Fact-checking night 3 of the Republican National Convention

(CNN) — Night three of the Republican National Convention has kicked off in Milwaukee. CNN’s Facts First team is fact checking the convention and will update this page throughout the night. Newt Gingrich on the war in Afghanistan under Trump Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich claimed that “President Trump orchestrated an orderly end to the Afghanistan war with no American killed in nearly two years.” Facts first:& Both of these claims are false. Although Trump oversaw a deal with the Taliban aimed at the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the war did not end under his presidency. The last US troops left Afghanistan in August 2021 under the Biden administration. Moreover, there is no period of “nearly two years” under Trump’s presidency where no American service member was killed. During his four years in office, there were 45 US service member hostile deaths, according to the& Defense Casualty Analysis System.& The longest stretch without combat deaths was at the end of his presidency, from March 2020 until he left office in January 2021 – less than a year. From CNN’s Jennifer Hansler Former Trump intel chief misleadingly says ‘Taliban is back’ Richard Grenell, who served as...