But with the same agency now reporting continued drops in crime, his White House is eager to tout data it once derided as untrustworthy. (The White House confirmed to HuffPost it’s using MPD numbers but declined to comment.) It’s not complicated: The White House now likes D.C. crime data because the positive numbers reflect well on the president. “They have to stop issuing false crime numbers,” Trump said Tuesday at the White House. AdvertisementRepublicans in Congress, meanwhile, have continued suggesting the city’s crime data is bogus as they run their own investigation of the matter.
