Bill Maher says Trump’s ‘no more Mr. Nice Guy’ approach par­tial­ly drove steep crime decline

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Bill Maher says Trump’s ‘no more Mr. Nice Guy’ approach partially drove steep crime decline

Come­di­an and polit­i­cal com­men­ta­tor Bill Maher par­tial­ly cred­it­ed Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump for the nation­wide drop in vio­lent crime on Fri­day night.
Maher said it’s ”child­ish to pre­tend” the Trump administration’s tough-on-crime approach hasn’t deterred crim­i­nal behav­ior in a seg­ment about bipar­ti­san­ship on Real Time with Bill Maher. Vio­lent crime fell nation­wide by near­ly 10 per­cent­age points from June 2025 through May 2026 off the back of a sus­tained, post-pan­dem­ic decline that began in 2022, accord­ing to the FBI’s Crime Data Explor­er.

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