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Lorenz's claim of being an "attractive young(er) woman" is difficult to assess given the mysterious controversy surrounding a crucial detail: her actual age. An extensive Washington Free Beacon investigation determined that Lorenz was most likely born Oct. 21, 1984, which would make her 40 years old. Lorenz, who claims to abhor disinformation, has also claimed to be 3-10 years older.

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‘It’s Not True’: CNN Fact-Checker Scolds Walz For Latest Whopper On Trump’s Jobs Record

'Trump does not have the record'

FBI covertly changes its crime stats for 2022, revealing Trump was right all along



President Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested that crime is far worse than government officials care to admit, particularly in Democrat-run cities.

Democratic operatives and the liberal media have claimed the reverse is true, citing incomplete FBI data indicating a drop in violent crime in the first two years of the Biden-Harris administration.

It appears that Trump was correct when he told Time magazine that the "FBI fudged the numbers" and possibly also when he suggested during the second presidential debate that the FBI data "was a fraud" — just as he appears to have been correct about U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' bogus jobs numbers.

The Crime Prevention Research Center recently reported that the FBI stealthily changed its crime data for 2022 — a year in which cities like Phoenix, New York City, and Los Angeles failed to submit crime data.

Whereas the bureau originally claimed that violent crime fell by 2.1% that year — a claim USA Today and other publications have made ample use of for Democrat officials' benefit — the FBI subsequently adjusted its statistics to reflect that violent crime actually spiked by at least 4.5%.

'Now we know the truth.'

The FBI did not bother highlighting this narrative-destroying change in its Sept. 23 press release concerning national crime statistics.

RealClearInvestigations noted that the change was only cryptically referred to in a footnote in the September Uniform Crime Reporting Program report on crime in 2023, which stated, "The 2022 violent crime rate has been updated for inclusion in CIUS, 2023."

According to the CPRC, with the adjustments, "there is a net increase of 80,029 more violent crimes, 1,699 more murders, 7,780 more rapes, 33,459 more robberies, and 37,091 more aggravated assaults."

"There you go," responded Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.).

Republican Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.) responded to the FBI's quiet correction, "You'll never believe it. FBI reporting was wrong and violent crime did not in fact go down."

"This is why the regime wants to censor 'disinformation and misinformation,'" tweeted Auron MacIntyre, podcast host and columnist at Blaze Media. "Our institutions now lie to us regularly for political gain."

Elon Musk's America PAC wrote, "They want to give you the illusion that cities are safe, but now we know the truth."

"I have checked the data on total violent crime from 2004 to 2022," Carl Moody, professor of economics at the College of William and Mary and research director at the CPRC, told RealClearInvestigations. "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."

RealClearInvestigations indicated the FBI did not respond to "repeated requests" for comment.

By other measures, it appears things are actually far worse than the FBI and media have let on — again, comporting with Trump's sense of how thing have deteriorated.

John Lott Jr., president of the CPRC, told Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck last month, "There are two measures that we have of crime, and the media just seems to only be looking at one of these measures and not realizing what it's measuring."

"So the two measures are the FBI's measure of crimes reported to police," continued Lott. "And then there's the Bureau of Justice Statistics measure, called the National Crime Victimization data, which gets a measure of total crime, both reported and unreported. Prior to 2020, these two sets of numbers generally went up and down together. But since 2020, they have been going at opposite directions."

Lott noted that in 2022, for instance, when the FBI originally claimed violent crime dropped by just over 2%, the National Crime Victimization Survey reflected a massive spike in the violent victimization rate — from 16.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons in 2021 to 23.5 per 1,000 in 2022.

Lott said that was the "largest percentage increase that we've ever seen."

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While the FBI contends violent crime has fallen under the Biden-Harris administration, the NCVS, which doesn't measure murder, reportedly indicated violent crime jumped 55% between 2020 and 2023.

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Girl Boss, Interrupting: CBS Moderators Tarnish VP Debate With Toxic Female Energy

The biggest takeaway from Tuesday night's vice presidential debate was the panicked expression on Tim Walz's face as he struggled to explain his repeated lies about being in China in June 1989 during the Tiananmen Square massacre. The second biggest was the biased, female moderating. CBS News anchors Margaret Brennan, 44, and Norah O'Donnell, 50, bombarded Vance (but not Walz) with what many described as "toxic female energy."

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WATCH: Vance Fact Checks the Fact Checkers on Immigration

Sen. J.D. Vance fact checked CBS News debate moderator Margaret Brennan after she tried to fact check him  about the legal status of migrants in Springfield, Ohio, during a heated moment from Tuesday's vice presidential debate. Brennan's intervention ran contrary to the network's stated position prior to the debate that moderators would refrain from fact checking the candidates.

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PolitiFact Writer Behind Fake Fact-Check Of Springfield Geese Hunting Whitewashes Trans Radicalism

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New Yorker, Once Renowned for Fact-Checking Operation, Won’t Correct False Claim About Donald Trump

More than 24 hours have passed since the New Yorker published a post-debate column that states "no one knows" what Donald Trump meant when he referred to Vice President Kamala Harris’s support for taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for illegal immigrants.

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WATCH: Trump Hammers ABC After Debate: 'They Out to Take Away Their License for The Way They Did That'

Former president Donald Trump slammed ABC in a post-debate interview on Wednesday morning, calling for the network to lose its "license" for what he characterized as a dishonest moderating performance.

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Debate Moderators Bringing Up J6 But Not Trump Assassination Attempt Tells You Everything About Media Corruption

[rebelmouse-proxy-image https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-10-at-10.05.22 PM-1200x675.png crop_info="%7B%22image%22%3A%20%22https%3A//thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-10-at-10.05.22%5Cu202fPM-1200x675.png%22%7D" expand=1]Why would the debate moderators ask about Democrats inciting a would-be assassin when they can just keep recycling the lie that Trump incited a violent mob?

WATCH: Even CNN is calling Biden a liar in brutal fact-check



Joe Biden’s speech at the DNC this week was so chock-full of lies that even CNN — one of the most left-leaning news outlets in existence — called him out.

Dave Rubin plays a clip of CNN’s Jake Tapper and Daniel Dale discussing the various lies and half-truths in the president’s speech.

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“What did you make of [Biden’s speech]?” Tapper asked Dale.

“There were certainly some false or misleading claims there, especially on the subject of the economy,” Dale responded, pointing to the moment in the speech when Biden said: “We used to import products and export jobs. Now we export American products and create American jobs — right here in America!”

“This claim is misleading,” Dale criticized, noting that while “U.S. exports of goods have increased under President Biden ... we are still importing a whole lot of stuff too.”

Further, another thing Biden “didn’t mention is that U.S. imports have increased during his presidency ... in fact increased by more than exports have increased, so therefore, the trade deficit in goods has increased under President Biden, not declined as this claim suggested.”

“It was over $1 trillion in each of his first three years in office; it had never hit that level before,” Dale elaborated before pointing to another misleading statement made by Biden during his speech.

“We have a thousand billionaires in America. You know what their average tax rate they pay [is]? 8.2%!” the president exclaimed in feigned outrage.

“An expert at the Nonpartisan Tax Policy Center has told me this number is quote ‘way too low,”’ Dale corrected.

While “the average federal tax rate for billionaires is 8.2%, what [Biden] doesn't explain is that that number is not an actual tax rate. What it is is an alternative calculation from economists in his own administration that factors in unrealized capital gains that are not actually treated as taxable income under current law.”

“Biden himself uses it like it's a tax rate under current law; it's not,” Dale told Tapper, adding that the tax rate billionaires actually pay is “not publicly known,” but “a study from two well-known economists estimated that the top 400 households paid an average effective tax rate of 23% in 2018 — much higher than the president's number.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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