FACT!
CNN fact checker, Daniel Dale declared that Trump lied at least 33 times during the debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. Here are a few truths from Steve Rattner to counter the lies:
- Immigrants are less likely than US-born citizens to commit crimes, particularly undocumented ones — Trump’s stories about migrant crime are clearly fiction. Violent crime has dropped 26% since Biden became President.
- Europe has been far more generous to Ukraine than the US, and has given about $80 billion more aid to Ukraine than the US — Trump’s numbers are brazenly fabricated and self-serving.
- Trump was a net oil importer, but the US became a net oil exporter under the Biden/Harris administration, for the first time in over 70 years.
- Trump’s proposed tariffs will hit low income earners the hardest, reducing after-tax incomes by 6.3% in the bottom quintile. The Trump tariff on laundry machines increased prices by $200. Biden allowed the tariffs to expire and prices went down by $75.
Sources: Steve Rattner, The Daily Beast, CNN
