So Desperate To Save Obama’s Legacy He Wrecks Hillary’s Campaign

By Bob Owens

Oh, biased media, please promise me that you’ll never change!

During last night’s head-to-head debate between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Trump cited the FBI’s annual crime report, Crime In the United States, 2015.

Trump asserted that crime jumped dramatically in the past year, that Obama’s policies were to blame, that Hillary Clinton would continue that failed record, and that electing him was the solution to the problem.

John Pfaff of the reliably left-wing The Nation was apparently so concerned over Trump positioning himself as the law and order candidate—and no doubt, over Trump’s hammering of Obama’s legacy as President—that he hammered out an article noting that 2015’s temporary jump in violent crime is just a blip on an overall trend that has driven violent crime to historic lows.

Despite the increases cited in yesterday’s FBI report—the rise in murders in 2015 was the largest in both absolute and percentage terms since crime started dropping in the early 1990s—the United States remains an historically safe place to live. The murder rate in 2015 is still lower than it was in 2009, and before 2009 the last time the murder rate was as low as it was last …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms