Speaking at the Museum of the Bible earlier today, Donald Trump appeared to minimize the severity of domestic violence, complaining that it is a crime “if a man has a little fight with the wife.”

He was saying that crime has decreased since his federal takeover of D.C., claiming that statistics show crime is down 87% but that in reality, crime is down “more than 87%.”

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The reason that he’s not getting credit for crime being down even further, he claimed, is that there are things that are counted as crimes that should not be.

Like domestic violence.

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“Much lesser things, things that take place in the home, they call crime,” Trump said. “You know, they’ll do anything they can to find something.”

“If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see? So now I can’t claim 100%.” Trump then said that people can now walk to restaurants and to the White House, which people were doing before. He then got applause from the crowd.

Trump was speaking at the Religious Liberty Commission’s hearing earlier today about forthcoming guidance from the Department of Education that he says will protect prayer in schools. Students already have a right to pray in schools; it has been protected by the Supreme Court for decades.

Trump said that he wants to protect “the Judeo-Christian values of our founding.”

“To have a great nation, you have to have religion – I believe that so strongly. There has to be something after we go through all of this, and that something is God.”

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