Trump again calls out Chicago on violence and repeats debunked murder rate claim

President Donald Trump on Tuesday again singled out violence in Chicago, this time during a White House meeting with sheriffs where he repeated a debunked claim that the U.S. murder rate is the highest it's been in 45 years.

"If you ran Chicago, you would solve that nightmare, I'll tell you," Trump told visiting sheriffs. "I'll bet everybody in the room ... would raise their hand, because to allow, I mean literally hundreds of shootings a month, it's worse than some of the places that we read about in the Middle East where you have wars going on.

"It's so sad," Trump said. "Chicago's become so sad a situation."

It was the fourth time in less than three weeks in office that Trump has called out Chicago for its violence.

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