Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican nomination at the Republican national convention on Thursday, a night that was supposed to be filled with calls for unity but instead was marked by alarmist language and false claims.
Here is a fact check of some of the things said during the final night of the Republican national convention on Thursday – and why they weren’t true.
During his speech, Trump claimed that the country has had the worst inflation ever under the Biden administration.
This claim is misleading. Biden was in office for record-high inflation in June 2022, when it stood at 9.1% – the highest since 1981. But inflation has also since come down in the past two years.
Making his first foray into the well-trodden path of 2020 election denialism, Trump recited a long list of policy proposals and let slip: “And then we had that horrible, horrible result that we’ll never let happen again, the election result. We’re never going to let that happen again. They used Covid to cheat. You’re never going to let it happen again.”
The evidence that the 2020 election was not marred by fraud is overwhelming.
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