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President Donald Trump made a series of false claims to members of the military on Tuesday in a partisan and combative speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
Trump lied again about the 2020 election. He repeated a long-debunked story about a Minnesota National Guard deployment in 2020. He again distorted the history of his first administrations fight against the ISIS terror group. He revived a fictional tale about immigration during former President Joe Bidens administration. And he exaggerated the militarys recruiting challenges under Biden.
In addition, Trump made a series of vague assertions about the protests in Los Angeles for which he presented no evidence. Here is a fact check of some of his checkable false claims from the speech plus a false claim he made in remarks about California at the White House earlier in the day.
The 2020 election: Trump repeated his long-debunked lie that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen. Trump legitimately lost a free and fair election to Biden.
The National Guard and Minneapolis: While bashing Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Trump revived a false story that CNN debunked nearly five years ago. Trump wrongly claimed that it was him, not Walz, who sent the National Guard to Minneapolis in 2020 amid the civil unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-trump-makes-multiple-000709740.html
Trump lies, that's no surprise.
Woodwizard
(1,263 posts)Enlisted under Biden, a majority of enlisted do 3-4 years and get out.
Codifer
(1,149 posts)Not a hero by any stretch of imagination. Just one of millions who spent the Summer of Love in SE Asia.
That speech and spectacle was nauseating.
What the fuck happened to military discipline? To honor?
Who were those silly 13 year old shitheads behind the sick fuck who jeered at Joe Biden?
What fucking country am I in?
Shit.
FloridaBlues
(4,651 posts)Hard to listen and watch this display.