Make America Great Again Wallpaper Trump for President 2020
AP FACT CHECK: Is Trump'due south America great once more or hellscape?
At their national convention, Republicans portrayed the U.Southward. as a state made not bad again past President Donald Trump
WASHINGTON -- The Republican National Convention begged this question: Why are President Donald Trump's nearly fervent supporters describing the state of his union equally a hellscape?
It was perhaps the central paradox for voters wondering what to believe in the rhetoric, because it defied logic to believe information technology all. Are Americans living in a dystopia or in an America made great again by Trump?
Four years ago, candidate Trump promised that if he won, "The law-breaking and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Offset on January 20th, 2017, safe will exist restored."
Now? "I've never seen our streets go this bad so quickly," Pat Lynch, representing tens of thousands of New York police officers, told the GOP proceedings. "Nosotros are staring down the butt of a public safe disaster." He said this in remarks singing Trump'southward praises.
Rudy Giuliani, Trump'southward personal lawyer and a former New York mayor, spoke of years of "carnage" and violence rise now, and implored, "Mr. President, make our nation safe once more."
All of the convention's apocalyptic rhetoric was in service of bashing Trump challenger Joe Biden, Democratic mayors and national Democrats both in and out of role equally existence soft on violence and anarchy. Yet the landscape of lawlessness they described is Trump'southward America now.
Hyperbole suffused the proceedings, both when Trump and his supporters hailed his tape and when they denounced the other side. Outright falsehoods were heard every dark on the social justice protests, the coronavirus, the economy and Biden's calendar.
A selection from the calendar week:
PROTESTS
VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE, expressing support for people in compatible: "People like Dave Patrick Underwood, an officer in Homeland Security's Federal Protective Service, who was shot and killed during the riots in Oakland, California." — Wednesday.
THE FACTS: Pence is blurring what happened, leaving the impression that Underwood was a victim of rioters. Underwood was not killed by demonstrators in Oakland who were protesting for racial justice.
Federal authorities say Underwood was fatally shot by Steven Carrillo, an Air Force staff sergeant they say has ties to a far-right, anti-government movement, while Underwood was guarding a federal courthouse during protests in May. Officials believe Carrillo used the protests as a cover for the slaying and his subsequent escape.
Carrillo, 32, hatched a plot to target officers with at least one other accomplice online, federal government allege. Over an 8-solar day span earlier his capture, they say, Carrillo fatally shot Underwood and wounded his partner, then killed a California sheriff's deputy and injured four others.
Of the ii constabulary enforcement officers killed, Pence only mentioned the 1 who was in the vicinity of the protest. The other is Santa Cruz County Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, who regime say was killed past Carrillo while pursuing him in June.
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RACIAL INEQUALITY
KENTUCKY Chaser General DANIEL CAMERON: "On the economy: Joe Biden couldn't do it, but President Trump did build an economy that worked for everyone, especially minorities." — Tuesday.
THE FACTS: Non accurate.
Republicans can talk successfully about the pass up in unemployment rates for Blackness and Hispanic workers. But that's only i gauge; plenty of economic troubles and inequalities abound for minorities. Minority groups notwithstanding lagged backside white people with regard to incomes, wealth and home ownership earlier the pandemic. Just when the disease struck, it became clear that the economy did not piece of work well for everybody as the job losses and infections unduly hit minorities.
Black unemployment now stands at 14.6%. Hispanic unemployment is 12.9%. The white unemployment rate is 9.2%. For every dollar of total wealth held by white households, Blacks accept just v cents, according to the Federal Reserve. It's 4 cents for Hispanics. That is non testify of an economy working "particularly" for minorities.
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POLICE
ERIC TRUMP: "Biden has pledged to defund the police." — Wed.
REP. STEVE SCALISE of Louisiana: "Joe Biden has embraced the left's insane mission to defund them."
THE FACTS: No, Biden has explicitly rejected the call by some on the left to defund the police. He has proposed more than coin for police force, conditioned on improvements in their practices.
Biden's criminal justice agenda, released long before the protests over racial injustice, proposes more federal money for "training that is needed to avert tragic, unjustifiable deaths" and hiring more than officers to ensure that departments are racially and ethnically reflective of the populations they serve.
Specifically, he calls for a $300 million infusion into federal community policing grant programs. That's more than coin, not less.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER
GIULIANI: "Blackness Lives Matter and antifa sprang into activeness and, in a flash, they hijacked the peaceful protest into vicious, brutal riots." — Th.
THE FACTS: That's a hollow merits.
There's no bear witness that Blackness Lives Matter or antifa, or whatsoever political grouping for that matter, is infiltrating racial injustice protests and injecting violence.
In June, The Associated Printing analyzed court records, employment histories and social media posts for 217 people arrested in Minneapolis and the District of Columbia, cities at the center of the protests earlier this year.
More than 85 percent of the people arrested were local residents, and few had affiliation with any organized groups. Social media posts for a few of those arrested indicated they were involved in left-leaning activities while others expressed support for the political right and Trump himself.
Local law departments were forced to knock down widespread social media rumors that busloads of "antifa," a term for leftist militants, were coming to violently disrupt cities and towns during nationwide racial justice protests. In June, Twitter and Facebook busted accounts linked to white supremacy groups that were promoting some of those falsehoods online.
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COVID-19
TRUMP: "The United States has amidst the lowest case fatality rates of whatsoever major country anywhere in the earth." — Thursday.
THE FACTS: Not truthful. Non if you lot consider Russia, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines and India to be major countries.
The U.S. sits right in the middle when it comes to COVID-19 mortality rates in the xx nations well-nigh impacted past the pandemic, according to data from the Johns Hopkins Academy Coronavirus Resource Eye.
Of the 20, Mexico has the highest mortality charge per unit at 10.8 deaths for every 100 confirmed COVID cases, followed by Ecuador at 5.8. Saudi arabia had the lowest rate of the twenty nations at 1.2, followed by Bangladesh, the Philippines, Russia, Morocco, India, Argentina, Southward Africa and Chile.
The U.S. had the 10th lowest of the twenty nations, with a mortality rate of 3.i.
When the center looked at the data in another style, analyzing the COVID death charge per unit for every 100,000 residents, the U.S. fares even worse. Merely three nations — Brazil, Chile and Peru — posted college death rates.
Agreement deaths as a percentage of the population or equally a per centum of known infections is problematic considering countries track and report COVID-19 deaths and cases differently. Many other factors are in play in shaping a decease price likewise how well a country responded to the pandemic, such every bit the overall health or youth of national populations.
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TRUMP: "Instead of following the science, Joe Biden wants to inflict a painful shutdown on the entire country. His shutdown would inflict unthinkable and lasting harm on our nation's children, families, and citizens of all backgrounds." — Thursday.
THE FACTS: That's false. Biden has publicly said he would close downwards the nation's economy just if scientists and public health directorate recommended he do then to stem the COVID-xix threat. In other words, he said he would follow the science, non disregard it.
Speaking Sunday in an ABC interview, Biden said he "volition be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives" when he was asked if he would be willing to shut the land again.
"So if the scientists say shut information technology downwardly?" asked ABC's David Muir.
"I would close information technology down," Biden responded. "I would listen to the scientists." The former vice president has said repeatedly that no one knows what January would look like.
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DONALD TRUMP JR. on the coronavirus response: "The president chop-chop took action and shut downwardly travel from Cathay." — Monday.
THE FACTS: No, he didn't close down travel from China. He restricted it. Dozens of countries took similar steps to control travel from hot spots earlier or around the same time the U.S. did.
The U.Southward. restrictions that took consequence Feb. ii connected to allow travel to the U.S. from China'due south Hong Kong and Macao territories over the past 5 months. The Associated Press reported that more than 8,000 Chinese and foreign nationals based in those territories entered the U.S. in the starting time three months afterward the travel restrictions were imposed.
Additionally, more than 27,000 Americans returned from red china in the starting time calendar month afterward the restrictions took consequence. U.S. officials lost rail of more than 1,600 of them who were supposed to exist monitored for virus exposure.
Dr. Anne Schuchat, the No. two official at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, likewise told the AP that the federal government was ho-hum to understand how much the coronavirus was spreading from Europe, which helped drive the dispatch of outbreaks across the U.S. in belatedly February. Trump didn't announce travel restrictions for many European countries until mid-March.
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EDUCATION
TRUMP: "Biden also vowed to oppose schoolhouse choice and oppose all charter schools." — Thursday.
THE FACTS: That's fake. Biden doesn't oppose charter schools. He opposes federal money going to for-profit charter companies.
Such companies are but a slice of the charter school market, meaning Biden's position wouldn't substantially alter the charter landscape that is dominated by nonprofit organizations.
Biden does oppose federal money for tuition vouchers.
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Health Care
TRUMP: "We protected your preexisting atmospheric condition. Very strongly protected preexisting ... and y'all don't hear that." — Monday.
THE FACTS: You lot don't hear it because it'due south not true.
People with such medical bug accept health insurance protections because of President Barack Obama'south health care law, which Trump is trying to dismantle.
1 of Trump's alternatives to Obama'southward law — short-term health insurance, already in identify — doesn't have to embrace preexisting conditions. Some other alternative is association health plans, which are oriented to pocket-size businesses and sole proprietors and do cover those weather.
Neither of the 2 alternatives appears to have made much difference in the market.
Meanwhile, Trump'due south administration is pressing the Supreme Court for full repeal of the Obama-era law, including provisions that protect people with preexisting weather condition from health insurance discrimination.
With "Obamacare" however in place, preexisting conditions continue to be covered past regular individual health insurance plans.
Insurers must accept all applicants, regardless of medical history, and accuse the same standard premiums to healthy people and those who are in poor wellness, or have a history of medical problems.
Before the Affordable Care Human action, any insurer could deny coverage — or charge more than — to anyone with a preexisting condition who was seeking to buy an individual policy.
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BIDEN'S AGENDA
NIKKI HALEY, former ambassador to the United nations, on the Democrats: "They want a regime takeover of health care. They want to ban fracking and kill millions of jobs." — Monday.
REP. JIM Hashemite kingdom of jordan of Ohio: "Defund the law, defund edge patrol and defund our military." — Monday.
RONNA McDANIEL, chairwoman of the Republican National Commission: "You deserve to know that they would ban fracking and eliminate fossil fuels, which would impale millions of good-paying jobs and raise the cost of driving our cars and heating our homes. Yous deserve to know that they want a complete government takeover of our health care system, and so moms like me won't exist able to take our kids to the aforementioned pediatrician they've been seeing for years." — Monday.
THE FACTS: Those aren't Biden'southward positions. A number of Republican speakers seized on proposals of the Democratic left, in some cases distorting those positions, and assigned them to Biden, who doesn't share those views.
He does not favor a government takeover of health care; instead he proposes building on Obama'due south constabulary, which preserves the private insurance market while expanding Medicaid.
Biden besides did not endorse proposals to cease edge enforcement or even to decriminalize illegal crossings.
Biden supports banning only new oil and gas permits, fracking included, on federal land. Merely virtually U.Southward. production is on individual land. The government says production on federal country accounted for less than 10% of oil and gas in 2018.
In a March fifteen primary contend, Biden misstated his energy policy, suggesting he would let no new fracking. His campaign rapidly corrected the record. Biden has otherwise been consistent on his eye-of-the-road position, going and then far every bit to tell an anti-fracking activist that he "ought to vote for somebody else" if he wanted an immediate fracking ban.
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VIRUS TESTING
IVANKA TRUMP: "Our president speedily mobilized the full force of regime and the private sector ... to build the nearly robust testing system in the world." — Th.
THE FACTS: Her exclamation of superior U.Due south. testing for COVID-19 is dubious. The U.South. repeatedly stumbled with testing in the early weeks of the outbreak, allowing the virus to quickly spread in the U.Southward. The president'southward own experts say the U.S. is nowhere about the level of testing needed to control the virus.
The U.S. currently is conducting most 750,000 tests a day, far short of what many public health experts say the U.S. should be testing to command the spread of the virus. Looking to the fall, some experts have called for 4 million or more tests daily, while a group assembled by Harvard Academy estimated that twenty one thousand thousand a twenty-four hours would be needed to keep the virus in bank check.
Public-wellness authorities acknowledge testing was a critical failure in the crucial early months. The number of tests beingness done has since surged but remains inadequate. Many who practise go tested accept unduly long waits for results, during which fourth dimension they can be spreading the virus to others.
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Iran
SEN. TOM COTTON of Arkansas: "Joe Biden sent pallets of cash to the ayatollahs." — Th.
THE FACTS: This is a distorted tale Trump and Republicans love to tell. Yes, the U.S. flew greenbacks to Iran in the Obama years, but it was coin the U.s. owed to that country.
Cotton wool also played into the convention's pattern of attributing every questionable action of Obama's administration to Biden personally.
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ECONOMY
PENCE: "Four years ago we inherited ... an economy struggling to pause out of the slowest recovery since the Great Depression. ... In our start three years we built the greatest economy in the world." — Midweek.
LARRY KUDLOW, Trump economic adviser: Trump was "inheriting a stagnant economy on the front end of recession," and nether the president, "the economy was rebuilt in three years." — Tuesday.
THE FACTS: This is false. The economy was healthy when Trump arrived at the White Business firm.
Even if the recovery from the 2008 financial crunch was slow, Trump took part with unemployment at a low 4.vii%, steady chore growth and a falling federal budget deficit. The longest expansion in U.S. history began in the eye of 2009 and continued until the beginning of the year, spanning both the Obama and Trump presidencies.
The U.South. economy did benefit from Trump's 2017 tax cuts with a leap in growth in 2018, but the budget deficit began to climb as a upshot of the tax breaks that favored companies and the wealthy in hopes of permanently expanding the economy.
Almanac growth during Obama's second term averaged about 2.3%. Trump notched a slightly amend ii.5% during his offset 3 years, but the country swung into recession this yr because of the coronavirus and will probably leave Trump with an inferior track record to his predecessor over four years.
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War
SEN. RAND PAUL: "Joe Biden voted for the Iraq war, which President Trump has long called the worst geopolitical mistake of our generation." — Tuesday.
THE FACTS: Trump had no more than foresight on this matter than Biden. Neither was confronting it when it started.
When asked during a Sept. 11, 2002, radio interview if he would support an Iraq invasion, Trump responded, "Yeah, I gauge so." The next month, Biden every bit a senator voted to authorize George W. Bush to use forcefulness in Republic of iraq.
The next March, just days after the U.S. launched its invasion, Trump said it "looks similar a tremendous success from a military standpoint."
It wasn't until September 2003 that Trump first publicly raised doubts almost the invasion, maxim "a lot of people (are) questioning the whole concept of going in in the outset place." In November 2005, Biden called his Senate vote to authorize force a error.
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TAXES
ERIC TRUMP: The president slashed taxes and "wages went through the roof." — Tuesday.
THE FACTS: Not quite. Wage growth did improve, merely there is clearly nonetheless a roof on workers' incomes.
The 2017 tax cuts appear unlikely to deliver on their promised pay increases. White Business firm economists argued that incomes would surge by at to the lowest degree $4,000 because of the lower corporate revenue enhancement rate. That has yet to occur and seems unlikely given the current recession.
Simply boilerplate hourly wages did improve to a iii.5% annual gain by Feb 2019, much better than the ii.7% annual gain in Dec 2016 before Trump became president. The problem was that wage growth then began to slip through the end of last year despite the steady hiring. Wage gains merely accelerated over again with the pandemic and layoffs of millions of poor workers that artificially raised average wages.
What workers have withal to meet is a meaningful change in the distribution of income. More than half of total household income goes to the top 20% of earners, according to the Census Bureau. Their share has increased slightly under Trump with information that is electric current through 2018. The bottom 20% of earners get merely iii.i% of total income, simply every bit they did before Trump's presidency.
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FARMING
CRIS PETERSON, from a Wisconsin dairy family: "Our entire economic system and dairy farming are in one case once more roaring back. One person deserves the credit and our vote, President Donald J. Trump." — Tuesday.
THE FACTS: Not everyone in the dairy industry views information technology as booming, especially as larger operations are putting smaller family farms out of concern.
The Agriculture Section reported this summertime that "dairy herds fell past more than half between 2002 and 2019, with an accelerating rate of decline in 2018 and 2019, even as milk production continued to grow."
Role of the problem is that smaller farms face up college production costs. Farms with more than two,000 cattle are more likely for their sales to exceed their full costs, while smaller farms are more than likely to operate at a loss by this metric, according to government figures.
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SUBURBS
PATRICIA McCLOSKEY on Democrats: "They want to abolish the suburbs altogether past catastrophe single-family home zoning. This forced rezoning would bring crime, lawlessness and low-quality apartments into thriving suburban neighborhoods. President Trump smartly ended this government overreach, but Joe Biden wants to bring it back." — Monday.
THE FACTS: That'due south a false account of what Biden supports. In 2015, during the Obama administration, a regulation took effect intended to ensure that communities confront racial segregation in housing.
The dominion required more than 1,200 jurisdictions receiving federal Housing and Urban Development block grants and housing assistance to clarify their housing stock and come up up with plans to combat patterns of segregation and discrimination. Information technology did not eliminate zoning for unmarried-family homes in the suburbs.
Trump revoked the dominion; Biden supports information technology. But Biden does not support requiring municipalities to refrain from building unmarried-family homes equally a condition for getting money from HUD.
McClosky and her husband have been charged with a felony for brandishing guns outside their St. Louis home every bit racial justice protesters passed.
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VOTING FRAUD
TRUMP, on mail-in voting: "Absentee — like in Florida — absentee is good. But other than that, they're very, very bad." — Monday.
THE FACTS: He's making a false distinction. Mail-in ballots are cast in the same way as absentee mail service ballots, with the same level of scrutiny such as signature verification in many states.
In more than 30 states and the District of Columbia, voters have a right to "no excuse" absentee voting. That means they can use mail-in ballots for any reason, regardless of whether a person is out of town or working.
In Florida, the Legislature in 2016 voted to modify the diction of such balloting from "absentee" to "vote-by-postal service" to brand clear a voter can cast such ballots if they wish. So in that location is no "absentee" voting in that state, as Trump alludes to.
More than broadly, voter fraud has proved exceedingly rare. The Brennan Center for Justice in 2017 ranked the risk of ballot fraud at 0.00004% to 0.0009%, based on studies of past elections.
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TRUMP, on the November vote count and Democrats: "Nosotros have to be very, very careful and this time they are trying to practise it with the whole postal service function scam. They will blame information technology on the postal service office. You tin see them setting information technology upwards." — Monday.
THE FACTS: No postal scam has emerged from the Democrats. Instead Trump has given acceptance to suspicions that he wants to suppress mail-in voting to assistance his chances in the election.
He's said as much. In an interview this month, he admitted he's trying to starve the U.S. Mail of coin in lodge to make information technology harder to procedure an expected surge of mail-in ballots, which he worries could cost him the election.
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TRUMP, on defective ballots in an election: "What does lacking mean? It means fraud." — Mon.
THE FACTS: No, lacking ballots do non equate to fraud. The overwhelming majority aren't.
Co-ordinate to the Brennan Center for Justice, the vast bulk of ballots are disqualified because they make it late, a item worry this year because of recent U.S. Postal Service delays and an expected surge in mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic.
Ballots also are deemed defective if there is a missing signature — mutual with newer voters unfamiliar with the process — or it doesn't match what's on file. In addition, some states require absentee voters to become a witness or notary to sign their ballots.
"None of those are fraud," said Wendy Weiser, managing director of Brennan's republic plan at NYU School of Police. When suspected cases are investigated for potential fraud, studies have borne out the main reason for defects is voter mistake, she said.
Defective ballots also disproportionately affect voters of color, and recent lawsuits have successfully challenged some requirements as posing health risks or disenfranchising voters. Earlier this twelvemonth, for instance, a federal estimate ruled that a South Carolina requirement to accept witnesses to mail-in ballots could put voters' health at risk; the requirement was suspended it for the June primary. Others states including Minnesota and Rhode Island have too suspended that requirement due to the pandemic.
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Associated Press writers Amanda Seitz in Chicago; David Klepper in Providence, Rhode Isle; Bill Barrow in Atlanta; Matthew Lee, Paul Wiseman and Matthew Daly in Washington; and Thomas Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.
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