WASHINGTON – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had an especially busy Friday, Oct. 21, with two events in Pennsylvania and one in North Carolina. He also did an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity.

Two days after the presidential debate at which he said 37 false things, he said 22 more:

1. Falsely said, “Homicides are up nearly 50 per cent in Washington D.C. and more than 60 per cent in Baltimore. And it’s getting worse and worse and worse.” (This was true last year, but not this year. Homicides are actually down in both cities in 2016, DC’s by 13 per cent as of yesterday.)

2. Falsely said, “The murder rate in the United States is the highest it’s been in 45 years. And the dishonest media, they never tell you that.” (The media does not repeat this because it is false. The increase in murders between 2014 and 2015, 11 per cent, was the highest in 45 years. But the number of murders was even lower than it was 45 years ago – even though the country had more than 100 million more people. The murder rate remains near a historic low.)

3. Falsely said, “Hillary’s plan includes an open border with the Middle East.” (It does not.)

4. Falsely said on Twitter, “The results are in on the final debate and it is almost unanimous, I WON! Thank you, these are very exciting times.” (Trump actually lost every scientific poll on the debate – CNN, YouGov, Morning Consult, NBC.)

5. Falsely said agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement “just last week endorsed us.”(A union of ICE employees endorsed Trump three and a half weeks prior. We’d perhaps give him the benefit of the doubt if this was a one-time slip, but he has repeatedly insisted the endorsement occurred “last week” no matter how much time has passed.)

6. Falsely said, “The media is so corrupt that Hillary was given the exact questions to a previous debate. Remember this, right, just recently. Word for word, given the questions. Here are the questions. Here are the questions. Nobody gave me the questions.” (There are several things wrong with this claim. Clinton was apparently given one question, not questions plural. It was for a town hall event on CNN, not a debate. It was in March, not “just recently.” And Trump is misleadingly suggesting it was for a debate against him.)

7. Falsely said, “Hillary Clinton is going to raise your taxes a lot.” (Clinton is only raising taxes on the highest earners. The Tax Policy Center says most residents below the top 1 per cent will receive minor tax cuts under her plan, and even most of the highest earners will not see a doubling.)

8. Falsely said of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, “Remember he didn’t want Obama to come there a few weeks ago.” (Duterte did insult Obama, calling him a “son of a whore,” but it was Obama who cancelled their meeting, not Duterte, and it was to be in Laos, not an Obama visit to the Philippines. Duterte expressed regret after the cancellation, though he later started insulting America again.)

9. Falsely said, of top foreign leaders not greeting Obama upon his landing in their countries, “Probably the first time it’s ever happened in the fabled history of Air Force One.” (“He’s wrong, wrong, wrong,” the Washington Post’s fact checkers wrote when Trump made an earlier version of this claim; Reagan and other Obama predecessors were sometimes greeted by foreign ministers and other people who are not presidents and prime ministers.)

10. Falsely said, “As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton allowed thousands of criminal aliens to be released because their home countries wouldn’t take them back.” (A 2001 Supreme Court decision required these people to be released if their home countries wouldn’t take them back. While some critics believe the Bush and Obama administration should have done more to pressure these countries, it wasn’t Clinton’s optional decision to release them.)

11. Falsely said of Obamacare, “Your premiums are going up 70, 80, 90 per cent and it’s only going to get worse.” (Obamacare prices are jumping, but Trump greatly overstates the hikes. Writes the Washington Post: “State-by-state weighted average increases range from just 1.3 per cent in Rhode Island to as high as 71 per cent in Oklahoma. But the most common plans in the marketplace will see an average increase of 9 per cent, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s July analysis.”)

12. Falsely said, “Your taxes will go way, way down under a Trump administration.” (This claim would only be true if addressed to rich people. Experts say the overwhelming majority of Trump’s cuts will go to the rich. Half are for the top 1 per cent, according to the Tax Policy Center, and some middle-class families will pay even more than they do now. Most families below the top 20 per cent of earners are expected to reap income gains of less than 1 per cent.)

13. Falsely said of “inner cities,” “There’s no education. There are no jobs.” (This is a gross exaggeration; many inner cities are thriving, and there are educated and employed people even in poor neighbourhoods.)

14. Falsely said, “Made 13 iPhones disappear, some with a hammer.” (Clinton used BlackBerrys, not iPhones.)

15. Falsely said, “Hillary Clinton when she ran the State Department lost or misplaced – they use the word misplaced — $6 billion.” (The inspector general who probed this matter says it is not true that the actual money went missing — simply that contract documentation was missing or incomplete.)

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16. Falsely said, “We’re already the highest-taxed nation in the world.” (This is not true with regard to corporate taxes, where the U.S. is near the top. When it comes to all taxes, the U.S. is below-average for the industrialized world.)

17. Falsely said of India’s economic growth, “India has 8 per cent — that’s considered bad for them.” (India’s growth is considered fast, not bad. “In India, GDP growth will remain strong at 7.6 per cent in 2016 and 7.7 per cent in 2017, supported by expectations of a rebound in agriculture, civil service pay reforms supporting consumption, increasingly positive contributions from exports and a recovery of private investment in the medium term,” the World Bank wrote in a report earlier this month.)

18. Falsely said, “We don’t make things anymore.” (Manufacturing accounted for 12 per cent of the U.S. economy last year. Though there are fewer manufacturing jobs than there were in decades past, the value of the country’s manufacturing output hit an all-time high this year.)

19. Falsely said of pollsters, “They say, ‘We can’t poll this thing.” (Pollsters are not saying this.)

20. Falsley said, “You have two and a half million or so that are registered in two states. That means they’re voting twice.” (Double registration does not necessarily mean people are voting twice, and the Pew report Trump is citing does not say that it does.)

21. Falsely said, “Hillary wants open borders where people can just flow through.” (She does not.)

22. Falsely said, “We’re tied in Florida.” (Clinton leads by an average of four percentage points in Florida.)

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