“#HillaryClinton has to go to jail, OK? She has to go to jail,” #Trump said in a June 2016 speech in CA. “She has to go to jail,” he repeated in an Oct 2016 speech in FL. At a presidential debate in Oct 2016, after Clinton said, “It’s just awfully good that someone w/the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country,” Trump responded, “Because you’d be in jail.”
In his 2020 campaign for reelection, though, #Trump again made calls to “lock her up.”
“You should lock her up, I’ll tell you,” he said at a January 2020 rally in Ohio. At an October 2020 rally in Georgia, after the crowd chanted “lock them up” in relation to the #Biden family, Trump said, “You should lock them up. Lock up the Bidens. Lock up Hillary.”
#Trump once again claimed that he signed the largest tax cut in history during his presidency.
“Our tax cuts, which are the biggest in history, our tax cuts are coming due as you know very soon.”
False.
Trump’s 2017 #TaxCuts & Jobs Act was not the largest in history, either in percentage of #GDP or #inflation-adjusted dollars.
Moreover, his “tax cuts” reduced #CORPORATE & only the individual income tax rates for the #wealthy.
If you want to discuss “size” irregardless of who benefited from the tax cuts, he is still lying.
2 other tax cut bills have been “bigger” – former President Ronald #Reagan’s 1981 package & legislation signed by former President Barack #Obama that extended earlier tax cuts enacted during former President #GeorgeWBush’s admin.
#Trump, talking about #Jan6 - bc the most important thing about that day was crowd size:
“If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech & you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people. If not, we had more,” referencing the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s 1963 March on Washington “I Have a Dream” speech.
False.
MLK’s speech drew an estimated 250k people.
Jan 6 investigators estimated that Trump’s speech drew 53k.
#Trump: “She wants to take away your guns.”
False.
MVP #KamalaHarris, in 2019, said she supports a gun buyback program for #AssaultWeapons, not all #guns. Her campaign recently said that she no longer supports a buyback program.
Her running mate, Gov #TimWalz, is a gun owner & a hunter.
When #Walz signed 2023 MN gun law he said, "This is NOT about the #SecondAmendment, This is about the #safety & #security of our communities. That's what's happening here today."
#Trump: “They take the strategic national reserves. They’re virtually empty now. We have never had it this low.”
This is half exaggeration, half lie.
Pres Biden has tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to try to lower gasoline prices, drawing it down by about 40% from when he took office, & it is currently at the lowest level since the 1980s. But it still has 375M barrels in it now, which is not at all “virtually empty” & is DEFINITELY NOT at the lowest level ever.
#Trump: “The vast majority of the country does support me.”
False.
Trump NEVER won a majority of the popular vote in either of the elections he ran in & NEVER had the approval of a majority of Americans in a single day of Gallup polling during his presidency.
An average of polls by FiveThirtyEight.com shows that currently he is viewed favorably by just 43% of American respondents today & has about the same level of support in a matchup against MVP #KamalaHarris.
#Trump: “We should have paper ballots, we should have voter ID & we should have proof of citizenship.”
He is again implying that #undocumented #immigrants are #voting.
FALSE
Every single federal election voter, in every state, in every district is required to be a #citizen of the #UnitedStates.
It is the #law
The Illegal Immigration Reform & Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, explicitly prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections
#TrumpLies
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ208/pdf/PLAW-104publ208.pdf
#Trump: “They’re going to destroy Social Security.”
False.
Pres #Biden & MVP #KamalaHarris have pledged not to make ANY cuts to America’s #social safety net programs.
Trump on the other hand suggested this year that he was open to scaling back the programs. He said, “there’s a lot you can do in terms of entitlements in terms of cutting”
He later tried to walk back those comments.
It has LONG been a goal of the GOP to get rid of social security.
#TrumpLies
https://time.com/6254832/republicans-sunset-social-security-medicare/