Former Democratic strategist turned Fox News contributor Jessica Tarlov tore into her fellow panelists on The Five when they started to blame President Joe Biden for a 2020 increase in murders in the United States when Donald Trump was in office. And they did it without any self-awareness behind a chyron that read, “Passing the Blame: Liberals point to pandemic for surge in violence.”
Those were the Trump years,” Tarlov explained. “So all of this blaming on President Biden that’s happening now – actually under President Biden’s watch the murder rate has even gone down. … Another important component of the FBI data: that the short term increases was in all regions, not just in those liberal cities, all regions. That means in places where conservatives are. That means that this can’t all be because of bail reform, defund the police, yada yada yada. And also the murder rate and the crime rate overall is lower than it was in the 1990’s, so conservatives are running around screaming, ‘we’ve never seen anything like this,’ you have seen something like this.”