7 Of The Biggest Fibs In Trump’s Speech Attacking 'World-Class Liar' Clinton
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The real estate mogul painted Clinton as a "world-class liar," yet many of the specifics in both his prepared and off-the-cuff remarks either stretched the truth or were just flat-out untrue. TPM catalogued some of the most blatantly false statements below:
The U.S. has the highest tax rate in the world
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Data on tax rates from the 34 industrialized nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that the U.S. was somewhere near the middle of the pack in 2014, trailing far behind countries such as Norway, New Zealand and Luxembourg.
Clinton has no plan to screen millions of new Syrian refugees
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While Clinton has said that she would call for the U.S. to accept 65,000 Syrian refugees—a 550 percent increase—she also said would “immediately to put into place the mechanisms for vetting the people that we would take in."
Hundreds of recent immigrants have been convicted of terror charges
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Politifact called this claim “murky,” noting that “most domestic terrorists were either born in the United States (like the Fort Hood, San Bernardino and Orlando shooters), or came here at a very young age (like the Boston Marathon bombers and Chattanooga shooter).”
While the New America Foundation, a Washington, DC think tank, found that 139 immigrants were implicated in jihad-inspired terrorist activity in the U.S., this number is far lower than the number of attacks carried out by anti-government activists, white supremacist and other non-Muslim extremists.
Trump was one of the first to criticize the Iraq War
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Clinton slept through a 3 a.m. phone call the night of the Benghazi attacks
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U.S. trade deficit with China soared during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state
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Clinton accepted $58,000 in jewelry from the leaders of Brunei
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