The first presidential debate turned out to be a chaotic issue that provoked more shouting and crosstalk than politics.
However, claims through President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger and former President Joe Biden occupied fact-checkers on the fiery 90-minute occasion in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday night.
Here are some night key checks on coronavirus, racial justice protests, economics and voting.
As for the coronavirus, one of the most urgent disorders facing the country, Trump boldly claimed that the death toll in the United States, which lately exceeds 200,000, would be 10 times higher if Biden had been president, while claiming that young people are vulnerable to the crisis. Disease.
Both statements were the president’s many false and misleading statements.
The accusation that there would be a higher death toll under Biden is based on the false claim that Biden opposed Trump’s restrictions on China in early February. Although Biden took time to take a stand on the subject, when in spite of all he did, he supported the restrictions.
He also echoed Trump’s repeated insistence that he forbids travel from China. While the president has limited travel, he has always allowed travel from the territories of Hong Kong and Macau.
The Associated Press reported that more than 8,000 Chinese and foreign citizens founded in either location entered the United States in the first 3 months after the imposition of restrictions, while more than 27,000 Americans returned from mainland China in the first month after the restrictions. . U. S. officials have lost track of more than 1,600 of them that were meant to be monitored for exposure to the virus.
People watch the first presidential debate between Trump and Biden.
“So far, we haven’t had any problems. It’s on the outside, it’s a big difference according to the experts. We have massive crowds,” Trump said.
That’s false. After Trump’s indoor demonstration in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last June, which attracted thousands of attendees, the director of the Tulsa City Department of Health said the demonstration “probably contributed” to a dramatic buildup of new coronavirus cases there.
While the precise touch of the collection effect on the city’s epidemic has not been sought, Trump does not have the data to say that “there was no problem. “
For the first week of July, Tulsa County confirmed more than two hundred new cases daily, setting record levels more than double that of the week before the rally.
Meanwhile, Biden said Trump still had no plans to respond to the coronavirus, which is also true.
While the merits of the Trump administration’s plan can be debated, Trump presented in September the most detailed plan to date on how he would distribute vaccines, while it appeared that the government would release the vaccine.
Biden also wrongly said that Trump would no longer supply masks for schools. According factcheck. org, although a federal mask payment program has ended, it aims to supply 125 million masks to schools.
Both applicants made misleading or false statements regarding the continuation of protests triggered after George Floyd’s death through police in Minnesota in May.
Trump has continually used violent riots, specifically in Portland, Oregon, to spread a message of “law and order” that cities and suburbs are threatened by violent agitators.
On Tuesday Trump said, “The sheriff (from Portland, Oregon) just arrived today and said I’m President Trump. “
That’s false. Multnomah County Sheriff Oregon, which includes Portland, said he didn’t help Trump and tweeted, “As sheriff of Multnomah County, I’ve never helped Donald Trump and I’ll never help him.
– Mike Reese (@SheriffReese) September 30, 2020
Meanwhile, Biden, referring to a June 1 incident in Lafayette Square, Washington, DC, said: “There was a non-violent demonstration outside the White House. What did [Trump] do? They took him out of his bunker, asked the army to make tear gas.
This includes false claims: It was the security forces, not the military, who used chemical irritants to forcibly evict non-violent protesters from the square.
There is also no evidence that Trump entered the White House at the time of clearing.
Trump and Biden made several misleading or false statements during the police barricade debate.
Meanwhile, on crime, any of the applicants has also made misleading statements, with Biden overestimating the decline in violent crimes in his 8 years in the workplace under the administration of former President Barack Obama.
“The fact is that violent crime has fallen by 17%, 15%, in our administration,” Biden said.
Overall, the number of violent crimes fell by approximately 10% between 2008, the year before Biden took over as vice president, and 2016, his last full year in the Array on the knowledge of the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program.
However, the number of violent crimes was higher in the last two years of Obama and Biden’s tenure, and expanded by 8% between 2014 and 2016.
More people were killed in the United States in 2016, for example, than at any other time under the Obama administration.
Biden also said violent crime was higher under Trump, but that’s not true, according to Factcheck. org, the number of violent crimes (murder, rape, robbery and annoying assault) decreased by 3. 5% between 2016 and 2018 and fell by 3. 1% in the first six months of 2019.
Trump, for his part, claimed biden had called black citizens “super predators” in a debatable 1994 crime bill, which is widely credited with having led to mass incarceration in the country.
The term was used by Hillary Clinton in 1996 to refer to gang “children. “There’s no evidence biden used that phrase.
In terms of economics, Biden said Trump would be the “first [president] in U. S. history” to lose jobs during his presidency.
The AP news firm noted that this claim is false, although Trump would be the first president to lose duties since the government began recording official task figures in 1939, Herbert Hoover lost duties in his presidency amid the Great Depression, before being dismissed. workplace in 1932.
Trump has also made misleading statements about the country’s ability to get out of the pandemic recession, touting record increases in tasks in recent months.
While the increases set records after the worst task losses in March and April, according to Politifact, Trump overlooked it to give a broader context: that task still remains low by about 11. 5 million tasks since the pandemic began.
During the debate, Trump also made several false statements about the vote, following his un proven claims that mail voting leads to higher rates of fraud. Experts said there was no evidence of this claim. A portion of the U. S. electorate is expected to vote by mail in November.
Trump referred to a case in West Virginia of “postmen promoting ballots. “
While a postman in West Virginia pleaded guilty to attempting to commit voter fraud, it was unrelated to the sale of the voting papers, according to Politifact, who discovered no evidence of courier drivers. promotion of the polls in the state.
Instead, West Virginia postman Thomas Cooper admitted to turning the bureaucracy of some party voting requests into the primaries, turning the record from Democrat to Republican.
He later told the government the action as a joke.
Trump also falsely claimed that “poll observers” had been evicted from a vote in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
He was referring to an incident involving a new satellite workplace that the city had opened for a new form of early voting. The workplace is not a polling station and no permits have been issued for election observers, a city official told the local media.
However, a woman showed up at a satellite workplace on Tuesday and said she was there to monitor the election, but provided no evidence that she was an observer of the election and refused.
Nazdar Barzani contributed to the investigation.
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