President Donald Trump is misrepresenting a report on British crime statistics by blaming an uptick in police-reported incidents on �Radical Islamic terror.�
Britain�s Office for National Statistics this week reported a 13 percent crime increase from the previous year in England and Wales. The report says the uptick �reflects a range of factors,� including an increase in incidents, improvements to how crimes are recorded and more victims coming forward. The report does not mention Islam.
Early Friday morning, Trump tweeted: �Just out report: �United Kingdom crime rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical Islamic terror.�� It was not clear what source Trump was quoting, as that line does not appear in the report.
(AP)