Shocking to NO ONE with working brain cells, The Felon Guy lied his ass off during his acceptance speech at the RNC Fascist Fest:
IMMIGRATION
Border crossings
TRUMP CLAIM: Trump argued there was “a massive invasion at our southern border that has spread misery, crime, poverty, disease and destruction to communities all across our land.”
FACT CHECK: This is false. There is no evidence of a major surge in crime caused by recent arrivals and Trump’s claims ignore the fact that crime is down across the country overall.
Violent crimes were down 6% in the fourth quarter of 2023 compared to the same time frame last year, according to the latest FBI statistics. There was a 13% decline in murders and a 4% drop in property crimes across the country, the data showed.
That declining trend followed unprecedented spikes in 2019 and 2020, Trump’s last two years in office, stats showed.
U.S. citizens also commit crimes at higher rates than undocumented immigrants.
A 2020 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed that U.S.-born citizens “are over 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4 times more likely to be arrested for property crimes” than undocumented immigrants.
The border wall
TRUMP CLAIM: Trump said he would end the immigration crisis “by closing our border and finishing the wall, most of which I have already built.
FACT CHECK: False. Contrary to Trump’s claim that he built more than 500 miles of border wall, by the end of his term, and after various funding fights in Washington, he had actually implemented roughly 450 miles of barriers – much of which was just upgrading existing barriers that already existed, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Of that, roughly 50 miles were new walls constructed where no barriers previously existed, roughly 30 miles were “secondary walls” built along existing walls and roughly 370 miles were upgrading previous barriers.
-ABC News’ Armando Garcia
Undocumented immigration and crime
TRUMP CLAIM: Trump argued dangerous criminals “are coming from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums, and terrorists at levels never seen before.”
FACT CHECK: Needs context. Trump was likely referring to the latest statistics released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Trump claimed that there is record inflation under President Joe Biden.
Former President Donald Trump claimed that there is record inflation under President Joe Biden.
Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. The current inflation rate, 3% in June 2024, is nowhere near the all-time record of 23.7%, set in 1920.
Trump could fairly say that the inflation rate hit a 40-year high in June 2022, when it was 9.1%, but it has since plummeted.
Trump on trade deal with China
Former President Donald Trump claimed that he struck a trade deal with China, requiring the country to purchase $50 billion worth of American products. “They buy $50 billion worth,” he said at the Republican National Convention Thursday.
Facts First: The claim that China bought $50 billion worth of American product as a result of a trade deal is false.
Trump’s false claim that the ‘world was at peace’ during his administration
Former President Donald Trump claimed Thursday, as many others at the RNC did, that while he was president the world was at peace.
“Our opponents inherited a world at peace and turned it into a planet of war,” he also claimed later in his speech.
Facts First: Trump’s claim about world peace under his presidency is false. There were dozens of unresolved wars and armed conflicts when Trump left office in early 2021.
