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Wiz Imp

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2. Of course, we all know Trump lies about everything, but here's
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 10:35 PM
Sunday

a brief fact check of some of the things he said.

He said he won every county in Texas along the border. That is false. Harris won 2 counties along the border including the one with by far the largest population (El Paso County which Harris won by 15%). Most of those border counties are very low population counties. There were only 3 counties along the border (in addition to El Paso) which had as many as 16,000 votes. Trump won those by 2%, 2.9% & 5.8%. Hardly landslide victories.

He also told a rambling story about a snake in Peru. I honestly didn't pay much attention to what he said there, but I did hear him say this snake was the most venomous in the world.

In reality, non of the 12 most evnomous snakes can be found anywhere in South America (or anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere) so the snake his story was about wasn't anywhere near the most venomous snake in the world. Most of the most venomous snakes in the world are found in Australia, a fact that I'm sure Trump has no clue about.

He also said 28,000 people die each year in Peru of snake bites. In reality, there's only about 2,150 total snake bites each year in Peru, and of those, only 10 people die.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sweaty-trump-rambles-about-snakes-and-thirsts-over-ivanka-lookalike/

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