Trump says having ‘a little fight with the wife’ should not count as a crime

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.

“There’s no crime. They said, ‘Crime’s down 87%,’” Trump said Monday. “It’s more than 87% — virtually nothing.”

While Trump has made such false claims before, on Monday he sounded particularly aggrieved that domestic violence crimes were counting against him.

“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.”

Those comments provoked quick criticism.

“Just a casual dismissal of domestic violence as a crime,” Sarah Longwell, a longtime Republican political strategist, wrote on social media.

The president has often sought to create an alternative reality of crime statistics to support the law enforcement actions he wishes to take.

On Monday he said people had categorized Washington as “the worst, the most violent city” in America, despite statistics showing a major crime decline in the nation’s capital even before his crackdown.

He has also targeted a series of other cities that are experiencing a crime decline, including Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans.

“I don’t know why Chicago isn’t calling us saying, Please give us help,” Trump said Monday.