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Permalinkclosing argument speech in Washington, DC, on Tuesday night, defying fact-
checkers and repeating false claims that had already been debunked during the
campaign.
Here are the most egregious of Harriss false claims:
1. Then-President Donald Trump sent an armed mob to the United States
Capitol to overturn the will of the people. Trump did not send a mob; he
told his supporters to march peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol.
Rioters were already there but they were not armed with guns. Only five
rioters were ultimately charged with firearms crimes but they did not use
their guns during the riot. Few were armed with anything. And many of the
protesters believed they were protecting an election, not overturning one,
according to a Harvard study.
2. He has an enemies list of people he intends to prosecute. No such list
exists, and Trump has pointed out that despite campaign rhetoric in 2016, he
refrained from prosecuting his rival, Hillary Clinton, even though she had
arguably broken the law with her misuse of classified information and
destruction of government documents.
3. He says that one of his highest priorities is to set free the violent
extremists who assaulted those law enforcement officers on January 6. Trump
has never said that he would pardon violent people, or extremists. He has
said that he would pardon many of the rioters, on a case by case basis,
implying that he would pardon non-violent offenders. Notably, Harris herself
urged people to bail out rioters arrested during the 2020 riots.
4. Donald Trump intends to use the United States military against American
citizens who simply disagree with him. Trump has never said anything like
that. What he said was that he would use the National Guard, or if really
necessary the military against radical left lunatics who tried to
disrupt the election. This is actually a common position among both parties:
Democrats deployed the military to protect the Capitol after the riot.
5. I will always tell you the truth. That is never a good thing for a
politician to say, and it is easily disproven. Harris lied to the country
about President Joe Bidens mental state; she also lied about the
Charlottesville very fine people hoax in the 2024 presidential debate,
after being fact-checked about the same claim on live television in the 2020
vice presidential debate. And, of course, she lied in this speech in the
many examples above, and below.
6. Trump wants tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations. As Breitbart
News has demonstrated in many repeated fact checks, the Trump tax cuts of
2017 primarily benefited the middle class, and actually imposed higher taxes
on some wealthy households, especially in Democrat-run states. Trump did
lower corporate taxes, but with the intent of encouraging companies to invest
more at home than abroad, and to create jobs for Americans.
7. He will pay for it with a 20% national sales tax. Trump has never
proposed a national sales tax and would certainly oppose one. The term
national sales tax is how Democrats describe Trumps tariffs, which could
in theory raise some prices. But Democrats arent opposed to tariffs; the
Biden-Harris administration kept the Trump tariffs in place. And those
tariffs did not raise prices significantly; inflation kicked in when Biden
took office.
8. He tried to cut Medicare and Social Security every year. This is a claim
Breitbart News has fact-checked before and so has NBC News, which said it
has merit, but it omits some key context. His budget proposed some Social
Security cuts but not Medicare benefit cuts. Ironically, as Breitbart noted,
the Biden-Harris administration has cut Medicare Advantage, which a majority
of Medicare beneficiaries use over traditional Medicare.
9. He would ban abortion nationwide. Trump has rejected this idea at every
opportunity, saying that he believes the issue is best handled by the states,
which can choose whatever policy they want. That was the effect of
overturning Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision. Some liberal states granted
abortion until birth. Some conservative states banned it in most
circumstances, but in no instance were these Trump abortion bans, as Harris
claimed.
10. Trump would restrict access to birth control and to IVF. Again, that is
simply false. In fact, Trump has said that he would make government or
private insurance policies pay for IVF, which is the opposite of restricting
access. When Alabamas highest court made a decision that resulted in many
IVF providers refusing to provide the service, it was Trump who urged the
states Republican legislature to convene to legalize IVF for hopeful
parents.
11. Trump killed a border security bill. This is another tired Biden-Harris
talking point. The administration was well aware that it does not need a new
law to enforce border security, but tried to blame Congress for not passing
comprehensive immigration reform. When one Republican worked with Democrats
on a bipartisan bill that would have legalized migration at current levels,
the rest balked. They did not need Trump to tell them to oppose the idea.
12. Trump called soldiers suckers and losers. This is an old hoax, cooked
up by the left-wing Atlantic and refuted by many, many witnesses, including
those (like former National Security Advisor John Bolton) who had broken with
Trump politically. Ironically, again, it was Biden and Harris who failed to
contact the families of the 13 Americans killed in the Afghanistan pullout,
and Harris never apologized for smearing Border Patrol agents as racist.
13. Trump wants to put [people who disagree with him] in jail. Ambulance
sirens were heard at times during Harriss speech, and they may well have
been irony alerts, because it is the Biden-Harris Department of Justice
that is still trying to put Trump in jail. Harris also spoke on the same day
former Trump aide Stephen K. Bannon emerged from prison after serving four
months for a contempt of Congress charge widely viewed as bogus.
Harris went on to describe Trump as a wannabe dictator and petty tyrant
in a speech that was as negative as any she has made in the campaign. Her
closing argument was little more than a partisan attack and a dishonest
one.
--
"The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,"
-- DoJ-certified imbecile Joe Biden