"Trump’s lower-profile recent public appearances, like rallies and interviews, have also featured wholly imaginary tales," Dale wrote. "The Republican presidential nominee is telling colorful lies that are completely untethered to reality."
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Dale then delves into 11 stories, told by Trump, that do not stand up to fact.
1. No, Vice President Kamala Harris has not said she'll reinstate the military draft
Said Trump: “She wants to bring back the draft, and draft your child, and put them in a war that should never have happened.”
Wrote Dale: "That’s absolute bunk. Harris is not talking at all about bringing back the draft."
2. No, Harris did not cheat during their presidential debate
Said Trump: “If you watch that that interview, she had notes. That means she knew the questions. And she had notes. She kept looking down – ‘uhhh.’ Nobody wants to cover it.”
Wrote Dale: "He even performed an impression in which he portrayed Harris supposedly looking down at these notes. She didn’t actually have any notes."
3. No, transgender children are not receiving secret surgery at school
Said Trump: “The transgender thing is incredible. Think of it. Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child.”
Wrote Dale: "Trump’s campaign subsequently made clear to CNN that it could
not find a single example of such a thing having happened.... Even after Trump’s campaign demonstrated that it couldn’t substantiate the story, he
repeated it days later."
4. No, President Joe Biden did not send Harris to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin
Said Trump: "He attacked three days later. He laughed at her. He thought she was a joke. Now, he's really laughing when he sees her. Can you imagine her negotiating with President Xi of China, with Kim Jong Un of North Korea?"
Wrote Dale: "This story, too, is
wholly false. Biden never sent Harris to negotiate with Putin – in fact, the Kremlin
said in July that Harris and Putin have never spoken – and Harris did not travel to Russia just prior to the invasion."
5. No, Harris did not 'turn Black'
Said Trump: "I did not know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. Is she Indian or is she Black?"
Wrote Dale: "None of that is true. Harris – who was
raised in a Black community and graduated from a historically Black university – has embraced her Black identity since her youth."
6. No, Harris was not the first Democrat to drop out of the 2020 presidential primary
Said Trump: “She was one of 22 people that ran. She was the first one to quit."
Wrote Dale: "Not even close. In fact, 13 other Democratic candidates dropped out of the race before Harris did."
7. No, everyone did not want the Supreme Court to terminate federal abortion rights
Said Trump: “Every Democrat, every Republican, everybody wanted Roe v. Wade terminated and brought back to the states."
Wrote Dale: "This is
not even remotely accurate. Roe was consistently supported by a majority of the American public, and it was overwhelmingly popular among Democrats – with 80% support or better among Democrats in many polls."
8. No, Jesus would not count votes differently in California
Said Trump: “If Jesus came down and was the vote counter, I would win California, okay?”
Wrote Dale: "More rubbish. The votes are counted honestly in California, as they are in every other state; Trump loses California because it is an overwhelmingly Democratic state."
9. No, Trump did not win a ‘Man of the Year’ award in Michigan
Said Trump: “The press said, ‘Oh, it never happened.’ Well, then it did happen. They found out where it was...All of a sudden, like through a miracle, they found out it did exist.”
Wrote Dale: "That’s a lie on top of a lie. The media has not discovered proof that Trump got a Michigan Man of the Year award. His campaign didn’t respond Wednesday to a request to explain what he was talking about."
10. No, ‘the Congo’ isn't emptying its prisons into the U.S.
Said Trump: “In the Congo, in Africa: 22 people deposited into our country. ‘Where do you come from?’ ‘The Congo.’ ‘Where in the Congo?’ ‘Jail.’”
Wrote Dale: "Representatives for the governments of both the Democratic Republic of Congo and the neighboring Republic of Congo have
told CNN on the record that the claim is fiction, experts on the two countries say they have seen no evidence it is true, and Trump’s campaign has ignored requests to offer any substantiation."
11. No, the Bureau of Labor Statistics was not trying to cover up a jobs report revision ahead of the election
Said Trump: "They reported fake jobs, and they were going to announce that after Nov. 5th, the most important day in the history of our country, the election...There was a leaker, friendly leaker, a patriot leaker leaked it. And that's not a revision."
Wrote Dale: "Another fabrication. The Bureau of Labor Statistics
regularly releases the preliminary revised data in August, and it had disclosed the precise date of this particular data release – August 21 – weeks in advance."
