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An ABC News “fact-check” conducted during the presidential debate last month has since been completely and utterly debunked.

Recall that during the debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, the former president RIGHTLY pointed to the rise in crime under the Biden-Harris administration.

“All over the world crime is down – all over the world except here,” he said. “Crime here is up and through the roof. Despite their fraudulent statements that they made. Crime in this country is through the roof. And we have a new form of crime. It’s called migrant crime. And it’s happening at levels that nobody thought possible.”

Seconds later, debate moderator David Muir, a supposed journalist, interrupted Trump to “fact-check” him.

Watch:

“President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country,” Muir said.

To his credit, he did at least allow Trump a chance to briefly respond before moving on to the next question.

“Excuse me,” Trump said. “The FBI — they were defrauding statements. They didn’t include the worst cities. They didn’t include the cities with the worst crime. It was a fraud. Just like their number of 818,000 jobs that they said they created turned out to be a fraud.”

Now, in fairness to Muir, the FBI did originally claim that crime was down. The problem is that the FBI’s numbers were obviously wrong. The proof? A recent but quiet FBI revision updated the numbers to reveal a 4.5 percent increase in violent crime in 2022.

“The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults,” according to John R. Lott Jr. of RealClearInvestigations, who was the actual journalist who discovered the stealthy revision.

What’s weird is that the revision was made so quietly that nobody except him even noticed it, including the corporate propaganda media stooges who’d rushed to report the FBI’s original numbers, i.e., the wrong ones.

Also strange is that whereas a handful of revisions have been made in the past, never has a revision been THIS large.

“I have checked the data on total violent crime from 2004 to 2022,” Carl Moody, a professor at the College of William & Mary who specializes in studying crime, told Lott.

“There were no revisions from 2004 to 2015, and from 2016 to 2020, there were small changes of less than one percentage point. The huge changes in 2021 and 2022, especially without an explanation, make it difficult to trust the FBI data,” he added.

No kidding!

As for ABC News and Muir, neither has yet acknowledged the revision. In their bubble world, it’s as if the revision never even occurred.

Trump for his part has repeatedly slammed both for violating an alleged deal in which they weren’t supposed to “fact-check” him at all.

“Now you don’t know this, but we had a deal with ABC that there will be no corrections of any kind, and they violated the deal,” he said on Sept. 26th. “Why? Because they’re bad people, and they’re fake news. So he did it many times to me during the debate. He violated the deal. That’s the deal, because you can take anything and try and make up stories with it.”

“We had a deal where that wouldn’t happen. You could do whatever you wanted as soon as the debate was over, but he did it in total violation of what our agreement was. And a lot of people standing right over there [as he looked toward his staff] will tell you exactly what it was, will show you what it was. David Muir has lost all credibility,” he added.

Muir, meanwhile, is facing massive pressure on social media to stop the bull and just admit that he’d gotten it wrong already.

Look:

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