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World Donald Trump said seven false things on Saturday WASHINGTON—The Republican presidential nominee made one campaign appearance on Saturday Sept. 24, at a rally in Roanoke, Virginia. He made seven false claims, plus one apparent slip-up: Falsely said of Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Kaine, “He won his election by a very, very close margin.” (Kaine won the race for his Senate seat by six percentage points, 53 per cent to 47 per cent.) Falsely said, “We haven’t started advertising (in Virginia). And they’re spending a fortune.” (There are actually two false claims here. Trump has been advertising in Virginia for weeks; he made a $2 million ad buy there in early September. And opponent Hillary Clinton’s campaign is not spending anything at all there – it pulled off the airwaves on August 1.) Falsely said, “We’re just about tied in Virginia.” (Clinton leads by an average of 5 percentage points.) Falsely said, “Crime is rising like never before in the inner cities.” (While crime is rising in many big cities, the increase is far from historic; there was a much bigger spike in the mid-late 1960s, for example. Also, the increase is far from uniform: of 51 big cities, 22 experienced homicide declines in the first half of 2016. Finally, the increases come after a two-decade decline, so the overall level is still near historic lows.) Falsely said Clinton “destroyed her iPhones with a hammer.” (The two destroyed phones were BlackBerries.) Falsely said, “You have illegal immigrants being treated better than our veterans in many cases.” (The campaign’s attempted justifications for this statement are outlandish. The Associated Press, Politifact and Washington Post have all found it false; the Post has called it “ridiculous.”) Falsely said, “Hillary is going to raise your taxes substantially.” (This would be true if Trump were talking to an audience of very wealthy people, but it is false when addressed to a rally crowd of average people: According to the Tax Policy Center: “Nearly all of the tax increases would fall on the top 1 percent; the bottom 95 percent of taxpayers would see little or no change in their taxes.”) Wrongly said the museum that opened today is called "the Smithsonian National Museum of American History African-American Art." (This seems more like a slip than a false claim, but the new Smithsonian is called the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) Read more about: SHARE:









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