Fact check: Trump rewrites Wisconsin history in rally filled with false claims

[robosmith]

Fact check: Trump rewrites Wisconsin history in rally filled with false claims

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Donald Trump made more than two dozen false claims at his Tuesday campaign rally in Racine, Wisconsin, including two significant attempts to rewrite Wisconsin history.

The first was a slightly vaguer than usual version of his familiar lie that he won Wisconsin in the 2020 presidential election. He lost the state by 20,682 votes.

The second was a version of a false claim Trump delivered in 2020 and again in 2022: his assertion that he had saved the Wisconsin city of Kenosha from destruction in 2020 when Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, refused to take action to deal with the civil unrest that followed the police shooting of a Black man.

Trump made lots of other false claims during the Racine rally. Here’s a quick fact check on 12 of them:

● He said “the world was at peace” when he was president in 2020, though there were numerous ongoing armed conflicts.

·● He  said Democrats rigged the 2020 election, which did not happen.

·● He  said people’s votes “tend to disappear” after they are cast, which is just not true.

·● He  said the country is “in the middle of the worst crime wave in modern history,” though preliminary statistics show crime declined sharply in 2023 and the first quarter of 2024.

·● He said he has been indicted more times than notorious gangster Al Capone, who was indicted at least six times to Trump’s four.

·● He said somebody left cocaine at the White House “about a month ago,” though that happened about 11 months ago, and said it was “hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cocaine,” though photos show the cocaine was in a small bag worth nothing even remotely close to that amount.

·● He said he went to Washington, DC, the other day for one of his trials, though the trip was actually for meetings with congressional Republicans.

·● He said then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned down his offer of 10,000 soldiers at the Capitol January 6, 2021; there is no evidence she ever received such an offer, and she wouldn’t have had the power to reject it if she did.

·● He said no previous president had taken even 10 cents “out of China” from tariffs; the US has had tariffs on China since the 1700s and generated billions per year from them under predecessor President Barack Obama — and study after study has shown that Americans pay the tariffs, not China.

·● He said Syria and Turkey have been fighting over their border “for 2,000 years,” though historians have said this is nonsense: Turkey and Syria were both part of the Ottoman Empire, and the modern border between them is less than 100 years old.

·● He said he thinks cumulative inflation under Biden is “40 or 50 percent”; it’s actually about 19%. 

 

Another day another dozen LIES. What else is new from the PATHOLOGICAL LIAR?

 

[robosmith]

Trump cranks up false, inflammatory messages to rake in campaign cash

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“1 MONTH UNTIL ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE! THEY WANT TO SENTENCE ME TO DEATH.”

The fundraising message blasted out to his supporters was a reference to the former president’s sentencing scheduled for July 11, when he faces fines or possible jail time after being convicted on 34 charges of business fraud in connection with hush money paid to an adult-film star. A death sentence is not under consideration in the case. Neither is a “GUILLOTINE,” as another fundraising pitch suggested last week.

The incendiary emails are part of a concerted strategy that has allowed the campaign to erase a financial lead that President Biden’s campaign had opened up in recent months, according to people close to the former president who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak for the campaign. But experts in small-dollar fundraising say the solicitations are aggressive even by the standards of Trump’s frequently hyperbolic and inflammatory language. 

The grift is back, redux and redoubled.

 

[Fluffypants]

5 minutes ago, robosmith said:

Trump cranks up false, inflammatory messages to rake in campaign cash

The grift is back, redux and redoubled.

 

He is facing 120 years in jail which I wouldn't put past Merchan and that would be a death sentence, the man is pushing 80.

Looks like the WaPo Fact Checkers are back to point out to us that indeed the burgers weren't pile a mile high as Trump claimed.

 

[robosmith]

19 minutes ago, Fluffypants said:

He is facing 120 years in jail which I wouldn't put past Merchan and that would be a death sentence, the man is pushing 80.

He's not. The sentences run concurrently so the MAX is 4 years.

19 minutes ago, Fluffypants said:

Looks like the WaPo Fact Checkers are back to point out to us that indeed the burgers weren't pile a mile high as Trump claimed.

That's NOT MENTIONED. LIAR.

[Fluffypants]

11 minutes ago, robosmith said:

 

That's NOT MENTIONED. LIAR.

WaPo did that when he was President during the government shutdown when the White House hosted the National Champions and Trump bought them all burgers and such. Trump said the burgers were piled a mile high (obvious hyperbole) and they literally took the time to do look at the pictures count the burgers and then did the calculations to prove that the burger weren't piled a mile high.

Edited June 27, 2024 by Fluffypants

[robosmith]

6 minutes ago, Fluffypants said:

WaPo did that when he was President during the government shutdown when the White House hosted the National Champions and Trump bought them all burgers and such. Trump said the burgers were piled a mile high (obvious hyperbole) and they literally took the time to do look at the pictures count the burgers and then did the calculations to prove that the burger weren't piled a mile high.

As Trump supporters all say about HIS GAFFES, "I'm sure the fact check was just sarcasm"

[Fluffypants]

1 hour ago, robosmith said:

As Trump supporters all say about HIS GAFFES, "I'm sure the fact check was just sarcasm"

They not only did that they calculated the cost of all the burgers.

This was on their Fact Check page, not their humor or opinion page, there was no sarcasm.

[robosmith]

6 minutes ago, Fluffypants said:

They not only did that they calculated the cost of all the burgers.

This was on their Fact Check page, not their humor or opinion page, there was no sarcasm.

Did it make the Wapo list of 30,000+ lies? LMAO

That's the gold standard.

[Fluffypants]

Gold standard for hack journalism maybe.

Yes it did among other BS "lies" that were simple hyperbole.

I wonder why when Joe Biden was elected they stopped counting, was it because this was just about smearing Trump?

I bet if they counted Joe like they did Trump he would of dwarfed that number.

Hell just the amount of times he said his son died in Iraq numbers in the 100s.

 

[robosmith]

1 hour ago, Fluffypants said:

Gold standard for hack journalism maybe.

Yes it did among other BS "lies" that were simple hyperbole.

I wonder why when Joe Biden was elected they stopped counting, was it because this was just about smearing Trump?

I bet if they counted Joe like they did Trump he would of dwarfed that number.

Hell just the amount of times he said his son died in Iraq numbers in the 100s.

Trump is a conman and that means he LIES DAILY. AKA PATHOLOGICAL.

He's not even a good liar cause he contradicts himself within days. AKA, can't keep his lies straight.

Joe may forget dates, but that doesn't mean he's purposely misrepresenting anything.

They stopped counting Joe, cause the number wasn't interesting.

[WestCanMan]

Another day, another pack of roboboy lies.

He said “the world was at peace” when he was president in 2020, though there were numerous ongoing armed conflicts.

·● He said “the world was at peace” when he was president in 2020, though there were numerous ongoing armed conflicts.

·● He said then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned down his offer of 10,000 soldiers at the Capitol January 6, 2021; there is no evidence she ever received such an offer, and she wouldn’t have had the power to reject it if she did.

Both of those things are 100% true. There are always "ongoing armed conflicts" on a small scale, but there was nothing like the Ukraine-Russia war or the latest Gaza war. Those are Biden wars. 

It's always been common knowledge that Trump offered those Nat Guardsmen, but even demonrats have admitted as much lately.