WASHINGTON—The Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spoke on Wednesday, Sept. 21 at a church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and at a rally in Toledo, Ohio. Not including his remarks at a taped Fox News town hall with Sean Hannity, which did not air on Wednesday, he said at least five false things:

Falsely said Lyndon Johnson put forward his “Johnson Amendment” in 1954 “because he didn’t get along with a certain church, they say, in Houston. Because the pastor was maybe against him, maybe not with him.” (Johnson’s opponents were two right-wing anti-Communist groups, not churches; one was founded by an oil billionaire, one by a newspaper magnate. Neither was based in Houston.)

Falsely said of a pastor, “He’s not allowed to talk politics. If he does, they take away his tax exemption.” (Pastors are permitted to “talk politics” as much as they want, and they can opine and advocate on hot-button issues; under the Johnson Amendment, they are prohibited from endorsing or opposing candidates.)

Falsely said of his tax plan, “Income taxes will be cut dramatically for the workers … The workers, the middle-class, families, everybody, we’re having major, major tax reductions.” (Trump is not offering a dramatic or major tax cut for the middle-class. According to the conservative Tax Foundation, his plan would give people in the bottom 80 per cent less than a 2 per cent income boost before accounting for hypothetical economic growth.)

Falsely said, “All together, the Hillary Clinton plan would bring in 620,000 refugees in her first term.” (Clinton has not actually proposed the 620,000 number, which was calculated by Trump ally Sen. Jeff Sessions based on assumptions.)

Falsely said, “I don’t know if you’ve been watching, but the poll numbers (with African-Americans) are going like a rocket ship.” (The only supposed evidence of a sharp increase in his black support in polls was a sudden bump in the Los Angeles Times tracking poll, which has quickly vanished. The Times wrote Wednesday: “Trump’s black support in the poll is back to the single digits, near where it had been all along.”)

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