'They lied!' Trump goes off-script at crime speech to gripe about DNC attacks against him

Former President Donald Trump detoured into a rant against the Democratic National Convention in Chicago during a speech on crime delivered in Michigan on Tuesday.

The first night of the convention saw speeches in support of Vice President Kamala Harris given by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden, among others.

"We have a fool for a president," said Trump Tuesday after spending several minutes complaining about the withdrawal from Afghanistan that he helped negotiate.

He then addressed multiple criticisms of his administration that were made in Chicago Monday, including claims that he dishonored military personnel and that he defended right-wing extremists at a rally in Charlottesville, VA.

"They lied last night about things nobody's ever seen. They lied about soldiers at a gravesite.They lied about Charlottesville. They lied about inflation, the inflation's been absolutely horrible, absolutely horrible and everyone knows it. We had virtually no inflation, they had 9 percent, but that wasn't including some of the things that went up more than anything else."

In fact, there is no evidence anything Democrats said about Trump's remarks about soldiers or the Charlottesville neo-Nazi rally was false, although some fact-checkers have quibbled over what specifically he meant when he called rally-goers "very fine people.

Trump then returned to the topic at hand and discussed crime.

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"Mothers will no longer lose their children because of liberal policies and politicians that have given up on securing crime for America," said Trump. "We want a crime-free America. We will stop violent crime in the United States." He gestured to the police officers standing behind him. "People like this do the job better than anybody. They do the job justly and fairly but there's nobody like these people."

Crime in fact began rising in the final year of Trump's presidency, though not necessarily for reasons within his control, and most categories of crime, particularly murders, have been trending down under Biden, with murder rates approaching a 50-year low.

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