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AP FACT CHECK: Trump wrong that 2 killed during Obama speech

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(AP Photo/Matt Rourke File). FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican congressional retreat in Philadelphia. President Trump incorrectly claimed in a television interview that two people were shot and kil... (AP Photo/Matt Rourke File). FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican congressional retreat in Philadelphia. President Trump incorrectly claimed in a television interview that two people were shot and kil...

CHICAGO (AP) - President Donald Trump incorrectly claimed in a television interview that two people were shot and killed in Chicago during then-President Barack Obama's farewell speech.

Trump referenced Obama's speech in an interview Wednesday with ABC News and said, "Two people were shot and killed during his speech."

"They weren't shot at the speech. But they were shot in the city of Chicago during his speech," he added. The portion of the interview in which Trump made the remarks was not televised, but was included in a transcript that ABC posted online.

Chicago police records show no one was fatally shot in the city on Jan. 10, the day of Obama's speech. There were five shootings, but none occurred while Obama was speaking.

Trump has criticized Chicago for its soaring violence, saying on Twitter this week that he would "send in the feds" if the city can't "fix the horrible 'carnage.'"

During Wednesday's interview, he said the nation's third-largest city is "like a war zone."

Chicago ended 2016 with 762 homicides - the highest number in two decades and more than Los Angeles and New York combined. There were 3,550 shootings, a nearly 50 percent increase over 2015.

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