Reality verify: 18 false claims Trump made on ‘60 Minutes’

[ad_1] President Donald Trump littered his new “60 Minutes” interview with a wide-ranging assortment of false claims, the overwhelming majority of them beforehand debunked. We counted a minimum of 18 inaccurate assertions.

Trump instructed his normal lie that the free and truthful 2020 election was stolen from him. He lied once more that grocery costs “are down” even after CBS’ Norah O’Donnell knowledgeable him <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F10%2F24%2Fpolitics%2Ffact-check-grocery-prices-trump&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C0dcf454c310442cb823b08de1ae27b25%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977757234107189%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=KEPxnW3eGcAqByjzo8vVegs%2FVAkkEUVQh19o6Tv9k38%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">they are up . He declared as soon as extra that there's now “no inflation,” although there actually is, after which that inflation is 2% or “even lower than 2%,” although the latest accessible Shopper Worth Index determine <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F10%2F24%2Feconomy%2Fus-cpi-consumer-prices-inflation-september&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C0dcf454c310442cb823b08de1ae27b25%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977757234146145%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Iw%2BbRIWG6uJFlBoNyZ36wvOjUAgQ6%2FRtPMP4oPXkxdo%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">is now up to 3% .

The president additionally deployed a number of different fictional numbers throughout his exchanges with O’Donnell, which had been recorded Friday and launched by CBS on Sunday.

And Trump made a wide range of further false claims on a number of topics, together with the federal government shutdown, the substitute intelligence increase, tariffs, his first impeachment and his former authorized battle with “60 Minutes” itself.

CBS posted a <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Fread-full-transcript-norah-odonnell-60-minutes-interview-with-president-trump%2F&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C0dcf454c310442cb823b08de1ae27b25%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977757234277667%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Eiq%2B%2BgNcNmVY5eeuHkAmRe32DqRBQmHqwXLBThvwxMQ%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">full transcript of the interview, which O’Donnell <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-on-nuclear-testing-government-shutdown-immigration-tariffs-china-60-minutes-transcript%2F&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C0dcf454c310442cb823b08de1ae27b25%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977757234291912%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Syjwo4ajuRkt7WmSx3993CVA4N10RqcpJyM%2F%2Bgb7Faw%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">said ran for almost 90 minutes, and an almost 73-minute <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdAvuTHIyUTo&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C0dcf454c310442cb823b08de1ae27b25%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977757234305652%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=poNK7k9PZAiKTVGRCDIVxA7dNl6CF4G6Qfad7k24GIs%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">video ; it aired <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fvideo%2Fpresident-donald-trump-the-2025-60-minutes-interview%2F&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C0dcf454c310442cb823b08de1ae27b25%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977757234319493%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rSorj1Pcyn7qDMtHY%2F6h9r3I36jdJjAJqUrgCVdX4m8%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">about 28 minutes on tv.

Here's a extra detailed breakdown of Trump’s claims.

Grocery costs

When O’Donnell famous that People have “seen their grocery costs go up,” Trump repeated his common false declare that grocery costs are literally declining: “No, you’re flawed. They went up beneath Biden. Proper now they’re happening. Aside from beef, which we’re engaged on, which we will resolve in a short time.” Trump repeated later within the interview, “Our groceries are down.”

<a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F10%2F24%2Fpolitics%2Ffact-check-grocery-prices-trump&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105167391%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JVIUb79I8u1LQYcw7JH5QqOSCPT2goB4lMYVA9WpVVc%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">Grocery prices are up beneath Trump — and whereas there was a very massive improve within the worth of beef, there have additionally been will increase within the worth of <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bls.gov%2Fnews.release%2Fcpi.nr0.htm&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105186823%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=28RxUP5kQ94TVs2Z0AnU6Gfk6L2mPywwfFdzG%2FR%2Brik%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">numerous other products . <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffred.stlouisfed.org%2Fseries%2FCUSR0000SAF11&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105204812%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=7%2F%2BM0N1ovOCCY3bNmAaMyKB9QF0dRuA04LBUwlGM0gA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">Consumer Price Index figures for September confirmed common grocery costs had elevated since August (about 0.3%), since September 2024 (about 2.7%), and since January 2025 (about 1.4%), the month Trump returned to workplace. Costs in all six main grocery product classes tracked by the Shopper Worth Index, akin to “vegetables and fruit” and “cereals and bakery merchandise,” are up over the previous 12 months.

Inflation beneath Trump

Trump falsely claimed, “We've got no inflation” and “we don’t have any inflation.” (He stated at one other level of the interview that “basically we don’t have inflation.”) He additionally falsely claimed, “We’re all the way down to 2%, even lower than 2%.” There may be inflation; it has been <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffred.stlouisfed.org%2Fseries%2FCPIAUCNS&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105222290%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Vy2D%2BOmZj6PvBKAC%2B876QzY9TWrwmIP%2FQMZ2gY0CJBY%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">worsening since May after hitting a four-year low in April; and it’s not 2% or lower than 2%. The year-over-year charge was about <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F10%2F24%2Feconomy%2Fus-cpi-consumer-prices-inflation-september&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105240656%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=sNBvBm2Dvk8liKJa%2BO2W%2Byw9tLbC9yYQpV3Mevj5H1o%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">3% in September , up from about <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F09%2F12%2Fbusiness%2Finflation-data-prices-rising-trump-policies%23%3A~%3Atext%3DConsumer%2520prices%2520rose%25200.4%2525%2520in%2CLabor%2520Statistics%2520data%2520released%2520Thursday.&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105259649%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=AjKaFXjfWT%2BaBQVQegUnl%2FoXAtPb5MKLF7ynsuCe6NM%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">2.9% in August ; the September determine was almost similar to the roughly <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F02%2F12%2Fbusiness%2Fus-cpi-consumer-inflation-january%2Findex.html&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105279593%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ArgzRos3xHSSdfdjKSh6nLeWvIbRStx526GyxE5CQsQ%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">3% rate in January , the final partial month of the Biden administration and first partial month of the second Trump administration.

Inflation beneath Biden

Trump falsely claimed that President Joe “Biden gave me the worst inflation charge within the historical past of our nation” and that “I inherited the worst inflation within the historical past of our nation.” Trump might have pretty stated the US inflation <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2022%2F07%2F13%2Feconomy%2Fcpi-inflation-june%2Findex.html&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105299465%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=FdYG5kGrlUOUQeB1wL8kZHr2Y9PVY2%2BeB6ppcWjcWq8%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">rate hit a 40-year high under Biden in June 2022 , when it was 9.1%, however that was not near the <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffred.stlouisfed.org%2Fseries%2FCPIAUCNS&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105319309%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=OT0Wrmg4E1vFrrIMm189X7sQ4aB1upGKiQ1zWpDtdcs%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">all-time record of 23.7% , set in 1920 — and, once more, the speed then declined to about 3% in January 2025, the month Trump took over from Biden. Trump’s declare was additionally flawed if he was claiming there was file cumulative inflation over the course of Biden’s presidency. It was about 21%, in contrast with about 49% throughout President Jimmy Carter’s time period.

Funding within the US

Trump repeated his frequent false declare that “now we have $17 trillion being invested in the USA proper now,” then stated moments later that it's “greater than $17 trillion proper now.” This “$17 trillion” determine is fictional even with out the “greater than.” As of the time the “60 Minutes” interview aired on Sunday, the White Home’s <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Finvestments%2F&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105341559%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=mWp1zC%2Fm14NOSbzcn9Ao21gGr6M6ZKOFSKiINbbdKSs%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">own website stated the “main funding bulletins” this time period totaled “$8.9 trillion” — and an in depth CNN evaluate in October discovered the White Home was counting trillions of {dollars} in imprecise funding pledges from international nations and corporations, pledges that had been about “bilateral commerce” or “financial alternate” slightly than funding within the US, or imprecise statements that didn’t even rise to the extent of pledges. You'll be able to learn extra <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F10%2F11%2Fpolitics%2Ffact-check-trump-17-trillion-investment&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105361440%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4w8mcqRmGh44Cm6JcdvcN44K2Puc8vO%2F7%2F%2BLgBpTm3k%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">here .

Who pays tariffs

Trump claimed, as he usually does, that China and different international nations pay the tariffs he has imposed on their exports. In actuality, US importers, not China or different international nations, make the tariff funds to the US authorities, they usually usually go on a minimum of a few of the prices to shoppers; <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nber.org%2Fpapers%2Fw25638&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105381014%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=AHJFov3uRN5cgrjb%2FXtvIuluZripoqm6iI%2BHECDL%2FH4%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">study after <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nber.org%2Fpapers%2Fw25672&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105400804%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=MPaRi7z1XKhEoYflahTfYAN0g7%2BkW08gxBo4cN4qecs%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">study , together with <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usitc.gov%2Fpublications%2F332%2Fpub5405.pdf&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105419970%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=9ZFyCEd6KBz3CK8gRRaWhvQC93UWTWMZPhABh2Nis3U%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">one from the federal government’s bipartisan US International Trade Commission , <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Fnewsletters%2F2023-03-16%2Fsupply-chain-latest-us-importers-bore-cost-of-trump-s-china-tariffs-itc-says&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105439643%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VLyNe1K7gu1Fc1HhDZRg%2FRkc77NtbussqrPhzrifn38%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">found that folks and entities within the US bore nearly the whole price of Trump’s first-term tariffs on Chinese language merchandise.

AI and energy

Trump accurately famous that some synthetic intelligence corporations are transferring to <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fbusiness%2Fenergy-oil%2Fai-data-centers-desperate-for-electricity-are-building-their-own-power-plants-291f5c81%3Fgaa_at%3Deafs%26gaa_n%3DAWEtsqdZXFEXINRPSCuXRphEtvr5nwpQPxkhcVRVqmfpMK1XXiHVUdWNImuAUYDoGWk%253D%26gaa_ts%3D69085d82%26gaa_sig%3Doi9KDvkogqDpASX9DC3f1iNphevupCkywmYrvI2KKCpajhGoIuV9TVVE_ktW71mCbU43WzUDYiqN6xzF_hq6nw%253D%253D&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105459647%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ObBBwPqnrwZKaIL6bLtzL6OY8bbe6qGYFFMq0hW6P%2FA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">generate their own power on the identical websites as their energy-hungry information facilities — however falsely added that letting corporations make their very own electrical energy “was my concept, which no one, frankly, had considered.” There may be merely no foundation for Trump’s declare that he got here up with this concept. Information articles final 12 months, when Trump was an out-of-office candidate for president, mentioned how AI corporations had been <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2024%2F07%2F28%2Fhow-the-massive-power-draw-of-generative-ai-is-overtaxing-our-grid.html&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105480119%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=yF%2BHBryuvEGbyrsOpAtLVBvNqkHBao0zxuV8SFR5Qyo%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">already experimenting with on-site power generation and the way the Biden administration was on board with the concept; one article from April 2024, for instance, <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.axios.com%2F2024%2F04%2F01%2Fbiden-energy-ai-nuclear-power&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105500590%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3WByNi0NXLGRmn8vS1gUrczlPM62YbjSIX4AjyT1VyE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">discussed how the Power Division was “exploring how energy-hungry tech companies would possibly be capable of host small nuclear vegetation on the campuses of their large information facilities.”

Strikes on alleged drug boats

After Trump was requested concerning the current US army strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats within the Caribbean, he stated, “Each a type of boats kills 25,000 People. Each single boat that you simply see that’s shot down kills 25,000 on medicine, and destroys households throughout our nation.”

Apart from the truth that the Trump administration has not offered public proof for his repeated claims that the boats carried fentanyl, the drug concerned within the highest variety of US overdose deaths — the Caribbean is <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fnational-security%2Farchive%2F2025%2F09%2Ffentanyl-trump-venezuela-caribbean-boats%2F684373%2F&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105520398%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VGBCIjrUQZbBpqQCL5C2oqW89bvvLlr%2BYQd6E5ddqwQ%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">not known to be a major fentanyl-smuggling route — his “25,000” quantity doesn't make sense. The whole variety of US overdose deaths from all medicine in 2024 was about 82,000, in line with provisional <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fnchs%2Fnvss%2Fvsrr%2Fdrug-overdose-data.htm&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105539818%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=9MeAqVGT6OC32wQQ1yKXlzp4idekHd6N2IdWjGSz3r4%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">federal data . Trump is basically claiming, in different phrases, that <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F11%2F02%2Fpolitics%2Ftimeline-us-strikes-caribbean-pacific-vis&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105558921%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=mf37MsCO9DXr0gmS4eatRm4CP56ToCVdaaND%2FX2NHm4%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">attacking 16 boats prevented greater than 4 years’ value of American overdose deaths.

The president’s determine is “absurd,” Carl Latkin, a professor on the Johns Hopkins College College of Public Well being with a joint appointment at its medical faculty, stated in October. “He’s claiming that he’s solved the overdose mortality disaster” with 4 boat strikes, and “that doesn't have any semblance of actuality.” You'll be able to learn an extended truth verify <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F10%2F08%2Fpolitics%2Fvenezuela-drug-boats-trump&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105577903%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rnZQQtkS%2BLXMMDdes0W4pG31Dv5cq%2Fmpu6HzfV8PGlE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">here .

Trump and wars

Trump repeated his false declare that he “knocked out eight wars,” including, “I took eight wars and stopped (them) throughout an eight-month interval” this presidency. Studying from a paper, he listed “Cambodia-Thailand,” “Kosovo-Serbia,” “the Congo and Rwanda,” “Pakistan and India,” “Israel and Iran,” “Egypt and Ethiopia,” “Armenia and Azerbaijan,” and “Israel and Hamas.”

Trump’s “eight” determine is a transparent exaggeration.

There was no battle between Egypt and Ethiopia for Trump to finish; the 2 nations had been in a long-running diplomatic dispute a couple of <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F09%2F09%2Fafrica%2Fethiopia-launches-massive-hydropower-dam-intl&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105597296%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Flpm47DnRU3uVIzSCVj8n6xadLSesGbrJjkwUqeoVys%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">major Ethiopian dam project on a tributary of the Nile River, however that's not a battle, and the dispute is <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.justsecurity.org%2F123615%2Ftrump-egypt-ethiopia-dam-conflict%2F&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105616068%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=SfXA2LR25kkSHoBuCsIROzcFBTWUmpIBkJvfUYpXAQI%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">unresolved . Trump’s record consists of <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fc5y3599gx4qo.amp&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105633519%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=yXdwTxJu%2FHClFy%2BdxhoMae2hHq%2BR6q8z88OR5SrXgrE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">another supposed war that didn’t occur throughout his presidency, between Kosovo and Serbia. (He has typically <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frollcall.com%2Ffactbase%2Ftrump%2Ftranscript%2Fdonald-trump-remarks-foreign-ministers-democratic-republic-congo-rwanda-june-27-2025%2F%2350&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105652474%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=6gRoqr5Nb6qSPqaSYHuNsHrAai3ymiAOK0qBPuwdndw%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">claimed to have prevented the eruption of a brand new battle between these two entities, offering few particulars about what he meant, however that's completely different from settling an precise battle.) And the battle involving the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F09%2F22%2Fafrica%2Fdr-congo-rwanda-peace-deal-trump-fighting-intl-cmd&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105671698%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=qnpED335jkArwNJSPCO1GS9nxsys5QekcAeNWQkijos%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">has continued regardless of a peace settlement brokered by the Trump administration this 12 months — which was by no means signed by the main insurgent coalition doing the combating.

One can debate the significance of Trump’s position in having ended the opposite conflicts on his record, or pretty query whether or not a few of them have really ended. For instance, killing has <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F10%2F28%2Fmiddleeast%2Fisrael-military-strikes-gaza-latam-intl&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105690423%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FuvWkIr4l9SmNeAuwoxGmaF8Tc7B1CFn14NM2vrLq9E%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">continued in Gaza after the October ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Regardless, Trump’s “eight” determine is simply too huge.

Biden and assist to Ukraine

Trump repeated his false declare that “Joe Biden gave $350 billion to Ukraine, together with a whole lot of weapons, an amazing quantity of weapons.” The “$350 billion” determine isn’t near correct.

The US authorities inspector normal overseeing the federal Ukraine response <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukraineoversight.gov%2FFunding%2F&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105709786%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PObDyT9AGn8fUxEuesjGL8uFr4W7M2gUY%2FaTodlTOBo%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">says the US had disbursed about $94 billion as of the top of June 2025 (and had appropriated about $93 billion extra), together with cash that was spent within the US and in broader Europe slightly than Ukraine itself. And a German assume tank that has intently <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifw-kiel.de%2Fpublications%2Fukraine-support-tracker-data-20758%2F&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105729138%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Mcn84EPSAT%2FLg%2BD0Yw2F4Q26ZBZX443QMmccRhHGay8%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">tracked wartime assist to Ukraine says the US allotted about $135 billion to Ukraine (and had dedicated about $5 billion extra) by means of August, at present alternate charges.

The shutdown, Democrats and immigrants

Speaking concerning the ongoing authorities shutdown, Trump stated of Democrats, “I can’t give them $1.5 trillion in order that they may give welfare to people who got here into our nation illegally.” However that's not what Democrats are searching for.

Democrats are primarily proposing to reverse Trump-approved cuts to Medicaid and different well being packages and to increase the improved pandemic-era Obamacare subsidies which are scheduled to run out on the finish of the 12 months. Undocumented individuals are not eligible for both Obamacare subsidies or federal Medicaid insurance coverage protection (although hospitals are required to offer individuals with emergency care no matter immigration standing or capability to pay).

Trump’s White Home itself has <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Farticles%2F2025%2F10%2Ffact-democrats-shut-down-government-over-free-healthcare-for-illegals%2F&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105747144%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=gwgm3cU%2BvLITo6YOLqH2zvYM2mZkfU9Zj1bzDX7Lse0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">claimed that Democrats are proposing to spend about $193 billion (not $1.5 trillion) on well being look after “unlawful immigrants and different non-citizens” and the White Home revealed an itemized record that makes clear that even by its personal contested calculations, nearly all of even that smaller sum could be for these “different non-citizens” who're within the US legally.

The Committee for a Accountable Federal Funds, a fiscal watchdog group, has <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crfb.org%2Fpress-releases%2Fcongress-should-not-add-15-trillion-debt-cr&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105764202%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=SxdCmGHK1RzlMTiAxx9OEtsSgNnJPw8caQmHxmimjAg%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">estimated that the spending proposal the Democrats launched in September would add $1.5 trillion to the debt over the subsequent decade. However that determine shouldn't be about spending on undocumented individuals particularly.

Overseas leaders, prisons and migration

Trump repeated his common declare that international nations are intentionally emptying their prisons to one way or the other ship inmates to the US as migrants, at one level figuring out Venezuela as a supposed offender and at one other level talking extra broadly — saying “very good” international leaders “need individuals which are dangerous out” and so “what do they do? They open their jails, they let ‘em out. They do away with their drug sellers, they let ‘em out. However you understand who else they get out? The individuals which are on welfare that aren’t working. In different phrases, they've people who simply don’t work. They don’t need people who simply don’t work, in order that they put them into our nation.”

Trump has by no means substantiated such claims, although he has been making them since his 2024 marketing campaign. Consultants on <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F04%2F10%2Fpolitics%2Fcabinet-meeting-trump-china-japan-eu&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105781791%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=cxThj%2FQetsU%2FBu7LuuQnthLKuyv4vl%2B1pn0Qg%2F6cS2s%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">international prison policy and <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F09%2F30%2Fpolitics%2Ffact-check-trump-military-speech&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105800501%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=MiDLSfA%2FNyNE%2F2d%2FzmTCsFurpnkch3VcvYQDQBIEZTA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">crime in Venezuela have instructed CNN they've seen no proof of Venezuela or some other nation emptying jails for migration functions, not to mention that these nations actively inserted former prisoners into the US.

Migration beneath Biden

Trump repeated his false declare that 25 million migrants had been allowed into the nation beneath Biden, although he was extra tentative this time than normal, saying, “In all probability, I say, 25 million individuals had been let into our nation. Lots of people say it was 10 million individuals. However whether or not it was 10 or — I imagine I’m a lot nearer to the correct quantity. Of the 25, lots of them shouldn't be right here.”

The “25 million” determine is wildly inaccurate; even Trump’s earlier “21 million” determine was a <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F06%2F16%2Fpolitics%2Fg7-trump-lies-canada-ukraine&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105819073%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=gCtO394N6tqy5bJQRdhgtzHpQVqI1iUukp332y3l8MQ%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">major exaggeration . By means of December 2024, the final full month beneath the Biden administration, the federal authorities had <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbp.gov%2Fnewsroom%2Fstats%2Fnationwide-encounters&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105836897%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=A1Z17VCSVMVJd50OoEEF4lEUhLl3emnHMuUT%2FMqmp10%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">recorded beneath 11 million nationwide “encounters” with migrants throughout that administration, together with hundreds of thousands who had been quickly expelled from the nation. Even including within the so-called gotaways who evaded detection, <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhomeland.house.gov%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F01%2FDecember-24-SS.pdf&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105854807%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=J2Bq45b%2BVuUZidpagK94nTPzt6QwIdP%2BL%2FrV3gnWgbY%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">estimated by Home Republicans as being roughly 2.2 million, there’s no method the whole was even near Trump’s declare.

Authorized points, impeachment and the 2020 election

Earlier presidents and the Rebel Act

Trump spoke of the Rebel Act, which provides the president sweeping powers to deploy troops to US states if sure imprecise situations are met, and stated, “Are you aware that a few of the presidents, current ones, have used it 28 occasions? 28 occasions.” No president has invoked the act on extra events than President Ulysses S. Grant’s six (after the Civil Battle within the 1800s), and no president has invoked it since President George H.W. Bush in 1992, in line with <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brennancenter.org%2Four-work%2Fresearch-reports%2Fguide-invocations-insurrection-act&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105869281%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Tk0A7c8f3AF6QaO3pNSN1VOAiRl1B23Xjq0uK3d0eEg%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">research published in 2022 by New York College’s Brennan Heart for Justice. The truth is, the Rebel Act and the same legal guidelines that preceded it have been invoked on a whole of 30 events in US historical past, the Brennan Heart discovered.

Trump additionally stated, “Are you aware what number of presidents have used the Rebel Act? Nearly 50% of ‘em.” That’s a minimum of a slight exaggeration. Seventeen of the 45 presidents up to now, so just below 38%, have invoked the act or its precursor legal guidelines, in line with the Brennan Heart. You'll be able to learn extra <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F10%2F21%2Fpolitics%2Ffact-check-insurrection-act-trump&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105886065%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VQlFFQb7SLuHckzYk%2Bt%2BrGKaE3KgnoxiX9nk3D3EzGg%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">here .

Trump’s authorized dispute with “60 Minutes”

Trump mentioned his <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F07%2F02%2Fmedia%2Fcbs-trump-60-minutes-paramount-settlement&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105903516%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8QquXgaZuOEdqLdawYi09gQLZdyKYaE1HjLzl3Svktk%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">now-resolved authorized dispute with “60 Minutes” over an edit the present made to an October 2024 interview along with his election opponent, then-Vice President Harris — and, as CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F11%2F02%2Fmedia%2Ftrump-cbs-60-minutes-norah-odonnell-ellison-bari-weiss&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105921861%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Yq%2Bvut2UO7sOLR1cQiHsvuETA55Y3tokMefaPmRFOpo%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">noted Sunday, Trump falsely claimed this supposedly “election-changing” interview occurred “two nights earlier than the election.” The interview really <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2F60-minutes-statement%2F&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760105939562%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Qxl%2BGaO3PlxvZVCYMwoWoMV4%2FrfAjWOkpZjZfxg05L0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">happened on October 7, 2024 , 4 weeks and a day earlier than Election Day on November 5, 2024.

This wasn’t the primary time Trump made the Harris interview sound nearer to Election Day than it was. He falsely <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frollcall.com%2Ffactbase%2Ftrump%2Ftranscript%2Fdonald-trump-remarks-white-house-flagpole-inspection-june-18-2025%2F%23223&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760106065266%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2BXeOKOaOCQR9onGqGrvH5Nwwjy0p1YC7ImqqmAUU5g4%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">claimed in June that it occurred “the day earlier than the election.”

Trump and the Justice Division

CBS’ O’Donnell famous the recent indictments of three targets of Trump criticism — former FBI Director James Comey, former Trump nationwide safety adviser John Bolton, and New York Lawyer Normal Letitia James — and requested him whether or not he instructed the Justice Division to “go after them”; Trump responded, “No, and never in any method, form or type. No.” However that is clearly false: he lately put public strain on the Justice Division to go after Comey and James.

Trump <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F09%2F20%2Fpolitics%2Ftrump-justice-department-pam-bondi&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760106090919%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=30wxjtw1NawxKAuvLRsFPF21r%2BZS6CaxYruw8LwBlKg%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">wrote in a September social media <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthsocial.com%2F%40realDonaldTrump%2Fposts%2F115239044548033727&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760106111656%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=FW2zHGVIHDa72YATL88lbXphydLIJrHGAePpxblliUs%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">post directed to “Pam” — Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi, the top of the Justice Division — that Comey, James and Schiff are “all responsible as hell, however nothing goes to be accomplished,” that “we will’t delay any longer” and that “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!” (Trump meant the put up to be a non-public message to Bondi, a supply conversant in the matter instructed CNN after The Wall Road Journal first <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fpolitics%2Fpolicy%2Ftrump-doj-inside-political-enemies-17f13f72%3Fst%3D5PtTBE%26reflink%3Ddesktopwebshare_permalink&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760106131970%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=SageshgtYJ1JKIwK0r90upl63LBw%2Fan95j6C95EGBJs%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">reported it.) Trump didn't point out Bolton in that social media put up; nonetheless, it’s value noting he <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F10%2F17%2Fpolitics%2Finvestigation-john-bolton-indictment&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760106150440%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=7JaJwDL%2FqQNjL1go8Aok09mRHX06SKIdAGkpvgwebBA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">previously made public calls for his former adviser to be imprisoned over Bolton’s alleged inclusion of labeled info in a memoir.

A false story about Democrats and Trump’s first impeachment

Trump delivered one other model of a false story he <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2024%2F03%2F17%2Fpolitics%2Ffact-check-trump-ukraine-zelensky-call-pelosi&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760106169432%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=gdx7uTa3z6bqh19%2Bz6JNaeF%2F0T9xJG5HGO0hrp098VE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">has told since 2019 about Democrats’ response to a telephone name that 12 months through which he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce an investigation into Biden, who was his looming opponent within the 2020 election. This time, Trump stated, “The Democrats knew that I wasn’t responsible, as a result of they didn’t know the — the decision was — I didn’t know both: The decision was basically taped. So we knew precisely what the decision — after they came upon that the decision was taped, Nancy Pelosi went loopy. She stated, ‘You made me go into this mess.’ She screamed in any respect these people who made her do it, dangerous individuals like (Democratic Rep. Adam) Schiff, and so forth., and so forth.”

Trump’s narrative is totally inaccurate.

Pelosi couldn't probably have been indignant with Schiff or different allies after discovering out the decision was “taped” as a result of, greater than six years later, there's nonetheless no recognized US tape of the dialog; presidential calls with international leaders <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2024%2F03%2F17%2Fpolitics%2Ffact-check-trump-ukraine-zelensky-call-pelosi&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760106186722%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=1%2FRIZbbVPp1%2BVc6vIAJoZpz6uCK2ZkCd0bJh%2BVPw0UQ%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">are not typically recorded by the American side . In actuality, the day after Pelosi introduced an impeachment inquiry in September 2019, Trump’s White Home launched a <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2019%2F09%2F25%2Fpolitics%2Fdonald-trump-ukraine-transcript-call%2Findex.html&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760106205455%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FqNZ6ELCFZC3KP%2BCiVHTYdoQjnwHwYRad8a%2FhWyhi4k%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">rough written transcript of the decision. There has by no means been any indication that seeing the tough transcript made Pelosi really feel she had been deceived into the impeachment push; the day the doc was launched, Pelosi issued a <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpelosi.house.gov%2Fnews%2Fpress-releases%2Fpelosi-statement-on-notes-of-call-between-president-trump-and-ukrainian&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760106224916%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Sgik5aQNtmHp6SPoheEy8d4emshvyl6PGn%2BIaCjAJjw%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">scathing statement accusing Trump of “lawlessness” and making an attempt “to shake down different nations for the advantage of his marketing campaign.” A Pelosi spokesperson instructed CNN in 2024 {that a} Trump story much like the one he instructed on “60 Minutes” was “fact-free nonsense.”

Trump and the Presidential Data Act

Trump decried the <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2022%2F08%2F08%2Fpolitics%2Fmar-a-lago-search-warrant-fbi-donald-trump&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760106243015%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=SVWXA7PYpXq9p2HFMUOeZ5hQc0mTDMDFsLtESpEW0yk%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago membership and residence in 2022, in the course of the investigation into his dealing with of labeled paperwork after his presidency, and he introduced again his false declare that the Presidential Data Act permitted him to own these paperwork: “They took issues that I used to be allowed to have … beneath the Presidential Data Act, that I used to be allowed to have. I had information. I used to be allowed to have them.”

That’s not true. The Presidential Data Act clearly says that each one presidential information belong to the federal authorities <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.archives.gov%2Fpress%2Fpress-releases%2F2022%2Fnr22-001%23June-9-2023-statement&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760106262352%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=IKjFHNjEJe9beu4g8KGpRRQGU9QF%2F1xUQvKNdZLg%2FVY%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">the moment the president leaves office . The <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.archives.gov%2Fabout%2Flaws%2Fpresidential-records.html&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760106287958%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=eZvYm916Se3gTj5Il4bnU3HF62bEWLk6UkxjjCET%2Blg%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">key sentence from the regulation is unequivocal: “Upon the conclusion of a President’s time period of workplace, or if a President serves consecutive phrases upon the conclusion of the final time period, the Archivist of the USA shall assume duty for the custody, management, and preservation of, and entry to, the Presidential information of that President.”

<a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fischool.umd.edu%2Fdirectory%2Fjason-r-baron%2F&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760106309469%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=SRrslfTfGcd8nXSipLX96N8YiV%2BxXsV7ka0PDxGCER8%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">Jason R. Baron , former director of litigation on the Nationwide Archives and Data Administration, instructed CNN when Trump made such claims in the course of the Biden administration: “Below the Presidential Data Act, not a single doc pertaining to the official enterprise of the White Home — labeled or unclassified — ought to have been carted off to Mar-A-Lago. President Trump would possibly take into account such information to be ‘his,’ however they aren't.”

That doesn’t imply Trump dedicated a prison offense; the Presidential Data Act shouldn't be a prison statute, and Trump was charged in 2023 for <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2Finteractive%2F2023%2F06%2Fpolitics%2Fannotated-trump-indictment-dg%2F&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760106329909%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0Ly595NzGuVmlPhr9ghR9260I1tvXA2vRAinXfGHMEM%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">allegedly violating other laws . (A decide appointed by Trump <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2024%2F07%2F15%2Fpolitics%2Fclassified-documents-case-trump-dismissed-aileen-cannon&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760106349417%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=nRcUnN0NbTLgIzi2TwTwDE8j3CJ9yYo4KsZ03jLaof4%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">dismissed the case in 2024, declaring that the appointment of the particular counsel who introduced the fees violated the Structure.) However Trump was, <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2023%2F03%2F29%2Fpolitics%2Ffact-check-trump-presidential-records-act-talk&data=05%7C02%7Clauren.chadwick%40cnn.com%7C1c732f4929074b9b1c1a08de1ae32719%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638977760106367717%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=QCspxuU7Htu%2BhAwqlMcCP%2Bxk0LDAViwUvz5CrAHDH28%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">again , wrongly describing what the act says.

The 2020 election

Trump uttered his common lie that the 2020 election “was rigged and stolen,” saying at different moments of the interview that “this was a rigged election” and that “one factor I can let you know, the 2020 election was rigged.” Trump legitimately misplaced a free and truthful election to Biden. Trump additionally falsely claimed, “And it’s been caught … and also you see the identical info that everyone else does. And it’s popping out now in spades.” Trump didn’t clarify what he was speaking about, however no election-rigging or widespread fraud has “been caught.”