Readers of USA Today opened their newspapers on Tuesday to find an op-ed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions celebrating a decline in the nation’s crime rates. The attorney general took credit for the drop on behalf of the Trump administration, arguing that his department’s policies since taking office last January had reversed a two-year increase in violent crime and thefts.

“When President Trump was inaugurated, he made the American people a promise: ‘This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,’” Sessions wrote. “It is a promise that he has kept.”

But those claims aren’t supported by the evidence Sessions provided, experts said. It’s the second high-profile episode this month in which the Justice Department has made misleading claims with statistics. Last week, a joint DOJ and Department of Homeland Security report used flawed evidence to link immigration to terrorist attacks committed inside the United States. The Daily Beast reported after its release that Sessions’s office largely crafted that report, cutting out career Homeland Security analysts in the process.

In Tuesday’s op-ed, Sessions laid out a three-act history of crime in modern America. The first act stretches from 1961 to 1985, when the nation saw a steady rise in murders and other major crimes. Then came the second act, when he and other federal officials in that era struck back. (Sessions served as a federal prosecutor in the 1980s and 1990s before his election to the Senate in 1996.) “We went to work, and the results were transformational,” he wrote. “Crime in America began to decline.” Indeed, violent crime was cut in half by 2014 from its height in 1991.

His third act takes place over just two years: 2015 and 2016, when violent crime once again began to surge. “The violent crime rate went up by nearly 7 percent,” Sessions wrote. “The robbery rate went up. The assault rate went up nearly 10 percent. The rate of rape went up 11 percent. And the murder rate went up by a shocking 20 percent.” The attorney general does not explain why this happened. What matters is how it was solved: by the election of President Donald Trump and by the policies Sessions enacted as his attorney general.