Families of Murder Victims Tear Into Trump Over BS Claims

Win McNamee / Getty Images Family members whose loved ones were murdered in Washington, D.C., in the months following Donald Trump’s federal troop deployment have blasted the president for falsely claiming that he has rid the nation’s capital of violent crime. The president has repeatedly said the city hasn’t seen any murders since he called in the National Guard in August, when in fact 28 people have been killed since the federal takeover, The New York Times reported. In November, 17-year-old Tristan Johnson was shot and killed while walking just a few blocks from the D.C. Armory, which serves as the National Guard’s staging area. Just two weeks later, Trump bragged that, “We haven’t had a murder in six months.” Read more at The Daily Beast.