President-elect Donald Trump gave a wide-ranging news conference in Florida on Monday, addressing a host of hot-button issues like political pardons, drone sightings, vaccines, the southern border wall and more.
Speaking from his Mar-a-Lago estate, the hour-long press conference was Trump’s first since his electoral victory in November. It resembled many from his first term as he jumped from topic to topic, sometimes offering debunked data and making false claims.
Here are three of his most questionable claims in the interview as well as additional information to help sort fact from fiction:
While Trump said he was a “big believer” in the polio vaccine, he doubled down on remarks made during an interview with Time magazine regarding concerns over the number of autism cases in children, saying his pick for head of the Department of Health and Human Services – Robert F. Kennedy Jr – would investigate a potential link between vaccines and autism. Studies have repeatedly shown that there is no link between vaccines and autism but a long debunked study which said there was a link continues to fuel skepticism.
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