Here is just a few of Trumps most recent lies, while being interviewed live on NBC Sunday morning TV. Thanks again for voting in a pathological liar to run our country.
Crime: Trump falsely claimed, “Crime is at an all-time high.” That is nowhere close to true. Both violent crime and property crime rates
have plummeted in the US since the early 1990s and are far below all-time highs. FBI data shows that crime
declined again in 2023.
Trump’s tariffs: Trump falsely claimed of the tariffs he imposed during his first presidency: “They cost Americans nothing.”
Study after
study, including
one from the federal government’s bipartisan US International Trade Commission,
found that Americans bore almost the entire cost of Trump’s tariffs on Chinese products. The tariffs are paid by US importers, not foreign exporters as Trump regularly claims, and it’s easy to find
specific examples of companies that passed along the cost of the tariffs to US consumers.
Trump and inflation: Trump falsely claimed that, during his presidency, “We had no inflation.” In fact, cumulative inflation during Trump’s presidency
was about 8%.
Biden and inflation: Trump falsely claimed that inflation was so low during his presidency that the Biden administration “didn’t have inflation for a year and a half – they went almost two years, just based on what I had created.” In reality, there was
cumulative inflation of about 14% over Joe Biden’s
first two years as president; the Biden-era peak for month-over-month inflation, 9.1%,
occurred in June 2022, during those first two years.
The 2020 election: Trump vaguely reiterated his lie that he was the real winner of the 2020 election, saying, “I think it’s an easy argument, it was really proven even more conclusively by the win that I had on this one.” His legitimate victory in the 2024 election does not do anything to validate his claims that the 2020 election was stolen,
Migrants and murderers: Trump repeated his frequent false claim there were “13,099 murderers released into our country over the last three years.” In reality, as
the Department of Homeland Security and independent experts have noted, that official figure is about immigrants with homicide convictions in the US today who entered the country over decades, including during Trump’s own administration, not over the past three years or solely under the Biden administration. You can read more
here.
Venezuela, migration and prisoners: Trump repeated his regular tale about how Venezuela has supposedly emptied prisons to allow criminals to migrate to the US. Trump has never corroborated this claim, and experts have told
CNN,
PolitiFact and
FactCheck.org that they haven’t seen any evidence that it is true.