President Donald Trump on Thursday accused unnamed District of Columbia leaders of changing crime statistics.

Trump told reporters at the White House that “sadly, what I guess the mayor did, but whoever it was, they asked the numbers to be fudged so that it would show less crime than the fact.”

Trump has been criticized by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and national Democratic Party leaders for deploying National Guard troops to D.C. to help turn crime around and bring greater security to the Capitol area.

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