Washington CNN —
The first two days of the Conservative Political Action Conference featured a parade of speakers who described President Joe Biden as weak and incompetent, Democrats as leftist ideologues and Donald Trump’s presidency as a smashing success.
Aside from such subjective assertions, the speakers in Orlando made some objectively false and misleading claims – on subjects ranging from the legitimacy of the 2020 election to the state of the US energy industry to the contents of a recent terrorism memo from the Department of Homeland Security.
Here is a look at six false or misleading claims from CPAC speeches delivered on Thursday and Friday.
Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Trump campaign adviser who is engaged to Donald Trump Jr., used part of her speech to sharply criticize Biden. And she said, “It turns out rigging elections for incompetent, weak leaders actually has consequences, does it not?”
Facts First: Guilfoyle’s claim about the 2020 election was flat false. The election was free and fair, nobody rigged it and there is no evidence of any kind of widespread fraud.
Guilfoyle has repeatedly made false claims about the 2020 election being rigged or stolen. She also did so, for example, in a speech at the January 6, 2021, rally that preceded the attack on the US Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters.
Josh Mandel, a Senate candidate in Ohio, used his...
We respect your privacy Telewizja Polska S.A. w likwidacji processes your personal data collected when you visit individual websites on the tvp.pl Portal (hereinafter referred to as the Portal), i...