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Latest Fact-Checks On Donald Trump

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Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2024 in a press conference:
“I went down in a helicopter with (Willie Brown). We thought maybe this is the end. We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together and there was an emergency landing.”
Pants on Fire!
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 9, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2024 in a press conference:
Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • August 9, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2024 in a Truth Social post:
In negotiating releases of Americans held abroad, “(I) gave the opposing country NOTHING — and never any cash.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann • August 7, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on July 27, 2024 in a rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota:
During the 2020 Minnesota riots after George Floyd’s murder, Gov. Tim Walz didn’t call in the National Guard, “so, I sent in the National Guard to save Minneapolis.”
False
By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on August 3, 2024 in a rally in Atlanta:
Kamala Harris “supports mandatory gun confiscation.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on July 31, 2024 in an NABJ conference appearance:
Kamala Harris was “Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went, she became a Black person.”
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • July 31, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2024 in a speech at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina.:
Vice President Kamala Harris “endorsed free taxpayer-funded government health care for all illegal aliens.”
Mostly False
By Stephanie Armour • July 31, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:
Kamala Harris “wants to defund the police.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 30, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:
Kamala Harris “supported abolishing ICE.”
False
By Amy Sherman • July 29, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on June 8, 2024 in a Truth Social post:
Lower insulin prices were the work of the Trump administration, not “Crooked Joe Biden. He had NOTHING to do with it.”
False
By Jacob Gardenswartz • July 12, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on June 18, 2024 in Public appearance:
Says he “saved Kenosha” and the “governor wouldn’t move” on sending the National Guard.
Pants on Fire!
By Hope Karnopp • June 21, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on June 6, 2024 in a campaign rally:
Joe Biden’s immigration order limiting asylum is “pro-child trafficking.”
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 20, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on June 15, 2024 in remarks in Detroit:
The Trump administration “achieved the lowest African American unemployment rate and the lowest African American poverty rate ever recorded.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 20, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on June 15, 2024 in remarks in Detroit:
Crime statistics “no longer include data from 30% of the country including the biggest and most violent cities.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 18, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on May 31, 2024 in remarks to reporters:
“Congo, Africa, just released a lot of people, a lot of people from their prisons and jails and brought them into the United States of America.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 12, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on May 29, 2024 in comments to reporters:
Joe Biden “is letting millions of people from jails, from prisons, from insane asylums, from mental institutions, drug dealers pour in.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 6, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on June 2, 2024 in an interview on "Fox & Friends":
Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 4, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on June 2, 2024 in an interview with Fox:
Speaking about Hillary Clinton: “I didn’t say, ‘Lock her up.’ ”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • June 3, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on May 21, 2024 in a campaign email:
“Biden’s DOJ was authorized to use DEADLY FORCE” in Mar-a-Lago raid. Biden was “locked and loaded” and “ready to take me out.”
Pants on Fire!
By Jeff Cercone • May 23, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on May 10, 2024 in a Truth Social post:
“Biden wants to immediately stop all aid to Israel.”
False
By Amy Sherman • May 15, 2024
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