Trump’s lies about crime

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Jan 29, 2026 · RemarksAfter U.S. vessel strikes in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, “drugs entering our country by sea are down 97%.”
Jan 5, 2026 · Social postMaduro was “flooding America with deadly fentanyl.”
Jan 3, 2026 · Social postGov. Tim Walz had Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman killed.
Aug 25, 2025 · RemarksIn Washington, D.C., “We always have a murder a week.”
Aug 11, 2025 · SpeechWashington, D.C., has 41 homicides per 100,000 people, “No. 1 that we can find anywhere in the world.”
Oct 27, 2024 · Rally“As California attorney general, (Kamala Harris) redefined child sex trafficking, assault with a deadly weapon, and rape of an unconscious person as a totally nonviolent crime.”
Sep 29, 2024 · RallyVice President Kamala Harris “even wants to legalize fentanyl.”
Sep 29, 2024 · RallyKamala Harris “let in the 13,099 convicted murderers and opposes all efforts to find them and to remove them.”
Aug 15, 2024 · Press conferenceCalifornia law lets you “rob a store as long as it’s not more than $950” and “not get charged.” Kamala Harris “did that.”
Jul 27, 2024 · RallyDuring the 2020 Minnesota riots after George Floyd’s murder, Gov. Tim Walz didn’t call in the National Guard, “so, I sent in the National Guard to save Minneapolis.”
Jun 18, 2024 · RemarksSays he “saved Kenosha” and the “governor wouldn’t move” on sending the National Guard.
Jun 15, 2024 · RemarksCrime statistics “no longer include data from 30% of the country including the biggest and most violent cities.”
May 31, 2024 · Remarks“Congo, Africa, just released a lot of people, a lot of people from their prisons and jails and brought them into the United States of America.”
Mar 4, 2023 · Social postViolent crime in Manhattan is “now at a record level.”
Nov 1, 2022 · InterviewAt the Pelosi house, “the glass it seems was broken from the inside to the out, so it wasn’t a break-in, it was a breakout.”
Nov 2, 2020 · Rally“Other administrations, in particular, the last administration didn't make even a move to try and get it done. We got criminal justice reform done. We got prison reform done.”
Nov 2, 2020 · Rally“I'm fighting for you, and I got criminal justice reform.”
Nov 2, 2020 · Rally“I got you criminal justice reform, prison reform.”
Nov 2, 2020 · Rally“I am fighting for you and got criminal justice reform, prison reform.”
Nov 1, 2020 · Rally“I reversed that injustice with a landmark criminal justice reform. And nobody else -- And I'll tell you, nobody else could've gotten it but me. We had a lot of help. Nobody else coulda got it. Obama never even tried.”
Nov 1, 2020 · Rally“I got approved things that they never thought -- that Obama didn't even try. They never had a chance, and we had to twist a lot of arms, didn't we, David? We had to twist a lot of arms. Criminal justice reform....”
Oct 31, 2020 · Rally“[Biden and Democrats] want to defund your police.”
Oct 31, 2020 · Rally“If Biden and Harris are elected they will pass legislation to slash police funding. They're already trying to do it all over the country.”
Oct 31, 2020 · Rally“I signed landmark criminal justice reform.”
Oct 31, 2020 · Rally“I signed landmark criminal justice reform, and in a second term will continue fighting for African Americans like never before.”
Oct 31, 2020 · Social post“I signed landmark Criminal Justice Reform.”
Oct 31, 2020 · Rally“I saw a landmark criminal justice reform.”
Oct 31, 2020 · Rally“I reversed the injustice of Biden's crime bill by signing landmark criminal justice reform, prison reform.”
Oct 31, 2020 · Social post“Biden and Harris would pass legislation to slash police funding all across America.”
Oct 30, 2020 · Rally“These wealthy liberal hypocrites want to defund the police...”
Oct 30, 2020 · Rally“I gave former prisoners a second chance by signing our landmark criminal justice reform that Biden couldn't do and Obama couldn't do.”
Oct 28, 2020 · Rally“[Biden will be] gutting your police departments.”
Oct 27, 2020 · Rally“[The Biden-Harris plan] would slash police budgets all over the country.”
Oct 27, 2020 · Rally“If Biden and the Democrat socialists are elected, they will dismantle your police departments.”
Oct 27, 2020 · Rally“He would make every community into a sanctuary city for violent criminals.”
Oct 27, 2020 · Rally“ And to completely dismantle law enforcement and cripple police departments nationwide.”
Oct 26, 2020 · Rally“[Biden will] dismantle your police departments.”
Oct 26, 2020 · Rally“If Biden and the Democrat socialists are elected, they will...dismantle your police departments.”
Oct 24, 2020 · Rally“Biden is constantly lies, and he said he won't defund the police, he's gonna leave the police alone.”
Oct 24, 2020 · Rally“Biden and the Democrats will...dismantle your police departments.”
Oct 23, 2020 · Rally“[Biden will] dismantle your police departments.”
Oct 23, 2020 · Rally“[Biden will ... dismantle your police departments.”
Oct 22, 2020 · Interview“Nobody has done what I've done, criminal justice reform. Obama and Joe didn't do it. I don't even think they tried because they had no chance at doing it. They might have wanted to do it.”
Oct 21, 2020 · Rally“[Biden will] dismantle your police departments.”
Oct 21, 2020 · Interview“Nobody's done for the Black community what I've done with criminal justice reform, prison reform. President Obama could never get it passed, could never get it through.”
Oct 21, 2020 · Interview“ANTIFA's a disaster, and it's so bad for so many people, including, I think, the Democrat party, because everybody gets it. ANTIFA's a terrorist organization. What they've done on the streets, and when you see these…
Oct 20, 2020 · Rally“[Biden will] dismantle your police departments.”
Oct 20, 2020 · Interview“They want to defund your police or at least radically change your police.”
Oct 19, 2020 · Rally“[Biden wants to] dismantle your police departments.”
Oct 19, 2020 · Rally“They want to dismantle your police departments.”
Oct 18, 2020 · Rally“[The election is] a choice between... supporting the police or defunding the police.”
Oct 17, 2020 · Rally“[If Biden is elected, Democrats will] dismantle your police departments.”
Oct 17, 2020 · Rally“[Democrats] would kill you jobs, dismantle your police departments, and you have a lot of great law enforcement people here today.”
Oct 17, 2020 · Rally“[Democrats] don't like to say Antifa. You know. They don't like to say Antifa. They like to blame everything on the right. This is the left. ”
Oct 17, 2020 · Interview“That criminal justice reform done and all of your Democrats that were president before me and all of the people that were here couldn't get it done or even close.”
Oct 17, 2020 · Rally“Criminal justice reform, Obama couldn't do it. I don't even think he tried to do it, frankly, but he could have never done it.”
Oct 17, 2020 · Rally“Asked if [Biden] supports slashing police funding -- you saw this last week. He said, yes, yes, absolutely, yes. He's -- honestly, well, he didn't even understand the question, but that's what he said.”
Oct 16, 2020 · Speech“Their anti-police agenda will empower violent mobs and put every community at risk.”
Oct 16, 2020 · Rally“Joe Biden and the Democrats, Socialists ...dismantle your police departments.”
Oct 15, 2020 · Interview“But criminal justice reform, everybody said it could -- it could not be done. President Obama and Biden never even tried to do it. They never even tried.”
Oct 12, 2020 · Rally“[Biden will] dismantle your police departments.”
Oct 12, 2020 · Social post“These are Biden fools. ANTIFA RADICALS. Get them FBI, and get them now!" https://t.co/RI9fH6sC1g
Oct 12, 2020 · Social post“The FBI and Law Enforcement must focus their energy on ANTIFA and the Radical Left, those who have spent the summer trying to burn down poorly run Democrat Cities throughout the USA!”
Oct 11, 2020 · Rally“So they want to defund your police, they want to stop paying your police what they should be getting.”
Oct 10, 2020 · Remarks“We signed a landmark criminal justice reform bill that nobody thought was possible to even think about. I did that. I did that. I got that done. And I worked with a lot of people, but we got it done. The Obama…
Oct 9, 2020 · Interview“Obama never did criminal justice reform. They couldn't believe that I got it done, actually. They couldn't believe it.”
Oct 9, 2020 · Interview“If you look at what I've done for criminal justice reform, Obama couldn't get criminal justice reform done.”
Oct 8, 2020 · Social post“Biden will ...Defund, or close, your Police.”
Oct 1, 2020 · Rally“Joe Biden says Antifa is just an idea. But ideas don't assault police and burn down buildings. Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization.”
Oct 1, 2020 · Interview“But [Biden] should condemn also Antifa. Antifa is a horrible group of people. They kill people. They -- what they do to people -- and they're causing insurrection. They're causing riots.”
Sep 30, 2020 · Rally“Joe Biden says and Antifa is just an idea. Well, ideas don't assault cops and they don't burn down buildings. Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization.”
Sep 30, 2020 · Social post“I want to defend & preserve our nation’s historic values. Our opponents stand with rioters – I stand with the heroes of Law Enforcement. Biden says Antifa is just an idea. Ideas don't assault cops & burn down…
Sep 29, 2020 · Remarks“He’s talking about defunding the police.”
Sep 26, 2020 · Rally“[Biden supports] sanctuary cities that release violent criminal aliens.”
Sep 22, 2020 · Interview“And of course, the big one is I got criminal justice reform, which President Obama tried to get. He couldn't get. Nobody could get it.”
Sep 21, 2020 · Rally“If Biden and the left gain power, they will dismantle police departments nationwide.”
Sep 19, 2020 · Rally“Joe Biden and the Democrats want to gut police departments nationwide. You know that, right?”
Sep 18, 2020 · Remarks“The fact is that Antifa is a bad group, and they're criminals and they're anarchists and they're agitators, and they're looters and rioters and everything else. They're bad. And when a man [FBI Director Chris Wray]…
Sep 17, 2020 · Social post“And I look at them [Antifa] as a bunch of well funded ANARCHISTS & THUGS who are protected because the Comey/Mueller inspired FBI is simply unable, or unwilling, to find their funding source, and allows them to get…
Sep 14, 2020 · Remarks“Biden wants to take away your police.”
Sep 13, 2020 · Rally“When asked if he would cut police funding, Sleepy Joe said, ‘Absolutely. Yes, I would.’ Now he's trying to change his mind.”
Sep 13, 2020 · Social post“When asked if he would cut police funding, Biden ... replied ‘Yes, Absolutely.’”
Sep 13, 2020 · Rally“Joe Biden and his supporters continue their dangerous war on the police. They're putting the lives of our brave officers directly in harm's way at his convention.”
Sep 13, 2020 · Social post“Biden calls for … closing prisons.”
Sep 12, 2020 · Interview“They want to defund their police. Biden is all in that.”
Sep 12, 2020 · Rally“Biden supports cutting police funding, you know that. Abolishing.”
Sep 8, 2020 · Rally“[Scott] has passed criminal justice reform, prison reform, delivered permanent funding for historically black colleges and universities that Obama never did or couldn't do and Biden.”
Sep 4, 2020 · Press conference“[Democrats] want to release a lot of inmates, some of them for very serious reasons. They want to release them from jail.”
Sep 4, 2020 · Rally“We have, believe it or not, with, you take out Chicago and New York, a couple of places, we have by far the best crime numbers we've ever had.”
Sep 4, 2020 · Press conference“I wouldn't have to let prisoners go -- some very evil prisoners go. Like, think of it: The Democrats, in order to get what they want and in order to give us what we -- they're talking about allowing prisoners to be…
Sep 1, 2020 · Remarks“If you look at what they want to do, they want to cut police funding.”
Aug 31, 2020 · Press conference“This includes targeting law enforcement efforts to focus on Antifa, the left-wing domestic terror organization. The mission of Antifa is to spread terror in the U.S. population with a goal of getting Americans to give…
Aug 31, 2020 · Rally“They want to defund the police, we want to hire the police.”
Aug 31, 2020 · Interview“Obama didn't give them criminal justice reform, I did.”
Aug 27, 2020 · Speech“When asked if he supports cutting police funding, Joe Biden replied, ‘Yes, absolutely.’ ”
Aug 24, 2020 · Rally“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, it's another real beauty, want to defund the police.”
Aug 22, 2020 · Interview“We've done criminal justice reform, which nobody could have done.”
Aug 22, 2020 · Interview“So the Democrat party has gone so far left. They don't care about law and order.”
Aug 21, 2020 · Speech“We passed historic criminal justice reform.”
Aug 20, 2020 · Interview“They want to defund the police. And they want to -- they want to abolish police.”
Aug 20, 2020 · Speech“They want to defund police.”
Aug 17, 2020 · Interview“You have to understand I did criminal justice reform.”
Aug 17, 2020 · Rally“They want to defund their police, they want to terminate their police.”
Aug 15, 2020 · Remarks“And they [Biden-Harris] want to defund the police.”
Aug 14, 2020 · Remarks“If Sleepy Joe Biden were to become precedent, he would immediately pass legislation to gut every single police department in America. You know that.”
Aug 12, 2020 · Rally“Biden wants to … incentivize prison closure and provide free federal housing for former prisoners.”
Aug 12, 2020 · Rally“Biden has vowed to defund the police.”
Aug 11, 2020 · Rally“[Biden] wants prisons closed, and provide free federal housing for former inmates.”
Aug 11, 2020 · Interview“They never even tried to get criminal justice reform, which is a big deal. And I got it. And nobody else was able to get it. And I don't think anybody else could've gotten it.”
Aug 11, 2020 · Interview“Nobody else could have gotten criminal justice reform. And Obama didn't think he could get it. He never even tried.”
Aug 11, 2020 · Rally“Biden's vowed to defund the police.”
Aug 7, 2020 · Press conference“We have 276 miles of wall. It's having a tremendous impact on drugs coming into our country already. It'll be finished toward the end of the year. And it's had a very, very big impact.”
Aug 5, 2020 · Rally“[Biden wants to] incentivize prison closure so that they close your prisons and then provide free federal housing for former inmates.”
Aug 5, 2020 · Interview“You take a look at what they're doing with the funding, whether it's defund or reducing the funds [for police] very substantially. But Joe's -- is -- is totally involved with every one of those horrible things.”
Aug 5, 2020 · Rally“Biden has vowed to defund the police and to take away your guns.”
Aug 4, 2020 · Interview“And, you know, they want to defund the police. They want to stop the police. They want to have them at least to a minimum. And we're just the opposite.”
Aug 3, 2020 · Interview“It's Antifa and anarchists that are causing the problems, not law enforcement. Our law enforcement.”
Aug 2, 2020 · Rally“When asked whether he would defend and defund our police, Biden said, we're going to defund them. He wants to defund them. He's going to defund the police.”
Jul 31, 2020 · Remarks“That's what they want to do, defund and disband the police, Biden and Bernie's manifesto.”
Jul 22, 2020 · Press conference“We did criminal justice reform. We passed criminal justice reform, something that Obama and Biden were unable to do.”
Jul 19, 2020 · Interview“And Biden wants to defund the police.”
Jul 18, 2020 · Rally“We've built over 250 miles of wall to stop the flow of drugs and crime, and illegal immigration and trafficking, and trafficking in women mostly and children, but women mostly. And a lot of it's built already.”
Jul 18, 2020 · Rally“We have record-low crime numbers but you look at some of the states run by Democrats, run cities also run by Democrats.”
Jul 18, 2020 · Rally“They want to support the horrible sanctuary cities. It's a way of protecting criminals, incentivize illegal alien, child smuggling, and women smuggling.”
Jul 17, 2020 · Rally“He [Biden] wants… to free violent criminals, incentivized prison closures so that we close our prisons and just let everybody free in your community, he wants to free federal housing. He wants free federal housing for…
Jul 17, 2020 · Rally“Biden wants to raise your taxes, defund your police, abolish probably your police, which I hate even to say because if you think about it, how ridiculous.”
Jul 17, 2020 · Social post“Biden wants to defund our police. He may use different words, but when you look at his pact with Crazy Bernie, and other things, that’s what he wants to do.”
Jul 16, 2020 · Remarks“So [Biden and Democrats] wanted to defund and abolish your police and law enforcement while at the same time destroying our great suburbs.”
Jul 16, 2020 · Social post“Corrupt Joe Biden wants to defund our police. He may use different words, but when you look at his pact with Crazy Bernie, and other things, that’s what he wants to do. It would destroy America!”
Jul 15, 2020 · Social post“Joe Biden and the Radical Left want to Abolish Police, Abolish ICE, Abolish Bail, Abolish Suburbs, Abolish the 2nd Amendment – and Abolish the American Way of Life. No one will be SAFE in Joe Biden’s America!”
Jul 14, 2020 · Press conference“[Democrats] support the deadly sanctuary cities where many of these people are protected better than the American citizen is protected.”
Jul 14, 2020 · Press conference“[Biden wants to] abolish law enforcement as we know it.”
Jul 14, 2020 · Press conference“Free federal housing for former inmates.”
Jul 10, 2020 · Remarks“Biden wants to defund the police, he wants to call the cops the enemy which he did the other day.”
Jul 9, 2020 · Interview“We need security, we can't defund our police and we can't abolish the police. They want to abolish our police.”
Jul 9, 2020 · Interview“They've gone -- they've gone crazy, frankly. And, you know, it's defund the police and abolish the police. Defund and abolish is the term. And he [Joe Biden] just signed an agreement with Bernie Sanders that makes him…
Jul 1, 2020 · Interview“He [Biden] wants to defund and abolish police because that's what he's being told to do. He's not making his own decisions. The radical left is doing, I mean, they're telling them what to do. He wants to defund and…
Jun 25, 2020 · Interview“Well, the biggest thing: criminal justice reform. Obama and Biden never even tried it. And that was something so important for the black community. They came to me -- they were -- they wanted it so badly because it is…
Jun 23, 2020 · Speech“I signed groundbreaking criminal justice reform, which nobody was able to get done. Very important.”
Jun 22, 2020 · Interview“What I did on criminal justice reform. They've been trying to get it for years and nobody did it. Obama didn't do it, I did it.”
Jun 22, 2020 · Interview“And that you don't tell, you don't talk about criminal justice reform. President Obama didn't do it. And he couldn't do it. I'm not even sure he wanted to do it, but President Obama didn't do it. Nobody did it. I did…
Jun 17, 2020 · Interview“I passed criminal justice reform, which nobody could get, President Obama couldn't get it. I don't know if he tried to get it, but he certainly didn't get it or it didn't come close.”
Jun 16, 2020 · Speech“We've achieved the lowest recorded crime rates in recent history.”
Jun 16, 2020 · Speech“President Obama and Vice President Biden never even tried to fix [policing] during their eight-year period. The reason they didn't try is because they had no idea how to do it. And it is a complex situation.”
Jun 15, 2020 · Remarks“Think of this: A group -- Antifa and others, radical lefts -- they went into a major U.S. city, Seattle, and they took over a big percentage of that city.”
Jun 13, 2020 · Social post“Interesting how ANTIFA and other Far Left militant groups can take over a city without barely a wimpier from soft Do Nothing Democrat leadership, yet these same weak leaders become RADICAL when it comes to shutting…
Jun 13, 2020 · Social post“Criminal Justice Reform. I got it done!!!”
Jun 11, 2020 · Remarks“Like, we got criminal justice reform passed, and they've been trying to do it for many years -- and they haven't been able to do get it passed.”
Jun 11, 2020 · Interview“Criminal justice reform. Nobody else could. I've done it. I did it. I didn't get a lot of notoriety. And the fact the people I did it for then go on television and thank everybody but me and they needed me to get it…
Jun 10, 2020 · Remarks“A big thing is criminal justice reform. I keep hearing about, "Oh, criminal justice reform," and everyone is trying to take the credit. And that one, I will say, we will take the full credit because they couldn't have…
Jun 8, 2020 · Social post“This year has seen the lowest crime numbers in our Country’s recorded history, and now the Radical Left Democrats want to Defund and Abandon our Police. Sorry, I want LAW & ORDER!”
Jun 8, 2020 · Remarks“They've enforced the laws. They've done a fantastic job of it. We have among the best numbers we've ever had in terms of recorded history, certainly. But this has been a very strong year for less crime.”
Jun 7, 2020 · Social post“Sleepy Joe Biden and the Radical Left Democrats want to 'DEFUND THE POLICE'. I want great and well paid LAW ENFORCEMENT. I want LAW & ORDER!”
Jun 7, 2020 · Social post“Not only will Sleepy Joe Biden DEFUND THE POLICE, but he will DEFUND OUR MILITARY! He has no choice, the Dems are controlled by the Radical Left. ”
Jun 6, 2020 · Social post“Riot gear or military control is not necessary because ANTIFA & other Wacko groups of Anarchists aren’t present to cause trouble. Incredible people. Thank you Maine!”
Jun 5, 2020 · Social post“Biden wants to Defund the Police!”
Jun 5, 2020 · Remarks“And Biden has bought into [defunding the police], but he doesn't know what's going on. So, you know, he just doesn't know. But the people around him know what's going on. And they want to defund the police. They don't…
Jun 4, 2020 · Social post“The Radical Left Democrats new theme is “Defund the Police”. Remember that when you don't want Crime, especially against you and your family. This is where Sleepy Joe is being dragged by the socialists. I am the…
Jun 4, 2020 · Social post“Sleepy Joe Biden’s 1994 Crime Bill was a total disaster. It was mass incarceration for Black people, many of them innocent. I did Criminal Justice Reform, something Obama & Biden didn't even try to do - & couldn’t do…
Jun 3, 2020 · Interview“I don't get credit for it but criminal justice reform. You know that. I had no chance of getting done. Everybody tried, nobody could get it, and I was able to get it done. And if you listen to people, it's like, we…
Jun 1, 2020 · Leaked call“These are terrorists. These are terrorists. They're looking to do bad things to our country. They're in deep and they're radical left. And the reason you have other radicals is because they've been watching this for…
Jun 1, 2020 · Speech“I want the organizers of this terror to be on notice, that you will face severe criminal penalties and lengthy sentences in jail.This includes ANTIFA and others who are leading instigators of this violence.”
Jun 1, 2020 · Social post“'I don't see any indication that there were any white supremest [sic.] groups mixing in. This is an ANTIFA Organization. It seems that the first time we saw it in a major way was Occupy Wall Street. It’s the same…
May 31, 2020 · Social post“The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.”
May 31, 2020 · Social post“Get tough Democrat Mayors and Governors. These people are ANARCHISTS. Call in our National Guard NOW. The World is watching and laughing at you and Sleepy Joe. Is this what America wants? NO!!!”
May 30, 2020 · Remarks“We can have troops on the ground very quickly. They have to be tough, strong and respected. Because these people, this Antifa, there’s a lot of radical left bad people, and they've got to be taught that you can't do…
May 30, 2020 · Remarks“They've got to be tough, they've got to be strong, they've got to be respected, because these people, it's ANTIFA, it's a lot of radical left, bad people, and they've got to be taught that you can't do this.”
May 30, 2020 · Remarks“The violence and vandalism is being led by Antifa and other radical left-wing groups who are terrorizing the innocent, destroying jobs, hurting businesses, and burning down buildings....Radical-left criminals, thugs…
Mar 4, 2020 · Interview“I think one of the reasons is criminal justice reform. I did it. Nobody else could have done it.”
Mar 3, 2020 · Speech“But the only countries that don't have a drug problem are countries where the retribution is unbelievably tough.”
Feb 27, 2020 · Remarks“But criminal justice reform -- this guy walked in. Jared. People could not get it approved. Obama couldn't get it approved. And nobody could get it approved.”
Feb 21, 2020 · Rally“I passed criminal justice reform to give former prisoners a second chance at life was never going to happen. We got it done. This could not have been done by anyone, but the Republican Party and ourselves. You know…
Feb 19, 2020 · Rally“To keep our communities safer and give former prisoners a second chance at life, there's been nothing like this, I passed criminal justice reform, not the Democrats.”
Feb 13, 2020 · Interview“And we did opportunities zones, and then we did criminal justice reform. [Democrats] couldn't get it.”
Feb 7, 2020 · Speech“But it is true with criminal justice reform. [Democrats] couldn't get it. Nobody could get it.”
Feb 4, 2020 · Speech“Everybody said that criminal justice reform couldn’t be done, but I got it done and the people in this room got it done.”
Jan 24, 2020 · Remarks“Nobody was able to get it done. We got it done. Criminal justice reform.”
Jan 24, 2020 · Remarks“Before my election, violent crime was on the rise, and America saw the steepest two-year consecutive increase in murders in nearly half a century. It was in bad, bad condition. In just a short time, we've reduced the…
Jan 14, 2020 · Rally“To give former prisoners a second chance at life, we passed -- it was us, not the Democrats -- they came to me, they wanted help. I gave them help. I got it done. … Obama couldn't do it. Bush couldn't do it. Nobody…
Dec 9, 2019 · Remarks“We got that done -- criminal justice reform. They could have never done it without me. It was done by us. It wasn't done by anybody else. They came to me. They've been trying to get it for many years. President Obama…
Nov 15, 2019 · Interview“I think I've done more for the African American vote maybe than any other president in history. Criminal justice reform, that was me, nobody else. They couldn't get it. Obama couldn't get it. Bush couldn't get it…
Nov 8, 2019 · Speech“But we're also restoring safety to America's great cities. In the two years before my election, murders were up by more than 20% nationwide. In the last two years, murders in America's major cities have dropped by…
Nov 6, 2019 · Rally“We're also confronting the deadly menace of sanctuary cities, which release dangerous criminal aliens into your neighborhoods, school zones, and city streets.”
Nov 6, 2019 · Interview“ICE has done an incredible job and these are stone-cold killers.”
Oct 28, 2019 · Speech“To reduce people going back to prisons and to help nonviolent inmates successfully rejoin society, last year we passed historic, bipartisan criminal justice reform. It's been very successful. They've been trying to…
Oct 28, 2019 · Speech“The nationwide violent crime rate has declined for two consecutive years.”
Oct 28, 2019 · Interview“That's one of the reasons your crime numbers are so horrible in Chicago. It's a sanctuary city.”
Oct 28, 2019 · Speech“My administration has also curtailed the harmful and intrusive use of federal consent decrees, which wrongly give meddlesome officials in Washington, D.C., immense authority to tie down local police departments and…
Oct 28, 2019 · Speech“Last year alone, here in Illinois, local officials blocked ICE detainers for illegal aliens responsible for hundreds of offensive -- including homicide, trafficking deadly drugs, trafficking humans, robbery, and…
Oct 28, 2019 · Speech“In the two years before my election, violent crime increased 8 percent. Murders were up by more than 20 percent, and going a lot higher, nationwide -- the steepest two-year consecutive increase in over 50 years. But…
Sep 8, 2019 · Social post“When all of the people pushing so hard for Criminal Justice Reform were unable to come even close to getting it done, they came to me as a group and asked for my help. I got it done with a group of Senators & others…
Aug 18, 2019 · Remarks“I saw last night where some people were talking about criminal justice reform -- very liberal Democrats. I'm the one that got it done. … If you take a look at that reform package, without Donald Trump, it doesn't…
Aug 9, 2019 · Remarks“I did criminal justice reform, which President Obama could not get approved -- which the media never talks about. If President Obama got criminal justice reform done, it would be front-page stories all over the place.…
Aug 7, 2019 · Remarks“So Rod Blagojevich -- I am thinking very seriously about commuting his sentence so that he can go home to his family after seven years. You have drug dealers that get not even 30 days, and they've killed 25 people.”
Jun 11, 2019 · Remarks“So we get 90 percent of our drugs coming in through the southern border, which I think everyone pretty much agrees too. Hundreds of billions of dollars -- we can close it up so easy. ”
Apr 26, 2019 · Speech“Violent crime is way down, murders in America's largest cities dropped by six percent between 2017 and 2018.”
Apr 17, 2019 · Remarks“Crime is down very substantially from even a year ago.”
Apr 12, 2019 · Speech“You know, I don't know if you saw the crime stats, but the statistics are that crime is way down in our country over the last year. Way, way down. And so that's despite all of the problems we have at the border.”
Mar 13, 2019 · Remarks“I think much of the drugs -- the big loads of drugs, and certainly the human traffickers, go not through the ports of entry; they go through the open areas where they don't have walls.”
Mar 6, 2019 · Remarks“One of our best years ever [on crime] was last year. And we're down 6 percent from last year, so that's very important.”
Mar 4, 2019 · Remarks“Murders in America’s largest cities dropped by 7 percent between 2016 and 2017.”
Mar 4, 2019 · Remarks“In the two years before my inauguration, violent crime was up substantially -- very substantially -- and murders had increased by more than 20 percent.”
Feb 25, 2019 · Remarks“And in China, they have a very, very tough penalty for drugs. It's called the death penalty. And I said to President Xi, "You don't have much of a drug problem. Do you have a drug problem?" "No. No drug problem." I…
Feb 23, 2019 · Social post“Drug trafficking at our southern border has exploded. CBP seized nearly 5X as much methamphetamine in 2018 than it did in 2012. The crisis at the border is impacting nearly every community in America. Democrats need…
Feb 22, 2019 · Remarks“China has much tougher laws than we do in this country on drugs, so they don't have a big drug problem in China. They have a thing called the death penalty.”
Feb 15, 2019 · Speech“Their criminal list, a drug dealer gets a thing called the death penalty. Our criminal list, a drug dealer gets a thing called how about a fine? And when I asked President Xi, I said do you have a drug problem? No…
Feb 13, 2019 · Remarks“Violent crime is now going down for the first time in a long while.”
Jan 12, 2019 · Interview“You know, and you're supposed to have lawyer/client privilege, but it doesn't matter because if I’m a very honest person, frankly. But he's on trouble on some loans and fraud and taxi cabs and stuff that I know…
Jan 5, 2019 · Social post“Many people currently a part of my opposition, including President Obama & the Dems, have had campaign violations, in some cases for very large sums of money. These are civil cases. They paid a fine & settled. While…
Dec 13, 2018 · Interview“You look at stories one after another, they're all legal. The great lawyers that do that stuff are saying there's nothing illegal.”
Dec 13, 2018 · Interview“You know President Obama had a really big one [campaign finance violation] from 10 times more money -- much more money and you know what? He paid a fine.”
Dec 13, 2018 · Interview“What he [Michael Cohen] did was all unrelated to me except for the two campaign finance charges that are not criminal and shouldn't have been on there. They put that on to embarrass me. They put those two charges on…
Dec 13, 2018 · Interview“Number one, they say it's not a campaign finance violation. Number two, or it's not even under campaign finance -- number two, if it was, it's not even a violation. Number three, it's a civil matter.”
Dec 13, 2018 · Interview“Michael Cohen plead guilty to something that isn't even a crime.”
Dec 13, 2018 · Interview“Let me tell you, I never directed him to do anything wrong. Whatever he did, he did on his own. He's a lawyer. A lawyer who represents a client is supposed to do the right thing, that's why you pay them a lot of…
Dec 13, 2018 · Social post“I never directed Michael Cohen to break the law. He was a lawyer and he is supposed to know the law. It is called ‘advice of counsel,’ and a lawyer has great liability if a mistake is made. That is why they get paid.…
Dec 13, 2018 · Social post“Cohen was guilty on many charges unrelated to me, but he plead to two campaign charges which were not criminal and of which he probably was not... ....guilty even on a civil basis. Those charges were just agreed to by…
Nov 3, 2018 · Rally“Nearly 100 percent of heroin in the United States enters through the southern border, along with roughly 90 percent of cocaine, the majority of meth and a substantial portion of the ultra-lethal fentanyl, which is…
Oct 2, 2018 · Rally“The Democrats will open our borders to deadly drugs and ruthless gangs. The Democrats -- and I say this -- and I've dealt with it -- the Democrats are the party of crime.”
Aug 21, 2018 · Rally“And by the way, you know who wants the wall more than any of us? ICE and border patrol because they know that's going to be a big, big factor in stopping the drugs from coming in, the human traffickers, which is worse…
May 17, 2018 · Remarks“So when the MS-13 comes in, when the other gang members come into our country, I refer to them as animals. And guess what? I always will. But we're getting them out by the thousands.”
Apr 19, 2018 · Remarks“Drugs are flowing into our country. We need border protection; we need the wall. We have to have the wall.”
Mar 26, 2018 · Social post“Because of the $700 & $716 Billion Dollars gotten to rebuild our Military, many jobs are created and our Military is again rich. Building a great Border Wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our…
Mar 25, 2018 · Social post“Building a great Border Wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our Country, is all about National Defense.”
Mar 22, 2018 · Interview“The other thing we have to do, in terms of the drug problem, is we have to be very tough on sentences. And, you know, a drug dealer will kill sometimes more than 2,000 people. Sometimes much more than that. Ruin…
Mar 22, 2018 · Remarks“But these people [drug dealers] kill thousands of people over the course of their lives through drugs. So we’re going to have to get much, much tougher in terms of penalty. And if you want to stop it — if you look at…
Mar 19, 2018 · Speech“Some of these drug dealers will kill thousands of people during their lifetime — thousands of people — and destroy many more lives than that. But they will kill thousands of people during their lifetime, and they’ll…
Mar 19, 2018 · Speech“Ninety percent of the heroin in America comes from our southern border, where, eventually, the Democrats will agree with us and we'll build the wall to keep the damn drugs out.”
Mar 13, 2018 · Remarks“We need [the wall]. We need it for the drugs. We need it for the gangs. We need it for lots of reasons. We have to have it. But that wall will stop so much. And we looked at the different prototypes, and it was…
Mar 10, 2018 · Rally“Thousands of people are killed, or their lives are destroyed, their families are destroyed. So you can kill thousands of people and go to jail for 30 days. They catch a drug dealer, they don’t even put him in jail. ……
Feb 23, 2018 · Social post“MS-13 gang members are being removed by our Great ICE and Border Patrol Agents by the thousands, but these killers come back in from El Salvador, and through Mexico, like water.”
Nov 7, 2017 · Press conference“You look at the city with the strongest gun laws in our nation, is Chicago, and Chicago is a disaster. It's a total disaster.”
Aug 28, 2017 · Remarks“Just to add on tremendous drugs pouring into the United States at levels that nobody has ever seen before. This has happened over the last 3-4 years in particular. The wall will stop much of the drugs from pouring…
Aug 22, 2017 · Speech“That wall is also going to help us, very importantly, with the drug problem, and the massive amounts of drugs that are pouring across the southern border.”
Aug 15, 2017 · Press conference“You had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit, and they were very, very violent. . . . You had a lot of people in that [white nationalist] group that were there to innocently protest and…
Aug 3, 2017 · Rally“In order to stop the drugs, gangs and traffickers, we are building a wall on the southern border.”
Jul 28, 2017 · Speech“Now, we're going to build a real wall. We're going to build a wall that works, and it's going to have a huge impact on the inflow of drugs coming across. The wall is almost -- that could be one of the main reasons you…
Feb 7, 2017 · Remarks“The murder rate in our country's the highest it's been in 47 years, right? Did you know that -- 47 years? I'd say that in a speech and everybody's surprised. Because the press doesn't tell it like it is. It wasn't to…