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Gunnar
2024-09-12 01:33:26 UTC
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Here Are All of Trump’s Wild Debate Falsehoods That Went UncheckedHere
Are All of Trump’s Wild Debate Falsehoods That Went Unchecked

During Tuesday night's presidential debate, Donald Trump made at least 30
false claims—and he got away with most of them, in spite of the ABC News
anchors' robust fact-checking of the president in real time.

The moderators stepped in four times to correct the record on the former
president’s more outlandish claims during his wild showdown with Kamala
Harris, including his assertion that illegal immigrants are eating pets
and that Democrats support killing babies after they are born. They also
flagged his claim that “crime is through the roof,” pointing out data
showing violent crime has fallen.

Trump spent much of Wednesday ranting and raving against ABC News on his
social media platform Truth Social, posting in rapid-fire succession
links from far-right news sources siding with the former president, who
said he got a “rigged deal” from the network. He told Fox News the
moderators were “correcting everything” he said while letting Harris off
scot-free. Why? “Because they’re dishonest," he said.

But the moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, didn’t fact-check Trump
on everything. In fact, many of his other lies went unchecked. Here’s
what slipped by.
Immigration

Trump repeated one of his favorite false claims about dangerous illegal
immigrants flooding the Southern border. “We have millions of people
pouring into our country from prisons and jails, from mental institutions
and insane asylums,” he said, adding that “21 million people” were
pouring in.

In reality, there have been about 10 million encounters with migrants at
the border since Joe Biden took office. Though there’s no publicly
available data about prison time or residents of mental institutions, of
the 1.4 million migrants apprehended at the border this year, Border
Patrol has found only about 1 percent have criminal convictions.
The Economy

Trump lied about the state of the economy during his own presidency and
Joe Biden’s.

“I had no inflation, virtually no inflation,” he said. “They had the
highest inflation, perhaps in the history of our country.”

Though inflation fell at the end of Trump’s term, the cumulative rate
over the course of his presidency was about 7.8 percent, according to
CNN. And though inflation has been much higher since Biden took office,
it has fallen over the past two years and came nowhere close to previous
historic highs seen in the 20th century.

Trump also said the only jobs created under the Biden administration were
“bounce-back” jobs that were lost to the pandemic but have now appeared
again. However, employment totals passed their pre-pandemic levels in the
summer of 2022, and the U.S. has added millions more jobs since then.
Ukraine

On the topic of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Trump alleged that Harris
met with Vladimir Putin to try to stop him from invading Ukraine but that
“three days later, he went in, and he started the war because everything
they said was weak and stupid.”

Harris didn’t meet with Putin, but she did meet with U.S. allies at the
Munich Security Conference in the days before the war began.

Trump also said the U.S. has given over $100 billion more to Ukraine than
Europe has. According to a tracker from the German-based Kiel Institute,
Europe had allocated and committed tens of billions more.
Joe Biden

At times, Trump seemed to long for his old opponent, mentioning Biden
throughout the evening. In addition to the wild claim that the president
“hates” Harris, his handpicked successor, the former president accused
Biden of receiving “millions of dollars” from China and Ukraine and of
orchestrating the criminal cases against him.

There is no evidence for either claim.
Other Lies

Trump also falsely said the Central Park Five “pled guilty” and “killed a
person,” both of which are not true. They pleaded not guilty but served
years in prison after they were falsely accused of the brutal sexual
attack on a jogger, before they were exonerated years later. Trump took
out full-page ads in the city’s newspapers against the five teenagers,
suggesting they be put to death.

He said former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi “was responsible” for
the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol because “she didn’t do her job.”
Trump was indicted for conspiracy to subvert democracy for his role in
the deadly insurrection, the day he invited unruly supporters to come to
Washington and “fight like hell” to prevent the certification of Joe
Biden’s electoral victory.

He also wasted no opportunity to lie about his opponent on the debate
stage, employing a familiar attack about her previous presidential bid.
“When she ran, she was the first one to leave because she failed,” he
said.

In fact, more than a dozen candidates dropped out of the crowded
Democratic primary field before Harris in 2019, including several
governors, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and former Rep. Beto
O’Rourke.
Anonymous
2024-09-12 01:40:30 UTC
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Trump's "lies" aren't nearly as damaging to America as the lies of the Left.
noah
2024-09-12 07:22:21 UTC
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Post by Anonymous
Trump's "lies" aren't nearly as damaging to America as the lies of the Left.
Those liars pander to the stupid voters, the sheep if you will. Easy
pickings because there are so many of them. If you tell a democrat
voter a shit sandwich is really prime rib, they'll eat it and thank you
for it.
Ubiquitous
2024-09-12 21:37:27 UTC
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Trump hasn't had any debates with a black woman.
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Democrats and the liberal media hate President Trump more than they
love this country.
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