President Donald Trump appears to have downplayed domestic violence while complaining that offenses by men against their wives were affecting his crime statistics.

Speaking to faith leaders in Washington on Monday, Trump talked up his crackdown in the nation’s capital, claiming crime was down to “virtually nothing” since he sent in the National Guard and took over the D.C. police one month ago.

But the president seemed visibly annoyed that statistics did not show crime had reduced by 100 per cent, because law enforcement officials were also recording “lesser things” such as domestic matters.

“They say crime’s down 87 percent. I said: ‘No, no, no, it’s more than 87 per cent—it’s virtually nothing.’ And much lesser things, you know, things that take place in the home, they call crime,” Tr

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