.MaddowBlog: Kayleigh McEnany wanted to blame President Biden for last year's U.S. murder rate. But Biden wasn't president last year — McEnany's former boss was.
The murder rate is still vastly better than it was 30 years ago, but the increase raised a series of questions about the possible cause of the painful trend.Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweeted a graphic on Thursday showing a rise in murders in 2020 and blamed it on Joe Biden, who became president in 2021. "The U.S. murder rate under Joe Biden...
McEnany, a former Republican campaign operative who now works in conservative media, quietly deleted her missive yesterday, though by that point the damage was done. In this case, the details were unambiguous: The FBI was clearly referring to 2020, not 2021. In fact, it's impossible to tally the murder rate from the first year of President Joe Biden's term because — and this is important — Biden's first year isn't over yet.
That probably should've been a clue that the former White House press secretary was off-track. Indeed, the unfortunate turn of events is made worse by the fact that McEnany was drawing attention to discouraging murder statistics compiled under her former boss' tenure — in reference to murders that happened while she was the chief spokesperson for the sitting president.
I am curious, though, if we'll soon see related efforts. Will Republicans start trying to blame Biden for the pandemic that began under Trump? And perhaps for the recession that began under Trump?of Republicans in the state blamed President Barack Obama for the dreadful federal response to Hurricane Katrina. There was, of course, a small flaw: Katrina hit in August 2005; Obama was inaugurated in January 2009.
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