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AP FACT CHECK: Is Trump's America bully once more or hellscape?
At their national convention, Republicans portrayed the U.South. equally a country made great again by President Donald Trump
WASHINGTON -- The Republican National Convention begged this question: Why are President Donald Trump's almost fervent supporters describing the state of his union as a hellscape?
It was perhaps the key paradox for voters wondering what to believe in the rhetoric, because it defied logic to believe information technology all. Are Americans living in a dystopia or in an America made not bad over again past Trump?
4 years ago, candidate Trump promised that if he won, "The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will shortly come to an stop. Beginning on January 20th, 2017, safe will be restored."
Now? "I've never seen our streets get this bad so quickly," Pat Lynch, representing tens of thousands of New York police officers, told the GOP proceedings. "We are staring down the barrel of a public rubber disaster." He said this in remarks singing Trump's praises.
Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer and a one-time New York mayor, spoke of years of "carnage" and violence rising at present, and implored, "Mr. President, brand our nation safe once again."
All of the convention'southward apocalyptic rhetoric was in service of bashing Trump challenger Joe Biden, Democratic mayors and national Democrats both in and out of office as being soft on violence and chaos. Yet the landscape of lawlessness they described is Trump'due south America now.
Hyperbole suffused the proceedings, both when Trump and his supporters hailed his record and when they denounced the other side. Outright falsehoods were heard every night on the social justice protests, the coronavirus, the economic system and Biden'due south calendar.
A pick from the week:
PROTESTS
VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE, expressing support for people in uniform: "People like Dave Patrick Underwood, an officer in Homeland Security's Federal Protective Service, who was shot and killed during the riots in Oakland, California." — Wednesday.
THE FACTS: Pence is blurring what happened, leaving the impression that Underwood was a victim of rioters. Underwood was not killed past demonstrators in Oakland who were protesting for racial justice.
Federal authorities say Underwood was fatally shot by Steven Carrillo, an Air Strength staff sergeant they say has ties to a far-right, anti-regime movement, while Underwood was guarding a federal courthouse during protests in May. Officials believe Carrillo used the protests as a cover for the slaying and his subsequent escape.
Carrillo, 32, hatched a plot to target officers with at to the lowest degree ane other accomplice online, federal authorities allege. Over an eight-day span before his capture, they say, Carrillo fatally shot Underwood and wounded his partner, then killed a California sheriff's deputy and injured four others.
Of the 2 law enforcement officers killed, Pence but mentioned the one who was in the vicinity of the protest. The other is Santa Cruz County Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, who authorities say was killed past Carrillo while pursuing him in June.
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RACIAL INEQUALITY
KENTUCKY ATTORNEY GENERAL DANIEL CAMERON: "On the economy: Joe Biden couldn't do it, merely President Trump did build an economic system that worked for anybody, specially minorities." — Tuesday.
THE FACTS: Not accurate.
Republicans tin can talk successfully near the reject in unemployment rates for Black and Hispanic workers. Merely that's merely 1 gauge; enough of economical troubles and inequalities abound for minorities. Minority groups still lagged behind white people with regard to incomes, wealth and home ownership earlier the pandemic. But when the illness struck, information technology became clear that the economic system did not piece of work well for everybody as the job losses and infections disproportionately hit minorities.
Black unemployment at present stands at 14.6%. Hispanic unemployment is 12.nine%. The white unemployment rate is ix.2%. For every dollar of total wealth held by white households, Blacks take just 5 cents, according to the Federal Reserve. Information technology'south 4 cents for Hispanics. That is not evidence of an economy working "especially" for minorities.
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Law
ERIC TRUMP: "Biden has pledged to defund the police force." — Wednesday.
REP. STEVE SCALISE of Louisiana: "Joe Biden has embraced the left's insane mission to defund them."
THE FACTS: No, Biden has explicitly rejected the phone call by some on the left to defund the police. He has proposed more money for law, conditioned on improvements in their practices.
Biden's criminal justice agenda, released long before the protests over racial injustice, proposes more federal money for "training that is needed to avert tragic, unjustifiable deaths" and hiring more than officers to ensure that departments are racially and ethnically cogitating of the populations they serve.
Specifically, he calls for a $300 million infusion into federal customs policing grant programs. That's more money, not less.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER
GIULIANI: "Black Lives Matter and antifa sprang into activity and, in a wink, they hijacked the peaceful protest into vicious, cruel riots." — Thursday.
THE FACTS: That's a hollow claim.
In that location's no bear witness that Black Lives Matter or antifa, or whatever political group for that affair, is infiltrating racial injustice protests and injecting violence.
In June, The Associated Press analyzed court records, employment histories and social media posts for 217 people arrested in Minneapolis and the Commune of Columbia, cities at the center of the protests earlier this year.
More than than 85 percent of the people arrested were local residents, and few had affiliation with any organized groups. Social media posts for a few of those arrested indicated they were involved in left-leaning activities while others expressed support for the political right and Trump himself.
Local police departments were forced to knock down widespread social media rumors that busloads of "antifa," a term for leftist militants, were coming to violently disrupt cities and towns during nationwide racial justice protests. In June, Twitter and Facebook disrepair accounts linked to white supremacy groups that were promoting some of those falsehoods online.
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COVID-nineteen
TRUMP: "The The states has among the lowest case fatality rates of any major country anywhere in the world." — Thursday.
THE FACTS: Not true. Not if you consider Russia, Saudi arabia, the Philippines and Bharat to be major countries.
The U.Due south. sits right in the middle when it comes to COVID-19 mortality rates in the twenty nations about impacted by the pandemic, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resources Center.
Of the 20, Mexico has the highest mortality rate at 10.8 deaths for every 100 confirmed COVID cases, followed past Ecuador at v.eight. Kingdom of saudi arabia had the everyman rate of the twenty nations at one.2, followed by Bangladesh, the Philippines, Russia, Morocco, India, Argentina, S Africa and Chile.
The U.S. had the tenth lowest of the xx nations, with a bloodshed rate of 3.1.
When the center looked at the data in another way, analyzing the COVID death charge per unit for every 100,000 residents, the U.S. fares even worse. Merely three nations — Brazil, Chile and Republic of peru — posted higher decease rates.
Understanding deaths as a pct of the population or as a per centum of known infections is problematic considering countries track and study COVID-19 deaths and cases differently. Many other factors are in play in shaping a death cost besides how well a country responded to the pandemic, such as the overall wellness or youth of national populations.
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TRUMP: "Instead of following the science, Joe Biden wants to inflict a painful shutdown on the unabridged country. His shutdown would inflict unthinkable and lasting harm on our nation's children, families, and citizens of all backgrounds." — Thursday.
THE FACTS: That's false. Biden has publicly said he would shut downwards the nation'south economy just if scientists and public health directorate recommended he practise so to stem the COVID-19 threat. In other words, he said he would follow the science, not disregard it.
Speaking Sunday in an ABC interview, Biden said he "will be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives" when he was asked if he would be willing to shut the land again.
"So if the scientists say shut information technology down?" asked ABC's David Muir.
"I would close it downwards," Biden responded. "I would listen to the scientists." The sometime vice president has said repeatedly that no one knows what January would look like.
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DONALD TRUMP JR. on the coronavirus response: "The president chop-chop took activeness and shut down travel from Cathay." — Monday.
THE FACTS: No, he didn't close downward travel from China. He restricted it. Dozens of countries took similar steps to control travel from hot spots earlier or around the same time the U.S. did.
The U.Due south. restrictions that took upshot February. 2 continued to allow travel to the U.S. from China's Hong Kong and Macao territories over the past v months. The Associated Press reported that more than 8,000 Chinese and foreign nationals based in those territories entered the U.S. in the first three months after the travel restrictions were imposed.
Additionally, more than 27,000 Americans returned from red china in the starting time month subsequently the restrictions took effect. U.Due south. officials lost rails of more than 1,600 of them who were supposed to be monitored for virus exposure.
Dr. Anne Schuchat, the No. ii official at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, too told the AP that the federal government was slow to understand how much the coronavirus was spreading from Europe, which helped drive the acceleration of outbreaks across the U.Southward. in late February. Trump didn't announce travel restrictions for many European countries until mid-March.
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Teaching
TRUMP: "Biden also vowed to oppose school choice and oppose all charter schools." — Thursday.
THE FACTS: That's simulated. Biden doesn't oppose charter schools. He opposes federal money going to for-profit charter companies.
Such companies are simply a slice of the lease school market, meaning Biden's position wouldn't essentially alter the charter mural that is dominated by nonprofit organizations.
Biden does oppose federal money for tuition vouchers.
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Wellness CARE
TRUMP: "We protected your preexisting conditions. Very strongly protected preexisting ... and you don't hear that." — Monday.
THE FACTS: Yous don't hear it because information technology's not true.
People with such medical problems have wellness insurance protections because of President Barack Obama's health care police force, which Trump is trying to dismantle.
1 of Trump's alternatives to Obama'southward law — curt-term health insurance, already in place — doesn't have to cover preexisting weather. Another culling is association wellness plans, which are oriented to pocket-sized businesses and sole proprietors and do cover those conditions.
Neither of the two alternatives appears to have made much divergence in the marketplace.
Meanwhile, Trump's assistants is pressing the Supreme Court for full repeal of the Obama-era law, including provisions that protect people with preexisting weather condition from health insurance discrimination.
With "Obamacare" still in place, preexisting conditions continue to be covered by regular individual wellness insurance plans.
Insurers must take all applicants, regardless of medical history, and charge the aforementioned standard premiums to healthy people and those who are in poor health, or have a history of medical problems.
Before the Affordable Care Act, any insurer could deny coverage — or accuse more — to anyone with a preexisting status who was seeking to buy an individual policy.
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BIDEN'S AGENDA
NIKKI HALEY, former administrator to the United Nations, on the Democrats: "They desire a government takeover of health intendance. They want to ban fracking and kill millions of jobs." — Monday.
REP. JIM Hashemite kingdom of jordan of Ohio: "Defund the law, defund border patrol and defund our military." — Monday.
RONNA McDANIEL, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee: "Y'all deserve to know that they would ban fracking and eliminate fossil fuels, which would kill millions of good-paying jobs and raise the cost of driving our cars and heating our homes. You deserve to know that they desire a complete authorities takeover of our health care system, so moms like me won't be able to take our kids to the same pediatrician they've been seeing for years." — Monday.
THE FACTS: Those aren't Biden'southward positions. A number of Republican speakers seized on proposals of the Autonomous left, in some cases distorting those positions, and assigned them to Biden, who doesn't share those views.
He does not favor a authorities takeover of wellness care; instead he proposes building on Obama'due south constabulary, which preserves the individual insurance market while expanding Medicaid.
Biden also did not endorse proposals to cease border enforcement or even to decriminalize illegal crossings.
Biden supports banning but new oil and gas permits, fracking included, on federal state. Simply most U.South. production is on individual land. The government says production on federal land deemed for less than 10% of oil and gas in 2018.
In a March 15 principal argue, Biden misstated his energy policy, suggesting he would allow no new fracking. His campaign quickly corrected the record. Biden has otherwise been consistent on his middle-of-the-route position, going so far as to tell an anti-fracking activist that he "ought to vote for somebody else" if he wanted an immediate fracking ban.
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VIRUS TESTING
IVANKA TRUMP: "Our president rapidly mobilized the full strength of government and the individual sector ... to build the nigh robust testing system in the globe." — Thursday.
THE FACTS: Her assertion of superior U.Southward. testing for COVID-xix is dubious. The U.S. repeatedly stumbled with testing in the early weeks of the outbreak, assuasive the virus to quickly spread in the U.S. The president'southward own experts say the U.S. is nowhere near the level of testing needed to control the virus.
The U.Due south. currently is conducting nearly 750,000 tests a solar day, far short of what many public health experts say the U.S. should exist testing to control the spread of the virus. Looking to the fall, some experts have called for 4 million or more tests daily, while a group assembled by Harvard University estimated that 20 million a day would be needed to keep the virus in check.
Public-health government acknowledge testing was a critical failure in the crucial early months. The number of tests being done has since surged simply remains inadequate. Many who practice get tested accept unduly long waits for results, during which time they can be spreading the virus to others.
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Islamic republic of iran
SEN. TOM Cotton wool of Arkansas: "Joe Biden sent pallets of greenbacks to the ayatollahs." — Thursday.
THE FACTS: This is a distorted tale Trump and Republicans love to tell. Yeah, the U.S. flew cash to Islamic republic of iran in the Obama years, only it was money the United States owed to that country.
Cotton besides played into the convention's pattern of attributing every questionable action of Obama'southward administration to Biden personally.
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Economic system
PENCE: "Four years ago we inherited ... an economy struggling to break out of the slowest recovery since the Great Low. ... In our showtime three years we congenital the greatest economy in the globe." — Wed.
LARRY KUDLOW, Trump economic adviser: Trump was "inheriting a stagnant economy on the front end of recession," and under the president, "the economy was rebuilt in iii years." — Tuesday.
THE FACTS: This is faux. The economic system was salubrious when Trump arrived at the White House.
Even if the recovery from the 2008 financial crisis was slow, Trump took office with unemployment at a low 4.7%, steady job growth and a falling federal upkeep deficit. The longest expansion in U.S. history began in the middle of 2009 and continued until the start of the yr, spanning both the Obama and Trump presidencies.
The U.Southward. economy did benefit from Trump's 2017 tax cuts with a jump in growth in 2018, but the upkeep deficit began to climb equally a result of the revenue enhancement breaks that favored companies and the wealthy in hopes of permanently expanding the economy.
Almanac growth during Obama'southward 2nd term averaged about 2.iii%. Trump notched a slightly better 2.5% during his first three years, but the land swung into recession this twelvemonth because of the coronavirus and will probably get out Trump with an inferior runway record to his predecessor over 4 years.
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WAR
SEN. RAND PAUL: "Joe Biden voted for the Iraq war, which President Trump has long called the worst geopolitical mistake of our generation." — Tuesday.
THE FACTS: Trump had no more foresight on this matter than Biden. Neither was confronting it when information technology started.
When asked during a Sept. 11, 2002, radio interview if he would support an Republic of iraq invasion, Trump responded, "Yes, I estimate so." The next month, Biden as a senator voted to authorize George Due west. Bush to utilize force in Iraq.
The next March, just days after the U.S. launched its invasion, Trump said information technology "looks similar a tremendous success from a armed services standpoint."
Information technology wasn't until September 2003 that Trump first publicly raised doubts about the invasion, proverb "a lot of people (are) questioning the whole concept of going in in the get-go place." In November 2005, Biden called his Senate vote to authorize forcefulness a mistake.
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TAXES
ERIC TRUMP: The president slashed taxes and "wages went through the roof." — Tuesday.
THE FACTS: Non quite. Wage growth did improve, but in that location is clearly still a roof on workers' incomes.
The 2017 tax cuts appear unlikely to deliver on their promised pay increases. White Business firm economists argued that incomes would surge by at least $4,000 because of the lower corporate tax charge per unit. That has nonetheless to occur and seems unlikely given the current recession.
But average hourly wages did improve to a three.5% annual gain by February 2019, much better than the ii.7% almanac proceeds in December 2016 before Trump became president. The problem was that wage growth then began to slip through the stop of terminal year despite the steady hiring. Wage gains but accelerated once more with the pandemic and layoffs of millions of poor workers that artificially raised average wages.
What workers have still to encounter is a meaningful modify in the distribution of income. More than half of total household income goes to the top 20% of earners, according to the Census Agency. Their share has increased slightly nether Trump with data that is current through 2018. The lesser 20% of earners get just three.1% of full income, just every bit they did earlier Trump's presidency.
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FARMING
CRIS PETERSON, from a Wisconsin dairy family unit: "Our entire economy and dairy farming are once again roaring dorsum. One person deserves the credit and our vote, President Donald J. Trump." — Tuesday.
THE FACTS: Non everyone in the dairy industry views information technology as booming, especially as larger operations are putting smaller family farms out of business.
The Agronomics Department reported this summer that "dairy herds fell by more than half between 2002 and 2019, with an accelerating charge per unit of decline in 2018 and 2019, even equally milk production continued to grow."
Part of the problem is that smaller farms face higher production costs. Farms with more 2,000 cattle are more probable for their sales to exceed their total costs, while smaller farms are more likely to operate at a loss by this metric, according to government figures.
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SUBURBS
PATRICIA McCLOSKEY on Democrats: "They want to abolish the suburbs altogether by ending single-family unit dwelling zoning. This forced rezoning would bring criminal offence, lawlessness and low-quality apartments into thriving suburban neighborhoods. President Trump smartly concluded this regime overreach, but Joe Biden wants to bring information technology back." — Mon.
THE FACTS: That's a imitation account of what Biden supports. In 2015, during the Obama administration, a regulation took issue intended to ensure that communities face up racial segregation in housing.
The dominion required more 1,200 jurisdictions receiving federal Housing and Urban Evolution cake grants and housing aid to analyze their housing stock and come with plans to gainsay patterns of segregation and discrimination. It did not eliminate zoning for single-family homes in the suburbs.
Trump revoked the rule; Biden supports information technology. But Biden does non support requiring municipalities to refrain from building single-family homes as a condition for getting money from HUD.
McClosky and her husband have been charged with a felony for brandishing guns outside their St. Louis home equally racial justice protesters passed.
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VOTING FRAUD
TRUMP, on mail-in voting: "Absentee — like in Florida — absentee is good. But other than that, they're very, very bad." — Mon.
THE FACTS: He's making a false distinction. Mail service-in ballots are cast in the same way as absentee mail ballots, with the same level of scrutiny such equally signature verification in many states.
In more than 30 states and the District of Columbia, voters have a right to "no excuse" absentee voting. That means they can apply mail-in ballots for any reason, regardless of whether a person is out of boondocks or working.
In Florida, the Legislature in 2016 voted to alter the wording of such balloting from "absentee" to "vote-past-post" to make clear a voter tin can cast such ballots if they wish. So there is no "absentee" voting in that state, as Trump alludes to.
More broadly, voter fraud has proved exceedingly rare. The Brennan Center for Justice in 2017 ranked the risk of ballot fraud at 0.00004% to 0.0009%, based on studies of past elections.
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TRUMP, on the November vote count and Democrats: "We have to be very, very conscientious and this fourth dimension they are trying to do it with the whole post office scam. They volition blame it on the post part. You can run into them setting it up." — Monday.
THE FACTS: No postal scam has emerged from the Democrats. Instead Trump has given credence to suspicions that he wants to suppress mail service-in voting to help his chances in the election.
He'south said every bit much. In an interview this month, he admitted he's trying to starve the U.S. Postal Service of money in order to make it harder to process an expected surge of mail-in ballots, which he worries could cost him the election.
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TRUMP, on lacking ballots in an election: "What does defective mean? It ways fraud." — Mon.
THE FACTS: No, defective ballots do not equate to fraud. The overwhelming majority aren't.
According to the Brennan Middle for Justice, the vast majority of ballots are disqualified because they go far belatedly, a particular worry this year because of recent U.S. Postal Service delays and an expected surge in postal service-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic.
Ballots also are deemed defective if at that place is a missing signature — common with newer voters unfamiliar with the process — or it doesn't match what's on file. In addition, some states require absentee voters to go a witness or notary to sign their ballots.
"None of those are fraud," said Wendy Weiser, director of Brennan'southward democracy programme at NYU School of Police. When suspected cases are investigated for potential fraud, studies have borne out the main reason for defects is voter mistake, she said.
Defective ballots besides disproportionately impact voters of color, and recent lawsuits have successfully challenged some requirements as posing health risks or disenfranchising voters. Earlier this year, for instance, a federal judge ruled that a Southward Carolina requirement to have witnesses to mail-in ballots could put voters' health at risk; the requirement was suspended it for the June primary. Others states including Minnesota and Rhode Isle take also suspended that requirement due to the pandemic.
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Associated Printing writers Amanda Seitz in Chicago; David Klepper in Providence, Rhode Island; Neb Barrow in Atlanta; Matthew Lee, Paul Wiseman and Matthew Daly in Washington; and Thomas Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this study.
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EDITOR'S Note — A expect at the veracity of claims by political figures.
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