The White House defended Donald Trump’s remarks about crime statistics on Tuesday after the president seemed to downplay counting domestic violence incidents among those numbers a day earlier.
On Monday, the president spoke about his federalized occupation of Washington D.C. with National Guard troops, while claiming that he’d turned the city into a “safe zone”. During his remarks, made at the Museum of the Bible downtown, Trump went on a side tangent about what he referred to as “lesser” infractions: “things that take place in the home,” in his words.
