Trump Is Wrong on Crime, Immigration, Obama Says in Rebuttal
- The president issued his own fact-check of Republican nominee
- Trump says that murder, illegal migration is up under Obama
Obama: RNC Fears Expressed Don’t Jibe With the Facts
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President Barack Obama offered a rebuttal of a Republican convention portraying a violent and chaotic America, insisting that the nation is largely peaceful and that crime and illegal immigration have fallen during his presidency.
“This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn’t really jibe with the experience of most people,” Obama said at a White House news conference with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Friday.