MilwaukeeDonald Trump has closed the Republican Convention in Milwaukee with one of the longest speeches in living memory. His parliament has been extended because, as he usually does in campaign events, the ex-president improvises and talks about what comes to mind. It has lasted almost an hour and a half and there has been no shortage of falsehoods and lies about immigration, the economy and foreign policy, his favorite subjects.
“107% of jobs are held by illegal aliens”
The claim is impossible, and obviously does not match the employment data that exists. In total, the Office of Labor Statistics estimated that by 2023 a total of 29.9 million foreign-born workers, both authorized and unauthorized, were employed. Compared to the 131.1 million workers of American nationality who were active.
“The horrible war with Russia and Ukraine would never have happened if I were president”
One of Trump’s favorite things to do is to repeat over and over again that if he were president of the United States, Russia would not have invaded Ukraine because President Vladimir Putin wouldn’t dare. The statement that he repeated at the end of the convention is not based on anything. What’s more, the relationship with Putin is not precisely one of fear, but of good harmony. At last week’s NATO summit, the allies approved a series of plans to shield the Atlantic alliance against a second Trump term. As explained in New York Times administration officials, Trump said privately that he wanted to withdraw from NATO.
Inflation ‘is crushing our people. We’ve never seen anything like it’
Inflation is one of the main concerns of Americans on the campaign trail, but it is not certain that it has reached unprecedented levels. In the United States, inflation peaked at 9.1% in the summer of 2022, but is considerably lower than its peak of nearly 15% in the early 1980s.
“They want to raise our taxes four times”
The tax cut that Trump approved in 2017 will be in effect until 2025, and it’s true that Biden has proposed some tax increases for higher-income taxpayers and big businesses. But in no case is he considering quadrupling the fiscal pressure. According to the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, the overall expected increase is 1.9%, and in the case of 0. The Democratic administration, in its latest budget, actually foresees tax cuts for income less than $400,000 per year. In total, Biden’s tax increase proposals would represent an increase of 1.9% overall, and in the case of the richest 0.1% of 13.9%, but in no case 300% as he says trump
“We left $85 billion worth of military equipment” in Afghanistan.
Trump has said that when the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, that amount of money in military equipment was left in the hands of the Taliban. This is false because this sum referred to the total amount the country spent on security in Afghanistan over 20 years, according to the New York Times.
Source: www.ara.cat
