Can’t make it to Rio? No worries, New Hampshire — The Donald’s got you covered! Tonight, Trump treated Granite Staters to a gold-medal performance of verbal gymnastics — both lies and outrageous statements.
No worries, Donald, you’re still set to win the Gold Medal in lying — big league!
OUTRAGEOUS COMMENTS
USA! USA! RIGHT?:
We don’t win in virtually every category.
GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION:
Where’s my vet?
Trump just called out at his NH rally to ‘my vet’ Al Baldasaro, the one who said Hillary Clinton should be shot for treason.
— Michael Finnegan (@finneganLAT) August 7, 2016
DEPARTMENT OF THINGS YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE TO REASSURE VOTERS ABOUT:
I’ll be the last one to use nuclear, believe me.
LIES
LIE
“[Hillary Clinton] has put all of us at great, great risk with what she’s done, while supporting economic policies that have destroyed our economy.”
THE TRUTH
CNN Money: “Strong: U.S. economy adds 255,000 jobs in July.” “The U.S. economy added 255,000 jobs in July and the unemployment rate remained at 4.9%. It far surpassed expectations of economists surveyed by CNNMoney, who had predicted a gain of 182,000 jobs.
‘Employment growth remains strong,’ says Jim O’Sullivan, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, a research firm.
Politico: Many economists say Donald Trump’s proposals — from big import tariffs to mass deportations — would hurt the very demographic that supports him in the greatest numbers: less educated voters struggling in a tepid U.S. economy. If Trump policies actually went into effect, these economists say, prices for goods lower-income Americans depend on could soar and a depleted low-end labor force could trigger a major downturn.
LIE
“I’m the one who didn’t want to go into Iraq.”
THE TRUTH
PolitiFact rated Trump’s claim he opposed the Iraq War “even before the war started” as “False.” “On the Iraq War, Trump said, ‘I was among the earliest to criticize the rush to war, and yes, even before the war ever started.’ The record just doesn’t support this. We could only find one example of Trump commenting on the Iraq War before the invasion where he seemed apprehensive but not vehemently opposed to the operation. In another interview, Trump said he supported the invasion. This claim rates False.
LIE
“Every American family should be alarmed that her plan leaves their children vulnerable to drug cartels that control the Mexican border.”
THE TRUTH
Washington Post Fact Checker: Donald Trump “continues to assert that crime is spiking because of illegal immigration… but this claim remains unsupported.” “Trump’s wild rhetoric over deporting all unauthorized immigrants for bringing crimes like murder into the U.S. underscores a common public misperception that violent crime is correlated with immigration, especially illegal immigration. He continues to assert that crime is spiking because of illegal immigration, this time in California, but this claim remains unsupported. Clearly, there are plenty of isolated incidents where an innocent American was killed by a known criminal who was in the country illegally. But let’s put this problem into perspective. In 2014, Americans were 159 times more likely to die from falling, 15 times more likely to die from auto accidents involving distracted drivers and four times more likely to die from injuries from a construction job than an undocumented immigrant was to be convicted of homicide, then released.