Trump's presser yesterday was fact-checked. Here is the report.

 

Trump...repeated a number of claims that The New York Times has previously fact-checked: 

He claimed to have won “in a landslide.” (His popular vote margin was one of the smallest in the past century.) 

He claimed to have presided over the “greatest economy in the history of our country” during his last term. (Even before the coronavirus pandemic decimated the economy, other presidents had presided over better economic performance.) 

He wrongly claimed that the Panama Canal is “run by China.” (It is not.) 

He overstated the trade deficit with Canada as $200 billion and wrongly described it as a subsidy. (The trade deficit with Canada was $41 billion in 2023.) 

He suggested that a large number of whale deaths were caused by windmills. (There is no evidence for this.) 

He claimed that in the Russia-Ukraine war, soldiers are “killing each other at levels that haven’t been seen since the Second World War.” (Death tolls were higher in several other wars.) 

He misleadingly claimed Ashli Babbitt was “only one that was killed” during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. (At least seven lost their lives in connection with the attack.) 

He falsely claimed that the rioters carried “not one gun.” (At least three rioters face gun charges, including one who took a gun into the Capitol.) 

He falsely claimed that Mr. Biden, as a senator, “illegally” took “many more” documents than he did. (The documents that Mr. Biden donated to a university from his Senate career are not subject to presidential records laws, unlike those he took after his stint as vice president.) 

He claimed that other countries had released “thousands of murderers” and prisoners into the United States. (There is no evidence for this.) 

 (Linda Qiu is a reporter who specializes in fact-checking statements made by politicians and public figures. She has been reporting and fact-checking public figures for nearly a decade.)