Final Night of the GOP Convention

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Summary For the first half hour of former President Donald Trump’s speech, when he discussed the attempt to assassinate him in Pennsylvania on July 13 and the need for unity in the country, we didn’t have much to fact-check. But then Trump launched into a greatest hits of false and misleading claims we have been writing about for months, if not years. Here are just some of the claims, along with a few noteworthy remarks by other speakers: Trump said his life was saved because he had turned to look at a chart on illegal immigration when an assassin’s bullet hit his ear. The chart is highly misleading. Trump wrongly claimed the arrow pointing to a low point showed his “last week in office.” It points to April 2020, when apprehensions at the border plummeted during the height of the pandemic. Trump revisited one of his most frequent claims, the falsehood that “cheating” caused him to lose the 2020 election to President Joe Biden. Courts across the country have rejected his claims, and election security officials at the time called the 2020 election “the most secure in American history.” Trump’s...