evidence: The number of murders in the U.S. rose by 5,795 from 2019 to 2020, when Donald Trump was president. That’s the largest one-year increase since such data began being systematically recorded in the early 1960s. [...] Numerically, this is on target: The number of murders rose by 5,795 from 2019 to 2020, when Trump was president. That’s the largest one-year increase since such data began to be systematically recorded in the early 1960s. But it’s an exaggeration to blame this rise solely on Trump. Experts say that spike was caused by a confluence of the coronavirus pandemic and the societal upheaval after George Floyd’s murder. Murders also remained higher than prepandemic levels well into Biden’s tenure.