The following article by Salvador Rizzo was posted on the Washington Post website April 9, 2018:
The White House has claimed there was widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election. We debunk their minimal evidence. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
President Trump made a host of dubious claims during two recent public appearances, jumping from taxes to trade, from Iraqi oil to Canadian immigration laws, from promoting voter-fraud conspiracy theories to suggesting a California mayor should be charged with obstruction of justice.
We counted 24 false or misleading statements in Trump’s infrastructure speech in Ohio on March 29 and his roundtable on taxes in West Virginia on April 5. This is not an exhaustive list, however, and some of Trump’s claims include multiple inaccuracies. Continue reading “Two Trump speeches, two dozen dubious claims”