At the NATO summit in Brussels, President Donald Trump made several false statements about the defense spending of the member countries.
Trump’s False Claims at NATO
Month: July 2018
Trump’s Defense Spending Exaggerations
President Donald Trump exaggerated the size of the defense budget in a couple of ways in recent speeches.
Facebook Didn’t Hire George Soros
Q: Did Facebook hire George Soros “to remove ‘unwanted’ Conservative content from the platform to better regulate elections”?
A: No. A false story mischaracterizes Soros’ ties to the Atlantic Council, which has partnered with Facebook on an elections integrity project.
Trumped Up Headlines Distort Old Story
Q: Did The New York Times say in 1984 that Donald Trump would be “our best president”?
A: No. That year The New York Times published a magazine story featuring Trump’s early success as a businessman, not his political potential.
Trump’s Numbers (Second Quarterly Update)
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.
Kavanaugh and the Preexisting Conditions Debate
An ad from a Democratic group warned that the president’s Supreme Court nominee could eliminate preexisting condition protections under the Affordable Care Act, a move that “would take us back to a time when insurance companies could deny you coverage.” But that depends on who “you” are.
Trump Still Distorting NATO Spending
President Donald Trump continues to wrongly claim that the United States is paying as much as 90 percent of the cost of operating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Ag Exports, Presidential Elections, West Virginia GDP
Trump Wrong About Wisconsin Election Results
President Donald Trump got his election history wrong when he said that Ronald Reagan lost Wisconsin, and that before his 2016 win, no GOP presidential candidate had won the state since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952.
Trump Overstates West Virginia Gains
Speaking to a crowd in West Virginia, President Donald Trump oversold the economic progress in the Mountain State.