WOLF BLITZER: Dan, you heard President Trump communicate extensively throughout this, what, almost 50-minute information convention. What stood out to you?
DANIEL DALE: Well, Wolf, that was like a mini best hits listing of claims from President Trump which have been debunked for months, a few of them for years. We heard him push his standard lie that he received the 2020 election. Of course, he misplaced truthful and sq..
He mentioned now we have already solved inflation. Inflation is definitely rising. It was as much as 2.9 p.c in August, up from 2.7 p.c in July. It’s the very best since January. He mentioned, as he has repeatedly, that he inherited the worst inflation in U.S. historical past. He didn’t. He inherited 3 p.c inflation, simply above what it’s now.
It was a couple of 41-year excessive in June 2022 below President Biden, but it surely then plummeted towards the top of the Biden administration. He repeated his favourite imaginary determine on U.S. assist to Ukraine, saying that we’re into that battle for $350 billion. That determine isn’t even near appropriate.
A suppose tank that carefully tracks the difficulty places U.S. assist at lower than half of the president’s determine. He mentioned once more that China is paying an entire bunch of tariffs to the U.S. It is U.S. importers who pay these tariffs, usually go on the associated fee to U.S. customers. He additionally repeated a few of his favourite outdated January 6 nonsense. He mentioned it has emerged it’s now clear that Nancy Pelosi, the previous House speaker, rejected his provide of 10,000 National Guard troops on that day.
In reality, there’s nonetheless no proof that really occurred. He mentioned, once more, the January 6 House Select Committee deleted all its proof, deleted all of the information. In reality, along with a public report, Wolf, it launched an enormous quantity, it preserved an enormous quantity of proof.
And then he turned to immigration. He mentioned he thinks 25 million migrants entered below President Biden. Even his 21 million determine from months in the past wasn’t even near true, greater than double the reality, even should you don’t rely the individuals who had been shortly expelled from the nation.
He repeated his declare that prisons within the Congo and Venezuela had been emptied to launch prisoners as migrants into the U.S. Neither he nor his marketing campaign may ever present any corroboration for that declare. And then this was only a gaffe, however I believe price noting, if individuals had been confused.
He once more mentioned that he had a task in resolving a battle between the nations of Azerbaijan and Albania. Of course, he means Armenia, not Albania.
BLITZER: Yes, that was a gaffe certainly. That jumped out at me when he mentioned that as properly.
All proper, stand by. Daniel.