President Donald Trump says data showing crime decreasing in Washington, D.C., is fake and has a novel way to fix it: releasing his own crime statistics.

After firing the labor statistics chief because he didn’t like her latest jobs report and then demanding changes to the Census, Trump has turned his sights to D.C.’s decreasing crime rate, insisting it has been manipulated.

Asked if the administration would now release its own crime stats to counter D.C.’s official figures, the president replied, “Yes.”

“They are giving us phony crime stats, just like they gave other stats in the financial world,” Trump told reporters on Thursday. “But they’re phony crime stats. Washington, D.C., is at its worst point, and it will soon be at its best point. You’re going to have a crime-free city.”

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