Trump’s former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller also told lawmakers that he was never given a formal order by Trump to have 10,000 troops ready to be sent to the Capitol on January 6. That’s the responsibility of the Capitol Police Board, which oversees the US Capitol Police and approves requests for National Guard assistance. The speaker of the House is not in charge of Capitol security. But there’s also no proof that the letter swayed the outcome of the election.įormer President Donald Trump tried to blame then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the violence on Janu– when his own supporters stormed the US Capitol, claiming she was “in charge” of security that day.įacts First: This is false. No proof of Russian involvement in the release of those emails has emerged, and Republicans have argued that the letter helped discredit negative stories about the Biden family just before the election. The letter stated that the release of emails purportedly belonging to then-candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter, which had been generating sensational stories in right-wing media, had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Trump appears to have been referring to a letter signed by former intelligence agents weeks before the 2020 election. Intelligence agents impact on the electionĪs part of his argument that the 2020 election was “rigged,” Trump claimed 51 intelligence agents “made a 16-point difference” in the outcome of the election.įacts First: There is no evidence for this. Republicans have wielded this Democratic position on voter ID laws to paint Democrats as complicit in election fraud despite the fact that voter fraud is exceedingly rare – and that even states that don’t require ID have other methods to prevent fraud, like signature checks. It is true that most Democrats have been against stricter voter-ID laws in the past, but on grounds that these laws could disenfranchise voters who may not have access to necessary identification – not in order to illegally obtain votes. In the rest of the states, voters are required to present some form of identification before casting ballots. There are several situations in which casting a ballot without showing an ID would be legal, specifically in the 15 states (plus Washington, DC) that rely on other forms of voter verification. We should have voter ID.”įacts First: It’s misleading at best for Trump to claim voter ID doesn’t currently exist in US election. Talking about the upcoming 2024 presidential election, Trump said “I hope we’re going to have very honest elections. Trump’s own campaign and senior officials in his administration found no evidence for his claims of widespread fraud. Biden earned more than 7 million more votes than Trump did. He lost the 2020 election to Biden fair and square, 306 to 232 in the Electoral College.
Just minutes after the town hall began, Trump claimed the 2020 election was “rigged.”įacts First: This is Trump’s regular lie. Here is a fact check of some of Trump’s other claims during the townhall. Trump made many false and unsubstantiated claims about the 2020 election, violence on January 6, 2021, the economy and his handling of records after leaving the White House. Over the course of the night, Trump took questions from New Hampshire Republicans and undeclared voters who plan to vote in the 2024 GOP presidential primary about a wide range of issues.
CNN hosted a town hall with 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday night in New Hampshire.
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