Murder Rates Plummeted Last Year, Yet Media Refuse to Give Trump CreditDaily Signal ^ | 01/29/2026 | Jarrett StepmanPosted on by SeekAndFindViolent crime plummeted around the country this year, but the legacy media refuse to acknowledge that it has anything to do with the return of President Donald Trump. But don’t think that the media is going to give any credit to the Trump administration. This line from a New York Times piece on the crime drop sums up so much about the state of politics in recent years. “Axios just reported the lowest murder rate since 1900, down 20% from 2024, and somehow forgot to mention President Trump or the historic results of this FBI,” Patel wrote on X. “Axios is simply incapable of giving this President, and his administration, any credit for this incredible headline about violent crime.