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#Trump repeated his claim that MVP #KamalaHarris acted as a #BorderCzar during the Biden admin & that “essentially, she never went to the border” during her time as VP.

2X FALSE

1. Harris did go to the border as VP, in Texas in mid-2021; many Republicans had criticized Harris prior to the visit for not having gone, & some later argued that she didn’t go frequently enough, but the recurring claim that she “never went” has not been true for >3 yrs.

#TrumpLies

2. #Harris was never made #Biden’s #BorderCzar, a label the WH has always emphasized is inaccurate. In reality, Biden gave Harris a more limited #immigration-related assignment in 2021, asking her to lead diplomacy w/ ElSalvador, Guatemala & Honduras in an attempt to address the conditions that prompted their citizens to try to migrate to the US.

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#Trump claimed no one died #Jan6

False

Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force vet, was fatally shot by a US Capitol Police employee as #insurgents violently tried to force their way toward the House Chamber.

3 other people died of “medical emergencies” during the riot.

#TrumpLies

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Capitol Police officer #BrianSicknick, who was attacked w/pepper spray & battled the #violent #Trump supporters during the #insurrection, died after suffering strokes the next day; the ME found that Sicknick died of “natural causes”, but told WaPo that “all that transpired played a role in his condition.”

4 other police officers who defended the Capitol on #Jan6 subsequently died by suicide after the trauma of the attack.

https://www.newsweek.com/3-capitol-police-officers-have-died-suicide-since-january-6-insurrection-1615452

4 Capitol Police Officers Have Died by Suicide Since the January 6 Insurrection

Authorities announced that two more D.C. police officers who responded to the U.S. Capitol insurrection have died by suicide.

^{Jon Jackson (Newsweek)}

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#Trump tried to claim he hasn’t called to “lock up” #HillaryClinton.

He claimed said that while his supporters “used to say, ‘lock her up, lock her up,’” he wouldn’t echo those calls & instead “would say just, ‘relax, please.’”

Outrageously he went further, saying, “I was very protective of (Clinton). Nobody would understand that, but I was. I think my people understand it. They used to say, ‘lock her up, lock her up,’ but I would say just, ‘relax, please.”

False.
#TrumpLies

False

Trump has used those exact words & similar language on other occasions.

“For what she’s done, they should lock her up,” Trump said after the crowd chanted “lock her up” at an Oct 2016 rally in NC.

“‘Lock her up’ is right,” he said at an Oct 2016 rally in PA.

Trump has also explicitly called for Clinton’s imprisonment using different phrasing.

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“#HillaryClinton has to go to jail, OK? She has to go to jail,” #Trump said in a June 2016 speech in CA. “She has to go to jail,” he repeated in an Oct 2016 speech in FL. At a presidential debate in Oct 2016, after Clinton said, “It’s just awfully good that someone w/the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country,” Trump responded, “Because you’d be in jail.”

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In his 2020 campaign for reelection, though, #Trump again made calls to “lock her up.”

“You should lock her up, I’ll tell you,” he said at a January 2020 rally in Ohio. At an October 2020 rally in Georgia, after the crowd chanted “lock them up” in relation to the #Biden family, Trump said, “You should lock them up. Lock up the Bidens. Lock up Hillary.”

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#Trump once again claimed that he signed the largest tax cut in history during his presidency.

“Our tax cuts, which are the biggest in history, our tax cuts are coming due as you know very soon.”

False.

Trump’s 2017 #TaxCuts & Jobs Act was not the largest in history, either in percentage of #GDP or #inflation-adjusted dollars.

Moreover, his “tax cuts” reduced #CORPORATE & only the individual income tax rates for the #wealthy.

#TrumpLies

If you want to discuss “size” irregardless of who benefited from the tax cuts, he is still lying.

2 other tax cut bills have been “bigger” – former President Ronald #Reagan’s 1981 package & legislation signed by former President Barack #Obama that extended earlier tax cuts enacted during former President #GeorgeWBush’s admin.

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#Trump, talking about #Jan6 - bc the most important thing about that day was crowd size:

“If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech & you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people. If not, we had more,” referencing the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s 1963 March on Washington “I Have a Dream” speech.

False.

MLK’s speech drew an estimated 250k people.
Jan 6 investigators estimated that Trump’s speech drew 53k.

#TrumpLies