By Daniel Dale, CNN
(CNN) — President Donald Trump used his Thursday news conference with United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer to deliver a laundry list of long-debunked false claims about a variety of subjects, including inflation, immigration, tariffs and the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Here is a fact check of some of Trump’s remarks at Chequers, the prime minister’s country house.
The 2020 election: Trump told his usual lie about the 2020 election he lost, saying, “We won in 2020, big.” He was defeated fair and square by Joe Biden.
Current inflation: Trump falsely claimed, “We’ve already solved inflation, we solved prices.” This is vaguer than his frequent false claim that there is “no inflation,” but there’s no basis even for the vaguer version. Inflation has been worsening since May after hitting a four-year low in April. It was 2.9% in August, up from 2.7% in July; the August figure was the highest figure since it was 3% in January, the last partial month of the Biden administration.
Biden-era inflation: Trump repeated his false claim that “we inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country,” adding, “We had inflation the likes of which we’ve really never seen. They say 48 years and I’ll accept that, but I really don’t. We had the worst inflation in the history of our country.” Even the peak year-over-year inflation under Biden, 9.1% in June 2022, was the highest in between 40 and 41 years, not 48 years and certainly not in US...
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