CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale dismantled a new round of false claims made by former President Donald Trump, as the former president delivered a speech at a campaign rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
This came in response to Trump reversing course after appearing to suggest he would vote for the Florida amendment to protect abortion rights, reiterating that the state’s six-week ban is “too short” but saying he can’t vote for the measure because it would allow the execution of babies already born. That claim is false, and not allowed in any state.
“So Daniel, what have you heard in these different sets of remarks by Trump?” asked CNN’s Alex Marquardt.
“He just keeps telling the same lies over and over, Alex,” said Dale. “And not only this post-birth execution nonsense that we just heard a very good fact check of, but he also claimed the 2020 election was rigged. We’ve been hearing that since 2020, it remains a lie. He claimed that he signed an old law in 2020 that gave an automatic 10-year prison sentence to anyone who did so much as touch a monument during protests. He did not sign any new law or an old law on that subject, didn’t say anything. He issued an executive order calling on the DOJ to enforce existing laws. So nothing new.”
Additionally, Dale continued, “he repeated his nonsense about Venezuela and the Congo emptying prisons to allow criminals to come here as migrants. There is no proof for that in either case, and both the Democratic Republic of Congo and the neighboring Republic of Congo have told me it is completely false.”
To cap all of it off, he added, Trump “said that the numbers of people we lost to drugs are fake and it’s probably 350,000 per year. The official number is about 110,000 last year. And while experts have told me there is likely some undercount, there is no reasonable way to get as high as 300,000, the figure he used to use, let alone the 350,000 he used today. One expert told me this is a, quote, ‘made-up number.'”
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