Washington, D.C. — Tonight, Correct The Record President Brad Woodhouse released the following statement on Donald Trump’s rally in Manheim, Pennsylvania:
Donald Trump’s campaign is in meltdown. During a completely unhinged rally tonight, Trump showed up 102 minutes late and delivered a rambling stream of schoolyard insults and outright lies. And that wasn’t the worst of it. As Trump called on voters to ‘follow the money,” The New York Times released a devastating report about how he could have avoided paying any federal income taxes for years. How ironic. It looks like Trump’s decades of bullying, lying and cheating might have finally caught up to him.
TRUMP’S TOP LIES IN MANHEIM:
LIE #1: TRUMP LIES ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON’S POSITION ON TPP
THE LIE: TRUMP: “Clinton, if she ever got the chance, would 100% approve the Trans Pacific Partnership.” (Manheim, PA, 10/1/16)
THE TRUTH: Hillary Clinton opposes Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Hillary Clinton said Wednesday she opposes the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, marking a significant break with the Obama Administration as she heads into the first Democratic presidential debate.
LIE #2: TRUMP LIES AGAIN ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON’S POSITION ON TPP
THE LIE: TRUMP: “She is on the opposite side of Bernie on the trade issue. She is totally in the opposite side.” (Manheim, PA, 10/1/16)
THE TRUTH: Hillary Clinton opposes Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Hillary Clinton said Wednesday she opposes the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, marking a significant break with the Obama Administration as she heads into the first Democratic presidential debate.
LIE #3: TRUMP FALSELY CLAIMS THAT HILLARY CLINTON UNLEASHED ISIS
THE LIE: TRUMP: “Her policies created ISIS, now remember the way she got out of Iraq left a tremendous vacuum out of which ISIS was formed.”” (Manheim, PA, 10/1/16)
THE TRUTH: Washington Post Fact Checker said Donald Trump’s claim that ISIS rose from Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s policies was “false and facile.”
‘The rise of ISIS is the direct result of policy decisions made by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton.’ This is false and facile. The terrorist group is the direct result of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, as we explored in our interview with Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book on the rise of the Islamic State. (Trump, of course, supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003.) At best, one could argue that actions that Obama failed to take (over Clinton’s opposition) helped contribute to the growth of ISIS.
Washington Post: ISIS gained power because of “a complex dynamic that both pre-dates and post-dates [Hillary Clinton’s] tenure as secretary of state.”
This is a carefully phrased statement — note the use of the word ‘helped’ — that tries to pin the blame on Clinton for a complex dynamic that both pre-dates and post-dates her tenure as secretary of state. To a large extent, the Islamic State of today is simply an outgrowth of al-Qaeda of Iraq. It was established in April 2004 by longtime Sunni extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to the National Counterterrorism Center. Zarqawi was killed by a U.S. airstrike in 2006, and afterward his successor announced the formation of the Islamic State — more than two years before George W. Bush left office. The Islamic State certainly gained strength and territory from the civil war in Syria, but Clinton as secretary of state had pressed to funnel arms to the rebels; she was rebuffed by the president.
LIE #4: TRUMP LIES ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON WANTING TO PUT MINERS OUT OF BUSINESS
THE LIE: TRUMP: “And we will take care of our miners where Hillary Clinton said she wants to put our mines and our miners out of business.” (Manheim, PA, 10/1/16)
THE TRUTH: Washington Post Fact Checker: Hillary Clinton’s line about coal communities “has been spun out of context…and used as a soundbite. It was part of her longer answer about helping coal mine workers.”
Pence’s attack on Hillary Clinton’s claim about coal jobs is another example of taking a statement out of context. During a March 2016 town hall in Ohio, Clinton was asked by a voter: ’Make the case to poor whites who live in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, who vote Republican, why they should vote for you based upon economic policies versus voting for a Republican?’ Clinton gave a lengthy response, which included the line, ‘We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.’ But that line has been spun out of context since then and used as a soundbite. It was part of her longer answer about helping coal mine workers adjust after they lose their factory jobs.
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Washington Post: Hillary Clinton “proposed ideas to help improve coal workers’ health and retirement security, and to help with economic development in coal communities.”
Her lengthy answer in March 2016 was consistent with themes in her November 2015 policy proposal for revitalizing coal communities. The proposal says that transitioning away from coal-powered plants has already affected mining communities like in Appalachia. Clinton supports the Obama administration’s clean energy plan, and proposed ideas to help improve coal workers’ health and retirement security, and to help with economic development in coal communities.
FactCheck.org: Hillary Clinton made a “promise to create new jobs for communities hurt by the shift away from coal.”
Her critics focused on a part of her response in which she said, ‘we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.’ But she said more than that. Sullivan and Capito ignore her promise to create new jobs for communities hurt by the shift away from coal.
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FactCheck.org: Hillary Clinton “promised to bring renewable energy jobs to coal country to replace lost coal jobs.”
Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia took Clinton’s words on coal-mining jobs out of context. Sullivan claimed that Clinton ‘promised’ to ‘target’ coal miners and oil drillers for ‘extinction.’ Capito said Clinton ‘promised to devastate communities and families across coal country.’ Clinton has said she wants to ‘move away from coal,’ but added, ‘we don’t want to forget those people.’ She promised to bring renewable energy jobs to coal country to replace lost coal jobs.