Hours before former Vice President Joe Biden was advised to present his prime-time speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination, President Donald Trump assaulted him at length in a speech near Biden's birthplace.
Speaking in Old Forge, Pennsylvania, just outside Biden's home city of Scranton, Trump presented a crazy monologue that included unscripted musings about critters, boxing, dishwashers as well as the maintenance of woods.
It also involved a blizzard of false claims.
We are going through the transcript, but here are those we can tell you about so much:
The equity of the election
Trump said of Democrats:"The only way they are gont win would be by a rigged election. I really feel that. I saw the crowd outside."
Facts First: This is crap. Trump is trailing in each significant national poll and in several surveys of swing states. The occurrence of Trump supporters does not mean he cannot shed fairly.
Biden's availability to the media
Trump said he had seen a news report that said Biden hasn't taken questions from journalists since July 17.
Facts First: We don't have any clue what Trump might have seen, but the July 17 date is incorrect. Biden took questions during a formal media accessibility on July 28. And he has taken various different questions, such as in a People magazine joint meeting with Sen. Kamala Harris, his vice presidential choice, on August 14.
Obama and 'spying'
Facts First: Investigators engaged in legal surveillance of Trump campaign advisers in 2016. However, there's not any proof Obama had any role in this surveillance.
Trump has used the term"spying" to describe legal FBI surveillance of individuals affiliated with his campaign as part of its investigation to the Trump campaign's connection with Russia; the surveillance comprised court-approved wiretaps and the use of a secret FBI source who achieved into Trump advisers to try and organize meetings and conversations. (FBI Director Christopher Wray, who had been appointed by Trump, has stated he would not use the phrase"spying" to describe what he called"surveillance activity.")
The Justice Department's inspector general rejected Trump's previous claims that the FBI planted spies in his campaign, although the watchdog did find substantial errors in its own court applications for surveillance of prior campaign foreign policy advisor Carter Page.
-- CNN's Marshall Cohen contributed to this fact check
New Zealand and also the pandemic
Trump said that New Zealand, that has been commended for the handling of this coronavirus, had a"massive breakout yesterday."
Facts First: New Zealand didn't have a"gigantic breakout": it reported six new cases on Wednesday, and five on Thursday. While those tiny numbers represent an uptick in cases such as New Zealand, which travelled 102 days without any documented neighborhood transmission of this virus, it's a very small uptick that doesn't compare with the continuing US crisis.
The US reported 47,408 new instances on Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University data, and it had reported over 32,000 on Thursday as of 5:15 PM.
Trump's stance on the war in Iraq
Trump said he had opposed the war in Iraq before it started but had been ignored:"I would say,'Don't go into Iraq.'
Facts First: Trump never openly urged the US not to enter Iraq. The war started in March 2003; Trump expressed some critical sentiments soon then, but he did not emerge as an explicit opponent of this war before 2004.
You can read more here.
The state of this pandemic
Trump touted recent jobs increase, then said that the growth is occurring during that which he said is"hopefully" that the"closing moments of this pandemic."
Truth: Hopefully otherwise, it's simply not true that the coronavirus pandemic is in its own"final minutes." The US continues to get tens of thousands of new reported cases every day.
Veterans Choice
Trump repeated a lie he's uttered over 150 times, stating,"We passed Veterans Choice."
Facts First: The Veterans Choice invoice -- a bipartisan initiative headed by Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and the late John McCain of Arizona that enables certain veterans to be covered by the government for medical care outside the VA system -- was signed into law by Barack Obama at 2014. In 2018, Trump signed the VA Mission Act, which expanded and altered the program.
Polling
Trump called polls as"suppression polls," which are designed to deflate his supporters, subsequently criticized pollsters for surveying enrolled voters rather than likely voters. Some people that are enrolled to vote have expired, '' he noticed.
Facts First: There is simply no proof that major pollsters have exploited their amounts to suppress the excitement of Trump Republicans, since Trump has repeatedly alleged.
Trump is eligible to assert that polls of likely voters are somewhat more accurate than surveys of Republicans. (Pollsters often change to surveying likely voters in the late stages of a campaign, because individuals can more accurately evaluate their likelihood to vote as voting gets nearer.) But Trump's remarks about deceased individuals are nonsensical. The simple fact that some people remain on the voter rolls after having died doesn't make polls of living registered voters incorrect.
Speaking in Old Forge, Pennsylvania, just outside Biden's home city of Scranton, Trump presented a crazy monologue that included unscripted musings about critters, boxing, dishwashers as well as the maintenance of woods.
It also involved a blizzard of false claims.
We are going through the transcript, but here are those we can tell you about so much:
The equity of the election
Trump said of Democrats:"The only way they are gont win would be by a rigged election. I really feel that. I saw the crowd outside."
Facts First: This is crap. Trump is trailing in each significant national poll and in several surveys of swing states. The occurrence of Trump supporters does not mean he cannot shed fairly.
Biden's availability to the media
Trump said he had seen a news report that said Biden hasn't taken questions from journalists since July 17.
Facts First: We don't have any clue what Trump might have seen, but the July 17 date is incorrect. Biden took questions during a formal media accessibility on July 28. And he has taken various different questions, such as in a People magazine joint meeting with Sen. Kamala Harris, his vice presidential choice, on August 14.
Obama and 'spying'
Facts First: Investigators engaged in legal surveillance of Trump campaign advisers in 2016. However, there's not any proof Obama had any role in this surveillance.
Trump has used the term"spying" to describe legal FBI surveillance of individuals affiliated with his campaign as part of its investigation to the Trump campaign's connection with Russia; the surveillance comprised court-approved wiretaps and the use of a secret FBI source who achieved into Trump advisers to try and organize meetings and conversations. (FBI Director Christopher Wray, who had been appointed by Trump, has stated he would not use the phrase"spying" to describe what he called"surveillance activity.")
The Justice Department's inspector general rejected Trump's previous claims that the FBI planted spies in his campaign, although the watchdog did find substantial errors in its own court applications for surveillance of prior campaign foreign policy advisor Carter Page.
-- CNN's Marshall Cohen contributed to this fact check
New Zealand and also the pandemic
Trump said that New Zealand, that has been commended for the handling of this coronavirus, had a"massive breakout yesterday."
Facts First: New Zealand didn't have a"gigantic breakout": it reported six new cases on Wednesday, and five on Thursday. While those tiny numbers represent an uptick in cases such as New Zealand, which travelled 102 days without any documented neighborhood transmission of this virus, it's a very small uptick that doesn't compare with the continuing US crisis.
The US reported 47,408 new instances on Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University data, and it had reported over 32,000 on Thursday as of 5:15 PM.
Trump's stance on the war in Iraq
Trump said he had opposed the war in Iraq before it started but had been ignored:"I would say,'Don't go into Iraq.'
Facts First: Trump never openly urged the US not to enter Iraq. The war started in March 2003; Trump expressed some critical sentiments soon then, but he did not emerge as an explicit opponent of this war before 2004.
You can read more here.
The state of this pandemic
Trump touted recent jobs increase, then said that the growth is occurring during that which he said is"hopefully" that the"closing moments of this pandemic."
Truth: Hopefully otherwise, it's simply not true that the coronavirus pandemic is in its own"final minutes." The US continues to get tens of thousands of new reported cases every day.
Veterans Choice
Trump repeated a lie he's uttered over 150 times, stating,"We passed Veterans Choice."
Facts First: The Veterans Choice invoice -- a bipartisan initiative headed by Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and the late John McCain of Arizona that enables certain veterans to be covered by the government for medical care outside the VA system -- was signed into law by Barack Obama at 2014. In 2018, Trump signed the VA Mission Act, which expanded and altered the program.
Polling
Trump called polls as"suppression polls," which are designed to deflate his supporters, subsequently criticized pollsters for surveying enrolled voters rather than likely voters. Some people that are enrolled to vote have expired, '' he noticed.
Facts First: There is simply no proof that major pollsters have exploited their amounts to suppress the excitement of Trump Republicans, since Trump has repeatedly alleged.
Trump is eligible to assert that polls of likely voters are somewhat more accurate than surveys of Republicans. (Pollsters often change to surveying likely voters in the late stages of a campaign, because individuals can more accurately evaluate their likelihood to vote as voting gets nearer.) But Trump's remarks about deceased individuals are nonsensical. The simple fact that some people remain on the voter rolls after having died doesn't make polls of living registered voters incorrect.