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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 23, 2023 in remarks at a rally in Derry, N.H.:

“When I came into office, Iran had $70 billion in foreign exchange reserves. … By the time I left, they had nothing. They were broke.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 26, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on October 9, 2023 in a Truth Social post:

“The same people that raided Israel are pouring into our once beautiful USA, through our TOTALLY OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER, at Record Numbers.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 12, 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
Donald Trump
stated on September 27, 2023 in a speech in Michigan:

When I took office, “the auto industry was on its knees gasping its last breath.” Trump administration “tariffs and taxes saved the American auto industry from extinction."

By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2023 in a campaign video:

“Under ‘Crooked Joe’ Biden, there has been a catastrophic increase in shortages of essential medicines.”

By Michelle Andrews • October 2, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on September 17, 2023 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

The price of "bacon is up five times" under President Joe Biden.

By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on September 14, 2023 in an interview:

“I really don’t know who gave (Dr. Anthony Fauci) the commendation.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • September 14, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on September 14, 2023 in an interview with Megyn Kelly:

“Florida sort of had a mandate because they were giving the vaccine, they were demanding everybody take the vaccine.”

By Samantha Putterman • September 14, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2023 in a Truth Social post:

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis “campaigned and raised money on, ‘I will get Trump.’”

By Amy Sherman • August 18, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on August 4, 2023 in a speech in Alabama:

“They are trying to make it illegal to question the results of a bad election.”

By Amy Sherman • August 9, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on July 29, 2023 in a rally:

The Trump administration “built nearly 500 miles of border wall.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 9, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on August 5, 2023 in a speech in South Carolina:

“During Biden’s first 30 months in office, just 2.1 million new jobs were created, and by contrast, during my first 30 months in office we created 4.9 million new jobs.”

By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on July 29, 2023 in a speech:

Says Gov. Ron DeSantis “opposed my China tariffs and he heartlessly opposed” $28 billion for farm relief, which was paid for by China.

By Samantha Putterman • August 8, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on July 15, 2023 in a speech:

Florida has “the highest” homeowners insurance in the nation.

By Amy Sherman • July 18, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on June 19, 2023 in an interview on Fox News:

In 2020 the ballots that were counted "were fake ballots."

By Amy Sherman • June 22, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on June 19, 2023 in a Truth Social post:

Photo shows President Joe Biden sitting with “Lisa Monaco, second in charge of the DOJ, probably working on future Plots and Schemes against Republicans.”

By Amy Sherman • June 21, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on May 10, 2023 in a CNN town hall:

“Many of these teachers are soldiers, ex-soldiers, ex-policeman.”

By Amy Sherman • May 11, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on April 30, 2023 in a Truth Social post:

A Florida elections bill “guts everything” “instead of getting tough, and doing what the people want (same day voting, Voter ID, proof of Citizenship, paper ballots, hand count, etc.).”

By Amy Sherman • May 3, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2023 in remarks at Mar-a-Lago:

Regarding Trump’s January 2021 telephone call with Georgia election officials, “nobody found anything wrong with that perfect call until a book promotion tour many months later.”

By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on April 22, 2023 in a statement:

Gov. Ron DeSantis sealed "all beaches" in Florida.

By Yacob Reyes • April 3, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on March 4, 2023 in a post on Truth Social:

Violent crime in Manhattan is "now at a record level."

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • March 24, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2023 in a Truth Social post:

The 2020 election could not have been fair because “Los Angeles County agreed, during litigation, that there were 1.2 million ineligible voters after the election.”

By Amy Sherman • March 9, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on March 4, 2023 in a speech:

“We banned transgender” people from serving in the military.

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • March 8, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2023 in an interview:

Joe Biden as vice president didn't "have the right to declassify" documents.

By Loreben Tuquero • January 19, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on January 6, 2023 in a campaign website:

As president, Donald Trump “marshaled the full power of government to stop deadly drugs, opioids, and fentanyl from coming into our country. As a result, drug overdose deaths declined nationwide for the first time in nearly 30 years."

By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on December 3, 2022 in a Truth Social post:

“The revelation of massive & widespread fraud & deception” in the 2020 election “allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”

By Louis Jacobson • December 6, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on November 15, 2022 in a speech:

"They say the ocean will rise one-eighth of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years."

By Tom Kertscher • November 17, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2022 in a statement on Truth Social:

In the 2018 Florida governor's race "votes were being stolen by the corrupt election process in Broward. … I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended. … I stopped his Election from being stolen."

By Yacob Reyes • November 11, 2022

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