One lie or exaggeration a minute. Donald Trump managed to do that during one of his campaign meetings in Las Vegas, according to the New York Times, which examined the tendency of both presidential candidates to slip on the truth.
With just over a week left until the election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump devote almost all their waking hours to mobilizing voters.
The tone has gradually been turned up and the attacks are dense – as are the exaggerations and lies.
At the end of September, Donald Trump gave a speech in Las Vegas, Nevada, one of the important wave master states. Over the course of just over an hour, Trump made 64 statements that were false, inaccurate or lacking context, according to a review by the New York Times.
A lie that Trump repeatedly brought up, and so again this evening, was that Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Waltz signed a law in the state of Minnesota that allows abortion even after a child is born. According to Trump, it is something that even Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are in favor of.
There are radical left-wing states that allow it.
Nobody wants to talk about it, but they allow it, execution after birth, Trump said.
Neither Biden nor Harris is behind it. Abortion after birth also counts as murder, which is prohibited in all states, notes the New York Times.
Gender corrections on children
Trump also claimed that Harris wants to allow states to perform gender reassignments on minors without parental consent, something she has never addressed.
According to the former president, Harris plans to implement the largest tax increase in the nation’s history for individuals and small businesses.
In fact, she is proposing tax increases for big business and high earners, but they wouldn’t rank as the biggest ever either.
Harris’ untruths
A fact-check of Kamala Harris’ speech shows that she too tends to make falsehoods and exaggerate, although not to the same extent as Trump.
When Harris spoke in Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania earlier in September, she made six statements that were either false or exaggerated, according to the New York Times. During the performance, which lasted just over 20 minutes, Harris claimed, among other things, that Trump had tried 60 times to repeal the health care reform Obamacare, also called the Affordable Care Act.
According to the New York Times, Republicans have tried to vote down the health care law on many occasions, but the vast majority of times happened before Trump became president.
