President Donald Trump accepted his party’s nomination in a speech with known lies.
At the end of the Republican National Convention, the president distorted the facts about the economy, COVID-19, physical care, the army, immigration, police and foreign affairs:
It’s not the “biggest” in history: the president repeated the boast of making America’s economy the “strongest” and “biggest” in world history, before this year’s pandemic-induced collapse.
Trump, August 27: In 3 years, we’ve built the most powerful economy in the history of the world.
Trump, August 27: In a new term as president, we will once build the largest economy in history.
It is true that the U.S. economy remains the largest in the world; however, this is true under all recent presidents and as early as 1871 according to some. But “bigger” is not the same as “stronger” or “bigger”.”
According to other measures, the U.S. economy has been better than other presidents before Trump.
“Record” task gains: Trump recently claimed a “record” earning in tasks, to mention the record loss much greater than he preceded it.
Trump, August 27: In the more than 3 months, he won more than nine million jobs and that’s a record in our country’s history.
That’s true even though the gain of the last 3 months is about 9.3 million.
But, to be honest, Trump has said those jobs were recovered. They account for less than a record-record 22.2 million jobs in February and March as a result of the pandemic.
In addition, the recovery in employment has recently lost momentum. The number of jobs recovered 4.8 million in June, but less than 1.8 million in July. At the rate of July, it will be in February 2021 before employment returns to its peak last February.
Taxes: Trump said Biden “committed to a $4 trillion tax increase for nearly every single U.S. family.” Biden’s plan does not come with a direct tax accrual for anyone earning less than $400,000. But independent tax analysts say Biden’s plan to raise corporate taxes will indirectly affect workers due to declining investment returns or lower wages over time.
As a result, most Americans would see relief in their source of after-tax income, however, “[the] replacement would be small for most middle- and low-income families; on average, only a fraction of a% of your after-tax income source – source of income – and we estimate that 80% of new tax revenue would come from the richest 1% in terms of source of income.” according to John Ricco, senior tax analyst for The Budget Model at Penn Wharton. This investigation is the basis of a statement through Eric Trump at the night of the conference that, according to Biden’s tax plan, “82% of Americans will see their taxes rise significantly.”
Biden’s tax plan includes provisions such as imposing a payroll tax on earnings over $400,000, restoring a top income tax rate of 39.6% for income above $400,000, and increasing the top corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%.
Ricco stated that “[t] few families would send larger checks to the IRS (or be stripped of more of their paychecks) as proposed through Biden.”
“If you just look at the non-public sources of income taxes and payroll taxes, we found that about 2% of all households would see their taxes raised directly under the Biden plan, almost all in the richest 5% in terms of income source. Ricco told us by email.
But when it comes with Biden’s plan to raise corporate taxes, Penn Wharton’s budget-style research revealed that “the tax plan will be 82% of families,” Ricco said. “But instead of seeing their taxes pass directly, those additional families are paying corporate tax increases in the form of declining investment returns or reduced wages over time.”
Under the tax style of Penn Wharton, who estimates that Biden’s tax plan would raise between $3.1 trillion and $3.7 trillion over 10 years, intermediate sources of income would see their source of after-tax income drop by 0.4 percent, or $180, on average.
“A little more: because the corporate source of income tax is paid through companies and not through individuals, economists have to make assumptions that, in the end, other people bear the burden of this tax,” Ricco said. “We assume that, in the long term, a quarter of the corporate source of income taxes falls on staff in the form of reduced wages. Arrangement… While that staff would not pay literally more taxes, they would eventually end up taking on some of the burdens of raising taxes.”
Garrett Watson, a senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation, told us by email: “It’s more accurate to say that Biden’s plan would reduce Americans’ profits by 82% as a result of tax changes, but not that it would generate a direct tax bill for those Americans.”
Trump said his administration would “further reduce the charge of prescription drugs and fitness insurance premiums,” adding, “They’re falling dramatically.” But insurance premiums for those with employer-based plans, where almost part of Americans get a policy, have increased, just as they do.
And while there is no measure of the overall burden of prescription drugs, the metric Trump has cited in the afterlife as evidence of a minimum now shows an increase year after year.
Premiums: The Kaiser Family Foundation’s most recent annual survey on employer fitness benefits found that individual policy premiums go up to 4% from 2018 to 2019 and family circle policy premiums are greater than 5%. It is for employer insurance, which covers 49% of the population.
Insurance premiums are overlooked. Figure 1.10 of the KFF report shows that they have increased every year since at least 1999.
For those who buy their own awning in the so-called individual market (6% of the American population), the history of recent years has been different. In Affordable Care Act exchanges, where those who are eligible can obtain tax credits for canopy costs, premiums have experienced “huge fluctuations” due to “significant disruptions” in 2018 and 2019, as an Urban Institute report says.
These premiums decreased on average in 2020 (up to 3.5% for the cheapest “money” premium) and in 2019 (up to 0.4%), but this after a double-digit accumulation for the 2018 plans (up to 29.7%), driven by the Trump administration’s elimination of market cost-sharing subsidies and insurers’ uncertainty about the long-term ACA. When insurers set market premiums for 2019, according to the Urban Institute’s January report, “it became transparent that many of them had overreacted to the uproar and uncertainty” in setting the prices of the 2018 plans. As a result, these premiums, which “vary significantly from state to state,” the report notes, have now declined.
Prescription drugs: Trump used the Office of Labor Statistics’ customer value index for prescription drugs to claim that the value of the drugs fell “last year.” But this point of discussion, as we have explained, is now outdated. The BLS metric, a measure of drug value inflation that aims to capture what customers, along with their insurance companies or other payers, pay for a basket of retail prescriptions, now shows a year-over-year increase for 10 consecutive months.
The president also praised his recent executive orders on drug prices, saying they will “greatly reduce the cost of their prescription drugs.” But we don’t know what the effect of those commands will be, as we wrote.
The ordinances, which largely revive the proposals of the last administration, require the Secretariat of Health and Human Services to take action, such as moving on to the procedure of proposing federal rules. Two of the prescriptions only apply to Medicare beneficiaries, one of whom is still being negotiated with pharmaceutical corporations and considers only a certain drug elegance.
Pre-existing conditions: Trump also proclaimed, “We will strongly protect patients with pre-existing conditions, and that’s a COMMITMENT from the entire GOP.” It’s worth noting that Trump in 2017 supported Republican plans that would have weakened shields of pre-existing diseases in the Affordable Care Act.
Travel restrictions: In two sentences, the president made five false or misleading statements about what he incorrectly called his “travel ban” on flights from China and Europe.
Trump, August 27: When I took ambitious steps to impose a ban on China, from the beginning, Joe Biden called it hysterical and xenophobic. And then I introduced the ban in Europe very soon, again.
Restrictions on flights from China that Trump imposed on February 2 were not a “ban.” There were exceptions for U.S. citizens, permanent citizens, and the immediate circle of family members of both. And it did not impose restrictions on flights from China “certainly very early.” As noted, 36 countries imposed restrictions until 2 February.
Similarly, restrictions on flights from Europe were not prohibited. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the policy was implemented only for “access to the maximum number of foreigners who have stayed in certain European countries” and was not applied to U.S. citizens and permanent citizens or their immediate circle of family members. (Emphasis is ours)..
Travel restrictions in Europe were also “not very early”. In fact, a CDC study found that these restrictions were implemented too late to mitigate the arrival of the virus. They were implemented on March 13; As of March 15, according to the CDC report, “community transmission is widespread in New York.”
The question of whether Biden described the restrictions on flights from China as “xenophobic” is also controversial. In a crusade event, Biden used the term “xenophobia” the day the White House announced restrictions, but did not mention restrictions on that speech. Biden’s crusade says that “Biden’s reference to xenophobia involved Trump’s long history as a scapegoat at a time when the virus was emerging from China” and that he was not talking about the ban.
About two months after the restrictions took effect, Biden’s crusade said his candidate supported Trump’s resolve to impose restrictions on flights from China.
Testing: As he has already done, Trump has boasted of America’s ability to diagnose and diagnose coronavirus infections.
“We have developed, from the ground up, the most complex and largest formula in the world,” he said. “The United States has tested more than all the countries of Europe put together, and more than all the countries of the Western Hemisphere put together, think about it. We conducted 40 million more tests than the next nearest country, India.”
According to Worldometer, the United States conducted more than 79 million coronavirus tests as of August 28, more than the overall European collective of 78 million (not including Russia) and the rest of the Western Hemisphere (35 million). China, however, claims to have conducted the maximum tests, at 90 million.
Trump’s focus on general controls obscures the fact that the United States has controlled far fewer people than other countries given the scale of the US epidemic. In terms of the number of COVID-19 checks shown consistent with the case, a larger metric for understanding a country’s check functionality, the United States lags behind much of the world, according to Our World in Data’s knowledge at Oxford University.
By or around 25 August, the United States had conducted thirteen tests consistent with the case demonstrated, well below many countries that have won praise for their tests, such as New Zealand (530), Australia (233), Taiwan (177), South Korea (99) and Iceland (42). It is also below Denmark (thirteen7), Norway (73), Finland (61), Canada (41), Germany (45), United Kingdom (39), Russia (37), Italy (19) and Spain. (15), among others.
In line with human capital, the United States is also the most sensible of the tests, as Bahrain, Denmark, Iceland, Russia, Australia, and Lithuania have conducted more tests given the length of their population than the United States.
The evidence itself is also not enough for an epidemic: they are based on how this data is used, and adds whether efforts to find contacts can prevent the spread of the disease, which has been hampered by test delays.
Treatments: The president has boasted of advances in the search for curative products for COVID-19, falsely stating that there are many characteristics of remedies that have proven effective and prematurely concluding that convalescent plasma would save many lives.
“We have developed a wide variety of effective remedies, adding a resistant antibody remedy called convalescent plasma,” he said. “You saw that on Sunday night when we announced it, it will save thousands and thousands of lives.”
In fact, there are no drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat COVID-19, doctors can provide supportive care, and two drugs have shown benefits in randomized controlled trials in urgent patients.
An antiviral drug, reinfected, which was found to reduce recovery time, compared to placebo, in patients who wanted oxygen supplements but were not ventilated. An essay in the UK showed that the steroid dexamethasone advanced in survival, but only in patients in poor health enough to want an oxygen supplement.
Contrary to the president’s claims, convalescent plasma has not yet been shown to be favorable in a randomized controlled trial, observational studies recommend that it can simply decrease mortality.
As we wrote, Trump made the same mistake in an August 23 report declaring that the FDA received an emergency use authorization for treatment. Citing the effects of a Mayo Clinic study, Trump incorrectly stated that plasma had “been shown to reduce mortality by 35%,” even though those effects do not come from a randomized controlled trial and did not compare plasma to placebo.
Mortality: Trump has long been involved in U.S. COVID-19 mortality statistics. And his comparison to other countries. But as it has in the past, it exaggerated how much the United States has done to save the coronavirus deaths.
“The United States has one of the lowest jurisprudence rates in any primary country in the world,” he said, referring to the proportion of other people who die among those known to be infected. “The rate of jurisprudence in the European Union is almost 3 times higher than ours. But you don’t hear that, they don’t write about it, they don’t need to write about it, they don’t need you to know those things. »
“Overall, European countries have noticed a 30% increase in excess mortality that the United States has,” he continued. “Think about it.”
Our World in Data shows that the European Union jurisprudence rate is 7.8%, which is approximately 2.5 times higher than the 3.1% rate in the United States. But that doesn’t mean America is the leading nation in the world.
While it is not known how the president defines a “big country,” the United States has the eleventh fatality rate of the 20 countries recently affected by COVID-19, and the 51st mortality rate of 169 countries, according to Johns. Hopkins University.
This is greater than many European countries, worse than Austria, Greece, Norway, Australia, South Africa, Japan, India, Russia, South Korea and Israel.
In particular, the United States has fewer deaths consistent with the capita because the fatality rate depends on the evidence and favors countries like the United States that have been affected later and consistent with ongoing pandemics.
Trump also means that Europe has 30% more excess mortality than Etats-Unis, he said before employing other percentages, first 40%, then 33%, but even with even a smaller number, remains unfounded.
As we wrote, the most recent figures on estimates of excess mortality would possibly show that Europe has more excess deaths in total, however, if we take into account the population or the maximum mortality rate above normal, it is the United States, not Europe, which is worse off.
In our research knowledge of the Human Mortality Database, we found that mortality in the United States was 13.3% higher than the general year, compared to 10.1% in Europe.
Experts also told us that when comparing the U.S. With Europe in excess mortality, either on time or wrong, given that the virus arrived in the US. Later, the U.S. It has a younger and less dense population and the U.S. epidemic is still ongoing.
Oxford University economists Janine Aron and John Muellbauer said a greater comparison would be to pit the northeastern United States against the maximum of affected European countries. In their investigation of this confrontation, they found that the United States “significantly worse” than Europe in all credible over-mortality measures.
ISIS Caliphate: Trump allocated too much credit for reshibiting ISIS-controlled territory in Syria and Iraq when he said, “We’ve wiped out 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate.”
As written in the past, research and consulting firm IHS Markit estimated that the ISIS caliphate in Iraq and Syria covered about 35,000 square miles near its height in January 2015. By the time Trump took over the workplace in January 2017, ISIS-controlled territory had shrunk. about 23,300 square miles.
At the end of Trump’s first year in office, Brett McGurk, who at the time was the special presidential envoy of the global coalition opposed to IS, said that about 98% of the land had been claimed through coalition forces. “And significantly,” McGurk said, “50% of all the territory ISIS has lost, has been lost in the last 11 months since January.”
Therefore, the Trump administration is obviously not to blame for the recovery of all controlled territory through ISIS.
Military expenses and salaries: as he has in the past, the president falsely claimed that his administration had “spent almost $2.5 billion to absolutely rebuild our army, which was very exhausted when I took office.”
Trump’s $2.5 trillion figure roughly refers to the department’s total budgets from 2017 to 2020, which totaled $2.9 trillion in inflation-adjusted dollars. The acquisition of new devices accounted for 20.3% of those 2017-2020 defense budgets, or $590.7 billion. That’s 5.8% less than the 2009-12 budgets, which covered President Barack Obama’s first term.
Trump also boasted, once again, to offer “three separate pay increases for our wonderful warriors” in the military. But the accumulation of fundamental salaries for the army is established by a statutory formula, which is “linked to the accumulation of staff sector salaries, measured through the employment burden index”, as the Ministry of Defence claims.
Trump has asked Congress to provide the amounts set through the formula in 3 of its 4 budgets, according to the Congressional Investigative Service and the proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 of the White House. In his first budget, Trump proposed an accumulation of 2.1%, less than the 2.4% point set through the legal formula for fiscal year 2018. Congress canceled Trump and provided the full build-up of the military’s wages, according to CRS.
NATO: The president addressed several issues when he talked about defense spending in the countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
“Our NATO partners, for example, were far behind in their defense payments. But in my biggest demand, they agreed to pay an additional $130 billion a year. The first time in more than 20 years, they have higher payouts,” he added. he said. “And that $130 billion will grow to $400 billion a year.”
Trump has long misunderstood what alliance members spend on their own defense spending as a “payment” to NATO; It’s not. Most NATO countries are also not required to spend 2% of their gross domestic product on defense.
In 2006, NATO members agreed to spend at least this percentage of their economic output on defense spending, and in 2014 they agreed to target this popular until 2024. For countries at most, it is a “guideline”, not a mandate.
In other words, Canada and NATO’s European allies have agreed to build their defense structure through another $130 billion consistent with the year. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said it was an estimate of how much those countries would end jointly in defense from 2016 to 2020, not in line with the year. And those nations in combination are expected to get an additional $400 billion in defense through the end of 2024, not annually.
This is also not the case if defense spending through other NATO members has not been “higher” in two decades. After years of decline, combined defense spending through non-U.S. NATO members has increased every year since 2015, two years before Trump took office.
Biden on Osama bin Laden’s project: Trump said Biden “voted for the Iraq war” and “opposed the project to eliminate Osama bin Laden.” Biden’s position on going to war with Iraq was complex and nuanced, Biden voted to authorize the army force, a vote he later said was a mistake. Regarding the project to target Bin Laden, Biden said he was opposed at the time of the operation and warned that the raid would be delayed to take additional steps to verify that Bin Laden was in Pakistan.
As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden voted in 2002 to authorize the use of the military force opposed to Iraq. As we wrote when Biden falsely stated in September 2019 that he opposed the Iraq war from “the moment” it began, Biden was a constant critic of the Bush administration’s handling of war. Some of his comments proved prophetic, adding his warnings about the post and duration of the war probably higher than expected, and the complexity of “winning peace” once the regime of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein fell.
In the days and weeks before the start of the war, Biden said that while there is hope that the solution to the use of force could be used to merit further inspections, he also said it was a try to vote on the option. war.
We note that while Trump continually stated that he publicly opposed the war in Iraq before the March 19, 2003 invasion, we may find no evidence that he ever did so. In a 2002 radio interview with Howard Stern, Trump said “I guess” when asked if he supported the war.
Regarding Trump’s statement on Osama bin Laden, as we wrote when Vice President Mike Pence made the same statement, Biden said he had warned that the raid would be delayed, abandoned altogether.
In January, we discussed various – and contradictory – stories Biden provided about his recommendation to Obama on whether to move forward with the raid to kill Bin Laden.
Several weeks after the raid, at a time when Obama was preparing for a re-election campaign, the New York Times of May 26, 2011 reported that Biden had stated at a Democratic fundraiser in May 2011 that “he and others had pleaded with Obama wants to be more careful and cautious about the raid”, and told Obama to wait another seven days for information.”
At an annual house Democrat retreat in January 2012, Biden said that at the April 2011 National Security Team meeting, he told Obama, “My suggestion is to go. We have to do two more things to see if he’s there.”
In May 2012, in an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Biden added a new twist to his account, saying that after the team meeting, he said privately to Obama, “Follow your instincts, Mr. President. His instincts have been almost foolproof. Follow your instincts. “I looked for him to take another day to do another check and see if he was there.” Three years later, in 2015, Biden said he had privately told Obama, “that I think he deserves to go, but he sticks to his own instincts.”
We can’t verify what Biden would possibly have said to Obama in private. But even the opinion he gave at the security team assembly – which Obama expected (an edition that was corroborated by others in the assembly) – is not the same as strongly opposing the operation.
Trump said without foundation that Biden’s management would mean “defunding U.S. police facilities” and a country where “no one” would be safe. But Biden said he opposed “police defunding” and Trump did not present evidence to suggest that life under Biden would be more dangerous.
Trump, August 27: The all-harmful facet of the Biden platform is the attack on public publicity. Array. When asked if he supported cutting police funds, Joe Biden replied, “Yes, absolutely.” Array… Make no mistake, if you give strength to Joe Biden, the radical left will defy police forces across America. They will pass a federal law to decrease enforcement at the national level. Array.. No one will be at Biden’s America.
Trump also said, “The Republican Party condemns the riots, looting, fires, and violence we’ve noticed in Democrat-controlled cities like Kenosha, Minneapolis, Portland, Chicago, and New York,” and classified announcements from his crusade recommend that such chaos become widespread. Biden deserves to make it to the White House. But it is vital not to forget that violence, in the wake of police shootings against African-Americans, occurs under the supervision of Donald Trump, not Joe Biden.
As we have written, Trump and his crusade have falsely stated that Biden’s management would gut law enforcement, with Americans subjected to chaos on the streets and unanswered.
Biden has continually said he opposes the postponement of police investment, and a spokesman for Biden told us that the Democratic candidate supports greater investment for police for safe functions, such as projects for network relations and frame chambers.
Biden wrote in a USA Today editorial on June 10: “While I don’t think federal dollars are paid to police departments that violate people’s rights or resort to violence as a first resort, I’m not in favor of cutting police funds. The most productive The reaction is to give the police the resources they want to implement meaningful reforms and condition other federal dollars to the final touch of those reforms.
It should be noted that the federal government will pay a small percentage of execution expenses. According to a background analysis by the Urban Institute, 86% of police investment in 2017 came from local governments, with additional investments funded through state governments.
The comment “Yes, absolutely” was also quoted through Vice President Mike Pence in his address to Congress on August 26. Here is the context of this comment.
In a July 8 interview with progressive activist Ady Barkan on police reforms, Biden was asked about moving some of the police investment to social service agencies for responsibilities that may be more controlled through them. “Yes, absolutely, ” replied Biden. But as we said, it would increase investment in certain categories.
In one component of the interview that did not appear on YouTube, Biden said he supported the reforms, but that “it’s not the same as getting rid of or dissolving all the police.” (The Washington Post Fact Checker received the audio of the full conversation).
Both Biden and Trump spoke out in favor of the concept of social personnel and intellectual fitness personnel by joining forces with the police in some cases, as we have explained.
As we have written, there is no agreed-upon definition of “defunding the police.” Some police critics need to abolish police forces as we know them and update them with other network protection bureaucracies. Others advocate moving some of the cash and purposes of police facilities to social service agencies. But in classified cross ads and verbal attacks against Biden, Republicans sometimes use the term to refer to devastating budget cuts for law enforcement, which Biden obviously opposes.
The Trump border wall. Trump falsely said Biden “even talks about tearing down the wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border, which the president has so vigorously defended.
That’s the case. As we have written, a position paper on Biden’s crusade and a list of recommendations written through Biden’s allies and his defeated rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, demand to get rid of the designation of “national emergency” that allows the use of the Department of Defense budget for the fence that trump’s management is building. But none of the documents say anything about the demolition of what has already been built.
A wall on the Mexican border to prevent immigrants from illegally crossing a major factor in Trump’s crusade in 2016 and a common war cry ever since.
Trump also gave a misleading statistic about the component of the wall that was built. “We’ve already built three hundred miles of border wall,” he said. But as we have written, very few of those kilometers are new constructions.
According to an August 7 article in the San Antonio Express-News, only five miles of new fences were built. The paper says 260 miles of secondary and replacement walls have been built. The border is about 2,000 miles away. The paper said its story is based on data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Refugees: In criticizing Immigration democrats, Trump said Biden had “committed to expanding refugee admissions by 700%.”
But that doesn’t take into account the fact that Trump has reduced the number of refugees allowed in the country since taking office.
Obama’s last refugee limit for fiscal year 2017: allowed 110,000 refugees to enter the country. The following year, Trump reduced the number by more than a part to 45,000. In fiscal year 2019, it reduced it back to 30,000 and finally, in fiscal year 2020, set the ceiling at 18,000.
This is the lowest number since the U.S. refugee admission program began. In 1980.
So it’s true that Biden’s platform asking for an initial limit of 125,000 is an increase, it’s about 600% higher than the existing limit, yet it’s only 14% higher than the set number before Trump took office.
Oath to the flag: Trump repeated a hoax he first made on Twitter in a time after the Democratic National Convention. He told the crowd accumulated at the White House, “During the Democratic Convention, the words” under God “were removed from the oath of allegiance, not one, but two.”
In fact, the commitment is recited in its entirety each night of the convention.
However, the words “under God” were omitted at the beginning of the caucus’s two-day meetings. This seems to be the source of the statement.
Interestingly, he understood the first day of his party’s convention, when he said, “I can promise you safe things, first of all, we will remove the word “God” from the oath of allegiance, as they have done several times in their caucuses.
But on August 27, Trump returned to the misleading editing of the claim about a full of cultural references.
Abortion: Repeating an edition of a fact through several speakers at the Republican convention, Trump said, “Joe Biden says he has empathy for vulnerable people, but the party he leads supports excessive backing of abortion for helpless young children until the time of birth.” . “
As we wrote earlier this week, many Democrats, adding Biden, are calling for the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade to be codified into federal law. This resolution says states cannot interfere with a woman’s right to abortion before the end of the first trimester, but they can or may either prohibit abortions once the fetus becomes viable outside the womb.
Most states prohibit abortion at some point in pregnancy, with some exceptions in the mother’s life. In 2016, the maximum recent knowledge available, only 1.2% of abortions were performed after 21 weeks.
Condemning the troublemakers: Trump falsely claimed that “Biden and his supporters” only began to condemn the troublemakers after the Democratic conference “because his polls fall like a stone in the water. It’s too late, Joe.” Although he did not mention it in his speech at the conference, Biden condemned the violent protests before the conference.
Trump, August 27: During his convention, Joe Biden and his supporters held absolute silence about the troublemakers and criminals who are lashing out at Democrat-led cities. They didn’t even discuss it at their entire convention. Never discussed. Now they’re starting to mention it because their vows are falling like a stone in the water. It’s too late, Joe.
Trump gave the impression of being referring to a video Biden posted on Twitter on August 26 in which the Democratic presidential nominee responded to the August 23 shooting of Jacob Blake through police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The shooting sparked chaotic and violent protests. All this happened after Biden spoke at the Democratic convention.
“As I said after the george Floyd murder, protesting against brutality is a right and surely necessary,” Biden said. “But burning communities is not a protest, it is violence, violence that puts lives at risk, violence that destroys business and shuts down businesses at the service of the community. That’s not true.”
This isn’t the first time Biden has opposed the troublemakers. After the police killing of George Floyd on 25 May and the protests that followed in the country’s cities, some of which became violent or caused to loot, Biden condemned the violent protests.
“I say you have the right to be angry and frustrated,” Biden said in an interview on CNN on May 29. “And more violence, hurting more people, I might not answer the question.”
Biden also issued a statement, widely circulated in the media, in which he said: “It is right and obligatory to protest against such brutality. It’s a totally American response. But the fire of communities and uns obligatory destruction are not. Violence that puts lives at risk is not. Violence that destroys and paralyzes businesses that serve the network is not. The protest will never be allowed to overshadow why we are protesting. This does not take others away from the just cause that the protest seeks to promote.
In comments on racial justice on July 28, Biden reiterated that message.
“I said from the beginning of recent protests that there was no room for violence or destruction of property,” Biden said. “Peaceful protesters will have to be, but arsonists and anarchists will have to be prosecuted, and local law enforcement can do so.”
School selection: Trump falsely claimed that Biden “pledged to oppose school selection and finalize all charter schools, breaking the ladder of opportunities for black and Hispanic children.”
As written, Biden opposes federal investment for “for-profit autonomous schools,” but for-profit schools account for only a fraction of charter schools, about 10%, according to a National Alliance for the Public researcher. Charter schools.
And while Biden opposes tuition vouchers in personal schools, the ultimate selection for some does not preclude academics from opting for between public schools, magnetic schools, and high-performing charter schools.
According to an official at Biden’s crusade in FactCheck.org in July, “Vice President Biden will do everything he can to help classical public schools, which most academics attend. As president, you will prohibit for-profit charter schools from receiving federal investment.” It will also ensure that we avoid investment charter schools that don’t work.” The crusade added that Biden” does not oppose districts that allow parents to send their children to high-performing public charter schools.”
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Q: Do hospitals inflate the number and deaths of COVID-19 to charge more?
A: The recent law will pay hospitals the highest Medicare rates for patients and COVID-19 treatment, but there is no evidence of fraudulent reports.