Trump’s electoral triumph was paved with falsehoodsDonald Trump triumphed in the Iowa caucuses on Monday and now faces a showdown with former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday. The odds are long that even a Haley victory would derail the Trump train, but the former president isn’t taking any chances. He and his super PAC are attacking her as too liberal to be the Republican standard-bearer. “Nikki is a Globalist RINO,” Trump fumed Monday on his social media platform, Truth Social, using the acronym for “Republican in name only.” The super PAC, Make America Great Again Inc., released an ad that begins by reflecting the rhetoric of Adolf Hitler — that immigrants are “poisoning” the country — and charges that Haley is “too weak, too liberal, to fix the border.” It underscores this point by twice using a clip of Haley saying: “We don’t need to talk about them as criminals. They’re not.” Indeed, the ad claims that she “refused to call illegals ‘criminals’” and that she opposed Trump’s plan to build a wall along the border. None of this is true. We dug up the original clip from which this ad was crafted. The ad is a textbook case of how political campaigns dishonestly snip comments made by opponents so that they are untethered from reality. You can read our full report by clicking this link. White House spins GOP ‘cuts’ of 2,000 Border Patrol agents The White House earned Pinocchios for a claim that House Republicans cast a vote that would have cut the size of the Border Patrol by 2,000. That figure was based on fishy math on a 2022 bill. In reality, lawmakers later approved a spending bill that would have boosted the number of agents by nearly 2,000.
Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who’d like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we’ll check it out. New false claims by TrumpDuring a Fox News town hall, Trump repeated many of the same false claims we have fact-checked repeatedly. But he added two new falsehoods to his repertory that were worthy of a fact check. - “We had no terrorist attacks at all during my four years.”
- “I had no wars. I’m the only president in 72 years, I didn’t have any wars.”
Trump often has a poor memory and a tenuous grasp on history, as these examples yet again show. There were jihadi-inspired terrorist attacks in the United States during his presidency, as he himself noted at the time. It’s also false to claim that he’s the first president since 1948 not to have had any wars on his watch. Jimmy Carter earns that honor. Trump, by contrast, ramped up commitments in Iraq and Syria to fight the ISIS terrorist group while also launching airstrikes on Syria as punishment for a chemical weapons attack. Click the link below to read the complete article.
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