Fact-Checking Trumps Announcement
Trump claimed that 85 billion in perfectly fine equipment had been left for the Taliban in our withdrawal from Afghanistan. $83 billion was the total amount of money Congress had appropriated during the war to a fund supporting the Afghan security forces. Only part of this funding was for equipment. We did leave about 7 billion in equipment, but most of that was rendered inoperable before we left. Trump lied, as usual.
Trump claimed his administration “filled up” the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but it has now been “virtually drained” by the Biden administration. It actually contained fewer barrels of crude when Trump left office in early 2021 than when he took office in 2017. Biden did use some to mitigate prices at the pump, but it still is the largest oil reserve of any country on the planet!
Trump also claimed that no president had ever sought or received $1 for our country from China until he came along. In reality, the US has had tariffs on China for more than two centuries! Also, American importers, not Chinese exporters, make the actual tariff payments – and study after study during Trump’s presidency found that Americans were bearing the cost of the tariffs. Trump lied back then, and he is still lying. Is anyone really surprised?
His claim that we are worried about a minuscule amount of sea rise in 300 years when we should be worried about nuclear weapons is a crock. Of course, we, as a people and as a govt., are concerned about nuclear weapons. Sea rise, however, is going to be way more than he predicted, and it is rising now, not in 300 years. But the man lies, has always lied, no surprise!
There isn’t anything factual about his statements about the drug problem in China. They are more rigid in their law enforcement across the board then we are, but they do not have immediate trials and execute drug offenders on the same day! They also have a large problem with drug abuse, just like we do. Trump just reached into his magic bag of lies for that statement too!
He completely misconstrued the facts about the missile that landed in Poland; he did not get any of that right. They do not know where it came from or that Russia was behind the launch! It is being heavily investigated at this time.
He claimed he finished the border wall but was stopped from building even more than there ever was. He did not finish, and immigrants made sport about climbing over what was built!
Trump claimed that he had to send in the national guard despite democrats’ refusal to ask for such help in places like Minnesota. Actually, a democratic governor sent in the guard 7 hours before Trump even threatened to do it. Trump had no idea what was even really happening. When Trump made this false claim in 2020, the governor activated the Guard in response to requests from officials in Minneapolis and St. Paul – cities also run by Democrats. Trump lies about everything every time he opens his mouth. Not just little errors in facts but giant lies he knows are lies.
Look, I just wanted to point out enough lies for you to get the idea that he lies about everything. The rest of the speech was no different. He said, for example, that he went for decades as President with no wars. He was only President for 4 years, so how is that true? He does not even live in reality, and you want him to be back in office? I will not even get into Jan 6th, or about the election lies, or his trying to force people to do his bidding to stay in office, and yet you have not learned yet how dangerous this man is. Even Fox and others have finally come around to an OMG realization when it comes to Trump!
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