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NCS reality checker Daniel Dale highlighted 18 “inaccurate assertions” made by President Donald Trump throughout Sunday’s 60 Minutes interview, with “the vast majority of them previously debunked,” Dale wrote on NCS.com.
“Trump told his usual lie that the free and fair 2020 election was stolen from him,” Dale wrote. “He lied again that grocery prices ‘are down’ even after CBS’ Norah O’Donnell informed him they are up. He declared once more that there is now ‘no inflation,’ though there certainly is, and then that inflation is 2% or ‘even less than 2%,’ though the most recent available Consumer Price Index figure is now up to 3%.”
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Dale continued, “The president also deployed multiple other fictional numbers,” as he listed off receipts:
He falsely claimed “$17 trillion” is being invested in the US “right now,” although the $17 trillion determine is sort of double the White House’s personal wildly inflated determine.
He falsely claimed every alleged drug boat the US has attacked in current weeks “kills 25,000 Americans,” although consultants notice this determine plainly doesn’t make sense.
He falsely claimed some current former presidents invoked the Insurrection Act “28 times,” although no particular person president has invoked it on greater than six events with this file set by President Ulysses S. Grant in the 1800s.
He falsely claimed he has ended “eight wars,” although his record contains two conditions that weren’t wars in any respect and a minimum of one conflict that continues.
He falsely claimed CBS aired an edited interview with Trump’s 2024 opponent Kamala Harris “two days” earlier than the election, although it was truly greater than 4 full weeks earlier than Election Day.
He falsely claimed former President Joe Biden gave $350 billion in support to Ukraine (the actual quantity is properly underneath half that) and allowed in “25 million” migrants (the actual quantity right here is properly underneath half that, too).
Read the NCS.com article here.
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