Trump’s 2024 Convention Speech Had More Falsehoods Than His 2016 One

The New York Times ^ | July 24, 2024, 5:03 a.m. ET | Linda Qiu

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Former President Donald J. Trump’s penchant for fabrication and hyperbole has long been a core tenet of his bombastic persona and political messaging. Two campaigns, one term in the Oval Office and eight years later, Mr. Trump has loosened his grasp on the facts even more.

A comparison of his addresses before the Republican National Convention in 2016 and 2024 demonstrates how his relationship to the truth has changed, offering a glimpse of how he will likely cast himself on the campaign trail as he seeks to reclaim the White House.

In 2016, when he accepted the nomination after a bitter primary campaign, with doubts and skepticism lingering over his candidacy, Mr. Trump hewed closely to his prepared remarks and paid some heed to the facts.

Last Thursday, he stood before a party altered in his image, after four nights of allies, friends and former foes repeating falsehoods and exaggerations that have become a staple of his speeches, rallies and social media posts.

As a result, the address Mr. Trump gave in 2024 was akin to one he might deliver at a rally, and almost twice as long as his speech in 2016 by the amount of words. The number of inaccurate claims also doubled, according to a New York Times analysis. In the span of two minutes of his acceptance speech this year, he rattled off five exaggerated or false claims.

Here’s a breakdown.

Mr. Trump veered farther from the facts.

Whereas many of Mr. Trump’s claims eight years ago contained a kernel of truth or simply omitted context, many of his claims during his acceptance speech last week were flat-out false.

Take, for example, his statements about crime.

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Linda is projecting again.

[rktman]

These people.......

[eclectic]

exited

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Quite the narcissist, aren’t ya?

[madison10]

Kamala lies on the daily regarding all things conservative and Republican.

[Agatsu77]

Based on what factual source?

[kiryandil]

Remember all the articles about Joe Biden's dementia written by Linda "Gaslight" Qiu of The New Gaslight Times over the last four years?

Yeah - me neither.

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Based on what factual source?

Who needs facts? Feeeelings. That's all that matters.

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

To take back your country , the scum who support these people need to be on the defensive

The people with money that support these types of scum need to be put in their place.

[OttawaFreeper]

As always with the Times, if anyone knows about "penchant for fabrication and hyperbole", it should be them based on Uncle Walter's well-known contributions to the annals of journalism.

[sten]

Falsehoods? Was he telling people about the time his uncle was eaten by cannibals? Or how he matched with MLKJr?

Oh, sorry. Those were ‘embellished truths’ from biden

[OttawaFreeper]

I guess we could also take Jayson Blair’s contributions to journalism as well into consideration regarding the NYT’s allegations about Trump in this article.

[Pearfect]

The democrat press AGAIN .

NYT = NOT YET TRUTH.

[EinNYC]

The NY Slimes publishes more lies than a telephone book, every day. They are nothing but fish wrap.

[SeekAndFind]

We can’t read the entire article without spending money to subscribe. Not gonna do it.

[gitmo]

You can read it here.

[Vaduz]

Not offended by articles from the corporate gaslight press.

I recall in the 60’s when Russia had high powered transmitters spreading their propaganda around the world the NYT sounds just like them.

Communism has many names

[DPMD]

Almost as many lies as the average Biden sentence.

[Leep]

President biden IS a lie.

[rktman]

Whereas come-ala ‘fweedumb’ hawiss can’t make up a coherent sentence.