". . . "Why would I allow the Debate Commission to change the rules for the second and third Debates when I easily won last time (italics mine)?" the president tweeted a day after the Commission on Presidential Debates said it planned on adding "additional structure" to the future debates. . ."
Progress, much like aging, can never be denied. Status-quo, the good old days, and time that we just bide Do nothing to propel us forth, to coax us move outside. So take that chance, expose those aspects unidentified. To venture nothing only yields the same when nothing's tried.
TRUMP STATEMENT: "Take a look at West Virginia — mailmen selling the ballots. They're being sold. They're being dumped in rivers. This is a horrible thing for our country." CLAIM: Trump says mailmen in West Virginia are "selling the ballots" Get updates from the campaign trail delivered to your inbox FACT CHECK: False
TRUMP STATEMENT: "They're losing 30 and 40 percent. It's a fraud. It's a fraud and it's a shame." CLAIM: Trump says "they're" (an unknown entity) "losing 30 and 40 percent" of ballots. FACT CHECK: False
TRUMP STATEMENT: "If you look at New York, where it's going up like nobody's ever seen anything, the numbers are going up 100, 150, 200% of crime." CLAIM: Trump says crime has increased 100-200% in New York. FACT CHECK: Misleading DETAILS: The New York Police Department released citywide crime statistics on September 3, 2020 for the month of August. There has been a 0.7% increase in total crime . . . Shooting incidents in New York City have increased 165.9% between August 2019 and August 2020
TRUMP STATEMENT: "They (The Obama administration) had the slowest recovery — economic recovery — since 1929. It was the slowest recovery. Also they took over something that was downhill." CLAIM: Mr. Trump said President Obama and Vice President Biden presided over the slowest economic recovery since 1929. FACT CHECK: False
TRUMP STATEMENT: "A fixing of the VA — which was a mess under [Obama] — 308,000 people died because they didn't have proper health care. It was a mess. And we now got a 91% approval rating at the VA, our vets. We take care of our vets." CLAIM: 308,000 veterans died because they "didn't have proper health care" at VA. FACT CHECK: Misleading (????) [question marks- MINE] . . . (a) number of deaths did take place during the Obama administration, perhaps as many as 50,000 or more. But this report clearly states that the vast majority occurred before Obama took office.
TRUMP STATEMENT: "You (to Biden) don't think we should've closed our country because you thought it was too-- it was terrible. You wouldn't have closed it for another two months." CLAIM: President Trump says that he banned travelers from China early on during the pandemic, and that Biden called that ban "xenophobic" and "racist." FACT CHECK: Inconclusive: Mr. Trump's decision to "close our country" wasn't as strict as he claims, and while Biden criticized it, he did not use the terms Trump accused him of using.
TRUMP STATEMENT: "We didn't know anything about the disease. Now, we found that elderly people with heart problems and diabetes and different problems are very, very vulnerable. We learned a lot. Young children aren't — even younger people aren't. We learned a lot." CLAIM: Young children aren't "vulnerable" to COVID. FACT CHECK: Misleading THE DETAILS: While data does show that young children are less likely to contract COVID-19 than adults, it is not true that children have not been affected. It is also not true that children are incapable of spreading the virus.
". . . Howard Walters, 56, acknowledges that his economic fortunes haven't improved much since he voted for Donald Trump four years ago. . . "Trump cares about us. I know that. He's not overly nice, but he cares about us.". . . Jennifer Poling, 38, a hairdresser, said that "as much as Democrats say they want to help us, Obama didn't do anything to help us.". . . "This is a blue-collar area," she said. "Trump is trying to help us. He's the only candidate who is going to help us."
(from https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/02/04/trump-state-union-2020-claims-fact-check-sotu/4659841002/) ". . . Nearly 500,000 manufacturing jobs have been created under Trump but employment stagnated . . . amid Trump's trade fight with China and sluggish growth overseas. . . The U.S. trade deficit in goods increased 18% during the first two years of Trump’s administration, indicating that more manufacturing jobs left the U.S. than came back, says EPI Senior Economist Robert Scott. . . "
(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/senate-democrats-promise-major-focus-obamacare-supreme-court-fight-n1240991) ". . . "The Democrats are going to highlight any issue, anywhere in American life, to try to say the kind of BS about Amy Barrett that they've tried to say. They're going to throw crap at the wall, see what sticks and then make it 10 times more extreme," he said. . . "You can promise that Mazie will say something crazy," Sasse said. . . Asked for her response, Hirono said in a statement: "That's funny coming from one of the Senate's most self-righteous trolls.". . . "
