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Date Posted: 03:31:22 07/22/16 Fri
Author: No name
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Donald Trump speech fact-checked, results prove little to no truth from start to finish

BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump just concluded his GOP convention speech, and fact-checkers have found that most of what was said, was in fact false. One by one, Trump's claims were quickly debunked.

Trump debunked

It started with Melania Trump being accused of plagiarizing for her convention speech, as experts quickly proved that she had lifted parts of Michelle Obama's DNC speech in 2008. On Wednesday night, the convention continued its controversy when Texas Sen. Ted Cruz refused to endorse Trump when he appeared on stage, leading to members of the audience attempting to attack his wife, Heidi Cruz, who was sitting in crowd. When the billionaire real estate mogul finally gave his convention acceptance speech, he delivered information that didn't hold up to fact-checkers, as reported by The New York Daily News on July 21.

Trump claims that "decades of progress" involved with limiting crime has been the victim of President Obama's "rollback of criminal enforcement," However, fact-checkers show that the violent crime is actually at it's lowest rate in over 45 years, to which they cited statistics from the FBI.

Trump continued his theme of violence, stating that murders in Washington, D.C. "have risen by 50 percent." That number is also wrong, as local police reports show that killings in D.C. have gone down, falling 9 percent over the last year.

went on to blame Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS), saying that before Clinton became Secretary of State in 2009, "ISIS was not even on the map." Once again, Trump was misleading in his statement as ISIS was originally formed in 2004 as part of al Qaeda in Iraq, and renamed in 2006.

Turning his attention to economics, Trump made what many are considering his biggest "whopper" of the night. The GOP nominee said that the United States was "one of the highest-taxed nations" in the entire world. Fact-checkers listed over 30 nations where taxes are higher than in the U.S.

Despite failing to earn a passing grade from fact-checkers, the majority of Republicans praised Trump's speech.

surprise, surprise, surprise

Tell us Bubbles, exactly what about lying impresses shitheads like you so much?

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Donald Trump didn't lie for the sake of lying; he lied because he wanted to terrify you ... because if he'd told the truth, you wouldn't be afraid, and he'd lose the election. (NT) -- No name, 06:10:23 07/22/16 Fri
Bernie Sanders reacts to Trump's speech:

- Trump is wrong. The real cause of instability in the Middle East was the Bush-Cheney invasion of Iraq. By the way, where is President Bush?
- Trump’s big economic plans: Give trillions in tax breaks to millionaires, refuse to raise the federal minimum wage.
- Trump’s economic plan: $3.2 trillion in tax breaks for millionaires, cut programs for low-income Americans.
- What a hypocrite! If Trump wants to "fix" trade he can start by making his products in the US, not low-wage countries abroad.
- Fix trade. Stop manufacturing Trump shirts in Bangladesh at 30-cents an hour.
- Trump: “I alone can fix this.” Is this guy running for president or dictator?
- Trump’s economic plan: let states lower the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, already a starvation wage.
(NT) -- I would have LOVED to see Sanders debate Trump, he would have mopped the floor with him.
Too bad the idiot Dems decided back in 2008 that this year would be Hillary's turn. Sanders would have killed Trump on election day, now it's very possible we'll have a true asshole as president, 06:24:39 07/22/16 Fri