MaddowBlog-The ridiculous reason Trump downplayed domestic violence as a crime

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The president’s goal is to claim that he’s completely eliminated crime in Washington, D.C. That led him to express irritation about domestic violence.

The ridiculous reason Trump downplayed domestic violence as a crime. He doesn’t want such crimes to blemish his claim of eliminating violent crime in DC. Trump is not only stupid, he’s a total hypocrite! www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Ph.D. (@cammosher.bsky.social) 2025-09-09T19:02:13.579Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-domestic-violence-crime-washington-dc-rcna230046

These comments came to mind anew this week. The New York Times reported:

President Trump suggested on Monday that offenses that ‘take place in the home’ should not count against his record of crime reduction in Washington, saying his opponents are using reports of ‘a little fight with the wife’ to undermine his crackdown.

In the spring of 2020, Trump’s goal was to convince Americans that there was a vanishingly small number of Covid cases in the U.S. Five and a half years later, his new goal is to persuade Americans that crime in the nation’s capital has been completely eliminated, thanks to his decision to militarize the city.....

It was at this point when the president hedged a bit, acknowledging crimes that undermine his talking points, which can’t be prevented by police state tactics.

Trump claims crime is down to "virtually nothing" in DC & adds the crimes that are happening are "much lesser things. Things that take place in the home they call crime. You know, they'll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight w/the wife they say 'this is a crime. See?'"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-09-08T15:18:01.822Z

“Things that take place in the home they call crime,” he said. “They’ll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime scene, see? So now I can’t claim 100%.”

And since claiming 100% crime reduction is what apparently matters most, Trump expressed irritation about domestic violence interfering with his political boast.

To the extent that reality still has any meaning in the discussion about the underlying policy, it’s not just domestic violence that’s intruding on the White House’s talking points. The Times’ report added, “On Sunday alone, there was a homicide, six motor vehicle thefts, two assaults with a deadly weapon, four robberies and more than 30 thefts, according to police statistics.”

None of those crimes in Washington, D.C., had anything to do with “a man” having “a little fight with the wife.”

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1. And remember, if you don't test for Covid, you can deny it's an epidemic.