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In front of the White House, contrary to American political tradition, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, accepted the Republican nomination as presidential candidate on Friday night.
Then Trump sat behind the rostrum and painted a grim and gloomy picture of an America without him as president.
The speech was met with cheers from the audience and Trump supporters, condemnation from his political rivals, and the jolt of fact-checkers in American and international newsrooms.
– He lies without blinking, and his followers devour him. It’s just tragic, says American expert Svein Melby, a senior fellow at the Department of Defense Studies (IFS), part of the Norwegian Defense College (FHS) of Trump’s speech last night.
The Experts: Things Went Bad For Trump Here
Biden’s wrong
The largest American newsrooms have reviewed the content of Trump’s speech and verified almost every statement of fact the president made.
Including the Washington Post and the New York Times (NYT) have compiled and followed up on a series of accusations by Trump, which were made on the last day of the Republican national convention.
Many of the allegations are described as “exaggerated” or “misleading” and others are simply described as “incorrect”.
Many of the most obvious false accusations were against Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate and Trump’s rival in the upcoming presidential election.
This is the verdict
Here are some of the accusations Trump made about Joe Biden and how fact-checkers have rated them:
Trump Statement: “The Joe Biden party he leads supports extremely late abortion of defenseless babies, up to birth, to stop a baby’s heartbeat in the ninth month of pregnancy.”
Assessment: Both the New York Times and the Washington Post conclude that the claim is, at best, grossly exaggerated. Biden supports women’s right to abortion, but has never argued that abortion should be allowed in the ninth month.
Trump’s claim: “After being asked if he supported cuts in police funding, Joe Biden replied, ‘Yes, absolutely.
Evaluation: Both the Washington Post and the New York Times describe the claim as “false.” Biden has never said what Trump claimed in the speech. Rather, Biden has proposed allocating more money to the police, not less.
– Obsessed with “winning”
Trump statement: “The Biden-Bernie manifesto proposes to abolish bail for money, which will immediately release 400,000 criminals on the streets and in their neighborhoods.”
Assessment: Both Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden support abolishing the bail-for-money scheme in the U.S. No defendants have been released in criminal cases in the states that actually abolished the scheme, writes the Washington Post. They write that the statement is simply “wrong.”
Trump also made false claims about the US handling of the corona pandemic:
Trump statement: “Among the largest countries in the world, the United States has one of the lowest levels of deaths (per crown).”
Evaluation: Here, both the New York Times and Washington Post fact-checkers are clear in their evaluation: the claim is incorrect. Of those diagnosed with COVID-19 in the United States, about three percent die. It is higher than in many other large countries, not lower.
– The strong leader
American expert and IFS investigator Svein Melby is far from surprised by Trump’s lax handling of events in his speech last night.
“Lying is a revision tune for Trump,” Melby said.
He believes Trump had two goals with his speech last night:
– One was to ignite your own voter base. The second was to mobilize voters who are nervous about what is happening in America now, Melby says.
The researcher refers, among other things, to the economic and medical consequences of the crown crisis and the unrest that has arisen in several states as a result of various accusations of police violence against African Americans.
– Become the strong leader who will defend the country from chaos. At the same time, he portrays Biden as the one who wants to lead America into anarchy.
– Will it work for American voters?
– I don’t think most voters are impressed by Trump’s claims, but it may be that his “own people” will be fired, and there may be some voters who are nervous and some of them may be mobilized. Trump has between 40 and 42 percent support, and if he gets two, three percentage points more, he is where he was in the last election. And that may be enough, says Melby.
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