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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
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

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