Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had a busy Wednesday, doing two rallies in Nevada, an interview with a Las Vegas television station, and appearing at a roundtable meeting with Hispanic business leaders.

He said 16 false things:

1. Falsely said, “Homicides are up nearly 50 per cent in Washington DC and more than 60 per cent in Baltimore.” (This was true last year, but not this year. Homicides are actually down in both cities in 2016, DC’s by 12 per cent as of yesterday.)

2. Falsely claimed he was endorsed by part of the U.S. government: “ICE, two days ago, ICE, the first time they’ve ever endorsed”; “ICE endorsed me…” (Trump was endorsed by an ICE employees’ union, not the agency itself. And it was more than a week ago, not two days.)

3. Falsely described an investigation into the State Department: “Our State Department, mostly under the watch of Crooked Hillary Clinton, misplaced or lost $6 billion in taxpayer funds.” (The inspector general who did this probe explicitly says it is not true that the actual money went missing — simply that contract files were incomplete or missing.)

4. Falsely said Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen “knows she’s supposed to be inching them (interest rates) up and she’s not doing it.” (Trump was alleging with no evidence that Yellen was keeping rates low to help Democrats. By all expert accounts, she is keeping them low because she believes this is best for the economy.)

5. Falsely said of Iran, “In less than 10 years now, they will have nuclear weapons.” (There is no evidence for this claim. The deal imposes strict constraints on Iran’s nuclear program for 11 to 15 years.)

6. Falsely said of Clinton, “She’s for open borders.” (Clinton is not.)

7. Falsely said, “Thousands of refugees are being admitted with no way to screen them.” (Refugees are put through an extensive screening process.)

8. Falsely said, “Our annual trade deficit with the world is nearly $800 billion.” (The overall U.S. trade deficit last year was $532 billion. It was $746 billion when only goods were counted, not the services trade at which the U.S. excels.)

9. Falsely said, “Hillary Clinton basically accuses our police of all being racist.”(This is a significant mischaracterization of Clinton’s debate comments, in which she said, “I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in our great country jump to conclusions about each other.”)

10. Falsely explained the pronunciation of Nevada: “Nobody says it the other way. It has to be Nev-AHH-da.” (As numerous Nevada media outlets pointed out, most people use Nev-ADD-a.)

11. “An amazing statistic is: there are more than 2 million criminal aliens with convictions in the country right now.” (This figure — actually 1.9 million — includes legal immigrants with convictions. By one credible estimate, the number of illegal immigrants with convictions was 820,000.)

12. “Hillary Clinton put her public office up for sale.” (There is no evidence Clinton did or tried to.)

13. Falsely said, “58 per cent of African-American youth don’t have jobs.” (This figure was correct early in the year, but it has now fallen to 55 per cent. Regardless, it is also misleading, as it counts high school students and wealthy youth who don’t need jobs.)

14. Falsely said: “Hillary’s Korea deal — the deal she made with South Korea — also cost us another 100,000 jobs.” (The job-loss figure is disputed, but the deal was certainly not “Hillary’s Korea deal” or one “she made.” It was primarily negotiated, as always, by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, part of Obama’s Executive Office of the President, not the State Department.)

15. Falsely said he is doing “so well” in Michigan, where “normally” Republicans don’t do as well. (Trump trails in every poll there, most recently by 11 points. Even before this newest poll, he was down by an average of five points, close to the margin by which Bush lost both times.)

16. Falsely denied that he’s cutting taxes for the rich more than the middle class: “No, no, no. We’re cutting taxes for the middle class more than anything.” (Trump’s tax cuts overwhelmingly benefit the rich. Writes the Tax Foundation: “The bottom 80 per cent of taxpayers would see an increase in after-tax income between 0.8 per cent and 1.9 per cent,” while taxpayers in the top 20 per cent would see between 4.4 per cent and 8.7 per cent — and “ taxpayers in the top 1 per cent would see the largest increase in after-tax income on a static basis.”)

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