I understand that facts don't matter for so many people who support Donald Trump because how could they if you're still supporting Donald Trump?" he quipped. "We could go down the long, long list of things he said and things he has done."
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