He did well under the circumstances, Megyn Kelly says what everybody saw, and that is why the cackles people want a second debate.

Trump was correct on this attack:

CLAIM: During Tuesday’s presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump claimed the FBI’s report of lower violent crime is a “fraud.”

VERDICT: True. The FBI’s reports do not include thousands of police precincts that are not reporting crime data to the federal agency.

On June 24, 2024, Breitbart News quoted President Joe Biden’s words to Everytown for Gun Safety, where he said:

You know, the year before I came to the presidency, the murder rate was the highest increase on record. Last year, we saw the largest decrease of murder in the history of (inaudible). (Applause.) And those rates are continuing to fall faster than ever. Last year, we also saw one of the lowest rates of all violent crime in nearly 50 years. Murder, rape, aggravated assault, robbery all dropped sharply, along with burglary and property crime.

Breitbart News noted that Biden did not mention that 2021 and 2022 witnessed a decline in crime reports from police precincts around the country.

The Marshall Project explained that that in 2020, “almost every law enforcement agency was included in the FBI’s database.” However, in 2021, the FBI went to a new system for compiling data and would only accept police precinct reports through the new system.

The result? “Thousands of police agencies fell through the cracks because they didn’t catch up with the changes on time.” Thus, in 2022, there were far fewer police precincts turning in crime data. The Marshall Project reported in 2023 that “more than 6,000 law enforcement agencies were missing from the FBI’s national crime data last year, representing nearly one-third of the nation’s 18,000 police agencies.”