A look at Trump’s comments Sunday at the Conservative Political Action Conference:
WIND ENERGY
TRUMP, attacking Democrats for power policy: “The calamity of the windmill we’re witnessing in TexasArray . . . she’s so unhappy when you look at her. This will be just the beginning. “
TRUMP, about President Joe Biden: “You need windmills . . . Windmills that don’t paint when you want them. “
THE FACTS: “The Calamity of Windmills” is a false characterization. Power outages February’s severe typhoon in Texas was basically due to cuts in nuclear, coal, and herbal gas systems, not the force of wind and sun.
These classic resources were guilty of nearly twice as many outages as frozen wind turbines and solar panels, according to the Texas Electrical Reliability Council, which operates the state’s power grid.
ERCOT reported that of the 45,000 megawatts of power that were offline in the state during the winter storm, about 30,000 were thermal resources (gas, coal and nuclear power plants) and 16,000 came here from renewable resources. electricity in Texas.
“It’s not like we’re counting on him to join us through this event,” said Joshua Rhodes, a research associate at the University of Texas At Austin’s Webber Energy Group on wind power. us even if you’re operating at 100 percent of your capacity right now. We just don’t have enough. “
Wind power comes from turbines, not windmills. Windmills grind the grain. Trump’s wrong.
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Choice
TRUMP: “If we had elections, the effects would have been very different. “
TRUMP: “You can’t have a scenario where you vote indiscriminately from all over the country. . . where illegal aliens and the dead vote. “
TRUMP: “This election was rigged and the Supreme Court and the other courts had nothing to do about it. “
TRUMP on Democrats: “They just lost the White House. . . I could even beat them a third time.
THE FACTS: This is all frankly false, which is true that the High Court did not intervene, because the judges, including Trump’s applicants, did not see an explanation as to why.
Biden won the election. He controlled and counted fairly. His victory was shown in Congress, with Trump’s vice president presiding over the Senate procedure within hours of the January 6 uprising at the U. S. Capitol through a Trump-driven crowd.
Trump’s accusations of large-scale voter fraud have been refuted or discovered as unfounded through judges, election officials, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security in his own administration, and his own attorney general. or resulted in nothing.
No irregularities of a magnitude have been established to replace the final results: there is no avalanche of deaths by voters or ballots “flowing without discernment from across the country. “
Biden received 306 electoral votes in front of Trump’s 232, the same margin that triumphed when he beat Hillary Clinton in 2016, which he described as a “landslide. “(Trump ended up with 304 electoral votes because two voters defected. )
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Immigration
TRUMP, about foreign countries that are a source of migrants in the United States: “They don’t give us the best. “
THE FACTS: This lie goes back to the Trump administration. Foreign countries don’t send other people to the United States. That’s not how immigration works at all.
He refers to the diversity visa lottery program, although he did not identify it as such in those comments. As president, Trump has attacked the program, mistakenly calling it one in which other countries choose unwanted citizens to send to the United States.
The U. S. government has not been able to do so. But it’s not the first time It administers the visa program and foreigners who wish to come to the United States apply. The program requires applicants to have completed high school or to have at least two years of fun in the beyond five years in a variety of well-known spaces through the Ministry of Labour.
From this group of other people from some countries who meet these conditions, the State Department randomly selects a much smaller group of winners. Not all winners will have an approved visa. It’s not a way for countries to send their troublemakers to the United States.
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Porcelain
TRUMP: “We made billions of dollars from China in my administration. They never gave us 10 cents.
THE FACTS: False and false, and very familiar.
In other words, the United States never compiled a penny of Chinese price lists before taking action. In some cases, they’re higher than before.
It also means that price lists are paid through China. The cash on the price lists that enter the Treasury comes basically from U. S. companies and consumers, not China. Tariffs are essentially, if not entirely, a tax paid on the domestic market.
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economics
TRUMP: “We have built the most powerful economy in the history of the world. “
THE FACTS: No, the figures show that it is not the largest in American history, let alone in world history. In fact, he was the first president since Herbert Hoover in the Depression to leave the workplace with fewer jobs than in his early days.
The United States had the highest number of jobs before the pandemic, yet population expansion is a component of explaining why this. running or looking for paintings still below the peak of 2000.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer tested Trump’s record for economic expansion: Trump’s average growth was 2. 48% a year before the pandemic, just above the 2. 41% increase at the time of Barack Obama’s tenure. Reagan averaged 4. 2 percent consistent with the year.
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Yen reported from Austin, Texas. Associated Press Josh Boak contributed to the report.
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NOTE OF THE REDACTION – A look at the veracity of the demands of political characters.
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