One of the most bizarre defenses used by Trump – and thus his acolytes – is that he shouldn’t be prosecuted because there are real criminals out there, murderers, thieves, and violent assaults. I can’t recall if he’s ever said rapes yet, but the idea is that Trump shouldn’t be prosecuted unless and until New York is 100% crime free. Until then, Trump calls it a cesspool with rising crime rates.

Someone checked into that. The fact is that Jim Jordan’s hometown is less safe than NYC.

Mediaite laid out the story:

First, Jim Jordan mocked the idea:

.@GlennKesslerWP thinks crime is higher in rural Mansfield, Ohio than crime-ridden New York City. 😂

It’s not.

But don’t let the facts get in the way of the Washington Post’s “fact-checker.

.@GlennKesslerWP thinks crime is higher in rural Mansfield, Ohio than crime-ridden New York City. 😂

It’s not.

But don’t let the facts get in the way of the Washington Post’s “fact-checker.” pic.twitter.com/isUqdeJw16

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) April 12, 2023

And the tweet contained a message from Glenn Kessler, the WaPo fact checker, to the House Judiciary Committee :

In advance of next week’s hearings, I’m doing a comparison of crime stats in NYC vs Jordan’s district (ie cities like Mansfield). Mansfield has a GOP mayor and ranks worse than NYC in terms of crime stats. I was interested in what you thought of that—and would welcome any quotes that Rep. Jordan has made about crime in his district.

Jim Jordan finds it so important to prove that Trump shouldn’t be prosecuted, he has set up a Committee hearing next week in The Big Apple, with the focus on “victims of violent crime in Manhattan.”

Yeah, except, as Glenn Kirschner (Former Fed Prosecutor) pointed out:

Bad faith to not even engage direct and have an engage on data. But oddly I was looking at some of the same data sources supplied by the committee in its thread — which list New York higher in terms of safety than Mansfield. (safest is 100.) 

Mansfield, Ohio, is in Jordan’s own district. Ouch.

Bad faith to not even engage direct and have an engage on data. But oddly I was looking at some of the same data sources supplied by the committee in its thread — which list New York higher in terms of safety than Mansfield. (safest is 100.) 🤷‍♂️ https://t.co/nqBIgclrxs pic.twitter.com/6Og9oEecYe

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 12, 2023

Surely, some Democrat on the Committee cannot wait to ask how New York manages to keep itself much safer than a small town in Ohio.

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jmiciak@yahoo, @JasonMiciak, SUBSTACK: TRIAL BY TUCKER: THE INTERSECTION OF POLITICS, FOX NEWS, AND LAW