WASHINGTON—Donald Trump had a whirlwind Saturday, Nov. 5, with four rallies — in Florida, North Carolina, Nevada and Colorado. He set a new record for false claims: 40, not including ones he repeated, breaking his previous record of 37. The list:

Tampa, Florida

1. Falsely said, “In Hershey Pennsylvania last night, we had an arena, we had 27,000 people show up.” (The arena has a capacity of 10,500. Some people were turned away, but not nearly 16,500.)

2. Falsely said, “Hillary said ‘I did not like Donald Trump’s lewd language’… I’ve never said what he said in my life.” (Clinton did not call Trump’s comments about women and sexual assault “lewd.” She has called them “horrific,” “demeaning” and “degrading.”)

3. Falsely said, of the Florida primary, “Remember and most of you were there… we won 66 out of 67 counties… but we won 66 out of 67 counties. That’s never happened before.” (Trump was not the first to win 66 of 67 counties. Bob Dole did in 1996 and George W. Bush did in 2000, Politifact noted.)

4. Falsely said, of the 67th Florida county, “We almost, we almost, won that last one too.” (Trump lost Miami-Dade County 63 per cent to 23 per cent.)

5. Falsely said, “They don’t ever show my crowds.” This was repeated at his third and fourth rally of the day. (Various media outlets show Trump’s crowds. One pool camera stays fixed on him at all times.)

6. Falsely said, “Last night Obama had a protester and they wouldn’t turn the camera to the protester. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen that.” This was repeated at his second rally of the day. (Various cameras showed the protester; as always, the pool camera remained fixed on Obama.)

7. Falsely said of Bill Clinton’s airport meeting with Loretta Lynch, “I thought it was 39 minutes; turned out to be 45 minutes… they had a meeting for 45 minutes.” (It was not.)

8. Falsely said, “We’re the highest-taxed nation in the world.” (The U.S. is not even highest-taxed in corporate taxes; it is close. When all taxes are considered, it is below-average for major countries.)

9. Falsely said, “The Cubans just endorsed me. They gave me the Bay of Pigs Association Award.” (Trump was not endorsed by “the Cubans,” or even a broad organization Cuban-Americans. He was endorsed by Miami’s Bay of Pigs Veterans Association. He did not receive an “award.”)

10. Falsely said, “It’s just been reported that as a result of our open borders, violent cartels have spread into all 50 states.” (There is no apparent source for this. A government report in 2015, not recently, alleges a cartel presence in most states, but not all.)

11. Falsely said, “More than 90 per cent of those arrested are here illegally… 90 per cent, think of that, 90 per cent are here illegally.” This was repeated at his second rally of the day. (It is not precisely clear what Trump was talking about, but illegal immigrants represent well under 10 per cent of arrests.)

12. Falsely said, “As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton allowed thousands of the most dangerous and violent criminals to come into the country, go free, and wouldn’t send them back to their home countries… and we would never force them in.” This was repeated all three other rallies rally of the day. (It was not Clinton’s decision to release undeportable illegal immigrants. The Supreme Court ruled in 2001 that they could not be held indefinitely.)

13. Falsely said, of Clinton’s crowds, “The only way she gets them to show up is when she has a star come. That’s the only way. Otherwise she gets 500 people, 400 people.” (Clinton regularly draws thousands of people.)

14. Falsely said, “She’s going to raise your taxes.” This was repeated at his second and fourth rally of the day, adding: “She’s also raising your taxes very substantially folks. Big, big tax increase.” (This would only be true if he was speaking to an audience of rich people. 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.)

Wilmington, North Carolina

15. Falsely said, of the illegal immigrant drunk driver who killed Leanna Newman, in 2007, “People that knew him begged to have him incarcerated or deported. But they wouldn’t do it.” (There is no evidence anyone close to him asked for his deportation or incarceration.)

16. Falsely said, of his crowd in Selma, North Carolina, “We had 23,000 people.” (The crowd was smaller than 20,000 people. Wrote the Washington Post’s Jenna Johnson: “Trump said at least 15,000 were at his rally in Selma, NC. In NH this morning, he upped it to 20,000. Just now in Ohio: 21,000.”)

17. Falsely said, of Obama, “Wherever I go, I see him screaming at people that are protesters.” (Obama has not screamed at protesters during the campaign. Trump was falsely describing Obama’s reaction to a protester this week in North Carolina, for whom Obama urged respect and calm.)

18. Falsely said, “There was no ISIS when she was secretary of state, at the beginning.” (Clinton became secretary of state in 2009. ISIS was already using the name Islamic State of Iraq in 2006.)

19. Falsely said, “Every single online poll said I won the debates.” (This is only true for unscientific online polls anyone could click. Trump lost the scientific online polls conducted with representative samples.)

20. Falsely said, “Worldwide, we have almost an $800 billion trade deficit.” (The U.S. trade deficit was $746 billion last year only when services trade is excluded; overall, it was $532 billion. And it may be lower this year. It fell 10 per cent in September, to the lowest level in 19 months.)

Reno, Nevada

21. Falsely said, “It’s been reported that certain key Democratic polling locations in Clark County were kept open for hours and hours beyond closing time to bus and bring Democratic voters in. Folks, it’s a rigged system.” (There was nothing rigged or partisan about this system. Democratic voters were not arriving late by bus. Polling stations must be kept open for people who are in line by the closing time.)

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22. Falsely said, “You look at the Iran deal, $150 billion.” He repeated this at his next rally: “I watch these politicians give $150 billion back to Iran.” (The nuclear deal with Iran did not involve a $150 billion payment; rather, a smaller amount of Iranian assets were unfrozen. The Treasury Department told Congress in 2015 that total Iranian assets were estimated at $100 billion to $125 billion; it put the “usable liquid assets” at around $50 billion. Secretary of State John Kerry said Iran would get about $55 billion.)

23. “What’s going on with Obamacare is — never had a chance to work. And I said it before they even submitted it for a vote.” (Trump did not warn about Obamacare. In fact, on the very day it was passed, he did a TV interview in which he offered some praise of it and pronounced himself “really torn.”)

24. Falsely said of Obamacare, “I always use your state as the example for the premiums going up. You know why? We think you have the highest in the country. I don’t want to tell you… you have the highest.” (Nevada’s 2017 increase is below average, about 12 per cent.)

25. Falsely said of Clinton, “She created ISIS, really. Came out of the vacuum.” (ISIS has roots dating back to 1999. It was Islamic State of Iraq by 2006, before Clinton was secretary of state.)

26. Falsely said of “inner cities,” “The education is practically nonexistent…there are no jobs.” (This is a gross exaggeration even for the poor black communities to which he seemed to be trying to refer. And many urban cores are thriving.)

27. Falsely said of the illegal immigrant who killed teenager Rene Angulo in 2009, “Everybody who knew this gang member said please, get him out of the country. Please put him in prison. He must be incarcerated.” (There is no evidence this happened.)

Denver, Colorado

28. Falsely said, “Michigan was never really in play for a Republican, but you know what, it’s in play for us, because all of their cars are being made now in Mexico. The cars are being made in Mexico.” (Politifact reported: “U.S. vehicle production in 2015 was the eighth-largest in history, at 11.9 million.”)

29. Falsely said, “We’re treating illegal immigrants… far better, in many cases, than we treat our veterans.” (Every news outlet that has examined this claim has deemed it completely wrong.)

30. Falsely said, “We are doing well with the African-American community and we are doing very well with the Hispanic community — everyone’s saying what’s going on?” (Trump’s standing with both African-Americans and Hispanics is poor. He is doing worse than Hispanics, polls and early voting suggest, than previous Republican nominees. No prominent analyst is wondering “what is going on?”)

31. Falsely said, “We have record-breaking enthusiasm according to the polls. Record-breaking.” (Polls suggest he doesn’t even have more enthusiasm than Mitt Romney did in 2012. “Trump’s voting base has regularly been less enthusiastic about him than Mitt Romney’s was four years ago,” a Washington Post analyst wrote in mid-October.)

32. Falsely said, “There’s no enthusiasm for Hillary.” (Polls suggest there is about as much enthusiasm for Clinton as there is for Trump. An ABC/Washington Post tracking poll this week showed strong enthusiasm among 52 per cent of Trump supporters and 51 per cent of Clinton supporters.)

33. Falsely said, of trade deals, “It’s got to be a two-way street. Right now it’s just — everything goes to other countries. We get nothing. Any time — take a look at Japan. Japan sends us cars by the hundreds of thousands. We send them practically nothing. We call that trade imbalance… we send them wheat. Wheat.” (The U.S. exports far more than wheat to Japan. According to the U.S. government, in 2013, “the top export categories were: Optic and Medical Instruments ($8.0 billion), Aircraft ($7.1 billion), Machinery ($5.8 billion), Electrical Machinery ($4.9 billion), and Meat (pork and beef) ($3.3 billion).”)

34. Falsely said, “We lose almost $500 billion a year with China.” (Leaving aside the characterization of a trade deficit as “losing,” the U.S. trade deficit with China was $367 billion last year in goods alone. It is lower when services are excluded. It may be lower this year.)

35. Falsely said, of the U.S. debt with China, “They take our money. They take our jobs. And we owe them $1.6 trillion.” (It is now about $1.1 trillion. “The biggest foreign holder of U.S. government debt had $1.19 trillion in bonds, notes and bills in August, down $33.7 billion from the prior month, the biggest drop since 2013,” Bloomberg reported in October.)

36. Falsely said, of the Clinton speech, “When they were finished, everybody left. And she stood up and talked and there was nobody there, practically.” (While many people did leave, many stayed.)

37. Falsely said, of a story about a shooting perpetrated by an illegal immigrant, “By the way there are hundreds of thousands of these stories.” (There have not been hundreds of thousands of shootings by illegal immigrants.)

38. Falsely said of the illegal immigrant who killed an off-duty Colorado police officer in 2005, “The people who knew him begged for his incarceration.” (Not true. The man had only traffic tickets on his record.)

39. Falsely said of the illegal immigrant who perpetrated a 2008 crash that killed three, “People that knew him also said, ‘Please please, he’s dangerous, please incarcerate him.’ But our State Department and the people involved didn’t want to get involved in that. So people lie dead.” (The man was not reported to federal authorities. It would not be State’s responsibility to deal with him even if he had been.)

40. Falsely said, “The Cuban-Americans, they just gave me the big award, the Bay of Pig (sic) Award. And it was a big thing in Miami two days ago, from the Cuban-Americans because of what I’ve done.” (This happened three weeks ago. It was an endorsement, not an award.)

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