WASHINGTON – The Republican National Convention has this question: Why do President Donald Trump’s staunchest supporters describe the state of their union as a landscape of hell?
Perhaps this was the central paradox for the electorate who wondered what to do in rhetoric, because it defies the logic of believing it all.Do Americans live in a dystopia or a wonderful America through Trump?
Four years ago, candidate Trump promised that if he wins, “the crime and violence that afflicts our country will soon come to an end.As of January 20, 2017, security will be restored.”
Now?” I’ve never noticed our streets getting worse so quickly,” Pat Lynch, representing tens of thousands of New York City cops, told the Republican Party.”We are in the barrel of a public protection disaster.”He said in comments making a song praised by Trump.
Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s non-public lawyer and former mayor of New York, spoke of years of “carnage” and violence emerging now, and implored: “Mr. Mr. President, make our country again.”
All apocalyptic rhetoric at the conference in service denigrate Trump’s challenger, Joe Biden, Democratic mayors and national Democrats, both in force and abroad, for being moderated with violence and anarchy..
Hyperbole imbued the debate, either when Trump and his supporters praised his record or when they denounced the other side.Blatant lies were heard every night about protests over social justice, coronavirus, the economy and Biden’s agenda.
Variety of the week:
Claim (it’s
VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE, expressing help for others in uniform: “People like Dave Patrick Underwood, an officer with the Federal National Security Protection Service, who was shot during the riots in Oakland, California.” – Wednesday.
THE FACTS: Pence is fighting back what happened, leaving the impression that Underwood was the victim of rioters. Underwood was not killed by protesters in Oakland protesting for racial justice.
The federal government says Underwood was shot dead through Steven Carrillo, an Air Force personnel sergeant who reportedly has links to a far-right anti-government movement, while Underwood guarded a federal court during the May protests.until the murder and his next escape.
Carrillo, 32, has hatched a plot to target agents with at least one online accomplice, according to federal authorities.More than 8 days before his capture, they say, Carrillo shot And Underwood and wounded his partner, then killed a California sheriff’s deputy and wounded 4 s.
Of the two law enforcement officers killed, Pence mentioned only the one near the protest; the other is Santa Cruz County Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, whom the government says killed through Carrillo while chasing him in June.
—-
RACIAL INEQUALITY
DANIEL CAMERON, GENERAL DEFENSOR OF KENTUCKY: “On the economy: Joe Biden couldn’t do it, but President Trump built an economy that worked for everyone, especially minorities.”- Tuesday.
FACTS: Not accurate.
Republicans can communicate effectively about falling unemployment rates for black and Hispanic workers.But it’s just an indicator; Many economic unrest and inequalities abound for minorities.Minority teams were still lagging behind in terms of income, wealth and home ownership before the pandemic.But when the disease struck, it became clear that the economy was not working well for everyone due to loss of tasks and infections disproportionately affected minorities.
Black unemployment is now 1.4%, Hispanic unemployment is 12.9%.The unemployment rate for whites is 9.2%. For every dollar of the total wealth that white households own, blacks have only five cents, according to the Federal Reserve.That’s four cents for Hispanics. This is not evidence of a functioning economy “especially” for minorities.
———
policeman
ERIC TRUMP: “Biden is dissipating the police.” – Wednesday.
Representative.STEVE SCALISE of Louisiana: “Joe Biden has embraced the foolish project of the left to dissolve them.”
THE FACTS: No, Biden explicitly rejected a call from some on the left to dispel the police, proposed more for the police, the subject of innovations in their practices.
Biden’s criminal justice program, launched long before protests against racial injustice, proposes more federal money to “train to prevent tragic and unjustifiable deaths” and hire more officials in those departments that racially and ethnically reflect the populations they serve.
Specifically, he’s asking for a $300 million injection into federal network surveillance grant programs.It’s more money, less.
———
BLACK LIFE IS IMPORTANT
GIULIANI: “Black Lives Matter and Antifa took action and, in an instant, led to the non-violent demonstration to vicious and brutal riots.”- Thursday.
FACTS: That’s a statement.
There is no evidence that Black Lives Matter or antifa, or any political organization for that matter, infiltrates protests opposed to racial injustice and injects violence.
In June, the Associated Press analyzed court records, painting history, and social media posts of 217 others arrested in Minneapolis and the District of Columbia, cities amid previous protests this year.
More than 85 percent of those arrested were local residents, and few were affiliated with concerted groups. Social media posts from some of those arrested said they were concerned about left-wing activities, while others expressed the political right and Trump.himself.
Local police were forced to overturn rumors on social media that buses loaded with “antifa,” a term for left-wing activists, were violently disrupting national demonstrations of towns and villages over racial justice.In June, Twitter and Facebook destroyed accounts connected with white supremacist teams that promoted some of those lies online.
———
COVID-19 [woman
TRUMP: “The United States has one of the lowest case mentality rates in any primary country in the world.”- Thursday.
FACTS: Not true. Not if you’re from Russia, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines and India as the main countries.
The United States ranks in the middle of COVID-19 mortality rates in the top 20 countries affected by the pandemic, according to knowledge by the Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins University.
Of the 20, Mexico has the mortality rate with 10.8 deaths consistent with one hundred cases shown of COVID, followed by Ecuador with 5.8.Saudi Arabia had the lowest rate of 20 countries with 1.2, followed by Bangladesh, the Philippines, Russia, Morocco, India, Argentina, South Africa and Chile.
The United States had the lowest of 20 countries, with a mortality rate of 3.1.
When the medium looked at knowledge in shape, analyzing the COVID mortality rate consistent with 100,000 inhabitants, the United States is even worse.Only 3 countries – Brazil, Chile and Peru – had rising mortality rates.
Understanding deaths as a percentage of the population or as a percentage of known infections is problematic because countries and report deaths and cases of COVID-19 differently.Many other points play a role in the formation of the number of deaths in addition to how a country responded to the pandemic, such as general physical condition or young people in national populations.
———
TRUMP: “Instead of following science, Joe Biden to inflict a painful halt on the total country.Its judgment would cause unthinkable and lasting damage to the children, families and citizens of our country from all walks of life.” – Thursday.
FACTS: That’s true. Biden has publicly stated that it will only shut down the country’s economy if scientists and public fitness advisers say it does so to stop the coVID-19 threat in other words, he said he would stick to science, which he would forget about.
Speaking Sunday in an interview with ABC, Biden said he would “be willing to do what is necessary to save lives” when asked if he would be willing to close the country again.
“And what if scientists say prevent it?” asked David Muir of Abc.
“I would prevent it, ” replied Biden, “I would pay attention to the scientists.”The former vice president said no one knows what January would be like.
———
DONALD TRUMP JR. on the reaction to coronavirus: “The president intervened temporarily and interrupted from China.”- Monday.
THE FACTS: No, he didn’t interrupt from China. It limited it. Dozens of countries have taken similar steps to control hot spots before or around the same time as the United States.
U.S. restrictions that came into effect on February 2 continued to allow the United States from the Chinese territories of Hong Kong and Macau for more than five months.The Associated Press reported that more than 8,000 Chinese and foreign citizens based in those territories entered the country.United States in the first 3 months following the imposition of restrictions.
In addition, more than 27,000 Americans returned from mainland China in the first month after the restrictions took effect.have lost track of more than 1,600 of them who were meant to be monitored for exposure to the virus.
Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.He also told the AP that the federal government took time to perceive how widespread coronavirus was in Europe, which contributed to the acceleration of epidemics in the United States last February.Trump did not announce restrictions for many European countries until mid-March.
———
upbringing
TRUMP: “Biden also promised to oppose the selection of school and to oppose all charter schools.” – Thursday.
FACTS: That’s false. Biden does not oppose charter schools.It opposes the federal government going to charter companies for profit.
These corporations are only one part of the autonomous schools market, meaning Biden’s position would substantially adjust the landscape of charter schools governed through non-profit organizations.
Biden opposes federal tuition vouchers.
———
HEALTH CARE
TRUMP: “We have its pre-existing conditions. Pre-existing very strongly Array … and you don’t hear that.”- Monday.
FACTS: You don’t hear it because it’s not true.
People with such medical disorders are granted a fitness insurance policy because of President Barack Obama’s fitness services act, which Trump must dismantle.
One of Trump’s laws under Obama’s law, short-term fitness insurance, which is already in position, need not cover pre-existing conditions.Another option is the fitness plans of agreement, which are oriented to small businesses and are unique owners and control those conditions.
Neither option turned out to have made much difference in the market.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is pressuring the Supreme Court to completely repeal Obama-era law, adding provisions that prevent others with pre-existing ailments from being discriminated against in fitness insurance.
With “Obamacare” still in place, pre-existing people continue to be covered through normal individual fitness insurance plans.
Insurers will need to settle for all applicants, regardless of their medical history, and rate the same popular premiums as fitness and those with poor medical or physical fitness history.
Prior to the Affordable Care Act, any insurer may simply deny the policy, or qualify more, to a pre-existing condition that sought to purchase an individual policy.
———
BIDEN AGENDA
NIKKI HALEY, former ambassador to the United Nations, on the Democrats: “They to the government to care for physical care.Prohibit hydraulic fracturing and kill millions of jobs.”Monday.
Representative.JIM JORDAN of Ohio: “Hide the police, defeat the border patrol and dismantle our army.”- Monday.
RONNA McDANIEL, president of the Republican National Committee: “You deserve to know that they would ban hydraulic fracturing and eliminate fossil fuels, which would wipe out millions of well-paid jobs and increase the burden of driving our cars and heating our homes.They deserve to know that they need a full government for our fitness care system, so that mothers like me can’t take our little ones to the same pediatrician they’ve seen for years.- Monday.
FACTS: These are not Biden’s positions.Several Republican speakers seized the Democratic Left’s Proposals, in some cases distorting their positions, and attributed them to Biden, who disagrees.
It is in favor of the government taking over the fitness services; instead, he proposes to build on Obama’s law, which preserves the personal insurance market while developing Medicaid.
Biden also supported proposals to prevent the application of borders or even to decriminalize illegal crossings.
Biden supports banning new oil and fuel permits, adding fracking, on federal lands, but most of U.S. production is on land. The government says production on federal land accounted for less than 10% of oil and fuel in 2018.
In a number one debate on March 15, Biden misrepresented his energy policy, suggesting that he would not allow any new fracking.His crusade temporarily corrected the balance. Biden was also consistent at its midpoint, going so far as to tell an anti-fracking activist that he “should vote for someone else” if he was looking for a prompt ban on fracking.
———
VIRUS TESTS
IVANKA TRUMP: “Our president temporarily mobilized the full force of government and personal sector Array …to build the world’s most physically powerful system.”- Thursday.
FACTS: His claim of the astonishing trials in the US.But it’s not the first time For COVID-19 it is questionable. The United States has stumbled several times with testing in the first weeks of the outbreak, allowing the virus to spread in the United States.The president’s own experts say the US is not a member of the world. The U.S. is far from the test point needed to control the virus.
Lately, the U.S. has been doing nearly 750,000 controls according to the day, a long way from what many public fitness experts say the US is not going to be around.But it’s not the first time They deserve to control the spread of the virus, day, while a Harvard University organization estimated that 20 million a day would be needed for the virus.
The government of public aptitude recognizes that the evidence was a critical failure in the very important early months.Since then, the number of tests performed has been higher but remains insufficient.the virus to others.
———
Iran
Sen.TOM COTTON of Arkansas: “Joe Biden sent palettes from the ayatollahs.”- Thursday.
FACTS: This is a distorted story that Trump and Republicans love to tell.Yes, the United States transported cash to Iran in the Obama era, but it was effective what the United States owed that country.
Cotton also influenced the convention’s tendency to personally attribute each and every questionable action of Obama’s management to Biden.
———
economy
PENCE: “Four years ago, we inherited Array..suffering economy to get out of the slowest recovery since the Great Depression …. In our first 3 years, we built the economy in the world.- Wednesday.
LARRY KUDLOW, Trump’s economic adviser: Trump “inherited a stagnant economy at the start of the recession” and, under the president’s tenure, “the economy was rebuilt in 3 years” – Tuesday.
FACTS: That’s not true. The economy heals when Trump arrived at the White House.
Although the recovery from the 2008 currency crisis was slow, Trump took the workplace with unemployment at low 4.7 percent, a stable task expansion, and a declining federal budget deficit.The longest expansion in U.S. history began in mid-2009 and continued until early this year., covering the presidencies of Obama and Trump.
The U.S. economy is not the only one in the world to the economy But it’s not the first time He benefited from Trump’s tax cuts in 2017 with a jump in expansion in 2018, but the budget deficit began to rise due to tax breaks that favored businesses and the rich in the hope that the economy will improve sustainably.
Annual Expansion Obama’s mandate of the time averaged 2.3%. Trump recorded a slightly higher 2.5% in his first 3 years, however, the country went into recession this year due to the coronavirus and will likely leave Trump with a record decline than his predecessor in four years..
———
warfare
Senator RAND PAUL: “Joe Biden voted in favor of the Iraq war, which President Trump has long made the worst geopolitical mistake of our generation.”- Tuesday.
FACTS: Trump had no further foresight on this than Biden, nor did he oppose it when he started.
When asked in a radio interview on September 11, 2002, if he wanted an invasion of Iraq, Trump replied, “Yes, I guess.The following month, Biden, as a senator, voted to authorize George W.Bush to use force in Iraq.
In March, a few days after the launch of the U.S. invasion, Trump said it “looks like a great success of the military.”
It wasn’t until September 2003 that Trump publicly raised his doubts about the invasion, saying that “many other people question the total concept of going in the first place.”In November 2005, Biden called his senate vote to strongly authorize a mistake.
———
Excise
ERIC TRUMP: The president’s taxes and “wages have skyrocketed.”- Tuesday.
FACTS: Not quite. Wage expansion has improved, but it is clear that there is still a ceiling on workers’ incomes.
It seems unlikely that the 2017 tax cuts will keep up with the promised pay increases. White House economists have argued that revenue will accrue to at least $4,000 due to the declining corporate tax rate. This has not yet happened and is unlikely given the existing recession..
But average hourly wages advanced to an annual gain of 3.5% in February 2019, much higher than the annual gain of 2.7% in December 2016 before Trump became president.The challenge that wage expansion began to slide into late last year in Despite normal hires, wage gains have only accelerated with the pandemic and layoffs of millions of deficiencies with artificially higher average wages.
What staff have not yet noticed is a significant replacement in the revenue distribution source.More than a portion of the family’s income stream overall goes to the richest 20%, according to the Census Bureau.His percentage is higher under Trump with existing knowledge until 2018.The poorest 20% get only 3.1% of the total source of income, just as they did before Trump’s presidency.
———
Farming
CRIS PETERSON, from a Wisconsin dairy family: “Our whole economy and dairy production are booming again.A user deserves credits and our vote, President Donald J.Trump.- Tuesday.
FACTS: Not everyone in the dairy industry sees it as a boom, especially since the larger farms left out of business a small circle of family farms.
The Ministry of Agriculture reported this summer that “dairy herds declined by more than one part between 2002 and 2019, with an accelerated rate of decline in 2018 and 2019, even as milk production continued to grow.”
Part of the challenge is that small farms face higher production costs.Farms with more than 2,000 farm animals are more likely to exceed their overall costs, while small farms are more likely to run at losses under this measure, according to government figures..
———
Outskirts
PATRICIA McCLOSKEY on Democrats: “They need to absolutely abolish the suburbs by ending the zoning of single-family homes.This forced rezoning would lead to crime, anarchy and poorly-quality apartments in thriving suburban neighborhoods.President Trump has cleverly ended this at the top” administration, but Joe Biden needs to bring him back.”Monday.
FACTS: This is a false account of what Biden supports.In 2015, under the Obama administration, a regulation came into force that states that communities face racial segregation in housing.
The rule required more than 1,200 jurisdictions receiving federal housing and urban progress and housing assistance grants to analyze their housing inventory and expand plans to address patterns of segregation and discrimination, and eliminated the zoning of single-family homes in the suburbs.
Trump reversed the rule; Biden is him, but Biden does not require municipalities to conduct backing vocals from the construction of single-family homes as a condition of obtaining HUD cash.
McClosky and her husband were charged with a felony for brandishing outdoor firearms from their St. Louis home.Louis as protesters passed for racial justice.
———
VOTO FRAUD
TRUMP, about the mail vote: “Absent, as in Florida, absentee is good.But other than that, they’re very, very bad.” – Monday.
FACTS: Makes a false distinction. Postal ballots are issued in the same way as mail ballots, with the same signature checkpoint in many states.
In more than 30 states and the District of Columbia, the electorate has the right to vote “without excuse” through absences.This means that they can use ballots by mail for any reason, whether the user is out of town or working.
In Florida, the Legislature voted in 2016 to replace the wording of the “absent” vote with “vote by mail” to make it transparent that a voter can vote if they wish.Therefore, there is no “absent” vote in this state, as Trump alludes.
More broadly, voter fraud has proven to be incredibly rare.The Brennan Centre for Justice classified the threat of voter fraud in 2017 from 0.00004% to 0.0009%, in studies beyond elections.
———
TRUMP, about the November vote count and the Democrats: “We have to be very, very careful and this time they are looking to do it with the total mail scam.They’ll blame the post office. You can see them set it up.” – Monday.
FACTS: No mail scams have arisen from Democrats; Instead, Trump credited suspicions that he was seeking to suppress the vote by mail to his chances in the election.
He said the same thing. In an interview this month, he admitted that he seeks to deprive the U.S. Postal Service of the U.S.But it’s not the first time Cash to make it more complicated to process an expected wave of ballots by mail, which he said could charge you the election.
———
TRUMP, about faulty votes in an election: “What does faulty mean?That fraud.”- Monday.
FACTS: No, defective ballots are fraud. The vast majority are Array
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, the vast majority of ballots are disqualified because they are late, a specific fear this year of recent delays in the US Postal Service.But it’s not the first time And an expected increase in mail-in voting for the coronavirus pandemic.
Ballots are also found to be defective if a signature is missing, which is not unusual among new voters who know the procedure, or if it conforms to what is on the register..
“None of these acts is fraud,” said Wendy Weiser, director of Brennan’s democracy program at New York University School of Law.When investigating suspected cases of possible fraud, studies have shown that the main explanation for the defects is voter error.Said.
Faulty ballots also have a disproportionate effect on the colored electorate, and recent demands have effectively challenged certain needs that pose fitness hazards or deprive the electorate of their rights.in South Carolina, having witnesses on mail ballots can jeopardize the ability of the electorate; the requirement was suspended for the June primaries.Other states, including Minnesota and Rhode Island, have also suspended this requirement due to the pandemic.
———
Associated Press writers Amanda Seitz in Chicago; David Klepper in Providence, Rhode Island; Bill Barrow in Atlanta; Matthew Lee, Paul Wiseman and Matthew Daly in Washington; and Thomas Beaumont of Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.
———
NOTE OF THE WRITING – A look at the veracity of the demands of political figures.
———
Find AP checks in http://apnews.com/APFactCheck
Follow @APFactCheck on Twitter: https://twitter.com/APFactCheck
24/7 news and breaking event policy