Doesn’t this image look like 25,000 people… “Trump lies that there are "25,000" or "35,000" or some other "crazy number" of people outside the rally watching on screens.”
Daniel Dale does the sober thing again, fact-checking in a tweet thread the latest Trump rally of lies, this time in Richmond KY, another city of modest size, as the damage in Florida seems less important to POTUS*.
- I just want to let you all know that I don't drink and have been non-intoxicated this entire time.
- Trump begins on Kentucky: "Greatest horses in the world, and plenty of other things."
- Trump hails the return of pastor Andrew Brunson from captivity in Turkey. He asks the crowd if they can handle all of his victories. He thanks Erdogan, whom he calls "terrific."
- Trump keeps saying that Hurricane Michael had winds of close to 200 miles per hour. All of the reporting was that it came ashore with 155 miles per hour winds. Someone tell me if I'm missing something.
- Trump is recounting his 2016 victory in Kentucky in the voice of a newscaster calling the state for him, as he does.
- There is a loud U-S-A chant after Trump says America is winning again because the president is "finally putting America first."
- Trump says he is putting coal miners back to work "like never before. They're going back, back back." 1,800 coal mining jobs have been added since his inauguration.
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- Trump says that he'd like to walk into a room that does not have lots of cameras in it. Fact check?
- Trump on Brett Kavanaugh: "Never has a man been treated so badly."
- Trump on Kavanaugh: "What happened to him was so unfair, I've never seen anything like it. And we stuck with him all the way, because we knew the facts."
- Trump once began claiming that he has fulfilled more promises than he promised. Then he started attributing that claim to an unnamed person. Today he attributed it to the "fake news media."
- Trump: "The Democrats have become totally consumed by their chilling lust for power."
- Trump calls up Mitch McConnell. They do a handshake/side-hug. McConnell: "Aren't we proud of President Trump?" He touts the high number of judges this Senate has confirmed.
- Trump's framing of the midterms: "You can either vote for Democrat mob rule or you can vote for a Republican party that stands proudly for law and order, fairness, freedom and justice. Simple as that." He's going big on this Democrats-as-"mob" thing.
- Trump, lying, says a Democratic Congress will "take away your health care."
- Trump says "we had Obamacare repealed and replaced," and the crowd cheers because they think he's listing an accomplishment, but then Trump finishes the sentence and says it didn't happen, because "we didn't get one Democrat vote."
- Trump says that not everybody knows how good a person both Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell are. He says, "There's something that happens to you when you grow up in Kentucky, I guess." Paul did not grow up in Kentucky.
- Trump on Kentucky in 2016: "What did we win by, 38? 38!" He won by 30 points, 63 to 33.
(Alumni Coliseum capacity 6,500, open concert 8,000)
- Trump is attacking Barr's opponent, Democrat Amy McGrath. As usual in red states, he is trying to tie her to Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and to California Rep. Maxine Waters, who is a black woman.
- Trump on "socialist" health care: "It doesn't work anywhere in the world. It's good if you don't mind waiting like five weeks to see a doctor. Frankly they come from Canada because they want to use our doctors."
- A tiny % of Canadians travel to the US for care. I'll get data.
- Trump on Democrats: "They want to get rid of ICE. They think ICE isn't nice."
- Trump is lying about Sayfullo Saipov, man accused of the West Side Highway terror attack: "Approximately 22 people came in. It's called a chain." Even Trump's allies say there's no way Saipov could possibly bring in 22 people. Trump's aides have declined to endorse this claim.
- "We've added nearly 600,000 manufacturing jobs," Trump says of the 378,000 manufacturing jobs added between January 2017 and the end of last month.
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Trump lies: "Remember I got 52%...the fake news, remember...they were all saying he will not do well with women. Wow did we do well with women...fake news." He got 52% of white women alone, 41-42% of all women.
- Trump calls NAFTA a "horror show" and says his USMCA is "brand new." He acknowledged earlier in the week that the USMCA is "basically the redone NAFTA."
- Trump identifying Xi Jinping: "The absolute head. This is an absolute head of China."
- Trump again claims that he's bringing drug prices down. While he did get Pfizer and Novartis to delay some increases, the Associated Press found "96 price increases for every price reduction in the first seven months of this year."
- Trump says his successful pressuring of Pfizer happened "three weeks ago." It happened in July. He habitually moves up old good news so that it sounds more excitingly close to the present (fixed typo).
- Trump then says he got the medical Right to Try bill passed "a month and a half ago." That happened in May. Again, he perpetually moves old good news closer to the present to make it sound like he has recent momentum.
Rally over. Same lines as always, same lies as always.