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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
Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2022 in a Truth Social post:

Election results in Clark County, Nevada, and Arizona are not yet known because those places “want more time to cheat.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • November 11, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on November 8, 2022 in a Truth Social post:

In Detroit, “people are showing up to vote only to be told, ‘sorry, you have already voted.’”

By Tom Kertscher • November 9, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on November 1, 2022 in Instagram/Truth Social posts:

“So the Pennsylvania Supreme Court just ruled, in effect, that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.”

By Michael Majchrowicz • November 7, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on October 31, 2022 in an interview:

Former President Jimmy Carter said “don’t ever use” mail in ballots because “they can be so easily corrupted.”

By Amy Sherman • November 4, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on October 28, 2022 in a Truth Social post:

"Over 240,000 'unverified' ballots have already been sent out in Pennsylvania, a total mess. The Democrats are playing games again.”

By Amy Sherman • November 3, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on November 1, 2022 in a podcast interview:

At the Pelosi house, “the glass it seems was broken from the inside to the out, so it wasn’t a break-in, it was a breakout.”

By Gabrielle Settles • November 2, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on August 12, 2022 in a statement to the media:

"President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!"

By Jon Greenberg • August 12, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on August 10, 2022 in a statement:

On taking the Fifth Amendment

By Amy Sherman • August 10, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on July 9, 2022 in a rally:

Ranked choice voting in Alaska is a “total rigged deal.”

By Amy Sherman • July 22, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on July 9, 2022 in Social media:

The Wisconsin Supreme Court decision declaring ballot drop boxes illegal "includes the 2020 Presidential Election."

By D.L. Davis • July 14, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on April 21, 2022 in a statement to the media:

Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “perhaps in collusion with the Radical Left Democrats” are attempting to “unseat” U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

By Amy Sherman • April 22, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on March 31, 2022 in a public statement:

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve has “been mostly empty” for decades.

By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on March 29, 2022 in an interview with Just the News:

“You go to a store, they don’t have bread.”

By Jon Greenberg • March 30, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on February 16, 2022 in an ad:

"Hillary Clinton spied on President Trump."

By Tom Kertscher • February 28, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2022 in a statement given to the press:

Proposed changes to the Electoral Count act show Pence had the power and “could have overturned the election!”

By Jon Greenberg • February 1, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on January 15, 2022 in a speech:

“In New York state, if you’re white, you have to go to the back of the line to get medical help.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 27, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on January 7, 2022 in an email:

Democrats “are trying to ban voter ID.”

By Amy Sherman • January 11, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on December 8, 2021 in an interview with Hugh Hewitt:

Gas prices were "$1.86 when I left" the White House.

By PolitiFact Staff • December 8, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on September 25, 2021 in a rally in Georgia:

Says Biden “didn’t win in Arizona. He lost in Arizona based on the forensic audit.”

By Amy Sherman • September 28, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on August 12, 2021 in Email statement:

“A Milwaukee election employee even acknowledged dropping off just the margin of ballots needed for a Biden win at 3 a.m.”

By Madeline Heim • August 23, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on July 15, 2021 in a statement:

Says that in the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County, Ariz., "74,243 mail-in ballots were counted with 'no clear record of them being sent.'"

By Tom Kertscher • July 19, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on July 11, 2021 in in an interview on Fox News:

“There were no guns whatsoever” at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.

By Gabrielle Settles • July 13, 2021

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