President Donald Trump keeps lying not only about the 2020 election he lost but the 2024 election he won.

In a Saturday speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump correctly noted that he earned 77 million votes in 2024 — then falsely said his vote total was “actually much more than that,” since unspecified people “cheated like hell.”

There’s no basis for this claim. Trump’s official vote total is his actual vote total, and there is no evidence of unsuccessful cheating by vote counters or by his Democratic foes.

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Trump made the claim less than two weeks after he baselessly cast doubt upon the legitimacy of the vote total of his 2024 opponent, former Vice President Kamala Harris, who received more than 75 million votes.

Trump made various other false claims at CPAC, most of which have been debunked before. Here is a fact check of some of them.

Biden and hostages in Gaza: Trump touted the Hamas release of six hostages from Gaza on Saturday, saying, “We got six more back.” But he then falsely claimed, “Biden got none back, by the way, just so you understand: none, zero.”

Leaving aside the question of whether Trump or former President Joe Biden deserves more credit for the current ceasefire-for-hostages deal, which was secured under the Biden administration in partnership with representatives for the incoming Trump administration, it’s a fact that 105 hostages were released by Hamas during a brief 2023 truce brokered in part by the Biden...

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