Biden-Harris's America: Crime Up, Jobs Down and the Truth Nowhere to be Found

From day one, the Biden-Harris administration has focused more on spinning fairy tales than confronting reality. The recent stealth revision of the FBI's violent crime statistics for 2022 is a prime example of their dishonesty. They have been lying for years about crime dropping, and the media obediently repeated it. But the actual numbers, quietly updated with no press release or explanation, reveal a 4.5% increase in violent crime—not a decrease. This isn't just incompetence; it's a deliberate attempt to deceive the American people and manipulate public perception. It’s time to call out this propaganda for what it truly is.

The truth always has a funny way of coming out—even when the Biden-Harris administration, with their merry band of media lapdogs, tries to keep it under wraps. The FBI just quietly revised their violent crime statistics for 2022, and the latest year statistics are available. Surprise, surprise: the truth doesn't fit the narrative they’ve been spoon-feeding Americans. Do you remember all those headlines? “Crime is dropping!

Violent crime is down! Joe Biden is keeping you safe!” Well, it turns out it was all smoke and mirrors. The revised numbers show violent crime didn't drop by 2.1% in 2022 as the Democrats boasted. It rose by 4.5%. Yes, you read that right—up, not down. But, of course, they didn’t put out a big press release about that. No fanfare, no accountability. Instead, the Bureau made a "edit"; slyly changing the numbers without much explanation. Over 80,000 more violent crimes were reported than initially stated, including nearly 1,700 more murders, over 7,700 rapes, and more than 70,000 additional robberies and aggravated assaults combined. If this isn’t outright Russian-style propaganda, I don’t know what it is.

For an administration that claims to stand on the side of “truth,” there’s a lot they conveniently forget to mention. But it's not just crime stats where they're trying to pull the wool over our eyes. Let’s talk about those jobs numbers they’re always

trumpeting—the supposed miracle of Bidenomics. We now know the Bureau of Labor Statistics overestimated the number of jobs created by a whopping 818,000 people. That's not just a tiny oversight; that's a massive overstatement that changes the entire picture of what’s happening in this economy.

The Biden-Harris administration’s allies in the press dutifully echo the “progressives' narrative while ignoring actual data that tells the opposite story. When was the last time

you saw a headline acknowledging the truth—that violent crime has skyrocketed by 55% during Biden's term, according to the National Crime Victimization Survey? That’s right. While the FBI was cooking the books, the NCVS numbers—collected independently and directly from the American people—showed record-breaking rises in crime: rapes up 42%, robberies up 63%, and aggravated assaults up 55%. But the media didn’t cover that, did they?

Let’s not mince words: this is a betrayal of public trust. The American people have been lied to repeatedly. They’ve been told that their concerns about crime were irrational, that they were imagining the empty shelves at the grocery store, and that their worries about safety were misplaced. They were told that Bidenomics was creating jobs and lifting wages when, in reality, inflation was eating away at paychecks, and the job numbers were artificially inflated. The elites would manipulate the data instead of admitting that their policies have failed; that’s the ugly truth.

And as if the incompetence wasn’t bad enough, we’ve got a media establishment that acts like an extension of the Harris campaign. When the initial—false—stats were released, headlines everywhere declared victory. Now that those stats have been revised, silence is deafening. The truth doesn’t fit their narrative, so they bury it.

This is about control—control of the narrative, control over what you believe, control over whether or not you think Bidenomics and Democratic leadership are working. They want to make you question your own eyes and ears. But the American people aren’t as gullible as they think. We know what’s happening in our streets, neighborhoods, and our wallets. And we deserve leaders who are honest about it—not ones who peddle fiction and call it fact.

It’s time to elect a leader who will tell it like it is and fight for the safety of our communities, jobs, and freedoms. We must bring back Donald Trump, a president who put America first, tackled crime head-on and worked to create real prosperity for all. We need someone who won't bow to the self-proclaimed elites, won't hide behind manipulated numbers, and will stand up for the truth. Let’s make America strong again in November by electing Donald J. Trump.

Perry O Hooper Jr is a former State Representative who writes columns on his political perspective and has been published in a number of publications around Alabama and beyond. He was an early supporter of Donald Trump and was the 2016 Trump Victory Chair.

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