FactChecking the Harris-Trump Presidential Debate

factcheck.org factchecking the debates I went to Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of Washington DC and the mayor put it back in writing as you know I said you know this is going to be a very big Rally or whatever you want to call it and again it wasn't done by me it was done by others I said I'd like to give you 10,000 National Guard or soldiers they rejected me regarding the January 6 2021 attack on the US capital Trump baselessly claimed that he quote went to Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of Washington DC unquote Muriel Bowser and offered to give them quote 10,000 National Guard or soldiers unquote for Capital Security then acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller said there was quote no direct order from the president unquote to put 10,000 National Guard troops on the ready according to a house committee report in Springfield they're eating the dogs the people that came in they're eating the cat Trump referred to a debunked rumor that began on Facebook alleging that immigrants in Springfield Ohio were stealing and eating local pets City police have said that there have been quote no credible reports unquote of that kind of activity my opponent has a plan that I call the Trump's sales tax which would be a 20% tax on everyday Goods that you rely on to get through the month economists have said that that Trump sales tax would actually result for middle class families and about $4,000 more a year Harris claimed Trump intends to enact when an effect is a sales tax which she said Economist estimate would raise prices on typical American families by almost $4,000 a year that's a high-end estimate from a liberal Think Tank about Trump's plan for Universal Baseline tariffs on Imports they're not going to have higher prices what's going to have and who's going to have higher prices is China and all of the countries that have been ripping us off for years but Trump was also wrong when he claimed Americans would not pay higher prices due to tariffs and that the higher prices would be borne by the countries the tariffs are levied against many nonpartisan economists disagree about the amount that Trump's proposed tariffs would raise prices for American families but most agree it would be substantial she was the Emissary they sent her in to negotiate with zalinski and Putin and she did and the war started three days later Trump falsely claimed that Harris was sent quote to negotiate peace unquote between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022 days before Russia invaded Ukraine that month Harris met with Ukrainian President Vladimir zalinski at the annual Munich security conference in Germany she did not meet with Putin As Trump said Donald Trump left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression Harris falsely claimed that quote Trump left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression unquote when President Joe Biden and Harris took office in January 2021 the unemployment rate was 6.4% lower than it was during several administrations since the 1930s we have millions of people pouring into our country from prisons and jails from mental institutions and insane asylums and they're coming in and they're taking jobs that are occupied right now by African-Americans and Hispanics and also unions unions are going to be affected very soon Trump repeated his unsupported claim that millions of people are quote pouring into our country from prisons and jails from mental institutions and insane asylums unot quote and he said these migrants were taking jobs from African-Americans and Hispanics and also unions employment and Union membership data show no evidence of that either every legal scholar every Democrat every Republican liberal conservative they all wanted this issue to be brought back to the states where the people could vote Trump repeated his false claim that everyone liberals and conservatives wanted to end roie Wade's constitutional right to abortion experts have previously told us that Trump's claim is quote utter nonsense quote and quote patently absurd unquote even though some Scholars have been critical of some of the legal reasoning in the decision many did not wish to end row but her vice presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine he also says execution after birth it's execution no longer abortion because the baby is born is okay the former president repeatedly said Democrats including vice presidential candidate Tim walls were in favor of abortion quote in the 9th month unquote or even after birth abortion that late is exceedingly rare and abortion after birth does not exist that's homicide and it's illegal but understand if Donald Trump were to be reelected he will sign a National Abortion ban understand in his project 2025 there would be a National Abortion a monitor that would be monitoring your pregnancies your miscarriages Harris repeated the assertion that Trump quote will sign a National Abortion ban unquote if elected but Trump said that he does not intend to sign such a ban Harris also tried to tie Trump to project 2025 proposal for mandatory abortion reporting but Trump has tried to distance himself from the document well let's be clear that the Trump Administration resulted in a trade deficit one of the highest we've ever seen in the history of America the vice president claimed Trump's economic policies led to quote one of the highest unquote trade deficits in American history but the annual trade deficits during the Biden Administration have exceeded those under Trump and she will never allow fracking in Pennsylvania if she won the election fracking in Pennsylvania will end on day one Trump said Harris quote will never allow fracking in Pennsylvania unquote when she was running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination Harris did say she was quote in favor of banning fracking unquote but in an August 29th interview on CNN and at the debate Harris said quote I will not ban fracking unquote his plan is to do what he has done before which is to provide a tax cut for for billionaires and big corporations which will result in $5 trillion to America's deficit Harris claimed the Trump's tax proposal would quote provide a tax cut for billionaires and big corporations which will result in $5 trillion to America's deficit unquote that's the estimated 10-year cost of extending all the tax cuts in Trump's 2017 tax law but those tax changes benefited people of all income groups she has a plan to confiscate everybody's gun Trump falsely claimed that Harris quote has a plan to confiscate everybody's gun unquote Harris is not called for taking away all guns and her campaign said she no longer supports a mandatory buyback program for so-called assault weapons when I had it I had tariffs and yet I had no inflation uh look we've had a terrible economy because inflation has which is really known as a country Buster it breaks up countries we have inflation like very few people have ever seen before probably the worst in our nation's history Trump claimed that he had quote no inflation unquote during his presidency while inflation experienced under Biden has been quote probably the worst in our nation's history unquote inflation was low under Trump but it wasn't zero and while inflation has risen significantly under Biden it is far below record levels I had a choice to make do I save it and make it as good as it can be or do I let it rot and I saved it I did the right thing Trump made the Curious claim that he quote saved unquote the Affordable Care Act even though he tried and failed to repeal and replace it while he was president and he backed a lawsuit that would have nullified the law and all over the world crime is down all over the world except here crime here is up and through the roof despite their fraudulent statements that they made crime in this country is through the roof and we have a new form of crime it's called migrant crime and it's happening at levels that nobody thought possible president Trump as you know the FBI says overall violent crime is actually coming down in this country but excuse me the FBI defra they were defrauding statements they they didn't include the worst cities they didn't include the cities with the worst crime it was a a fraud just like their number of 88,000 jobs that they said they created turned out to be a fraud the former president wrongly claimed that quote crime in this country is through the roof unquote and that FBI data to the contrary is a fraud because quote they didn't include the cities with the worst crime unquote the latest FBI statistics are based on voluntary reporting from a higher participation of cities than any year during Trump's presidency Trump also falsely claimed that the number of jobs created during the Biden Administration quote turned out to be a fraud unquote the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced a downward Revision in the jobs tally during its routine annual revision of jobs data you can read our full 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