Washington CNN —
Former President Donald Trump made false claims about a variety of people and subjects, notably including Florida governor and Republican presidential primary rival Ron DeSantis, in an interview this week with conservative host Megyn Kelly.
Trump claimed that Florida under DeSantis “sort of had a mandate” on Covid-19 vaccines. In fact, DeSantis never imposed any kind of Covid-19 vaccine mandate. Defending himself against criticism from DeSantis, Trump claimed that he would not have given Dr. Anthony Fauci a presidential commendation and does not know who gave Fauci such a commendation. In fact, it was him, Donald Trump.
Trump claimed that, unlike DeSantis, the governors of Tennessee and South Carolina kept their states open throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, those governors imposed significant early restrictions, too. And Trump repeated a familiar but inaccurate story about how he supposedly came to endorse DeSantis for governor in 2018.
That’s not all.
Trump repeated his false claim from last month that he has “never” faced an impeachment inquiry, just impeachment itself; Democrats put him through an impeachment inquiry in 2019. While explaining his opposition to the presence of transgender people in the military, Trump repeated his false claim from 2019 that the military forbids the use of all drugs. As his own Defense Department pointed out when he made the claim in 2019, members of the military are allowed to use prescribed medications –...
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