Fact check: Trump, repeating the same lies, makes at least 18 false claims in Mar-a-Lago remarks

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(CNN) – WASHINGTON – Rinse and repeat.As Election Day approaches, former president Donald Trump keeps telling the same lies at event after event – many about immigration, but many others about a variety of additional topics.Here is a fact check of 18 false claims in his Tuesday remarks at his Mar-a-Lago club and residence in Florida. This is not intended as a comprehensive list of his false claims at the event.Related Stories Harris’ border role: Trump falsely claimed that President Joe Biden appointed Vice President Kamala Harris “as the border czar,” adding that, regardless of the term, “she was responsible for the borders, totally responsible.” Biden never made Harris “border czar,” a label the White House has always emphasized is inaccurate, and never put her in charge of border security, a responsibility of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. In reality, Biden gave Harris a more limited immigration-related assignment in 2021, asking her to lead diplomacy with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in an attempt to address the conditions that prompted their citizens to try to migrate to the United States.The people on the ICE non-detained list: Trump, referring to a list of immigrants with homicide convictions, repeated his false...

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