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A Complete List of All of Trump's Debate Lies Story by Troy Matthews • 19h • 7 min readTrump's
debate performance on Thursday was nothing but a flatulent flurry of
falsities. Trump couldn't directly answer any question posed to him by
CNN moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, and instead deflected time and
time again to old disproven talking points and debunked internet memes
that rile up his base, but have no basis in reality.
By
the most up-to-date count, Trump lied 50 times during the debate.
That's 16 more lies than his felony convictions. That's 48 more lies
than his impeachments, and popular vote losses. If the 90 minute debate
was actually divided equally into 45 minutes of speaking time for each
candidate, Trump lied more than once per minute.
It's
hard to rank the rankness of Trump's deception Thursday night, but here
are his top three lies in the opinion of this writer, with fact checks:
Trump's Lie about January 6th:
"Nancy Pelosi, if you watched the news from two days ago, on tape to
her daughter who is a documentary filmmaker they say, but she's saying,
'Oh no, it's my responsibility. I was responsible for this,' because I
offered them 10,000 soldiers or National Guard, and she turned them
down."
Fact Check:
Nancy Pelosi never claimed to be responsible for January 6th. She can
be seen on film during the January 6th attack on the Capitol asking
local officials to deploy National Guard troops to the Capitol when it
became clear Trump wasn't going to deploy the D.C. National Guard.
Pelosi's daughter is a
documentary filmmaker who was making a film about her mother in 2021,
and was filming in the Capitol on January 6th. She followed her mother
and other members of Congress into a secure facility after the Capitol
was evacuated. The footage can be seen in the Pelosi documentary, Pelosi in the House, on HBO.
The
Speaker of the House has no authority over the National Guard. The
Speaker of the House is not in the military chain of command, and does
not have any authority to "turn down" National Guard troops that are
ordered to defend the Capitol by the President.
Trump's Lie about Abortion:
"They're radical because they will take the life of the child in the
eighth month, the ninth month, and even after birth. After birth, if you
look at the Governor of Virginia, he was willing to do this. He said,
'we'll put the baby aside, I will determine what we will do with the
baby,' meaning will kill the baby."
Fact Check: Democratic Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia never said that. Here is what Northam said:
"If
a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The
infant would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable, the
infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family
desired. And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and
the mother."
Northam's words were
taken out of context. He was referring to palliative care of infants who
have no chance of survival after birth: making them as comfortable as
possible for the final hours of their life at the wishes of the parents,
not intentionally killing them. Killing an infant after it is born is
considered murder in all 50 states. No law has been proposed in any
state to make infanticide legal.
Trump's Lie about his N.Y. Criminal Case: "I didn't have sex with a porn star."
Fact Check: Trump
was convicted on 34 felony counts in New York for falsifying business
records related to reimbursement payments to his then lawyer Michael
Cohen, who paid adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her
sexual relationship with Donald Trump before the 2016 election.
A
jury of Trump's peers found that he did, in fact, have sex with a porn
star, and illegally tampered with financial records to keep his hush
money payment about their affair a secret.
Here is the complete list of every lie Trump told during his debate with President Biden on Thursday:
1. "We had the greatest economy in the history of our country. We have never done so well, and everybody was amazed by it."
2. "The only jobs he created are for illegal immigrants and bounce-back jobs, they’re bounced back from the COVID."
3. "[10% universal tariff proposal is] not going to drive [prices] higher.”
4. “[Tariff proposal is] just going to just force [other countries] to pay us a lot of money.”
5. “I gave you the largest tax cut in history.”
6. "I was getting out of Afghanistan, but we're getting out with dignity, with strength, with power.”
7. “The tax cuts spurred the greatest economy that we've ever seen.”
8. “Now, when we cut the taxes…we took in more revenue with much less tax.”
9. “We had largely fixed [COVID].”
10. “Throughout the
entire world, we're no longer respected as a country. They don't respect
our leadership. They don't respect the United States anymore. We're
like a third world nation.”
11.
“He allowed millions of people to come in here from prisons, jails, and
mental institutions to come into our country and destroy our country.”
12. “He's destroying Medicare because all of these people are coming in.”
13. “The Supreme Court just approved the abortion pill.”
14. “Every legal scholar throughout the world, the most respected, wanted [abortion] brought back to the states.”
15.
“They’re radical because they will take the life of a child in the
eighth month, the ninth month, and even after birth. After birth, if you
look at the former governor of Virginia, he was willing to do this. He
said, we'll put the baby aside, I will determine what we do with the
baby, meaning will kill the baby.”
16.
“Under Roe v. Wade, you have late term abortion. You can do whatever
you want depending on the state. You can do whatever you want.”
17. “He decided to
open up our border, open up our country to people that are from prisons,
people that are from mental institutions, insane asylum, terrorists.”
18. “He didn't need legislation because I didn't have legislation. I said close the border.”
19. “[Migrants are] living in luxury hotels in New York City and other places.”
20.
“He doesn't care about our veterans. He doesn’t care. He doesn’t like
the military at all, and he doesn't care about our veterans.”
21.
“I had the highest approval rating for veterans taking care of the VA.
He has the worst. He's gotten rid of all the things that I approved.”
22. “First of all, that was a made-up quote, ‘suckers and losers.’ They made it up.”
23.
“Our veterans and our soldiers can't stand this guy. They can't stand
him. They think he’s the worst Commander in Chief, if that’s what you
call him, that we’ve ever had.”
24. “He did nothing to stop [Russia’s invasion of Ukraine]. In fact, I think he encouraged Russia from going in.”
25. "Iran was broke with me. I wouldn't let anybody do business with them. They ran out of money. They were broke.”
26. “You had no terror at all during my administration.”
27.
“Nancy Pelosi, if you just watched the news from two days ago, on tape
to her daughter, who's a documentary filmmaker they say, but she's
saying, ‘Oh, no, it's my responsibility. I was responsible for this’
because I offered them 10,000 soldiers or National Guard. And she turned
them down.”
28.
“The unselect committee, which is basically two horrible Republicans
that are all gone now, out of office, and Democrats, all Democrats, they
destroyed and deleted all the information they found because they found
out we were right. We were right. And they deleted and destroyed all of
the information.”
29.
“Telling the Ukrainian people that we're going to want a billion
dollars or you change the prosecutor, otherwise you're not getting a
billion dollars. If I ever said that, that's quid pro quo.”
30. “I didn't have sex with a porn star.”
31. “He basically went after his political opponent because he thought it was going to damage me.”
32. “He made up the Charlottesville story.”
33. “He caused the inflation and it's killing Black families and Hispanic families.”
4. “They can’t buy
groceries anymore, they can't, you look at the cost of food where it's
doubled and tripled and quadrupled. They can’t live, they’re not living
anymore.”
35. “[European countries] don’t want anything that we have.”
36. “Almost every police group in the nation from every state is supporting Donald J. Trump. Almost every police group.”
37.
“And what he's done to the black population is horrible, including the
fact that for ten years he called them super-predators.”
38. “And yet during my four years, I had the best environmental numbers ever.”
39.
“The Paris accord was going to cost us $1 trillion and China nothing
and Russia, nothing, and India nothing. It was a rip off of the United
States and I ended it because I didn't want to waste that money because
they treated us horribly…. Nobody else was paying into it and it was, it
was a disaster.”
40. “I'm the one that got the insulin down for the seniors. I took care of the seniors.”
41.
On migrants: “They're taking over our schools our hospitals, and
they're going to be taking over our schools or hospitals, and they're
going to be taking over Social Security.”
42.
“But Social Security - he's destroying it because millions of people
are pouring into our country and they are putting them onto Social
Security. They’re putting them onto Medicare, Medicaid. They’re putting
them in our hospitals.”
43. “He wants open borders. He wants our country to either be destroyed, or he wants to pick up those people as voters.”
44. "He wants the Trump tax cuts to expire.”
45. “He wants to raise your taxes by four times. He wants to raise everybody’s taxes by four times.”
46. “We now have the
largest [trade] deficit in the history of our country under this guy. We
have the largest deficit with China.”
47. “He gets paid by China. He's a Manchurian candidate. He gets money from China. So I think he’s afraid to deal with them.”
48. “We had two cases, we paid $6 billion for five people.”
49.
“They talk about a relatively small number of people that went to the
Capitol, and in many cases were ushered in by the police.”
50. “I would have much rather accepted these [election results in 2020], but the fraud and everything else was ridiculous.”