False Claims During the RNC Convention First Night...

“We actually saw revenues to the Treasury increase after we lowered taxes in 2017. Rest assured, the Democrats do not want you to know that!”

— Senator Tim Scott, Republican of South Carolina

This is misleading.

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“Courtesy of the Chinese Communist Party, the virus struck. The president quickly took action and shut down travel from China.”

— Donald Trump Jr., the president’s oldest son

This is misleading.

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“Biden also wants to bring in more illegal immigrants to take jobs from American citizens. His open border policies would drive wages down for Americans at a time when low-income workers were getting real wage increases for the first time in modern history.”

— Donald Trump Jr., the president’s oldest son

This is misleading.

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“Obama and Biden let North Korea threaten America. President Trump rejected that weakness, and we passed the toughest sanctions on North Korea in history.”

— Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the United Nations and former governor of South Carolina

This is misleading.

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“The president also built the most inclusive economy ever, with record low unemployment for African Americans and record high participation in the work force.”

— Vernon Jones, a Georgia Democrat

This is partially false and misleading.

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“Taxes cut, regulations reduced, economy growing, lowest unemployment in 50 years …rebuilding the economy.”

— Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio

This is misleading.

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“We just broke a record on jobs, an all-time record. There’s never been three months where we’ve put more people to work, over 9 million people.”

— President Trump, speaking after he was renominated earlier on Monday.

This is misleading.

“Once again, to clean up Joe Biden’s mess, President Trump signed into law historically high funding for HBCUs, as well as a bill to give them permanent funding for the first time ever.”

— Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina

This is exaggerated.

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“Anarchists have been flooding our streets and Democrat mayors are ordering the police to stand down.”

— Donald Trump Jr.

This is exaggerated.

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“Just a few short months ago, we were seeing the American dream become a reality for more of our citizens than ever before. The greatest prolonged economic expansion in American history. The lowest unemployment rate in nearly 50 years. The lowest unemployment rates ever for Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, women, and pretty much every other demographic group.”

— Donald Trump Jr.

This is exaggerated.

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“Policies that force jobs to flee our country or allow abortion up until the point of birth are not nice.”

— Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee

This is exaggerated.

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“He took on ISIS and won.”

— Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the United Nations

This is exaggerated.

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“That means we don’t have to be afraid of you at all, right?”

— President Trump

This is exaggerated.

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“He ended — once and for all — the policy of incarceration of Black people, which has decimated our communities caused by no other than Joe Biden. Democrats wouldn’t do it.”

— State Representative Vernon Jones of Georgia

This is exaggerated.

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“In January, there’d have been no China travel ban. Millions would’ve died.”

— Natalie Harp, a pro-Trump citizen from California

This is exaggerated

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“In spite of this unbelievable opposition, this president has done what he said he would do … of course he’s building the wall.”

— Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio

This is exaggerated.

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Democrats are pushing policies including “taxpayer-funded health care for people who come here illegally.”

— Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee

This is exaggerated.

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“President Obama was very nice and he gave me 142 openings. Historically you get no openings. When you become president you say ‘how many judges?’ and they’ll say ‘none, sir.’”

— President Trump, during remarks after he was renominated for president.

This is exaggerated.

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“You deserve to know that they want a complete government takeover of our health care system, so moms like me won’t be able to take our kids to the same pediatrician they’ve been seeing for years.”

— Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman, Republican National Committee

This is exaggerated.

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“We will not be taking the word ‘God’ out of the Pledge of Allegiance, OK? Like they did a number of times at their caucuses. Under God. Under God. All of a sudden those two words are missing.”

— President Trump, speaking after he was renominated earlier on Monday.

This is exaggerated.