– An Avalanche of Lies – VG

In the debate, several statements were made that were not true, both by President Donald Trump and by Democratic candidate Joe Biden. This is the conclusion of the fact-checkers in several of the major American media.

“There were times, especially at the end of the debate, when almost all of Trump’s comments were inaccurate. Most of his false claims are things that occurred to him before, and that have been repeatedly verified and found to be false.” sums up Daniel Dale, the CNN journalist who almost earned his living to verify Trump’s facts.

Here is a summary of some of the falsehoods and inaccuracies made by the two main politicians fighting for the presidency:

ABOUT THE CORONAPANDEMIA

Trump, om Biden: “You didn’t handle swine flu very well. H1N1. You were a disaster.”

Trump often compares the 2009 pandemic to the corona pandemic, but the swine flu affected the United States to a much lesser extent than the corona virus.

Also, as vice president, Biden was not responsible for the national response to swine flu at the time.

Incidentally, authorities under Obama’s leadership were much quicker in introducing swine flu measures than the Trump administration during the corona pandemic.

Two weeks after the first people were diagnosed with swine flu in 2009, the Obama administration declared a national health crisis, while Trump declared a national crisis seven weeks after the first cases of coronary heart disease in the United States, according to the AP. .

• Trump on the coronary vaccine: “Now we are weeks away from a vaccine”

This is contrary to the statements of America’s leading health experts.

The accredited Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have stated that a vaccine will not be available to the general public until mid-2021.

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer says that the results of clinical trials that are in the final phase may be available in October. The Moderna company reports that this will likely happen in November or December on their part. Other companies lag further behind, writes ABC.

After the clinical trials are completed, the health authorities must analyze the results to determine if the vaccine is sufficiently safe and effective, and therefore it is expected that it will be a long time before the vaccine can be used.

ECONOMY

Biden: “We gave him an economy that flourished. He caused the recession.”

Although the economy has been stable for the past year, Biden was Obama’s vice president, he was not “thriving,” according to the New York Times fact-checkers.

By 2016, growth had slipped below 2 percent, in part due to more modest business investments after a drop in oil prices, the newspaper writes.

It is not correct to blame Trump for the recession in America. The corona pandemic is the main cause of the economic collapse, and it is hardly Trump who is behind it.

Biden also said that “we have a higher deficit against China now than before,” although the trade deficit with China has fallen dramatically, according to the New York Times.

• Biden: Trump will be “First (President) in American History” who have had increasing unemployment during their term.

That’s not entirely true, because if Trump doesn’t gain renewed trust, he still won’t be the first. Herbert Hoover, the president who lost the election to Roosevelt during the crisis that followed the stock market crash of the 1930s, also ruled at a time when unemployment was only rising.

It is true that the labor market has worsened under Trump, but it would be entirely correct to say that it will be the first then Hoover, sums up the AP news agency.

SUM OF HIDDEN MONEY

Trump: claims to have paid “Millions of dollars” in taxes the first two years as president.

A review of Trump’s tax returns for the past 20 years by the New York Times shows that Trump paid $ 750 in taxes in 2016 and 2017.

Trump, as the first president in modern American history, has refused to file his tax return.

When Trump was asked how much tax he paid in 2016 and 2017, the president replied that it was “millions of dollars” and that “you will see it as soon as it is finished, you will see it”, something he has said repeatedly. times since he took office in the White House, writes the New York Times.

* Trump to Biden: “The wife of the mayor of Moscow gave her son 3.5 million”

The president launched several attacks on Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.

Trump served a “mixture of half-truths and lies, combined to knock out the opponent,” wrote the New York Times.

Among other things, Trump claimed that the former Moscow mayor’s widow allegedly transferred $ 3.5 million to a company that Republicans in the Senate believe is associated with Hunter Biden’s business partners.

Biden’s son has no interest in the company and has not participated in its founding, says Biden’s attorney.

Neither the Senate nor Trump have evidence that the payments were corruption, or that Hunter Biden did something illegal, he sums up. CNN.

POSTAL VOTES

Triumph: “The choice is rigged”

Voting by mail is, for infection control reasons, a hot topic during this year’s elections.

Professionals have repeatedly said that there is no reason to believe that voting by mail will lead to more electoral fraud.

Trump’s own FBI chief Chris Wray said at a congressional hearing last week that historically “they have not seen any kind of coordinated national electoral fraud in a major election, whether by postal ballot or by ordinary ballot.”

The AP news agency writes that the claim is part of a multi-month effort by Trump to cast doubt on the outcome of the election, even before the election is held.

THE DEFENSE

Triumph: «308,000« military » died because Biden, when he was vice president, “He was unable to provide them with adequate medical care.”

Here, Trump is likely referring to a research report that looked at the health of the nation’s veterans. The report revealed that the cases of more than 307,000 veterans who had died remained unsolved in the system.

However, the investigation did not contain any conclusions that the deaths were caused by a lack of medical care, nor is there an overview of how many of the veterans had requested medical attention. Additionally, several of the veterans were already dead when Biden was a senator, writes CNN.

CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT

Trump: «I want air and crystal clear water. I want clean, beautiful air. We have the lowest carbon emissions. Look at our numbers now. We do it great »

At best, this is not in line with Trump’s policies. Donald Trump not only removed the United States from the international climate compromise reached in Paris, but also removed or weakened more than 100 different regulations for environmentally harmful emissions.

In terms of clean air and water, one of the laws that Trump has eliminated is precisely one of Obama’s laws that was created to reduce pollution in America’s rivers and lakes. Trump has also weakened many of the so-called “clean air” regulations to stop greenhouse gases and toxic emissions, writes the New York Times.