Trump rally: President’s speech was verified in Florida

President Donald Trump addressed a packed crowd of supporters in Florida as he returned to the election campaign after his coronavirus treatment.

We verify some of your top claims.

Verdict: That figure is not correct, it’s more like 10 miles per week. Mexico has said it is not paying for the wall.

It could be that Trump got his numbers mixed up. In August 2020,

officials said they were building 10 miles of border wall a week.

Between August 7 and September 25, 2020, 66 miles of wall were built, just over 9 miles per week.

Mexican leaders have long said they are not paying for the wall.

Since January 2017, the US Customs and Border Protection says that “$ 15 billion has been identified to build 738 miles of a new border wall system through a combination of funds from the Department of Homeland Security. (DHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Treasury Confiscation Fund (TFF). “

President Trump also said at the rally: “We are almost 400 miles up the wall, no one talks about it anymore.”

Under President Trump, the United States has built 341 miles of wall. However, 305 miles of this was built to replace the existing barriers.

There are only 36 miles of wall where there was no barrier before. Of that total, only 9 miles is what is called the primary wall. The rest is a secondary wall, built to reinforce the first wall.

Verdict: Democrats have not said they would shut down fracking, only that they would ban new fracking on public land.

The Trump campaign has claimed that Joe Biden would ban fracking, a major issue in hotly contested states like Pennsylvania.

In recent months, Biden has flatly denied it. In August 2020, he said, “I am not banning fracking. Let me say it again: I am not banning fracking.”

However, in March 2020, during a Democratic debate, he said “No more, no new fracking.”

He later clarified it: “I said I would not make new leases on federal land.”

Biden’s campaign site says Democrats would protect “America’s natural treasures by … banning new oil and gas permits on public lands and waters.”

Verdict: They have recovered to levels close to the pre-pandemic, but not as high as the record set in February.

President Trump often highlights the rising value of the US financial markets as a measure of success, particularly the Dow Jones industrial average.

The Dow is a measure of the performance of 30 large companies listed on the US stock exchanges and reached all-time highs earlier this year.

It then collapsed as markets reacted to the coronavirus pandemic, erasing all the progress made since President Trump took office.

But financial markets have been remarkably resilient.

They have now returned to pre-pandemic levels, but they are not at the highest level recorded in February 2020.

The stock market is used as an indicator of the state of the economy, although it is imperfect, says Andrew Walker, an economics correspondent for the BBC.

Verdict: Biden used the term “hysterical xenophobia,” but says it’s about Trump’s record, not China’s restrictions.

When the restrictions on people entering the United States from China were announced in late January, Biden said it was not the time for “Donald Trump’s record of hysterical xenophobia,” and the next day he tweeted a similar message.

Biden’s campaign says this was not a reference to the measures, but rather to the president’s overall record in office.

Biden has never specifically said that he opposes travel restrictions per se, but he did say in March that “travel restrictions based on favoritism and politics, rather than risk, will backfire.”

Finally, in early April, Biden said publicly that he supported them, and his campaign added: “Science supported this ban, therefore so did he.”

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