Ahead of his acting attorney general's confirmation hearing, Trump posted a victory lap on Truth Social. 'Under Todd's incredible leadership at DOJ, Murder is down to the LOWEST level since 1900,' he wrote Tuesday afternoon, 'and we just saw the biggest one year drop in RECORDED HISTORY' [1]. The murder decline he is describing is real. The two things wrong with the sentence are the credit and the certainty.
Todd Blanche became acting attorney general in April 2026, after Pam Bondi resigned [2]. The fall in murder he is claiming began years earlier: homicides spiked in 2020, peaked in 2021, and have declined every year since, through 2024, which was Biden's last full year in office [2][3]. A trend that started under one administration and ran for four years cannot have been produced by an official who took the job three months ago.
Data
| 2022 | 6.3 homicides per 100,000 |
|---|---|
| 2024 (FBI) | 5 homicides per 100,000 |
| 2025 (CCJ projection) | 4 homicides per 100,000 |
The 'lowest since 1900' figure is not confirmed data; it is a projection. It comes from a Council on Criminal Justice estimate that the 2025 homicide rate could fall to about 4.0 per 100,000, and the FBI has not released its final 2025 crime figures - that report is due later this year [2]. The post states a forecast as an accomplished record, and attaches it to Blanche.
The rest of the post is a mix. 'More than 500 million deadly doses of Drugs' seized is roughly accurate - the DEA reported over 369 million doses in 2025 and 190 million so far in 2026 [2]. The claim that 'Violent Crime arrests are UP 100%,' by contrast, is confirmed only across 17 FBI field offices, not nationwide [2]. The murder decline, the centerpiece, remains the part that predates him.
Falling murder is good news, and worth saying plainly - fewer people are being killed than in years [3]. The move being made here is to convert that into a personal credential for a three-month-old acting attorney general, on the strength of a record the FBI has not yet certified [2]. The decline is real; the ownership is invented.
