Also trump: “I had no inflation, virtually no inflation,” Trump said.
This is false. Cumulative inflation over the course of Trump’s presidency was about 7.8%.
Also trump: “We have millions of people pouring into our country from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums,” Trump claimed.
There is no evidence for Trump’s claim.
Representatives for two anti-immigration organizations said last year they had not heard of anything that would corroborate Trump’s story, as did three experts at organizations favorable toward immigration.
Trump has sometimes tried to support his claim by making another claim that the global prison population is down. But that’s wrong, too. The recorded global prison population increased from October 2021 to April 2024, from about 10.77 million people to about 10.99 million people, according to the World Prison Population List compiled by experts in the United Kingdom.
Also trump: “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in, they’re eating the cats,” Trump said. “They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”
This is false. The City of Springfield and the local police have said they have seen no evidence for the claim – which appeared to originate from a Facebook post in which someone purporting to be a local resident passed along what they said was a story about their neighbor’s daughter’s friend.
on Monday a spokesperson for the City of Springfield said “there have been no credible reports or specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.”
The Springfield News-Sun reported that “the Springfield Police Division said Monday morning they have received ZERO reports related to pets being stolen and eaten.”
Also trump: Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday the United States took in billions of dollars from China as a result of his tariffs.
Trump’s claim about how tariffs work is false. A US tariff is paid by importing businesses in the United States – not other countries – when a foreign-made good arrives at the American border.
Here’s how tariffs work: When the United States puts a tariff on an imported good, the cost of the tariff usually comes directly out of the bank account of an American importer.
Study after study, including one from the federal government’s bipartisan US International Trade Commission, have found that Americans have borne almost the entire cost of Trump’s tariffs on Chinese products.
It’s true that the US Treasury has collected more than $242 billion from the tariffs Trump imposed on imported solar panels, steel and aluminum, and Chinese-made goods – but those duties were paid by US importers, not the country of China.
And on and on and on. If I were to go through all his lies I would get nothing done today.
Everyone needs to remember that when trump is speaking he is lying.
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