President Trump will ship his third State of the Union tackle on Tuesday night time, a day earlier than the Senate is anticipated to acquit him wit
President Trump will ship his third State of the Union tackle on Tuesday night time, a day earlier than the Senate is anticipated to acquit him within the impeachment trial.
Final yr, Mr. Trump celebrated the power of the American economic system whereas highlighting what he referred to as a “disaster on the southern border” in a speech that veered from the facts. Amongst different false and deceptive claims, he inaccurately characterised the nation’s economic system as “the most well liked on this planet,” exaggerated job development, and wrongly credited border boundaries for low crime charges in El Paso and fewer border apprehensions in San Diego.
As he makes his case for re-election, Mr. Trump has continued to stretch the reality about his report on financial development. He has falsely characterized a preliminary commerce pact with China and a revised settlement with Mexico and Canada, each signed in January, as “the 2 largest commerce offers in historical past.” The latest army confrontation with Iran has additionally led Mr. Trump to mislead about the nuclear agreement signed with Tehran and his personal protection budgets.
Different frequent falsehoods have been staples of his stump speech for years: claiming undue credit score for a veterans well being care program signed underneath his predecessor, vowing protections for individuals with pre-existing situations regardless of his administration’s efforts to undermine them, and misrepresenting how the North Atlantic Treaty Group operates and inflating his position within the alliance’s army spending.
His impeachment, too, has closely featured in his latest remarks, typically characterised by Mr. Trump as a “hoax.” His deceptive defenses embrace his insistence that his withholding help to Ukraine was born out of concern that European nations don’t contribute (they do), that the help supply was not truly affected (it was), and that the whistle-blower’s account of the stress he placed on Ukraine “bore no relationship to what was mentioned” (it did).