Trump said that Dov Hikind, a NY legislator who has praised him, is such a staunch Democrat that he “probably never uttered the word Republican in his life” and “would never vote for a Republican.” Hikind endorsed Bush, McCain and Romney. He said he wrote in Paul Ryan in 2016.
Trump repeated his smear of former Democratic IT staffer Imran Awan, saying, “He had all the information on the Democrats...And they don't even have his computers and his servers...” The Justice Department explicitly cleared Awan of any crime related to politics or servers.
Truimp blasted Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown for voting against Neil Gorsuch: “How do you do that? First in his class at Harvard…” Gorsuch wasn’t even in the top 50 in his class at Harvard, Harvard told me.
Trump said of NY Gov. Cuomo: "Sues everybody. You know, you go into that state, you get sued; that's why people don't want to move in…But if you go to New York, you get sued, and people are afraid to go to New York. They don't want to go." This is, clearly, complete nonsense.
Trump said the FBI raid on Paul Manafort was especially egregious because it happened “on a weekend.” It happened on a Wednesday, news outlets have reported.
Trump took credit for the idea to let veterans facing VA waits see private doctors: “Oh, I had something so smart. I said, 'Listen, I have an idea. If they have to wait that long, why don't we send them to a doctor around the corner?’” This was approved in 2014 under Obama.
Trump claimed that he has persuaded big stores to start saying Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays: “You know, they're saying 'Christmas' again now, right?...They're all saying 'Merry Christmas' now. They're proud of it."
Trump said DeSantis was at “3” per cent in the primary polls before Trump gave his "full" endorsement: “He was a 3, and I gave him a nice shot and a nice little tweak, bing bing, and he went from 3 to like 20-something.” DeSantis was in the mid-teens in the polls at the time. There is no evidence of this.
Trump decried “the large scale killing of farmers” in South Africa. There is no such large-scale killing. SA agricultural industry group says there were 47 people killed on farms in 2017-2018 tracking year, a 19-year low; there are more than 17,000 total murders per year there.
Trump said Homeland Security employees are “building the border wall as we sit, and the wall is getting longer, and taller, and stronger each and every day.” Construction on the border wall has not started.
Trump said he has viewed data on Americans' approval of ICE, and it's overwhelming: "I don't mean like 51 per cent; I mean like 88 per cent, 93 per cent. I've seen numbers." It's nowhere close. In a July Pew poll, ICE had 44% favourable, 47% unfavourable.
Dale also has an article in the Toronto Star titled "Trump makes 67 false claims in 5th-most-dishonest week as president."
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