Former President and current presidential candidate Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail Saturday with a rally speech in Waco, Texas, that was littered with false claims -- many of which he has made before.
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Facts First: This is one of Trump's regular lies. He lost the 2020 election, fair and square. Democrat Joe Biden won a 306-232 victory in the Electoral College -- earning over seven million more votes than Trump, good for a margin of 51.3% to 46.8%.Trump went on to repeat a version of a false claim that he made more than 100 times as president -- that the US used to have a trade deficit with China of more than $500 billion.
According to an official"Border Wall Status" report written by US Customs and Border Protection two days after Trump left office, about 458 miles of wall had been completed under Trump -- but about 280 more miles that had been identified for wall construction had not been completed.
Facts First: It's not true that, as a rule, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador wouldn't take back migrants being deported from the US during Obama's administration, though there were some individual exceptions. Facts First: Trump's $85 billion figure is false. While a significant quantity of military equipment that had been provided by the US to Afghan government forces was indeed abandoned to the Taliban upon the US withdrawal, the Defense Department has estimated that this equipment had been worth about $7.1 billion -- a chunk of about $18.6 billion worth of equipment provided to Afghan forces between 2005 and 2021.
Facts First: Trump's $2.5 billion figure was a major exaggeration. Bloomberg spent just over $1 billion on his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. That's a remarkable sum for a campaign that did not last even four months, but it's far less than $2.5 billion.Criticizing the accusation that he is"soft" on Russia, Trump claimed,"I ended Nord Stream 2. The pipeline was done.
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