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President Donald Trump is lying about not only the 2020 election in which he lost, but also the 2024 election he won.
In a speech on Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Council, Trump correctly pointed out that he won 77 million votes in 2024. He then mistakenly stated that his vote total was “more than that,” as unspecified people were “deceived like hell.”
This claim has no basis. Trump’s official vote total is his actual vote total, and there is no evidence of failure to commit fraud by the voting counter or by his democratic enemy.
Trump made his claim less than two weeks after he raised questions based on the validity of the total total of former Vice President Kamala Harris, his 2024 opponent, who received more than 75 million votes.
Trump made various other false claims in the CPAC, most of which have been exposed previously. There are some fact checks of these.
Biden and Hostages in Gaza: Trump promoted a Hamas release of six hostages from Gaza on Saturday, saying, “We’ve got six more back.” However, he insisted that “Biden doesn’t understand Zero, by the way, because you understand it.”
Regardless of whether Trump or former President Joe Biden is worthy of the current ceasefire agreement, 105 hostages were released as they worked with representatives from the incoming Trump administration and were protected under the Biden administration. That’s the fact that Hamas was during a brief truce in 2023, partially mediated by the Biden administration about a year before Trump’s election victory.
Trump’s poll count: Trump repeated his false claims on Friday, saying his “poll count” was the highest “a Republican president has ever had.” He didn’t specify the numbers he’s referring to, but his approval rates were in his 40s and 50s in recent polls, close to the highest for a Republican president. George W. Bush hit 92% shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. George H.W. Bush hit 89% at the end of the 1991 Gulf War. Data collected by Cornell University’s Roper Center for Public Opinion shows that Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and Dwight Eisenhower’s peak ranged from the ’60s to the ’70s.
US Aid to Ukraine vs European Aid to Ukraine: Trump has made many times before the false claims he made at the beginning of the week. He argued that the gap was “because we had a stupid, incompetent president and control.”
In fact, the European Union and individual European countries have been forced to reach far more wartime troops against Ukraine, according to the Kiel Institute for World Economic Research, a German think tank that closely tracks wartime aid to Ukraine, and the European Union until December. It collectively refers to finance and humanitarian aid (approximately $258 billion than the US committed) (approximately $124 billion). Europe also allocated more military, fiscal and humanitarian aid (approximately $138 billion) than the US had allocated (approximately $119 billion).
The US has gained a slim lead in certain categories. Military aid was allocated, providing Europe with around $67 billion to about $65 billion. But even that wasn’t where the giant Trump explained it to the Gulf Bay.
Prevalence of autism 15 years ago: Trump has once again exaggerated the last 20 years increase in the prevalence of autism among children. ” 1 in 10,000 or 1 in 20,000 people. In fact, public statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US show that the known prevalence rate in 2010 was one in 68 children, not even close to Trump’s figures.
Death of the Panama Canal: Trump repeated the false claim that “38,000 people from our country built the Panama Canal.” Those numbers are also not accurate to what experts on canal construction say. Century-old records are inaccurate, but show that around 5,600 people died during the American construction phase of the canal between 1903 and 1914. Green is a history professor at the University of Maryland and author of Canal Builders: Building an American Empire on the Panama Canal. The late historian David McCullough, the author of another book on canal buildings, discovered that “there were about 350 white Americans who died.”
Iran and Terrorist Groups: When Trump first said he was president, Iran funded terrorist groups such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas on Palestinian territory, saying, “Hamas or Hezbollah had no money, money given to him.” There was no, everyone knows it.” Iran’s funds for Iran declined later in its presidency. This is because his sanctions against Iran had a major negative impact on the Iranian economy, but as four experts told CNN in 2024, funds didn’t stop completely. , Trump’s own administration said in 2020 that Iran continues to fund terrorist groups, including Hezbollah. You can read a longer fact check here.
Trade Deficit with the US: Trump has repeatedly made the false claim that the US trade deficit with China was more than $1 trillion under Biden last year. The last full year figure available due to the goods and services deficit with China in 2023 was around $252 billion. The 2024 goods and services deficit, due to be revealed in March, could be slightly higher than the 2023 figures, but the merchandise-only trade data is not close to $1 trillion. It is shown.
Harris’s Border Role: Trump repeated the false claims that Harris is the “border emperor” of the Biden administration. She wasn’t. The Biden White House has always emphasized that the label is inaccurate and that Harris is not in charge of border security. The reality is that Biden has more limited immigration-related transfers to Harris in 2021, leading diplomacy with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to address the conditions that citizens are trying to migrate to the United States. I asked.
Biden and Electric Vehicles: Trump repeated the false claims that Biden imposed a mandate that “everyone has to have an electric vehicle.” Biden has put in legislative and regulatory pushes to help car makers cut emissions and adopt electric vehicles, but there have been no orders requiring American consumers to have electric vehicles. The tailpipe rules for automakers announced in 2024 by the Biden administration aim to make up 35% to 56% new vehicles for electric vehicles sold in 2032.
Tariffs and Wealth: Promoting the idea of tariffs on foreign imports, Trump repeated the false claim that the “richest” period in the United States was high delivery period from 1870 to 1913. Gross domestic product per capita is now many times higher.