‘Not a fact-based human’: Trump busted by ex-Atlanta mayor over crime claims

As President Donald Trump continues to tease the idea of deploying federal officers and National Guard members to Chicago, Illinois to crack down on crime, Kasim Reed, the former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, is calling out the president on what he characterized as his distorted inflation of crime data.

Trump teased a major announcement regarding a federal takeover of Chicago on Thursday, a tease made amid the ongoing federal takeover in Washington, D.C. Some Chicago residents, many highlighted by the White House, have said they welcome such a takeover, but to those residents, Reed said it was merely demonstrative of the “corrosive impact of Trump not being a fact-based human anymore.”

“The fact of the matter is, the crime statistics – when they were high and they were reported – no one disputed them when they were record numbers,” Reed said, speaking on CNN’s “First of All with Victor Blackwell” on Saturday.

“The other part is, the crime data is reported to the FBI – the FBI is part of the Trump Justice Department. If there's crime data that's false or inaccurate, then have the FBI say so. You won't do that because if you analyze Chicago's crime statistics, then all of the crime statistics for your friendly states are now going to be subject to the same issue.”

Trump first teased a federal takeover of Chicago shortly after launching the takeover of the nation’s capital, with thousands of National Guard members and federal officers currently patrolling the city’s streets, some of them tasked with picking up garbage.

Trump has also publicly feuded with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker in recent months, with Trump having labelled Pritzker as “probably the worst (governor) in the country,” and Pritzker, calling the president a “wannabe dictator.”

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