FBI director Kash Patel admits that the murder rate in America is on track to be the lowest in U.S. history, undercutting President Donald Trump’s depiction of major cities as crime-riddled hellscapes.

The president on Monday unveiled plans to deploy the National Guard and take over the Metropolitan Police in order to “rescue” Washington D.C. from what he said was an existence of “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor”.

The move came despite the fact that violent offenses across all major categories are falling in the nation’s capital, raising questions about the president’s true motives for the crackdown, which he said could serve as a model for other cities.

In the middle of his hour-long press conference, Trump’s own FBI director also partly contradicted Trump’s claim by boasting to r

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