The first presidential debate turned out to be a chaotic issue that provoked more shouting and crosstalk than politics.
However, claims through President Donald Trump and Democratic Challenger and former Vice President Joe Biden occupied fact checks on the fiery 90-minute occasion in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday night.
Below are some key night checks on coronavirus, racial justice protests, economics and voting.
As for the coronavirus, one of the most urgent disorders facing the country, Trump boldly claimed that the death toll in the United States, which lately exceeds 200,000, would be 10 times higher if Biden had been president, while claiming that young people are vulnerable to the crisis. Disease.
Both statements were many false and misleading statements from the president.
The accusation that there would be a higher death toll under Biden’s administration is based on the false claim that Biden opposed Trump’s restrictions on China in early February. He supported the restrictions.
He also echoed Trump’s repeated insistence that he forbids travel from China. While the president has limited travel, he has always allowed travel from the territories of Hong Kong and Macau.
The Associated Press reported that more than 8,000 Chinese and foreign citizens founded in either location entered the United States in the first 3 months after the imposition of restrictions, while more than 27,000 Americans returned from mainland China in the first month after the restrictions. . U. S. officials have lost track of more than 1,600 of them that were meant to be monitored for exposure to the virus.
People watch the first presidential debate between Trump and Biden.
“So far, we haven’t had any problems. It’s on the outside, it’s a big difference according to the experts. We have massive crowds,” Trump said.
That’s false. After Trump’s indoor demonstration in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last June, which attracted thousands of attendees, the director of the Tulsa City Department of Health said the demonstration “probably contributed” to a dramatic buildup of new coronavirus cases there.
While no touch has been sought about the precise effect of collection on the city’s epidemic, Trump does not have the data to say that “there was no problem. “
For the first week of July, Tulsa County confirmed more than two hundred new cases daily, setting record levels more than double that of the week before the rally.
Meanwhile, Biden said Trump still had no plans to respond to the coronavirus, which is also true.
While the merits of Trump’s management plan can be debated, Trump presented in September the most detailed plan to date on how he would distribute vaccines, while showing how the government would make the vaccine free.
Biden also wrongly said that Trump would no longer supply masks for schools. According factcheck. org, although a federal mask payment program has ended, it aims to supply 125 million masks to schools.
Both applicants made misleading or false statements regarding the continuation of protests triggered after George Floyd’s death through police in Minnesota in May.
Trump has continually used violent riots, specifically in Portland, Oregon, to spread a message of “law and order” that cities and suburbs are threatened by violent agitators.
On Tuesday, Trump said, “The sheriff (from Portland, Oregon) just came out and said I supported President Trump. “
That’s false. Multnomah County Sheriff Oregon, which includes Portland, said he didn’t help Trump and tweeted, “As sheriff of Multnomah County, I’ve never helped Donald Trump and I’ll never help him.
– Mike Reese (@SheriffReese) September 30, 2020
Meanwhile, Biden, referring to a June 1 incident in Lafayette Square, Washington, D. C. , said: “There was a nonviolent demonstration outside the White House. What did [Trump]?army do to make tear gas.
This includes false ones: it was the police, not the army, who used chemical irritants to foresod nonviolent protesters from the square.
There is also no evidence that Trump had a “bunker” in the White House at the time of the clearing.
Trump and Biden made several misleading or false statements during the debate [File: Morry Gash / Reuters] Secret Service agents had led Trump to a White House bunker a few days earlier as a bunch of protesters gathered outdoors in the executive mansion, some of them throwing stones and shooting at police barricades.
Meanwhile, on crime, any of the applicants has also made misleading statements, with Biden overestimating the decline in violent crimes in his 8 years in the workplace under the administration of former President Barack Obama.
“The fact is that violent crime has fallen by 17%, 15%, in our administration,” Biden said.
Overall, the number of violent crimes fell by approximately 10% between 2008, the year before Biden took over as vice president, and 2016, his last full year in the Array on the knowledge of the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program.
However, the number of violent crimes was higher in the last two years of Obama and Biden’s tenure, and expanded by 8% between 2014 and 2016.
More people were killed in the United States in 2016, for example, than at any other time in the Obama administration.
Biden also said violent crime was higher under Trump, but that’s not true, according to Factcheck. org, the number of violent crimes (murder, rape, robbery and annoying assault) decreased by 3. 5% between 2016 and 2018 and fell by 3. 1% in the first six months of 2019.
Trump, for his part, claimed biden had called black citizens “super predators” in a debatable 1994 crime bill, which is widely credited with having led to mass incarceration in the country.
The term was used by Hillary Clinton in 1996 to refer to gang “children. “There’s no evidence biden used that phrase.
In terms of the economy, Biden said Trump would be the “first [president] in U. S. history” to lose jobs during his presidency.
The AP news firm noted that this claim is false, although Trump would be the first president to lose duties since the government began recording official task figures in 1939, Herbert Hoover lost duties in his presidency amid the Great Depression, before being dismissed. workplace in 1932.
Trump has also made misleading statements about the country’s ability to get out of the pandemic recession, touting record increases in tasks in recent months.
While the increases set records after the worst task losses in March and April, according to Politifact, Trump overlooked it to give a broader context: that task still remains low by about 11. 5 million tasks since the pandemic began.
During the debate, Trump also made several false statements about the vote, following his un proven claims that mail voting leads to higher rates of fraud. Experts said there was no evidence of this claim. A portion of the U. S. electorate is expected to vote by mail in November.
Trump referred to a case in West Virginia of “postmen promoting ballots. “
While a postman in West Virginia pleaded guilty to making an attempt to dedicate voter fraud, it is not similar to the sale of ballots, according to Politifact, who found no evidence that mail-delivery drivers promote ballots in the state.
Instead, West Virginia postman Thomas Cooper admitted to turning the bureaucracy of voting requests from some parties into the primaries, turning the record from Democrat to Republican.
He later told the government that the action was a joke.
Trump also falsely claimed that “poll observers” had been evicted from a vote in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
He was referring to an incident involving a new satellite workplace that the city had opened for a new form of early voting. The workplace is not a polling station and no permits have been issued for election observers, a city official told the local media.
However, a woman showed up at a satellite workplace on Tuesday and said she was there to monitor the election, but provided no evidence that she was an observer of the election and refused.
Nazdar Barzani contributed to the investigation.
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