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☆ Examining Trump’s Alternate Reality Pitch
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Angelo Fichera | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“There wouldn’t have been an attack on Israel. And we wouldn’t have had any inflation,” he declared during a rally in January in Las Vegas. The next month in South Carolina, he baselessly claimed that Democrats had admitted as much. Politicians routinely entertain what-ifs, which are impossible to prove or rebut with certainty. But Mr. Trump’s suppositions underscore the ways in which he often airs questionable claims without explanation and which might not be supported by the broader context.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, ”, baselessly Locations: United States, Israel, Ukraine, Las Vegas, South Carolina

☆ Trump’s Super Tuesday Speech: Assessing 10 False and Misleading Claims
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Angelo Fichera | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But in his 20-minute victory remarks, which offered a grim view of the United States under his successor, Mr. Trump resorted to a string of false and misleading claims — on immigration, economics, energy and more — some of which were variations on familiar assertions. WHAT WAS SAID“They flew 325,000 migrants — flew ’em in, over the borders, into our country. So that really tells you where they’re coming from, they want open borders.”This is misleading. Mr. Trump appeared to be referring to reports about documents obtained by a group that pushes for restricting immigration. The group reported that the documents showed some 320,000 migrants were flown into the United States in 2023 by receiving authorization by using a mobile app started by Customs and Border Protection.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Nikki Haley, Biden, “, — Organizations: Customs, Protection Locations: United States

☆ Fact-Checking Trump and Haley’s War of Words
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Angelo Fichera | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As voters in South Carolina prepare to take to the polls on Saturday, Nikki Haley has vowed to continue challenging former President Donald J. Trump for the Republican nomination — to the dismay of her onetime boss. In recent weeks, Mr. Trump and Ms. Haley, former governor of South Carolina and U.N. ambassador in the Trump administration, have dialed up their attacks on each other. Mr. Trump has mocked the absence of Ms. Haley’s husband, Maj. Michael Haley, a National Guardsman who is deployed to Africa. His campaign suggested that her staying in the race, despite being well behind Mr. Trump in delegates, was “like any wailing loser hellbent on an alternative reality.” Ms. Haley has said that her rival has “gotten more unstable and unhinged” and that he has “mental deficiencies.”But while attacking each other’s record and policies, both have turned to false and misleading claims.

Persons: Nikki Haley, Donald J, Trump, —, Haley, Haley’s, Michael Haley, Ms, ” Organizations: Republican, National Locations: South Carolina, Africa

☆ Fact-Checking Biden’s Recent Economic Talking Points
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Angelo Fichera | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As he seeks re-election, President Biden has been trying to sell voters on his approach to the economy and draw a contrast with his likely 2024 opponent, former President Donald J. Trump. During Mr. Biden’s administration, the economy has grown 3.1 percent from the end of 2022 to the end of 2023. The rate of inflation has dropped considerably since its summer 2022 peak (although it dipped less than economists had expected in January). At recent public and campaign events, though, Mr. Biden has made some misleading statements about the economy, jobs and taxes. You know what their average tax rate is — federal tax?

Persons: Biden, Donald J, ” Organizations: Trump Locations: America

☆ No, Border Deal Won’t ‘Allow’ 5,000 Unauthorized Immigrants a Day
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Angelo Fichera | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Republican critics have quickly twisted one element of a bipartisan compromise bill unveiled on Sunday to misleadingly suggest that it permits 5,000 migrants to enter the country illegally every day. The legislation, which links additional funding in military aid for Ukraine with immigration policy, would more aggressively tamp down on illegal crossings at the U.S. border with Mexico. The claim has become a popular talking point, reflecting broader pushback by Republicans who have seized on the border security provisions in the $118.3 billion bill and derided them as too lax. But the bill does not, in fact, authorize immigrants to cross the border illegally. Instead, among other provisions, it would give officials the authority to summarily remove migrants, with little recourse, after a certain number cross: an average of 5,000 encounters per day for a week, or 8,500 in a single day.

Organizations: Republicans Locations: Ukraine, U.S, Mexico

☆ DeSantis and Newsom Debate Fact-Check: A Spirited Discussion, Different Sets of Facts
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Shawn Hubler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

DeSantis and Newsom Debate Fact-Check: A Spirited Discussion, Different Sets of Facts The governors of Florida and California squared off on Fox News and brought their statistics and attacks. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California debated on the differences between their state’s policies on Thursday night. Billed as a “Red State-Blue State debate,” the two governors onstage, Ron DeSantis of Florida and Gavin Newsom of California, are not running against each other for anything. One is a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and the other, a chief surrogate for President Biden.

Persons: DeSantis, Newsom, Angelo Fichera, Ron DeSantis, Gavin Newsom, Biden, Sean Hannity, — Organizations: Fox News, Gov, Fox, Republican Locations: Florida, California, Blue

Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to publicly release thousands of hours of Capitol security footage from Jan. 6, 2021, has fueled a renewed effort by Republican lawmakers and far-right activists to rewrite the history of the attack that day and exonerate the pro-Trump rioters who took part. Mr. Johnson’s move last week to make the footage available — something the far right has long demanded — came as he tried to allay the anger of hard-line Republican lawmakers for working with Democrats to keep the government funded. Now, some of the same people who were irate about that decision are using the Jan. 6 video to circulate an array of false claims and conspiracy theories about the largest attack on the Capitol in centuries. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the hard-right Georgia Republican, was among the first lawmakers to post false information about the newly released videos. But the item in the man’s hand in the screen grab she circulated appears, upon closer inspection, to have been a vape pen.

Persons: Mike Johnson’s, Johnson’s, —, Marjorie Taylor Greene, “, ”, Kevin Lyons Organizations: Capitol, Republican, Trump, Georgia Republican

☆ Fact-Checking Haley and DeSantis in Their Race to Rival Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Angelo Fichera | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

DeSantis even voted to fast-track Obama’s Chinese trade deals.”— A pro-Haley super PAC, SFA Fund Inc., in an adFalse. There is no evidence Mr. DeSantis directly gave “millions” to Chinese companies; the ad was referring to technology purchases by state agencies. Florida used those companies before Mr. DeSantis’s tenure, too, and SFA Fund provided no evidence that Mr. DeSantis himself directly approved the purchases. Mr. DeSantis previously served as the board chairman of a public-private economic development organization known as Enterprise Florida. As governor, Ms. Haley rebuffed calls to increase South Carolina’s gas tax as a stand-alone measure.

Persons: “ DeSantis, DeSantis, ”, Obama, Haley’s, DeSantis’s, DeSantis “, Mark Wu, ” Mr, Wu, Ron, ” — Ms, Haley, Ms, JinkoSolar, Nikki Haley, I’ve Organizations: Haley, PAC, SFA, Inc, Washington Times, Lenovo, SFA Fund, Department of Homeland Security, Enterprise Florida, state’s Commerce, Cirrus Aircraft, —, Orlando Executive Airport, Kissimmee Gateway Airport, Homeland Security Department, New York Times, Council, DeSantis, State, state’s Department of Transportation Locations: China, Chinese, Florida, South Carolina, T.P.A, Asia, Europe, Kissimmee, Orlando, Jacksonville, Fla, California, Xinjiang, Jacksonville’s, Haley’s State

☆ Trump Misleads on Energy and Jobs at Houston Rally
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Angelo Fichera | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At a campaign rally in Houston on Thursday that opened with former President Donald J. Trump erroneously referring to jailed Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants as “hostages,” the Republican primary front-runner used a series of false and misleading claims to make his case for another term in the White House. Here is a closer look at several of the claims Mr. Trump made during his speech. Army tanks have to go electric.” “Think of this, they want to make our Army tanks all electric for the environment.”False. Mr. Trump made these statements after referring to Mr. Biden’s “insane mandates,” erroneously suggesting that the White House has put such requirements in place. There are no mandates for electrifying all boats and Army tanks.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Jan, Biden’s, ” Organizations: Capitol, Republican, Army, White Locations: Houston

☆ In Israel-Gaza War, Recycled Images From Past Conflicts Can Undercut True Toll
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Angelo Fichera | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

In a video circulating online meant to convey the horrors of the war between Israel and Hamas, a small boy wails, his face caked in dust. Yet the boy’s cries actually rang out hundreds of miles away, in Syria, nearly a decade before Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza over the past three weeks. “It’s horrifying.”Among the popular images and videos supposedly illustrating the human toll of the war: A heap of dead children swaddled in white, described as Palestinians killed by Israeli forces. A teenage girl being beaten by a mob and fatally lit on fire, promoted as proof of the ruthlessness of Hamas. Mr. Katan worked for the Aleppo Media Center, a group of antigovernment activists and citizen journalists, and is now based in Germany.

Persons: wails, sobs, ”, Elisa Massimino, “, Hosam Katan, Katan Organizations: Hamas, Israel, Human Rights, Georgetown University, Aleppo Media Locations: Israel, Gaza, Syria, ”, Tajikistan, Guatemala, Aleppo, Germany

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