We Will Make the Whole World Great Again Trump
AP FACT CHECK: Is Trump's America keen once more or hellscape?
At their national convention, Republicans portrayed the U.S. as a country made great again past President Donald Trump
WASHINGTON -- The Republican National Convention begged this question: Why are President Donald Trump'south nearly fervent supporters describing the land of his marriage as a hellscape?
It was possibly the cardinal paradox for voters wondering what to believe in the rhetoric, considering information technology defied logic to believe information technology all. Are Americans living in a dystopia or in an America made great over again past Trump?
Four years agone, candidate Trump promised that if he won, "The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an terminate. Starting time on Jan 20th, 2017, safety will be restored."
Now? "I've never seen our streets get this bad and so rapidly," Pat Lynch, representing tens of thousands of New York constabulary officers, told the GOP proceedings. "We are staring downwards the butt of a public safety disaster." He said this in remarks singing Trump's praises.
Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer and a former New York mayor, spoke of years of "carnage" and violence ascent at present, and implored, "Mr. President, make our nation rubber once more."
All of the convention's apocalyptic rhetoric was in service of bashing Trump challenger Joe Biden, Democratic mayors and national Democrats both in and out of office as being soft on violence and anarchy. Yet the landscape of lawlessness they described is Trump'south America at present.
Hyperbole suffused the proceedings, both when Trump and his supporters hailed his record and when they denounced the other side. Outright falsehoods were heard every night on the social justice protests, the coronavirus, the economic system and Biden'south agenda.
A selection from the calendar week:
PROTESTS
VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE, expressing support for people in uniform: "People like Dave Patrick Underwood, an officer in Homeland Security's Federal Protective Service, who was shot and killed during the riots in Oakland, California." — Wed.
THE FACTS: Pence is blurring what happened, leaving the impression that Underwood was a victim of rioters. Underwood was not killed past demonstrators in Oakland who were protesting for racial justice.
Federal government say Underwood was fatally shot by Steven Carrillo, an Air Forcefulness staff sergeant they say has ties to a far-right, anti-government movement, while Underwood was guarding a federal courthouse during protests in May. Officials believe Carrillo used the protests as a cover for the slaying and his subsequent escape.
Carrillo, 32, hatched a plot to target officers with at least one other accomplice online, federal authorities allege. Over an eight-day span before his capture, they say, Carrillo fatally shot Underwood and wounded his partner, then killed a California sheriff'southward deputy and injured four others.
Of the two police enforcement officers killed, Pence but mentioned the one who was in the vicinity of the protestation. The other is Santa Cruz County Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, who regime say was killed by Carrillo while pursuing him in June.
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RACIAL INEQUALITY
KENTUCKY ATTORNEY GENERAL DANIEL CAMERON: "On the economic system: Joe Biden couldn't exercise information technology, but President Trump did build an economy that worked for everyone, especially minorities." — Tuesday.
THE FACTS: Not authentic.
Republicans can talk successfully about the decline in unemployment rates for Black and Hispanic workers. But that'due south just i approximate; plenty of economic troubles and inequalities abound for minorities. Minority groups still lagged backside white people with regard to incomes, wealth and dwelling house buying earlier the pandemic. But when the disease struck, it became clear that the economy did non work well for everybody as the job losses and infections unduly hitting minorities.
Blackness unemployment now stands at 14.6%. Hispanic unemployment is 12.nine%. The white unemployment rate is 9.2%. For every dollar of total wealth held past white households, Blacks have just five cents, according to the Federal Reserve. Information technology's 4 cents for Hispanics. That is not testify of an economy working "especially" for minorities.
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POLICE
ERIC TRUMP: "Biden has pledged to defund the police." — Wed.
REP. STEVE SCALISE of Louisiana: "Joe Biden has embraced the left'south insane mission to defund them."
THE FACTS: No, Biden has explicitly rejected the call by some on the left to defund the police force. He has proposed more money for police, conditioned on improvements in their practices.
Biden'due south criminal justice agenda, released long earlier the protests over racial injustice, proposes more federal money for "training that is needed to avert tragic, unjustifiable deaths" and hiring more officers to ensure that departments are racially and ethnically reflective of the populations they serve.
Specifically, he calls for a $300 one thousand thousand infusion into federal customs policing grant programs. That'south more than money, not less.
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Black LIVES MATTER
GIULIANI: "Black Lives Matter and antifa sprang into activeness and, in a flash, they hijacked the peaceful protest into brutal, roughshod riots." — Th.
THE FACTS: That's a hollow claim.
There's no evidence that Black Lives Matter or antifa, or whatever political grouping for that matter, is infiltrating racial injustice protests and injecting violence.
In June, The Associated Press analyzed court records, employment histories and social media posts for 217 people arrested in Minneapolis and the District of Columbia, cities at the center of the protests earlier this yr.
More than than 85 per centum of the people arrested were local residents, and few had affiliation with whatever organized groups. Social media posts for a few of those arrested indicated they were involved in left-leaning activities while others expressed support for the political right and Trump himself.
Local police departments were forced to knock down widespread social media rumors that busloads of "antifa," a term for leftist militants, were coming to violently disrupt cities and towns during nationwide racial justice protests. In June, Twitter and Facebook busted accounts linked to white supremacy groups that were promoting some of those falsehoods online.
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COVID-19
TRUMP: "The United States has among the everyman case fatality rates of any major country anywhere in the world." — Thursday.
THE FACTS: Non truthful. Non if you consider Russia, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines and India to be major countries.
The U.S. sits right in the heart when it comes to COVID-19 mortality rates in the 20 nations well-nigh impacted by the pandemic, according to information from the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.
Of the 20, United mexican states has the highest bloodshed charge per unit at 10.8 deaths for every 100 confirmed COVID cases, followed past Republic of ecuador at 5.viii. Saudi Arabia had the lowest charge per unit of the 20 nations at ane.2, followed by Bangladesh, the Philippines, Russia, Kingdom of morocco, India, Argentine republic, South Africa and Chile.
The U.Southward. had the 10th lowest of the 20 nations, with a bloodshed rate of three.one.
When the center looked at the information in another way, analyzing the COVID death charge per unit for every 100,000 residents, the U.Southward. fares even worse. Only three nations — Brazil, Republic of chile and Peru — posted higher death rates.
Understanding deaths equally a percentage of the population or every bit a per centum of known infections is problematic because countries track and report COVID-19 deaths and cases differently. Many other factors are in play in shaping a expiry toll besides how well a land responded to the pandemic, such as the overall health or youth of national populations.
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TRUMP: "Instead of following the science, Joe Biden wants to inflict a painful shutdown on the entire country. His shutdown would inflict unthinkable and lasting harm on our nation'due south children, families, and citizens of all backgrounds." — Thursday.
THE FACTS: That's false. Biden has publicly said he would shut down the nation'southward economy only if scientists and public health directorate recommended he practise and then to stem the COVID-xix threat. In other words, he said he would follow the science, not disregard it.
Speaking Sunday in an ABC interview, Biden said he "will be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives" when he was asked if he would exist willing to shut the land again.
"And then if the scientists say close it downward?" asked ABC's David Muir.
"I would close it downwardly," Biden responded. "I would listen to the scientists." The former vice president has said repeatedly that no 1 knows what January would look like.
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DONALD TRUMP JR. on the coronavirus response: "The president quickly took action and shut downwardly travel from China." — Monday.
THE FACTS: No, he didn't shut down travel from People's republic of china. He restricted information technology. Dozens of countries took similar steps to command travel from hot spots earlier or around the aforementioned time the U.Southward. did.
The U.S. restrictions that took consequence February. two connected to allow travel to the U.S. from China's Hong Kong and Macao territories over the by v months. The Associated Press reported that more than 8,000 Chinese and foreign nationals based in those territories entered the U.S. in the first three months after the travel restrictions were imposed.
Additionally, more than 27,000 Americans returned from mainland China in the showtime calendar month after the restrictions took effect. U.S. officials lost rail of more than than 1,600 of them who were supposed to be monitored for virus exposure.
Dr. Anne Schuchat, the No. 2 official at the U.Southward. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, too told the AP that the federal regime was slow to sympathise how much the coronavirus was spreading from Europe, which helped drive the dispatch of outbreaks across the U.S. in late Feb. Trump didn't denote travel restrictions for many European countries until mid-March.
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EDUCATION
TRUMP: "Biden also vowed to oppose school choice and oppose all lease schools." — Thursday.
THE FACTS: That's fake. Biden doesn't oppose charter schools. He opposes federal coin going to for-profit charter companies.
Such companies are only a slice of the charter schoolhouse market, meaning Biden'south position wouldn't substantially alter the charter mural that is dominated by nonprofit organizations.
Biden does oppose federal coin for tuition vouchers.
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HEALTH CARE
TRUMP: "Nosotros protected your preexisting atmospheric condition. Very strongly protected preexisting ... and yous don't hear that." — Mon.
THE FACTS: You don't hear it because it'southward not truthful.
People with such medical problems have health insurance protections because of President Barack Obama's health care constabulary, which Trump is trying to dismantle.
I of Trump'due south alternatives to Obama'southward police force — short-term health insurance, already in place — doesn't take to comprehend preexisting conditions. Another alternative is clan health plans, which are oriented to pocket-size businesses and sole proprietors and do comprehend those conditions.
Neither of the two alternatives appears to take made much difference in the market.
Meanwhile, Trump's administration is pressing the Supreme Court for full repeal of the Obama-era constabulary, including provisions that protect people with preexisting conditions from wellness insurance discrimination.
With "Obamacare" all the same in place, preexisting conditions continue to be covered by regular private health insurance plans.
Insurers must take all applicants, regardless of medical history, and charge the same standard premiums to good for you people and those who are in poor health, or take a history of medical issues.
Before the Affordable Care Act, any insurer could deny coverage — or charge more — to anyone with a preexisting condition who was seeking to buy an individual policy.
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BIDEN'S AGENDA
NIKKI HALEY, former administrator to the United Nations, on the Democrats: "They want a regime takeover of health care. They desire to ban fracking and kill millions of jobs." — Mon.
REP. JIM Jordan of Ohio: "Defund the constabulary, defund border patrol and defund our military." — Monday.
RONNA McDANIEL, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee: "You deserve to know that they would ban fracking and eliminate fossil fuels, which would kill millions of good-paying jobs and heighten the cost of driving our cars and heating our homes. You lot deserve to know that they desire a consummate regime takeover of our health intendance system, so moms like me won't exist able to take our kids to the aforementioned pediatrician they've been seeing for years." — Monday.
THE FACTS: Those aren't Biden'south positions. A number of Republican speakers seized on proposals of the Democratic left, in some cases distorting those positions, and assigned them to Biden, who doesn't share those views.
He does not favor a regime takeover of health care; instead he proposes building on Obama'south police, which preserves the private insurance market while expanding Medicaid.
Biden likewise did not endorse proposals to cease border enforcement or even to decriminalize illegal crossings.
Biden supports banning only new oil and gas permits, fracking included, on federal state. But virtually U.S. production is on private land. The government says production on federal state accounted for less than 10% of oil and gas in 2018.
In a March xv primary debate, Biden misstated his energy policy, suggesting he would permit no new fracking. His campaign quickly corrected the record. Biden has otherwise been consistent on his middle-of-the-road position, going so far equally to tell an anti-fracking activist that he "ought to vote for somebody else" if he wanted an immediate fracking ban.
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VIRUS TESTING
IVANKA TRUMP: "Our president quickly mobilized the full force of authorities and the private sector ... to build the most robust testing system in the world." — Thursday.
THE FACTS: Her assertion of superior U.S. testing for COVID-xix is dubious. The U.Due south. repeatedly stumbled with testing in the early weeks of the outbreak, assuasive the virus to rapidly spread in the U.S. The president's own experts say the U.S. is nowhere near the level of testing needed to control the virus.
The U.S. currently is conducting virtually 750,000 tests a mean solar day, far short of what many public health experts say the U.S. should exist testing to command the spread of the virus. Looking to the fall, some experts have called for 4 million or more than tests daily, while a group assembled by Harvard Academy estimated that twenty million a day would exist needed to proceed the virus in check.
Public-health authorities acknowledge testing was a critical failure in the crucial early months. The number of tests beingness done has since surged but remains inadequate. Many who exercise get tested have unduly long waits for results, during which time they can exist spreading the virus to others.
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Islamic republic of iran
SEN. TOM COTTON of Arkansas: "Joe Biden sent pallets of cash to the ayatollahs." — Th.
THE FACTS: This is a distorted tale Trump and Republicans love to tell. Yep, the U.S. flew cash to Iran in the Obama years, but it was money the U.s. owed to that country.
Cotton wool also played into the convention's blueprint of attributing every questionable action of Obama'due south administration to Biden personally.
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Economic system
PENCE: "Four years ago we inherited ... an economy struggling to break out of the slowest recovery since the Not bad Low. ... In our first three years nosotros congenital the greatest economy in the earth." — Wednesday.
LARRY KUDLOW, Trump economical adviser: Trump was "inheriting a stagnant economy on the front end of recession," and nether the president, "the economy was rebuilt in three years." — Tuesday.
THE FACTS: This is false. The economy was healthy when Trump arrived at the White House.
Even if the recovery from the 2008 financial crisis was irksome, Trump took part with unemployment at a depression iv.vii%, steady job growth and a falling federal budget arrears. The longest expansion in U.S. history began in the middle of 2009 and continued until the starting time of the yr, spanning both the Obama and Trump presidencies.
The U.South. economy did benefit from Trump's 2017 tax cuts with a jump in growth in 2018, just the budget deficit began to climb every bit a effect of the taxation breaks that favored companies and the wealthy in hopes of permanently expanding the economy.
Annual growth during Obama'southward second term averaged about two.iii%. Trump notched a slightly better 2.5% during his starting time iii years, but the country swung into recession this yr because of the coronavirus and will probably go out Trump with an inferior track record to his predecessor over 4 years.
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War
SEN. RAND PAUL: "Joe Biden voted for the Republic of iraq war, which President Trump has long called the worst geopolitical mistake of our generation." — Tuesday.
THE FACTS: Trump had no more foresight on this matter than Biden. Neither was confronting it when it started.
When asked during a Sept. eleven, 2002, radio interview if he would support an Iraq invasion, Trump responded, "Yeah, I guess so." The next month, Biden as a senator voted to authorize George W. Bush to utilize force in Iraq.
The next March, but days after the U.S. launched its invasion, Trump said it "looks like a tremendous success from a armed forces standpoint."
It wasn't until September 2003 that Trump beginning publicly raised doubts near the invasion, saying "a lot of people (are) questioning the whole concept of going in in the starting time place." In November 2005, Biden called his Senate vote to authorize force a error.
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TAXES
ERIC TRUMP: The president slashed taxes and "wages went through the roof." — Tuesday.
THE FACTS: Not quite. Wage growth did improve, simply there is clearly still a roof on workers' incomes.
The 2017 tax cuts appear unlikely to deliver on their promised pay increases. White House economists argued that incomes would surge past at least $four,000 because of the lower corporate tax rate. That has even so to occur and seems unlikely given the current recession.
Simply average hourly wages did ameliorate to a iii.5% almanac gain past February 2019, much better than the 2.7% annual proceeds in Dec 2016 before Trump became president. The trouble was that wage growth and so began to slip through the end of final yr despite the steady hiring. Wage gains merely accelerated again with the pandemic and layoffs of millions of poor workers that artificially raised average wages.
What workers have notwithstanding to see is a meaningful change in the distribution of income. More than one-half of total household income goes to the meridian twenty% of earners, according to the Census Bureau. Their share has increased slightly nether Trump with data that is electric current through 2018. The bottom 20% of earners get just iii.1% of total income, just as they did before Trump's presidency.
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FARMING
CRIS PETERSON, from a Wisconsin dairy family: "Our unabridged economy and dairy farming are once once more roaring back. One person deserves the credit and our vote, President Donald J. Trump." — Tuesday.
THE FACTS: Not everyone in the dairy industry views it as booming, specially as larger operations are putting smaller family farms out of business organization.
The Agriculture Section reported this summer that "dairy herds fell by more than half between 2002 and 2019, with an accelerating rate of decline in 2018 and 2019, even as milk production continued to grow."
Part of the problem is that smaller farms confront higher production costs. Farms with more than two,000 cattle are more likely for their sales to exceed their total costs, while smaller farms are more likely to operate at a loss by this metric, co-ordinate to government figures.
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SUBURBS
PATRICIA McCLOSKEY on Democrats: "They want to abolish the suburbs birthday by ending single-family home zoning. This forced rezoning would bring law-breaking, lawlessness and low-quality apartments into thriving suburban neighborhoods. President Trump smartly ended this authorities overreach, but Joe Biden wants to bring it dorsum." — Mon.
THE FACTS: That'southward a imitation account of what Biden supports. In 2015, during the Obama administration, a regulation took effect intended to ensure that communities face up racial segregation in housing.
The rule required more than 1,200 jurisdictions receiving federal Housing and Urban Development block grants and housing assistance to analyze their housing stock and come with plans to combat patterns of segregation and discrimination. It did non eliminate zoning for single-family unit homes in the suburbs.
Trump revoked the rule; Biden supports it. Simply Biden does not back up requiring municipalities to refrain from building single-family homes equally a condition for getting money from HUD.
McClosky and her married man accept been charged with a felony for brandishing guns exterior their St. Louis home every bit racial justice protesters passed.
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VOTING FRAUD
TRUMP, on mail-in voting: "Absentee — like in Florida — absentee is good. Simply other than that, they're very, very bad." — Monday.
THE FACTS: He'south making a false stardom. Mail service-in ballots are cast in the same manner as absentee mail ballots, with the same level of scrutiny such every bit signature verification in many states.
In more than 30 states and the Commune of Columbia, voters have a right to "no alibi" absentee voting. That means they can utilise mail-in ballots for any reason, regardless of whether a person is out of boondocks or working.
In Florida, the Legislature in 2016 voted to change the wording of such balloting from "absentee" to "vote-by-mail" to make clear a voter can cast such ballots if they wish. So in that location is no "absentee" voting in that land, as Trump alludes to.
More than broadly, voter fraud has proved exceedingly rare. The Brennan Center for Justice in 2017 ranked the hazard of ballot fraud at 0.00004% to 0.0009%, based on studies of past elections.
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TRUMP, on the November vote count and Democrats: "Nosotros accept to be very, very careful and this time they are trying to do it with the whole post role scam. They will blame it on the post part. Y'all can see them setting it up." — Monday.
THE FACTS: No postal scam has emerged from the Democrats. Instead Trump has given credence to suspicions that he wants to suppress mail-in voting to help his chances in the election.
He's said as much. In an interview this month, he admitted he's trying to starve the U.S. Postal service of money in order to brand it harder to process an expected surge of mail-in ballots, which he worries could cost him the election.
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TRUMP, on defective ballots in an election: "What does lacking mean? Information technology means fraud." — Mon.
THE FACTS: No, defective ballots practice not equate to fraud. The overwhelming bulk aren't.
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, the vast majority of ballots are butterfingers considering they arrive belatedly, a item worry this year considering of contempo U.S. Mail delays and an expected surge in mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic.
Ballots also are deemed defective if there is a missing signature — common with newer voters unfamiliar with the procedure — or it doesn't friction match what'due south on file. In addition, some states crave absentee voters to get a witness or notary to sign their ballots.
"None of those are fraud," said Wendy Weiser, manager of Brennan'south republic plan at NYU School of Law. When suspected cases are investigated for potential fraud, studies have borne out the primary reason for defects is voter mistake, she said.
Lacking ballots also disproportionately bear upon voters of color, and recent lawsuits take successfully challenged some requirements as posing health risks or disenfranchising voters. Earlier this year, for case, a federal gauge ruled that a South Carolina requirement to have witnesses to mail-in ballots could put voters' health at run a risk; the requirement was suspended information technology for the June principal. Others states including Minnesota and Rhode Island have also suspended that requirement due to the pandemic.
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Associated Press writers Amanda Seitz in Chicago; David Klepper in Providence, Rhode Island; Bill Barrow in Atlanta; Matthew Lee, Paul Wiseman and Matthew Daly in Washington; and Thomas Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.
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