WASHINGTON—Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump did two Colorado rallies and an interview with radio host Mike Gallagher on Tuesday, Oct. 18. He made 19 false claims.

1. Falsely said, “You go to Philadelphia, where Romney got zero votes, where McCain got zero votes.” (Both Mitt Romney and John McCain got tens of thousands of votes in Philadelphia. Romney got zero votes in just 3 per cent of the city’s districts.)

2. Falsely said, of voter fraud, “Take a look at Chicago … Take a look at some of these cities where you see things happening that are horrendous.” (There is no evidence of a voter fraud problem in Chicago. A spokesman for the city’s elections board told the Chicago Tribune, “In the last 10 years we’ve had 10 referrals of suspicious activity to the state’s attorney’s office and at the same time we’ve had nine million ballots cast.”)

3. Falsely said, “They even want to try and rig the election at the polling booths, where so many cities are corrupt and voter fraud is all too common.” (Nobody is trying to rig the election. There is no evidence cities are corrupt in their elections. Voter fraud is not common.)

4. Falsely said, “By ‘open borders’ she means totally unlimited immigration. Come on in, folks.” (Clinton does not support unlimited immigration.)

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

6. Falsely said, “Now they say we’re tied in Colorado,” and “They say we’re tied. I don’t think we’re tied. Another one says we’re two up, one says we’re four up.” (Trump is down by an average of eight points in Colorado. While he was tied in one Gravis poll in early October, the Gravis poll in mid-October shows him down five points.)

7. Falsely said, “And then you wonder why the murder rate’s the highest in 45 years.” (The murder rate is among the lowest of the last 45 years. While it rose more than 10 per cent between 2014 and 2015 — the biggest spike in 45 years — it was still near historic lows at 4.9 per 100,000 people in 2015. In 1970, it was 7.9 per 100,000 people.)

8. Falsely said, “As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton allowed thousands of criminal aliens to be released because their home countries refused to take them … Who would do this? Who would do this? You know who would do this? A weak and pathetic politician.” (A 2001 Supreme Court decision requires these people to be released after six months if their home countries won’t take them back. While some critics say the U.S. should do more to pressure these reluctant countries to change their policies, it was not Clinton’s decision to release them or not.)

9. Falsely said of sexual assault allegations, “Many of them have now already been debunked.” (None have been “debunked.” Trump and his allies have offered rebuttals and counterclaims, but no allegation has been definitively disproven.)

10. Falsely said of John McCain, “I hear he’s doing badly since he unendorsed (Trump).” (There is no evidence of this. A poll released Wednesday, taken after McCain’s unendorsement, showed him up 10 points.)

11. Falsely said, “Look at our jobs report from last week, it was a disaster. Our jobs report last week was catastrophic.” (While Trump is entitled to his opinion on the report, which was released the week before last, it is objectively wrong to go so far as to say it was “catastrophic.” The economy added 156,000 jobs. While this was short of analysts’ estimates of 172,000, analysts called it such things as “solid” and “within the broad range of expectations”; while some media outlets called it “disappointing,” only Trump is calling it a catastrophe.)

12. Falsely said, “We’re the highest-taxed nation in the world.” (The U.S. does not even have the highest corporate marginal rate in the world; it is third. Taking all kinds of taxes into account, the U.S. is below average for the industrialized world.)

13. Falsely said, “…the disappearance of 13 iPhones, some by hammers.” (Clinton used BlackBerrys as secretary of state, not iPhones.)

14. Falsely said, “Hillary thinks most of the country is either deplorable, irredeemable, un-American, racist, or basement-dwellers in the case of the Bernie Sanders people. She said they were basement-dwellers.” (There is no indication Clinton believes this about “most of the country.” She used “deplorables” and “irredeemable” to refer specifically to “half” of Trump supporters, then expressed regret for using the word “half.” She used “un-American” to refer specifically to Republican “obstructionists” in Congress. She never disparaged Sanders supporters as “basement-dwellers,” but sympathetically said “some” have been forced to live in their parents’ basements because they cannot find good jobs.)

15. Falsely said, “Your taxes will go way, way down under a Trump administration.” (This claim would only be true if addressed to very rich people. Independent 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.)

16. Falsely said of illegal immigrants, “They get taken care of better than our great vets.” (Every news outlet that has examined this claim has pronounced it ridiculous.)

17. Falsely said Clinton’s immigration plan includes “expanding catch and release on the border.” (Writes the New York Times: “The practice of ‘catch and release’ — releasing illegal border crossers back into Mexico without charging them with any violation — was ended in 2006, under the Bush administration.”)

18. Falsely said, “The polls just came out — in all of the swing states, I’m either leading or within one or two points.” (Trump is trailing in almost every swing state, in many by more than two points.)

19. Falsely said of sexual assault accuser Summer Zervos, “The other person who was on the Apprentice, members of her family came out and said she spoke most highly of Donald Trump … her family actually came out and said how unfair it was.” (It is false to say “members” of her family said this, or that “her family” said this; a statement was issued by one cousin.)

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