Fact checking the final day of racism, bigotry, and hate speech.
After watching the adults and hearing uplifting speeches and human event stories in Milwaukee, the children in Chicago were something else. All that screaming and yelling was typical for children, but seeing so called grownups doing it was both funny and sad.
So, let’s do some fact checking and see what they got wrong. Now I’ve been using left wing media because even they spotted out the lies. What’s that tell you when MSM calls you a liar?
Vice President Kamala Harris: “[Trump] intends to enact what in effect is a national sales tax, call it a Trump tax, that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year.”
Details: Harris is citing an estimate of potential costs if former President Donald Trump were to implement tariffs on imported goods. Trump has advocated for a tariff of at least 10% on most imports and a tariff of at least 60% on Chinese imports. No mention of the national sales tax the Biden Harris administration put in place.
Fact checking Harris’ claim that Trump would give billionaires more tax breaks that would add $5 trillion to debt:
Misleading.
Trump has proposed broad-based tax cuts during his presidential campaign, to high earners and other taxpayers.
Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017 that permanently cut corporate tax rates and lowered individual tax rates for most households.
Estimates from the nonpartisan congressional Joint Committee on Taxation and the Tax Policy Center found that the majority of people would benefit from these tax cuts.
Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania: “When Big Pharma jacked up the cost of insulin, we passed a bill to stop them. Now, for millions of Americans, it’s capped at $35 a month.”
Previously, the Trump administration introduced a more limited voluntary program that allowed some Medicare Part D plans to cap out-of-pocket costs for certain insulin products at $35 per month. There were over 800,000 insulin users who had access to the $35 insulin cap under the Trump-era program.
Kamala Harris mentioned the Supreme Court’s July decision on presidential immunity while warning about the “consequences” of giving former President Donald Trump another term.
“Consider the power he will have – especially after the United States Supreme Court just ruled that he would be immune from criminal prosecution,” Harris said. “Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails.”
Facts First: The Supreme Court ruling last month did not grant Trump or former presidents in general total immunity from criminal prosecution, though it did grant them immunity for many of their activities in office.
Harris said that if Trump were to become president again, he and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion; enact a nationwide abortion ban; force states to report on women’s miscarriages and abortions “with or without Congress”; and create a national anti-abortion coordinator. “Simply put,” she said, “they are out of their minds.”
Facts First: Harris is making a prediction that we cannot definitively fact check, but Trump himself has not, during this campaign, endorsed these policies she said he would implement as president.
Harris on Thursday said Trump fights for the wealthy, not the middle class.
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, one of Trump’s key achievements in office, reduced taxes for most people. 65% went to those making less than $400,000. Biden Harris always mention.
Sen. Casey overstates the role corporations have played in driving inflation
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey highlighted Harris’ recently announced plan to put in place anti-price gouging laws in an effort to lower the cost of food, saying Thursday at the Democratic National Convention, “Prices are up because these corporations are scheming to drive them up.”
Research published by the San Francisco Fed earlier this year reached a conclusion: that alleged corporate price gouging was not a primary catalyst for the inflation surge that occurred in 2021 and 2022.
Ultimately, the inflation Americans have had to contend with over the past few years is the product of a confluence of events, including the war in Ukraine, government spending and pandemic-related disruptions across the economy.
Harris: Trump “plans to create a national anti-abortion coordinator and force states to report on women’s miscarriages and abortions.”
Mostly False.
What Harris describes is Project 2025. Although the 900-page policy manual makes such recommendations, it isn’t Trump’s plan.
Harris: “As a part of his agenda, he and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion and enact a nationwide abortion ban, with or without Congress.”
Harris’ predictive, multipart claim exaggerates Trump’s abortion agenda by tying him to Project 2025 “allies” and misleading about some of the document’s scope.
• Birth control: After a May interview in which he said he was “looking at” birth control restrictions, Trump wrote on Truth Social that “I have never and will never advocate for imposing restrictions on birth control.” Medication abortion: Trump is on record against Project 2025’s position on this issue.
Enact a nationwide abortion ban, with or without Congress: Trump said this year he would not sign a national ban, even though he endorsed a 20-week cutoff as president. Since April, Trump has said abortion should be left to the states.
Harris: “I … helped pass a homeowner bill of rights, one of the first of its kind in the nation.”
As California’s attorney general, Harris was part of a multistate settlement that won debt relief for homeowners affected by the 2007-10 housing crisis. She initially withdrew from settlement talks in 2011.
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