Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention speech: six things he got wrong
BYALFRED NG
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, July 21, 2016, 9:43 PM
Donald Trump, in a leaked copy of his speech draft, promised to “present the facts.” We decided to check them.
(JIM WATSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
who is no stranger to speech fiascos, had a draft of his prepared statement for the Republican National Convention leaked hours before he took the stage.
After his campaign team repeatedly scraped through the document tomake sure it wasn’t plagiarized, according to the New York Times, Trump, in his speech, promised to “present the facts plainly and honestly.”
Here are six parts of the reported draft that were about as real as Trump’s “publicist” John Miller.
“Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this administration’s rollback of criminal enforcement”
Nationwide, violent crime is actually at its lowest point since 1970, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’sUniform Crime Reporting Statistics, and the number is steadily declining.
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“In our nation’s capital, killings have risen by 50%”
Assuming the billionaire is referring to Washington, D.C., 2016 murders have actually decreased by 9%, from the same date in July in 2015,according to the city’s police department
Trump could be referring to a 54% increase from 2014 to 2015 in murders in D.C., but he’s ignoring the fact that overall crime actually dropped 4% that same year. Murders have actually been gradually decreasing since 2008, when President Obama took office, until the recent spike in 2015.
Donald Trump claimed that ISIS did not exist until Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State.
(REUTERS)
“In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map”
The terrorist group, which has roots going as far back as 2004, renamed itself to the Islamic State of Iraq in 2006. The extremist organization was established by Sunni terrorist Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi,according to the National Counterterrorism Center.
The Republican nominee also claimed that Egypt was peaceful.
(FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
“Libya was stable. Egypt was peaceful.”
Libya’s relationship with the United States has been tense for the last 35 years, despite an attempt at diplomacy from the Bush administration in May 2006. The nation claimed responsibility for a 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, killing 270 people. Even after the opening of diplomacy between the U.S. and Libya in 2006, the relationship remained in turmoil,according to a 2011 Congressional report.
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Egypt was anything but peaceful in the years leading up to 2009, with the nation consistently violating human rights for decades. The country had been involved in multiple political assassinations, kidnappings, cases of torture and violent protests for several years,the U.S. Department of State reported in 2010.
“America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world”
Not even close. On a list of 34 nationsby the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development,the United States doesn’t even crack the top 30. The only countries that have lower taxes than the U.S. are South Korea and Chile. Countries like Denmark, Belgium and France are taxed almost twice as much as the U.S.
“Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons”
The Iran Deal signed by the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germanywas literally written to suspend Iran’s nuclear program for a decade.
Those were just the claims that Trump presented as facts. In other parts of the speech,he also makes lofty promises, like guaranteeing an end to all crime if he’s in the White House.
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BYALFRED NG
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, July 21, 2016, 9:43 PM
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Donald Trump, in a leaked copy of his speech draft, promised to “present the facts.” We decided to check them.
(JIM WATSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
who is no stranger to speech fiascos, had a draft of his prepared statement for the Republican National Convention leaked hours before he took the stage.
After his campaign team repeatedly scraped through the document tomake sure it wasn’t plagiarized, according to the New York Times, Trump, in his speech, promised to “present the facts plainly and honestly.”
Here are six parts of the reported draft that were about as real as Trump’s “publicist” John Miller.
“Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this administration’s rollback of criminal enforcement”
Nationwide, violent crime is actually at its lowest point since 1970, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’sUniform Crime Reporting Statistics, and the number is steadily declining.
Read Donald Trump’s leaked RNC speech draft in its entirety
74 PHOTOSVIEW GALLERY
New York Daily News covers of Donald Trump through the years
“In our nation’s capital, killings have risen by 50%”
Assuming the billionaire is referring to Washington, D.C., 2016 murders have actually decreased by 9%, from the same date in July in 2015,according to the city’s police department
Trump could be referring to a 54% increase from 2014 to 2015 in murders in D.C., but he’s ignoring the fact that overall crime actually dropped 4% that same year. Murders have actually been gradually decreasing since 2008, when President Obama took office, until the recent spike in 2015.
Donald Trump claimed that ISIS did not exist until Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State.
(REUTERS)
“In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map”
The terrorist group, which has roots going as far back as 2004, renamed itself to the Islamic State of Iraq in 2006. The extremist organization was established by Sunni terrorist Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi,according to the National Counterterrorism Center.
The Republican nominee also claimed that Egypt was peaceful.
(FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
“Libya was stable. Egypt was peaceful.”
Libya’s relationship with the United States has been tense for the last 35 years, despite an attempt at diplomacy from the Bush administration in May 2006. The nation claimed responsibility for a 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, killing 270 people. Even after the opening of diplomacy between the U.S. and Libya in 2006, the relationship remained in turmoil,according to a 2011 Congressional report.
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Egypt was anything but peaceful in the years leading up to 2009, with the nation consistently violating human rights for decades. The country had been involved in multiple political assassinations, kidnappings, cases of torture and violent protests for several years,the U.S. Department of State reported in 2010.
“America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world”
Not even close. On a list of 34 nationsby the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development,the United States doesn’t even crack the top 30. The only countries that have lower taxes than the U.S. are South Korea and Chile. Countries like Denmark, Belgium and France are taxed almost twice as much as the U.S.
“Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons”
The Iran Deal signed by the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germanywas literally written to suspend Iran’s nuclear program for a decade.
Those were just the claims that Trump presented as facts. In other parts of the speech,he also makes lofty promises, like guaranteeing an end to all crime if he’s in the White House.
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