We’ve just come off of a highly charged political week, with the Presidential Debate that took place at the National Constitution Center in historic Olde Philadelphia. All eyes were on America’s birthplace as Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, faced off against former President Donald Trump in a 2-hour live debate. There were only two commercial breaks within that time frame. The candidates had to stand the entire time. They were not allowed to have any notes in front of them. And when it was time for each candidate to speak, the other candidate’s microphone was muted.
You know, sometimes facial expressions can say a million words, and I noted as I watched the debate. There were more than several times when Vice President Harris looked over at former President Trump as he was speaking, and her facial expressions said it all–like when he talked about Haitian immigrants eating people’s pets.
Here’s the direct quote that Trump stated Tuesday, September 10, 2024, during the debate on ABC. “They are eating the dogs — the people that came in, they’re eating the cats,” said Donald Trump in the presidential debate about Haitians living in the US. This has been previously raised by Trump’s running mate, JD Vance. Several reports have refuted this claim, but that hasn’t stopped Trump and Vance from spreading the myth. But how did the claim start in the first place? Who knows? All I know is, ever since Tuesday night after Trump made that ridiculous statement, all I’ve been hearing are jokes about, “Do you know where your pets are?”
The ABC anchor David Muir, who moderated the presidential debate, said Springfield, Ohio, city officials had refuted these claims. Trump said he had seen people making these claims on television.
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According to a report broadcast on CNN just an hour or so after the debate concluded, former President Donald Trump delivered more than 30 false claims during the September 10 presidential debate. CNN’s preliminary count found – as he did during his June debate against President Joe Biden.
Trump again delivered a staggering quantity and variety of false claims, some of which were egregious lies about topics including abortion, immigration, and the economy. Kamala Harris, on the other hand, was far more accurate than Trump; CNN’s preliminary count found just one false claim from the vice president, though she also added some claims that were misleading or lacking in key context. Here are just a few of the things that were said by Donald Trump that were glaringly incorrect:
Former President Donald Trump claimed in Tuesday’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris that there was virtually no inflation during his administration.
I had no inflation, virtually no inflation,” Trump said. This is false. Cumulative inflation over the course of Trump’s presidency was about 7.8%. Inflation was low at the end of Trump’s term, having plummeted during the Covid-19 pandemic. The year-over-year inflation rate was about 1.4% in January 2021, the month Trump left office.
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated a claim that migrants are arriving in the US after fleeing prisons and mental institutions.
“We have millions of people pouring into our country from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums,” Trump claimed.
Trump makes this claim often, and he’s often alleged that jails and mental institutions are being emptied out deliberately to somehow dump people upon the US.
According to CNN’s fact-checker, there’s no evidence for Trump’s claim on this note. Representatives for two anti-immigration organizations told CNN last year they had not heard of anything that would corroborate Trump’s story, as did three experts at organizations favorable toward immigration. CNN’s own search did not produce any evidence. The website FactCheck.org also found nothing. Trump has sometimes tried to support his claim by making another claim that the global prison population is down. But that’s wrong, too.
Long story short, over the two-hour debate, Donald Trump offered up some 37 false statements. Vice President Kalama Harris is said to have only shared one somewhat incorrect bit of information on her stance on fracking.
Harris said, “I made that very clear in 2020 – I will not ban fracking,”though she had said while running in the Democratic presidential primary in 2019, “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.”
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According to the fact-finders, the Vice President’s response was misleading. Harris did not make her position on fracking clear during her only debate in 2020, the general election’s vice presidential debate against then-Vice President Mike Pence; Harris never explicitly stated a personal position on fracking during that debate.
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