Fact check: Trump, in 2023, tells a new lie about the 2020 election

At a January 2020 rally, Trump casually announced that he had “made a deal. I saved a country.” He contended that he should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for achieving peace between Ethiopia and neighboring Eritrea. Ethiopia’s prime minister had been given the Nobel for negotiating a peace deal after 20 years of bloody conflict. Trump had had nothing to do with those peace talks.

Trump had confused these negotiations with another set of talks, between Ethiopia and Egypt, and he had maligned the head of another country. In any other presidency, such remarks likely would have resulted in a scandal or at least days of negative news reports. In the Trump presidency, the statement passed by with virtually no notice.

In fact, all you Trumpanzees have probably never heard of ANY of that: Ethiopia, Egypt, Eritrea, or Trump's lie about those African countries

What does that have to do with the 300,000 Americans who died because you voted a liar into the White House, who told you no one could spread Covid if they were vaccinated?

How many people did you kill, running around thinking you were immune? 100? 1,000? 10,000?
 
You think about Donald Trump A LOT.
TDS is a terrible affliction.
Shouldn't this be in the Elections Forum? :dance:
Nice try. The fraud was fucking obvious. Why are you still talking about something you say never happened? You still are because it happened. I hope you realize that.
I was just going to say the same thing.

Cult gonna cult
 
What does that have to do with the 300,000 Americans who died because you voted a liar into the White House, who told you no one could spread Covid if they were vaccinated?

How many people did you kill, running around thinking you were immune? 100? 1,000? 10,000?
100 bazillion
 
he said FOX News in the OP, so it might belong in the media forum. or just throw it in the Africa forum, since Trump hates Africans lol

Naw, I would have put it in the Garage forum, since Trump also has a garage.
 
In one of his strangest claims, Trump on four separate occasions has falsely asserted that Obama had such a bad relationship with the Philippines that the country’s leaders would not let him land his presidential jet during an official visit, leaving him circling above the airport.
 
And the grift goes on. It's not enough that people are sitting in jail because of Trump's election lies. It's not enough that Fox News, the once darling media outlet of conservatives, has taken a financial hit because they helped spread Trump's lies. It's not enough that people have now lost their jobs over Trump's lies. He continues to spin them because at the end of the day it's all about him. It always has been.

In a speech to a Republican gathering in Florida on Friday, during which he repeated his usual lie that the 2020 election was “rigged and stolen,” Trump pointedly noted that Biden got more votes than Trump in fewer than a fifth of US counties in 2020. Trump then said, “Nothing like this has ever happened before. Usually it’s very equal, or – but the winner always had the most counties.”

Facts First: Trump’s claim that the winner of every presidential election before 2020 always carried the most counties is false. The two previous Democratic winners before Biden, Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 and Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, carried a minority of counties in each of their victories. Obama won about 28% of counties in his 2008 victory and even fewer, about 22% of counties, in his 2012 victory, according to figures provided to CNN by David Wasserman, a prominent analyst of election data who is a senior editor at The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. Like Biden, Obama won the national popular vote by millions even as he carried fewer than a third of counties.

Biden carried about 17% of counties while beating Trump in 2020, a smaller percentage of counties than Obama carried while winning in 2008 and 2012, but there is nothing odd about the 2020 figure. In fact, it’s easy to explain. Land doesn’t vote, people do. In the current political era, Democratic presidential candidates have tended to be dominant in the most populous counties, some of which have hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, while Republicans have tended to do best in areas with fewer residents.



Glad to say you made that walk of shame.
 
And the grift goes on. It's not enough that people are sitting in jail because of Trump's election lies. It's not enough that Fox News, the once darling media outlet of conservatives, has taken a financial hit because they helped spread Trump's lies. It's not enough that people have now lost their jobs over Trump's lies. He continues to spin them because at the end of the day it's all about him. It always has been.

In a speech to a Republican gathering in Florida on Friday, during which he repeated his usual lie that the 2020 election was “rigged and stolen,” Trump pointedly noted that Biden got more votes than Trump in fewer than a fifth of US counties in 2020. Trump then said, “Nothing like this has ever happened before. Usually it’s very equal, or – but the winner always had the most counties.”

Facts First: Trump’s claim that the winner of every presidential election before 2020 always carried the most counties is false. The two previous Democratic winners before Biden, Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 and Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, carried a minority of counties in each of their victories. Obama won about 28% of counties in his 2008 victory and even fewer, about 22% of counties, in his 2012 victory, according to figures provided to CNN by David Wasserman, a prominent analyst of election data who is a senior editor at The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. Like Biden, Obama won the national popular vote by millions even as he carried fewer than a third of counties.

Biden carried about 17% of counties while beating Trump in 2020, a smaller percentage of counties than Obama carried while winning in 2008 and 2012, but there is nothing odd about the 2020 figure. In fact, it’s easy to explain. Land doesn’t vote, people do. In the current political era, Democratic presidential candidates have tended to be dominant in the most populous counties, some of which have hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, while Republicans have tended to do best in areas with fewer residents.


It’s possible he was misinformed about the county thing.
He was spot-on about rigged and stolen.
 
It’s possible he was misinformed about the county thing.
He was spot-on about rigged and stolen.

Wow, another MAGAt conspiracy. If you get it proved that the lie was in one place where you claimed, so the smart thing. Move the lie to another spot.
 

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