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Former President Donald Trump delivered his regular bombardment of false claims – at the least 20 in all – throughout a Monday dialog with billionaire supporter Elon Musk, which aired on Musk’s social media platform, X.
A lot of the falsehoods uttered by the Republican presidential nominee have been claims which were repeatedly debunked earlier than, a few of them for years. They spanned a broad vary of topics, from immigration to the economic system to international coverage to Trump’s report in workplace to Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent.
Here’s a truth verify:
Crime
Trump claimed, “Our crime price’s going via the roof.”
Information First: Trump’s declare is fake. Each violent crime and property crime dropped considerably in 2023 and within the first quarter of 2024.
There are limitations to the FBI-published knowledge from native regulation enforcement – the numbers are preliminary, not all communities submitted knowledge and the submitted knowledge normally has some errors – so these statistics might not exactly seize the scale of the current declines in crime. However different knowledge sources make it clear crime has certainly declined to some extent.
The preliminary FBI knowledge for 2023 confirmed a roughly 13% decline in homicide and a roughly 6% decline in total violent crime in comparison with 2022, bringing each homicide and violent crime ranges under the place they have been in Trump’s final calendar 12 months in workplace in 2020. The preliminary FBI knowledge for the primary quarter of 2024 confirmed an excellent steeper drop from the identical quarter in 2023 – a roughly 26% decline in homicide and roughly 15% decline in total violent crime.
Crime knowledge knowledgeable Jeff Asher, co-founder of the agency AH Datalytics, mentioned earlier this 12 months that if the ultimate 2023 figures present a decline in homicide of at the least 10% from 2022, this could be the quickest US decline “ever recorded.” And he famous that each the preliminary FBI-published knowledge from the primary quarter of 2024 and in addition “crime knowledge collected from a number of impartial sources level to an excellent bigger decline in property and violent crime, together with a considerably bigger drop in homicide, to this point this 12 months in comparison with 2023, although there’s nonetheless time left within the 12 months for these traits to vary.”
After Trump claimed in June that “crime is a lot up,” Anna Harvey, a political science professor and director of the Public Security Lab at New York College, famous to CNN that the declare is contradicted each by the info from the FBI and from the Main Cities Chiefs Affiliation, which represents 70 massive US police forces. She mentioned: “It might be extra correct to say that crime is a lot down.”
Inflation
Trump mentioned, “I feel we’ve the worst inflation we’ve had in 100 years. They are saying it’s 48 years, I don’t consider it.”
Information First: Trump framed this as an opinion, however it’s baseless nonetheless – fallacious in two other ways. First, even when the inflation price hit its Biden-era peak of 9.1% in June 2022, that 9.1% price was the best since 1981 – between 40 and 41 years prior, actually not “100 years” and never even “48 years.” Second, inflation has declined sharply because the June 2022 peak, and the newest accessible price on the time he spoke, for July 2024, was 3.2% – a price that, the Biden presidency apart, was exceeded as just lately as 2011.
International warming and sea ranges
Trump argued that the specter of the nuclear struggle is way extra essential than the menace posed by local weather change. And he mentioned: “The most important menace? It’s not international warming, the place the ocean’s gonna rise one eighth of an inch over the subsequent 400 years … and also you’ll have extra oceanfront property, proper?”
Information First: Trump’s declare concerning the tempo of sea-level rise is wildly inaccurate. The worldwide common sea degree is at present rising extra per 12 months than Trump claimed that it’s going to rise in 400 years.
NASA reported in March that the present international common sea-level rise in 2023 was 0.17 inches per 12 months, greater than double the speed in 1993. And a World Meteorological Group report this 12 months mentioned the speed of sea degree rise between 2014 and 2023 was about 0.19 inches per 12 months.
In different phrases, sea degree rise is already greater than an eighth of an inch yearly – and it’s accelerating. NASA discovered a leap of 0.3 inches between 2022 and 2023.
Gary Griggs, a College of California, Santa Cruz professor of earth and planetary sciences who research sea-level rise, mentioned final 12 months that Trump’s related claims “can solely be described as completely out of contact with actuality” and that Trump “has no thought what he’s speaking about.”
Sea ranges rise by totally different quantities in numerous areas. For the US, sea ranges are anticipated to rise significantly quick for the east coast and Gulf of Mexico coast – and Trump’s state of Florida, which is bordered by each of these coasts, is predicted to be affected extra severely than many different coastal states.
In reality, Trump’s claims about sea ranges are extremely inaccurate for the realm close to Mar-a-Lago, which is on the Atlantic. Griggs famous in a June e-mail that knowledge from the closest Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tide gauge to Mar-a-Lago exhibits a rise of an eighth of an inch roughly each 9 months.
Trump has additionally beforehand made the joke about rising seas creating extra oceanfront property. In actuality, rising sea ranges are anticipated to have devastating penalties not solely for a lot of seafront properties however for areas additional inland – rendering some communities uninhabitable and others extra harmful, rising the frequency and attain of flooding, making hurricanes extra harmful and damaging infrastructure and ecosystems.
The variety of individuals listening to the dialog
Trump informed Musk that “you bought lots of people listening” to the dialog – “like 60 million or one thing.” He then requested anyone what the quantity was, however he by no means corrected his preliminary estimate.
Information First: Trump did categorical uncertainty concerning the quantity, however his “like 60 million or one thing” declare is fake. On the time he made this comment, public knowledge on X confirmed that there have been 1.1 million accounts listening to the dialog.
Trump gave the impression to be referring to one thing totally different: the variety of views on his personal X publish sharing the “area” the place the dialog was performed. However the overwhelming majority of the accounts that seen the publish didn’t truly take heed to the dialog.
Harris and prisoners
Trump claimed of Harris: “She desires to launch all of the prisoners which can be in detention, and a few of these guys are actually unhealthy. That simply got here out as we speak.”
Information First: That is false. There isn’t any foundation for the declare that Harris “desires to launch all of the prisoners which can be in detention.” Trump gave the impression to be referring to information tales in conservative media that reported that Harris had mentioned in 2019, whereas unsuccessfully working within the Democratic presidential main, that she needed to shut privately-run immigration detention facilities.
Even when Harris continues to carry this place as we speak – she has not addressed the topic since she started her presidential marketing campaign in July – closing privately-run immigration detention facilities wouldn’t consequence within the launch of “all” prisoners in immigration detention, not to mention all prisoners in common US jails and prisons; Trump didn’t specify that he was speaking about Harris’ previous stance on sure immigration detention amenities slightly than all prisons.
It’s attainable Trump had been misled himself; a brief clip shared by some Republicans on social media this week didn’t embrace the a part of Harris’ 2019 remarks the place she specified that she was referring to privately run immigration detention amenities particularly.
However articles by Fox Information and The New York Submit accurately famous that this was what she mentioned.
Harris’ immigration function
Trump claimed of Harris: “She was the border czar, and other people can’t enable them to get away with their disinformation marketing campaign. Now, she’s saying she wasn’t actually concerned … she was completely in cost.”
Information First: That is false. Harris was by no means made Biden’s “border czar,” a label the White Home has at all times emphasised is inaccurate, and was by no means “completely in cost” of the border; Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is the official in command of border safety. In actuality, Biden gave Harris a extra restricted immigration-related task in 2021, asking her to guide diplomacy with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in an try to deal with the situations that prompted their residents to attempt to migrate to the US.
Some Republicans have scoffed at assertions that Harris was by no means the “border czar,” noting on social media that information articles generally described Harris as such. However these articles have been fallacious. Varied information retailers, together with CNN, reported as early as the primary half of 2021 that the White Home emphasised that Harris had not been put in command of border safety as a complete, as “border czar” strongly suggests, and had as an alternative been handed a diplomatic process associated to Central American international locations.
A White Home “truth sheet” in July 2021 mentioned: “On February 2, 2021, President Biden signed an Govt Order that referred to as for the event of a Root Causes Technique.
Since March, Vice President Kamala Harris has been main the Administration’s diplomatic efforts to deal with the foundation causes of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.”
Biden’s personal feedback at a March 2021 occasion saying the task have been barely extra muddled, however he mentioned he had requested Harris to guide “our diplomatic effort” to deal with components inflicting migration within the three “Northern Triangle” international locations (he additionally talked about Mexico that day). Biden listed components in these international locations he thought had led to migration and mentioned that “in the event you cope with the issues in-country, it advantages everybody.” And Harris’ feedback that day have been targeted squarely on “root causes.”
Republicans can pretty say that even “root causes” work is a border-related process. However calling her “border czar” goes too far.
Venezuela, crime and migration
Trump claimed: “Venezuela – their crime is down 72%. They’re taking their drug sellers.
They’re taking – frankly, their prisoners, they’re emptying out their prisons. They’re taking their criminals, their murderers, their rapists and so they’re delivering them…”
Information First: Trump vastly overstated the Biden-era decline in crime in Venezuela, at the least based on the restricted statistics which can be publicly accessible. And whereas it’s sure that at the least some criminals have joined law-abiding Venezuelans in a mass exodus from the nation amid the financial disaster of the final decade, there is no such thing as a proof Venezuela has intentionally emptied prisons for migration functions or deliberately despatched ex-prisoners to the US.
Proper-wing web site Breitbart revealed a obscure 2022 article a few supposed federal intelligence report warning Border Patrol brokers about freed violent prisoners from Venezuela who had then joined migrant caravans. However this supposed declare about Venezuela’s actions has by no means been corroborated; specialists have informed CNN, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org that they know of no proof of any such factor having occurred.
“We have now no proof that the Venezuelan authorities is emptying its prisons or psychological well being establishments to ship them exterior the nation, in different phrases, to the U.S. or every other nation,” Roberto Briceño-León, founder and director of the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, an impartial group that tracks violence within the nation, mentioned in an e-mail to CNN in June.
Venezuela’s authorities doesn’t publish dependable official crime statistics, so it’s arduous to get an entire image. However Briceño-León’s group publishes annual knowledge on violent deaths, which incorporates homicides, police killings and deaths nonetheless underneath investigation. It discovered a decline of roughly 26% within the variety of violent deaths from 2021 to 2023.
That’s substantial, however not “72%.” Briceño-León famous in his e-mail that you would discover a decline of roughly 70% by 2023 in the event you in contrast 2018 to 2023 – however Trump was US president till early 2021.
And crime traits in any nation at all times have a posh mixture of causes; Venezuela is no exception. Briceño-León argued that whereas migration has been an element within the decline, crime has dropped largely as a result of the financial disaster has decreased alternatives for crime.
“Financial institution robberies disappear as a result of there is no such thing as a cash to rob; kidnappings lower as a result of there is no such thing as a money to pay the ransoms; robberies on public transportation cease as a result of vacationers don’t have any cash of their pockets and outdated cell telephones [with] no worth,” he mentioned.
Migration numbers
Whereas speaking about unlawful immigration, Trump claimed that, underneath President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, “you’ve got hundreds of thousands of individuals coming in a month.”
Information First: That is false. There has not been any month underneath the Biden-Harris administration the place even near “hundreds of thousands” of individuals entered the nation illegally. Within the peak month throughout this administration for what the federal government calls border “encounters,” December 2023, there have been 370,890 encounters nationwide. Even in the event you think about so-called “gotaways,” individuals who evaded the Border Patrol to sneak into the nation, there is no such thing as a foundation for the declare that “hundreds of thousands” of individuals are coming into in a single month.
The variety of nationwide encounters was 205,019 in June, the final month for which knowledge is at present accessible to the general public.
Migration numbers, half two
Trump mentioned of migration underneath Biden and Harris: “I consider it’s over 20 million individuals got here into our nation, many coming from jails, from prisons, from psychological establishments, or a much bigger model of that’s insane asylums.”
Information First: Trump’s “20 million” determine is fake, a serious exaggeration. The full variety of “encounters” nationwide from February 2021 via June 2024, at each authorized ports of entry and in between these ports, was about 10 million – and an “encounter” doesn’t imply an individual was let into the nation; some individuals encountered are promptly despatched away. As well as, there is no such thing as a foundation for Trump’s declare that “many” of those migrants have are available from jails, prisons or psychological well being amenities.
Even in the event you added the estimated variety of Biden-era “gotaways” (individuals who evaded the Border Patrol to enter illegally), which Home Republicans mentioned in Might was practically two million, “the totals would nonetheless be vastly smaller than 15, 16 or 18 million,” Michelle Mittelstadt, spokesperson for the Migration Coverage Institute assume tank, mentioned in late June after Trump used these figures.
The “encounters” figures can’t be described as figures on individuals efficiently coming into the US. Some encounters contain individuals who are deemed inadmissible at authorized ports and are refused permission to enter. Additionally, the identical individual might be “encountered” a number of occasions in the event that they maintain returning to the border to attempt once more – which is what occurred in lots of circumstances underneath Biden when the Title 42 rapid-expulsion authority invoked by Trump in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic was in place into Might 2023.
In 2023, Trump marketing campaign spokesman Steven Cheung cited one supply for Trump’s declare about prisons being emptied for migration functions – the Breitbart article that has not been corroborated. Even when Venezuela particularly had certainly freed prisoners to permit individuals to attempt to migrate to the US, that might be inadequate proof for Trump’s declare that some substantial variety of Biden-era migrants are from prisons.
Migration and ‘the Congo’
Trump repeated a declare he has made earlier than about “the Congo” and migration, once more with out specifying whether or not he was referring to the Democratic Republic of Congo or the neighboring Republic of Congo.
He mentioned: “From Africa, from the Congo they’re coming, from the Congo. And, 22 individuals got here in from the Congo just lately and so they’re murderers. And so they drop ‘em. They take ‘em out of jails – which may be very costly, you already know, to take care of the jails – they don’t do an excessive amount of sustaining, I can let you know. However they take ‘em out of jails, prisons. They take ‘em out, and so they convey them to the US.”
Information First: Trump’s declare is baseless. Specialists on the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Congo, plus each pro-immigration and anti-immigration organizations within the US, informed CNN in March, after Trump made the same declare, that that they had not seen any proof of Congolese prisons being emptied, not to mention proof of both nation one way or the other having introduced ex-prisoners into the US. Trump’s presidential marketing campaign and an allied tremendous PAC didn’t reply to requests to supply any proof. A CNN search of two media databases turned up no proof.
“Every thing he’s saying isn’t true,” Democratic Republic of Congo spokesperson Patrick Muyaya Katembwe informed CNN in a textual content message in March. Requested particularly about Trump’s claims about Congolese prisons being emptied of violent criminals, he mentioned, “By no means ever, it’s not true.” And, he mentioned, “we wish him to cease” telling these tales, since “it’s very unhealthy for the nation.”
Serge Mombouli, the Republic of Congo’s ambassador to the US, mentioned in an e-mail to CNN in March: “There isn’t any fact or any signal nor a single truth supporting such a declare or assertion.”
There have been additionally some Congolese migrants apprehended on the US border underneath Trump. You’ll be able to learn a extra detailed truth verify right here.
Deportations to Central America
Trump repeated a narrative he has informed on quite a few earlier events about how, throughout President Barack Obama’s administration, it was inconceivable to deport violent criminals to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
“Within the case of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, some others, you couldn’t get ‘em again … underneath Obama, you couldn’t get ’em again,” he mentioned. He repeated, “They wouldn’t take ’em again for Obama.”
Information First: This declare stays false. In 2016, Obama’s final calendar 12 months in workplace, none of those three international locations have been on the checklist of nations that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) thought of “recalcitrant” (uncooperative) in accepting the return of their residents from the US.
The Migration Coverage Institute, a Washington assume tank, famous to CNN in 2019 that within the 2016 fiscal 12 months, ICE reported that Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador ranked second, third and fourth for the nation of citizenship of individuals being faraway from the US. The identical was true within the 2017 fiscal 12 months, which encompassed the tip of Obama’s presidency and the start of Trump’s. ICE didn’t establish any widespread issues with deportations to those international locations.
ICE officers mentioned there have been some exceptions to the three international locations’ common cooperativeness, however Trump’s common declaration that the international locations have been uncooperative was by no means true.
The legitimacy of the 2020 election
Trump repeated his regular lie concerning the legitimacy of the 2020 election, saying his opponents have tried to persecute him via the courts though he did “nothing fallacious” and merely complained a few “rigged election.”
Information First: Trump’s declare concerning the election stays false. The 2020 election was not rigged, Trump misplaced honest and sq. to Biden by an Electoral School margin of 306 to 232, his opponents didn’t cheat and there’s no proof of any fraud even near widespread sufficient to have modified the result in any state.
We’ll depart apart Trump’s subjective claims about his authorized circumstances.
Europe and assist to Ukraine
Trump once more claimed that European international locations aren’t pulling their weight with regard to help to Ukraine. He mentioned, “With Ukraine, so we’re in for $250 billion and so they’re in for about $71 billion.”
Information First: Trump’s declare is fake. By way of June, European international locations had dedicated and supplied extra assist to Ukraine than the US had throughout and simply earlier than the Russian invasion started in early 2022, based on knowledge from the Kiel Institute for the World Economic system assume tank in Germany.
The Kiel Institute, which carefully tracks assist to Ukraine, discovered that, from late January 2022 (simply earlier than Russia’s invasion in February 2022) via June 2024, the European Union and particular person European international locations had dedicated a complete of about $205 billion to Ukraine, in navy, monetary and humanitarian help, in comparison with about $108 billion dedicated by the US. Europe additionally exceeded the US in assist that had truly been “allotted” to Ukraine – outlined by the institute as assist both delivered or specified for supply – at about $121 billion for Europe in comparison with about $82 billion for the US.
The US led Europe on navy assist that had truly been allotted, however very narrowly – about $56.42 billion to $56.35 billion.
It’s essential to notice that it’s attainable to provide you with totally different totals utilizing totally different methodology. However Trump’s declare that the US has dedicated or supplied way more assist than Europe will not be true regardless.
Commerce with Europe
Trump claimed, “For those who construct a automotive in the US, you may’t promote it in Europe. You simply can’t promote it. It’s inconceivable.”
Information First: It’s not true that it’s inconceivable to promote a US-made automotive in Europe.
In keeping with a December 2023 report from the European Vehicle Producers’ Affiliation, the EU is the second-largest marketplace for US automobile exports — importing 271,476 US autos in 2022, valued at practically 9 billion euro. (A few of these are autos made by European automakers at vegetation within the US.) The EU’s Eurostat statistical workplace says that automotive imports from the US hit a brand new peak in 2020, Trump’s final full 12 months in workplace, at a worth of about 11 billion euro.
Iran and funding for terror teams
Touting his report in coping with Iran, Trump claimed, “That they had no cash for Hamas, that they had no cash for Hezbollah, that they had no cash for any of those devices of terror.”
Information First: Trump’s declare that Iran had “no cash” for terror teams throughout his presidency is fake. Iran’s funding for these teams did decline within the second half of his administration, largely as a result of his sanctions on Iran had a main destructive influence on the Iranian economic system, however the funding by no means stopped completely, as 4 specialists informed CNN in June. Trump’s personal administration mentioned in 2020 that Iran was persevering with to fund terror teams together with Hezbollah.
The Trump administration started imposing sanctions on Iran in late 2018, pursuing a marketing campaign often known as “most strain.” However Trump-appointed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo mentioned himself in 2020 that Iran was persevering with to fund terror teams.
“So that you proceed to have, regardless of the Iranian management demanding that extra money be given to them, they’re utilizing the assets that they should proceed funding Hezbollah in Lebanon and threatening the state of Israel, funding Iraqi terrorist Shia teams, all of the issues that they’ve achieved traditionally – persevering with to construct out their capabilities even whereas the individuals inside their very own nation are struggling,” Pompeo mentioned in a Might 2020 interview, based on a transcript posted on the State Division’s web site.
Trump may have pretty mentioned that his sanctions on Iran had made life tougher for terror teams (although it’s unclear how a lot their operations have been affected). As a substitute, he continued his years-old observe of exaggerating even reputable achievements.
You’ll be able to learn a extra detailed truth verify from June right here.
China’s purchases of Iranian oil
Trump repeated his acquainted declare that he efficiently pressured China into not shopping for oil from Iran.
“Iran was broke as a result of I informed China, ‘For those who purchase from Iran…’ Oil, it’s all concerning the oil, that’s the place the cash is. ‘…For those who purchase oil from Iran, you’re not going to do any enterprise with the US.’ And I meant it, and so they mentioned, ‘We’ll move,’ and so they didn’t purchase oil.”
Information First: Trump’s declare is fake. China’s oil imports from Iran did briefly plummet underneath Trump in 2019, the 12 months the Trump administration made a concerted effort to discourage such purchases, however they by no means stopped – after which they rose sharply once more whereas Trump was nonetheless president. “The declare is unfaithful as a result of Chinese language crude imports from Iran haven’t stopped in any respect,” Matt Smith, lead oil analyst for the Americas at Kpler, a market intelligence agency, mentioned in November, when Trump made the same declare.
China’s official statistics recorded no purchases of Iranian crude in Trump’s final partial month in workplace, January 2021, and in addition none in most of Biden’s first 12 months in workplace. However that doesn’t imply China’s imports truly ceased; business specialists say it’s extensively identified that China has used quite a lot of ways to masks its continued imports from Iran.
Smith mentioned Iranian crude is typically listed in Chinese language knowledge as being from Malaysia; ships might journey from Iran with their transponders switched off after which flip them on when they’re close to Malaysia, Smith mentioned, or switch the Iranian oil to different ships.
Ali Vaez, Iran mission director on the Worldwide Disaster Group, mentioned in a November e-mail: “China considerably decreased its imports from Iran from round 800,000 barrels per day in 2018 to 100,000 in late 2019. However by the point Trump left workplace, they have been again to upwards to 600(000)-700,000 barrels.”
Trump’s tax cuts
Trump repeated his common declare that his signature tax cuts, within the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, have been “the most important tax lower” ever supplied.
Information First: Trump is fallacious. Analyses have discovered that his tax lower regulation was not the most important in historical past, both in share of gross home product or in inflation-adjusted {dollars}.
The act made quite a few everlasting and momentary modifications to the tax code, together with decreasing each company and particular person earnings tax charges.
In a report launched earlier this 12 months, the federal authorities’s Congressional Price range Workplace appeared on the dimension of previous tax cuts enacted between 1981 and 2023. It discovered that two different tax lower payments have been greater – former President Ronald Reagan’s 1981 bundle and laws signed by former President Barack Obama that prolonged earlier tax cuts enacted throughout former President George W. Bush’s administration.
The CBO measured the sizes of tax cuts by wanting on the income results of the payments as a share of gross home product – in different phrases, how a lot federal income a invoice lower as a portion of the economic system – over 5 years. Reagan’s 1981 tax lower and Obama’s 2012 tax lower extension have been 3.5% and 1.7% of GDP, respectively. Trump’s 2017 tax lower, against this, was estimated to be about 1% of GDP.
The Committee for a Accountable Federal Price range, a fiscal watchdog group, present in 2017 that the framework for Trump’s tax cuts would make them the fourth largest since 1940 in inflation-adjusted {dollars} and the eighth largest since 1918 as a share of gross home product.
Army gear and Afghanistan
After speaking concerning the state of US navy gear, Trump mentioned, “We gave $85 billion of it again to Afghanistan, in the event you can consider it. We gave them $85 billion.”
Information First: Trump’s $85 billion determine is fake. Whereas a big amount of navy gear that had been supplied by the US to Afghan forces was certainly deserted to the Taliban upon the US withdrawal, the Protection Division has estimated that this gear had been price about $7.1 billion – a bit of the roughly $18.6 billion price of apparatus supplied to Afghan forces between 2005 and 2021. And a few of the gear left behind was rendered inoperable earlier than US forces withdrew.
As different fact-checkers have beforehand defined, the “$85 billion” is a rounded-up determine (it’s nearer to $83 billion) for the whole sum of money Congress appropriated in the course of the struggle to a fund supporting the Afghan safety forces. A minority of this funding was for gear.
The state of affairs earlier than Proper to Attempt
Trump claimed that earlier than he signed a “Proper to Attempt” regulation in 2018 to present terminally unwell sufferers simpler entry to experimental medicines that haven’t but acquired approval from the Meals and Drug Administration, such sufferers would don’t have any recourse if they didn’t have the cash to journey overseas.
He mentioned: “You realize, individuals – if that they had cash, they’d go to Asia, they’d go to Europe. In the event that they don’t have cash, they’d go dwelling and die. That’s what occurred, they’d go dwelling and die.”
Information First: It’s not true that terminally unwell sufferers would merely should go dwelling and die with none entry to experimental medicines or must go to international international locations searching for such therapies till Trump signed the Proper to Attempt regulation. Previous to the regulation, sufferers needed to ask the federal authorities for permission to entry experimental medicines – however the authorities nearly at all times mentioned sure.
Scott Gottlieb, who served as Trump’s FDA commissioner, informed Congress in 2017 that the FDA had permitted 99% of affected person requests underneath its personal “expanded entry” program.
“Emergency requests for particular person sufferers are normally granted instantly over the cellphone and non-emergency requests are typically processed inside a couple of days,” Gottlieb testified.
The Biden administration and Trump’s authorized circumstances
Trump repeated a declare he has made on quite a few events throughout his marketing campaign – that the Biden administration orchestrated a legal election subversion case that was introduced in opposition to him by an area district lawyer in Fulton County, Georgia, a legal fraud case that was introduced in opposition to him by an area district lawyer in Manhattan, and a civil fraud case that was introduced in opposition to him by the lawyer common of New York state.
Information First: That is false. There isn’t any proof that Biden or his administration have been behind any of those circumstances. None of those officers experiences to the president and even to the federal authorities.
Lawyer Normal Merrick Garland testified to Congress in early June concerning the Manhattan case by which Trump was discovered responsible: “The Manhattan district lawyer has jurisdiction over circumstances involving New York state regulation, utterly impartial of the Justice Division, which has jurisdiction over circumstances involving federal regulation. We don’t management the Manhattan district lawyer. The Manhattan district lawyer doesn’t report back to us. The Manhattan district lawyer makes its personal selections about circumstances that he desires to convey underneath his state regulation.”
As he did in his dialog with Musk, Trump has repeatedly invoked a lawyer on Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg’s staff, Matthew Colangelo, whereas making such claims; Colangelo left the Justice Division in 2022 to affix the district lawyer’s workplace as senior counsel to Bragg. However there is no such thing as a proof that Biden had something to do with Colangelo’s employment determination. Colangelo and Bragg have been colleagues within the New York lawyer common’s workplace earlier than Bragg was elected Manhattan district lawyer in 2021.
CNN’s Tami Luhby and William Montes contributed to this text.
