WASHINGTON—Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had a jam-packed day on Tuesday, Oct. 25. He did radio interviews with Rush Limbaugh, Herman Cain and a Cincinnati host, plus one with Reuters and one with Fox; made a brief speech at his Doral hotel in Florida; and held two rallies. And he said 35 false things, a day after tying a personal record with 37.

1.Falsely said federal authorities refused to detain an Ohio illegal immigrant who allegedly committed a murder three weeks later “even though they knew he was very dangerous.” (There is no evidence the Border Patrol or anyone else knew Juan Emmanuel Razo was dangerous; local police said he was sweating and seemed suspicious, but “no crimes were discovered (i.e. burglary, theft, vandalism), and subsequent data base inquiries showed no criminal history.”)

2.Falsely described Canadian health care: “You know, if you look at even Canada, the people come down. When they want an operation, they come to the United States to get the operation.” (It is very rare for Canadians to leave the country for any kind of healthcare. Even according to the conservative Fraser Institute, 99 per cent of patients stayed in Canada for care last year.)

3.Falsely said of Canadian health care: “It is a disaster in terms of cost, of course.” (The U.S. system is more costly than any other in the world. The U.S. spends about twice as much per capita than Canada does. According to a 2015 report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Canada spent 10 per cent of GDP on health care in 2013, $4,351 per person; the U.S. spent 16 per cent, or $8,713 per person.)

4.Falsely described his 2010 views on Obamacare: “And you remember, I called that from before it was approved. I said, "This can't work, because it's just...The plan is no good. The concept is no good.” And “I think it’s a disaster, and I’ve been saying it from the time before they even voted for it. I said this is a plan can’t work, it’s going to be a disaster.’” (Trump was considerably more ambivalent at the time. In an interview the very day Congress passed the law, he said he was “really torn,” that Obama was “certainly looking like a hero,” and that “something had to be done” about the number of uninsured people.)

5.Falsely said of Clinton, “She wants to put the government totally in charge of your health care.” (Clinton is not advocating that the current system be replaced by a single-payer, government-run system.)

6.Falsely said, “They said Romney had crowds, but the truth is he had one crowd, one big crowd the last day.” (Romney drew numerous big crowds in the last month of the election. Wrote Politico in Oct. 2012: “In the past week alone, Romney’s campaign says at least three of its rallies have, per the campaign’s crowd counts, exceeded 10,000 people: an Oct. 4 event with country singer Trace Adkins in Fishersville, Va., which was Romney’s largest event ever at 14,000 people; a rally last Sunday in Port St. Lucie, Fla., that drew 12,000; and one in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, that fire marshals estimated also drew 12,000.”)

7.Falsely said of Hillary Clinton, “She gave them Mosul. She didn’t know what she was doing.” (As secretary of state, Clinton was not in charge of military decisions in Iraq. And she advocated for keeping a residual troop force in the country rather than a more complete withdrawal.)

8.Falsely said, “Hillary Clinton gave them 20 per cent of our uranium. Gave Russia. For a big payment.” (Clinton didn’t personally give Russia uranium – the State Department was one of nine government entities that endorsed the purchase of Uranium One. Investors in the deal made big donations to the Clinton Foundation, but “at least two years before the deal,” Politifact reports. And there is no evidence that Clinton was given a payment for the deal.)

9.Falsely said, “Crooked Hillary was given the questions to a debate. Right. You saw that.” (Clinton appears to have been given one question, not questions plural, to a CNN town hall during the Democratic primary, not a debate.)

10.Falsely said, on a separate occasion, “She got the answers to a debate.” (There is no such thing as “answers to a debate.”)

11.Falsely said of Syrian refugees, “We have no idea where they come from. We have no idea who they are.” (The refugees are put through an extensive screening process.)

12.Falsely said Clinton’s immigration plan “includes an open border with the Middle East. She wants people to pour in.” (Clinton is not proposing an open border with the Middle East.)

13.Falsely said, “Did you see her after the debate? She was exhausted.” (Clinton appeared cheerful and energetic after the last debate, and she took questions from reporters on her plane. Trump left without taking questions.)

14.Falsely described a donation to a Virginia state senate candidate from Gov. Terry McAuliffe: “So the FBI is investigating…so think of this. So the head of the FBI who’s investigating her has a wife who wants to run for some office and they give her not $1,000, not $2,000 not $20, $30—$675,000.” (Trump’s account strongly suggests the McAuliffe PAC donation was made to candidate Jill McCabe while husband Andrew McCabe was conducting the Clinton-email investigation. In fact, Andrew McCabe was not promoted to his role in the investigation until three months after his wife’s failed campaign was over.)

15.Falsely said, “Now, that’s Clinton giving the money. Because that’s how close they are. So Clinton gave the FBI agent who was top person, who was the top person in charge of her email case…she gave money at a huge clip, $675,000, to the wife of the FBI agent who was in charge of her investigation. Let me tell you something — that's a criminal act.” (McAuliffe is not Clinton. McCabe’s husband was not involved in the investigation at the time. There is no evidence Clinton even knew about the payment, let alone ordered it. There is no evidence it was a criminal act.)

16.Falsely said, “In other words, the man who was in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton accepted, essentially, from Hillary Clinton, $675,000 that went to his wife.” (This is a direct accusation of corruption for which there was no evidence. Andrew McCabe did not accept money, and he did not accept money from Clinton.)

17.Falsely said of the Border Patrol, “They’ve totally endorsed me, and so has ICE.” (A union of Border Patrol officers and a union of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers has endorsed Trump, not the entire government agencies.)

18.Falsely said, “We’re way ahead in Ohio.” (Trump is up in Ohio by one percentage point on average.)

19.Falsely said, “75 per cent of the American people think our country is on the wrong track. Every poll says it.” (Sixty-four per cent think so, according to polling averages. No poll that has asked this common “right direction/wrong track” question has recorded a “wrong track” answer higher than 70 per cent since July.)

20.Falsely said, of General James Cartwright, “You’ll have generals who are going to jail for five years.” (Under Cartwright’s guilty plea for lying to the FBI about his conversations with reporters about Iran’s nuclear program, the government and defense have agreed to a sentence of up to six months in jail. While the judge can reject this agreement and go up to five years, it is highly unlikely he will do so.)

21.Falsely said of Clinton, “She’s going to raise your taxes.” (Clinton’s plan includes only tax hikes on the rich.)

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22.Falsely said, “The IBD poll just came out and we’re two points up.” (The Investor’s Business Daily poll is a tracking poll that comes out daily. By the time Trump spoke, he was down by nearly one point.)

23.Falsely said, “Look at that one poll that came out, ABC/Washington Post. That was a Democratic poll. They’re rigging the system." (He is referring to a recent ABC poll, not an ABC/Washington Post poll. It was a legitimate independent poll. Trump could fairly question the composition of its sample, as some Trump supporters have done, but he crosses the line into falsehood when he calls it “a Democratic poll” and suggests it was “rigged.”)

24.Falsely said of the U.S economy, “We have no growth in our country. We have no growth.” (The economy has grown steadily since 2009, though not at all rapidly. Growth was 1.4 per cent in the second quarter.)

25.Falsely said, “We’re the highest-taxed nation in the world.” (The U.S. is among the highest on corporate taxes, but not even the highest in that category. When all taxes are included, it is below the average for the industrialized world.)

26.Falsely said, “You know, they even put phony polls out there, Rush. You take a look at some of these polls; they're totally phony.” (None of the public polls that showed Trump trailing is “phony.”)

27.Falsely said, of Obamacare price increases, “The number of 25 per cent is nothing. That’s a phony number too. That’s a lie just like everything else.” (It is not a lie, it’s an average. Trump pointed to larger-than-25 increases in some states, but this does not make the 25 figure “phony.”)

28.Falsely said of the wind farm in the area of Palm Springs, California: “And it kills all the birds. I don’t know if you know that…Thousands of birds are lying on the ground. And the eagle.” (One study found two eagle deaths at this site in 20 years, the last in 1997. Experts said there are not thousands of birds lying on the ground. “Not in Palm Springs,” ornithologist K. Shawn Smallwood said of Trump’s claims in an interview. “Palm Springs is pretty low-impact on birds.”)

29.Falsely said of wind turbines near Palm Springs, California: “They have all these different companies and each one is made by a different group from, all from China and from Germany, by the way – not from here.” (When Trump made the made-in-China claim in 2012, a local news station quoted a local expert who said, “The first generation turbines we have here are made in Denmark, those right behind us are the new ones, 1.5 megawatt units made in the United Sates.” They are certainly not “all from China and from Germany.”)

30.Falsely said of wind turbines near Palm Springs, California: “And you look at all these windmills. Half of them are broken. They’re rusting and rotting. You know, you’re driving into Palm Springs, California, and it looks like a poor man’s version of Disneyland. It’s the worst thing you’ve ever seen.” (This claim would have been true decades ago but isn’t any longer. Authorities removed 1,000 old turbines by 1998. While there are still some that don’t work, it is not half.)

31.Falsely said of Clinton, “Her rallies last for about 15 minutes.” (Clinton speaks for longer than that, and there are other speakers too.)

32.Falsely said Clinton “made 13 iPhones disappear, some with a hammer.” (Clinton’s phones were Blackberrys.)

33.Falsely said, “Some of the voting is rigged. Everybody knows. “Check out Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis.” (There is no evidence of vote-rigging in Philadelphia and Chicago. There have been recent allegations of St. Louis voting fraud in a state-legislature race in Missouri, but there is no evidence of a problem at the presidential level there either.)

34.Falsely said, of illegal immigrants, “This crime wave ends when Donald Trump becomes president.” (There is no evidence of a crime wave by illegal immigrants; Trump simply recited a few anecdotes.)

35.Falsely said of Clinton, “She hired people, thugs, to go into my rallies…go into a rally and beat people up,” and “The violence was caused by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, where they were paying people $1,500 and a cellphone to go in and create tremendous violence. Hit people, punch people.” (An undercover video by a conservative sting activist showed Democratic operatives appearing to talk about having provoked confrontations at a Trump rally in Chicago. There is no evidence that the Clinton campaign hired people to produce violence or to punch people. And one of the operatives said their goal was to get Trump supporters to be violent – “You can message to draw them out and draw them to punch you” – not to be violent themselves.)

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