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Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2024 in a news conference:

California law lets you “rob a store as long as it’s not more than $950” and “not get charged.” Kamala Harris “did that.”

By Jeff Cercone • August 19, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2024 in a speech at a campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:

“Vice President, Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to cut, as you know, Medicare by $273 billion. She cast a vote to cut Medicare.”

By Jacob Gardenswartz • August 15, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2024 in a press conference:

Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.

By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on July 27, 2024 in a rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota:

During the 2020 Minnesota riots after George Floyd’s murder, Gov. Tim Walz didn’t call in the National Guard, “so, I sent in the National Guard to save Minneapolis.”

By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:

Kamala Harris “supported abolishing ICE.”

By Amy Sherman • July 29, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on June 8, 2024 in a Truth Social post:

Lower insulin prices were the work of the Trump administration, not “Crooked Joe Biden. He had NOTHING to do with it.”

By Jacob Gardenswartz • July 12, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on June 6, 2024 in a campaign rally:

Joe Biden’s immigration order limiting asylum is “pro-child trafficking.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 20, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on June 15, 2024 in remarks in Detroit:

Crime statistics “no longer include data from 30% of the country including the biggest and most violent cities.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 18, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on June 2, 2024 in an interview on "Fox & Friends":

Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 4, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on May 10, 2024 in a Truth Social post:

“Biden wants to immediately stop all aid to Israel.”

By Amy Sherman • May 15, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on May 2, 2024 in remarks to reporters:

“I’m not allowed to testify” because of a gag order.

By Amy Sherman • May 3, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on April 16, 2024 in statement to the media in New York City:

“This trial that I have now, that’s a Biden trial.”

By Amy Sherman • April 19, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on April 8, 2024 in a video posted on Truth Social:

"All legal scholars, both sides, wanted, and in fact demanded” that Roe v. Wade be overturned.

By Louis Jacobson • April 10, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2024 in a speech:

"Crime is down in Venezuela by 67% because they're taking their gangs and their criminals and depositing them very nicely into the United States.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • April 10, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on April 8, 2024 in a video posted on Truth Social:

Democrats support abortion measures that result in the “execution” of babies “after birth.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on March 22, 2024 in a Truth Social post:

The New York civil fraud judgment against Trump and a plan to seize Trump-owned property “is simply a 'taking.' Much like what is done in communist countries."

By Amy Sherman • March 25, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on March 16, 2024 in a rally in Vandalia, Ohio:

"Your Social Security will be destroyed by the people coming in. There's too many of them. It's not sustainable."

By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on March 9, 2024 in a speech:

“Biden has implemented a formal policy that illegal aliens who intrude into the United States are granted immunity from deportation.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • March 15, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on March 9, 2024 in a rally in Rome, Georgia:

"In February alone, nearly 1 million jobs held by native-born Americans disappeared."

By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2024 in a speech:

“Eighty-two percent of the country understands that (the 2020 election) was a rigged election.”

By Paul Specht • March 7, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on February 16, 2024 in a statement to the media:

President Joe Biden “directed New York AG Witch Hunt” into Donald Trump’s real estate.

By Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on January 11, 2024 in a campaign ad:

“Haley’s plan cuts Social Security benefits for 82% of Americans.”

By Samantha Putterman • January 18, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on January 15, 2024 in a speech after the Iowa caucus:

“This is the third time we’ve won but this is the biggest win” in Iowa caucus.

By Amy Sherman • January 16, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on January 3, 2024 in a TV ad:

Nikki Haley “opposed Trump’s border wall” and “Trump’s travel ban.”

By Maria Briceño • January 5, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on December 16, 2023 in a rally in New Hampshire:

“They want to make our Army tanks all electric.”

By Amy Sherman • December 21, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on December 4, 2023 in a Truth Social post:

The Lincoln Project is “using A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)” in its “television commercials.”

By Loreben Tuquero • December 19, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on December 2, 2023 in a speech in Iowa:

“With the historic Abraham Accords, I even made peace in the Middle East.”

By Amy Sherman • December 5, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on November 11, 2023 in a rally in New Hampshire:

New Hampshire has “a worse drug problem per capita than any other state."

By Amy Sherman • November 15, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on November 8, 2023 in a rally in Hialeah:

“Just like the Cuban regime, the Biden administration is trying to put their political opponents in jail, shutting down free speech.”

By Maria Briceño • November 15, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on October 7, 2023 in a news release:

"Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, which many reports are saying came from the Biden administration.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 11, 2023