Over the past four years, the Biden administration has routinely manipulated and skewed the “official” figures on everything from job numbers to crime data in service of Democrats’ political agenda, severely undermining public trust in the taxpayer-funded agencies charged with providing unbiased, accurate statistics to the American people. For President-elect Donald Trump, ending Biden’s statistics corruption will be a critical first step in restoring the proper function of these agencies.
The FBI’s release of crime data earlier this year confirmed just how egregiously and intentionally misleading the Biden administration has been when it comes to compiling and releasing government data.
As AMAC Newsline reported at the time, the crime data, which covered the calendar year 2023, showed a marked decrease in violent crime from 2022 – appearing to vindicate claims from the Kamala Harris campaign that the Biden-Harris administration’s approach was leading to less crime. But what neither the Harris campaign nor the Biden administration reported is that the FBI’s numbers did not include data from more than 1,000 police department jurisdictions, including those in many of America’s most violent cities, thanks to changes to the FBI’s reporting system in 2021.
Meanwhile, the government’s annual survey of crime victims found that 22.5 out of every 1,000 residents were the victim of a violent crime in 2023, and 102 of every 1,000 reported being the victim of a property crime – levels that remain virtually unchanged from 2022 and far higher than Trump’s last full year in office in 2020. None of these figures were anywhere in the FBI’s summary of its crime data or the corporate media stories touting a supposed decrease in violent crime.
The Biden administration’s deception on illegal immigration has been even more outrageous.
In the months leading up to this November’s election, with Vice President Harris facing mounting pressure over her handling of the border crisis, the administration suddenly began touting “progress” on the issue, pointing to lower numbers of crossings “between points of entry.” But as AMAC Newsline again covered, the administration merely made it far easier for migrants to enter at points of entry and remain in the country.
In other words, the number of migrants coming into the country wasn’t down at all – in fact, it was higher than ever. The Biden administration was just funneling those migrants in through a different pathway to avoid the negative headlines before the election.
The Biden administration’s efforts to cook the books on jobs numbers has been just as flagrant. For years Biden and his allies have pointed to supposedly strong jobs numbers as one bright spot in an otherwise weak economy beleaguered by 40-year high inflation and stagnating growth.
But even those numbers, it turns out, were a lie. Along with the fact that most of the job “gains” seen under Biden were actually people going back to work after the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden Bureau of Labor Statistics also revised down its initial job numbers nearly every month of the administration. In August, it was revealed that the economy actually added a staggering 818,000 fewer jobs from March 2022 to March 2023 than was previously reported – an error so large it is difficult not to view it as an intentional ploy to mislead the public.
Of course, only the initial rosy jobs numbers were relayed by the media, while the Biden administration quietly revised the actual figures each month to little fanfare.
All of this has rightfully created a culture of mistrust between government agencies and the people they are supposed to serve. By attempting to willfully mislead voters for the political gain of Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party, the Biden administration undermined the democratic process by robbing voters of essential knowledge about the true state of the country.
Voters, however, saw through this charade and elected Trump anyway. It seems when violent crime and illegal border crossings are severe enough a problem, no amount of data manipulation can paper over the magnitude of the crisis.
Trump rightly called out the Biden administration’s rigged statistics game throughout his campaign, promising to take immediate action to address the problem when he returns to office. He has already begun to do so by appointing nontraditional, unabashedly America First candidates to fill key roles in his administration – all of whom have made clear their shared commitment to rooting out this very sort of corruption perpetrated by “Deep State” actors.
Restoring trust in government requires more than competent leadership – it demands a transformation of the very systems that allowed for such widespread manipulation. By focusing on accuracy, accountability, and authenticity, the incoming Trump administration can bridge the growing divide between citizens and the institutions entrusted with serving them.
Shane Harris is a writer and political consultant from Southwest Ohio. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
