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I'll list the "lies" that were alleged in the article's linked article, so others don't have to go there and read it:

his assertions that some Democratic-led states allow babies to be executed after birth
- This is Trump's reference to Ralph Northam's comment about delivering a baby and then leaving it untreated until the mother decides what to do.
that every legal scholar and everybody in general wanted Roe v. Wade overturned
- This is obviously a Trumpism. Nobody can claim "every" person is this or that, but it's not a lie in the common sense. There were plenty of people of all persuasions and status who have been advocating for the overturning of Roe v Wade for decades.
there were no terror attacks during his presidency
- They cite things that, at the time, the LAAP-dog media downplayed as terrorist attacks because of the race of the perpetrators:
  - a mass murder in New York City in 2017, which killed eight people and injured others, was a terrorist attack carried out in support of ISIS
  - a 2019 attack by an extremist member of Saudi Arabia’s military, which killed three US servicemembers and injured others at a military base in Florida, “was motivated by jihadist ideology” and was carried out by a longtime “associate” of al Qaeda.
  - a “domestic terrorist attack” when one of Trump’s supporters mailed improvised explosive devices to prominent Democratic officials, CNN and other people in 2018
  - a White supremacist pleaded guilty to multiple charges in New York, including first-degree murder in furtherance of an act of terrorism, for killing a Black man in March 2017 to try to start a race war
  - a 2019 shooting massacre at a Walmart in Texas as an act of domestic terrorism; the gunman who killed 23 people was targeting Latinos
that Iran didn’t fund terror groups during his presidency
- Trump’s claim that Iran wasn’t funding Hezbollah, Hamas or any other terror group during his presidency is false. Iran’s funding for such groups did decline in the second half of his presidency, in large part because his sanctions on Iran had a major negative impact on the Iranian economy, but the funding never stopped entirely
that the US has provided more aid to Ukraine than Europe has
- [Me: From a 12/1/23 article,] Trump’s figures are grossly inaccurate. Germany’s Kiel Institute for the World Economy, which tracks aid to Ukraine, found that, through July 31, the European Union was the largest contributor of aid to Ukraine since late January 2022 (including military, humanitarian and financial aid), at $85.1 billion in direct commitments, while the US was second at $76.8 billion.
  The US was the largest contributor of military aid in particular, at $46.6 billion in commitments...
that Biden for years referred to Black people as “super predators,”
- [Me: CNN cited an X post:] Joe Biden never used the term "super predators" except to say most youth weren't "super predators" in arguing against putting youth in adult prisons in 1998.
  He did use the term "predators" in a 1993 floor speech in support of the crime bill.
that Biden is planning to quadruple people’s taxes
- Howard Gleckman, senior fellow in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute think tank, said in an email: ...his organization’s analysis of Biden’s budget proposal for fiscal 2024, which included his most recent tax plan, found that the major tax provisions would “would raise taxes by an average of $2,290, or reduce taxable income by 2.3 percent.”
that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned down 10,000 National Guard troops for the US Capitol on January 6, 2021
- In an October speech in Florida, Trump again tried to cast blame on Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of the House, over the attack on the US Capitol by a pro-Trump mob on January 6, 2021. Trump said: “She’s a bad woman…And she was responsible for security at the Capitol, just so you [know] – we offered her 10,000 soldiers. She was responsible for the security of the Capitol. And she failed.”
  [Me: This is also from the 12/1/23 article, from before we saw the video of Pelosi admitting responsibility for not having the National Guard troops at the Capitol]
that Americans don’t pay the cost of his tariffs on China and other countries
- First and most critically, this money wasn’t from China. Though the Trump administration made the payments because farmers had been hurt by his trade war with China, the aid money came from US taxpayers: Study after study, including one this year from the federal government’s bipartisan US International Trade Commission, has found that Americans have borne almost the entire cost of Trump’s tariffs on Chinese products.
that Europe accepts no American cars
- t’s not true either that the European Union won’t take American products in general or won’t accept American cars in particular, though some US exports face EU trade barriers and though US automakers have often had a hard time gaining popularity with European consumers...
  According to a December 2023 report from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, the EU is the second-largest market for US vehicle exports — importing 271,476 US vehicles in 2022, valued at nearly 9 billion euro. (Some of these are vehicles made by European automakers at plants in the US.) The EU’s Eurostat statistical office says that car imports from the US hit a new peak in 2020, Trump’s last full year in office, at a value of about 11 billion euro.
that he is the president who got the Veterans Choice program through Congress
- former President Barack Obama signed the Choice program into law in 2014. The law, which allowed eligible veterans to be covered by the government for care provided by doctors outside the VA system, was a bipartisan initiative spearheaded by two senators Trump has repeatedly criticized, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and the late John McCain of Arizona...
  What Trump signed was a 2018 law, the VA MISSION Act, that modified and expanded the eligibility criteria from the Choice program.
that fraud marred the results of the 2020 election
- [Me: I won't bother including CNN's rebuttal]

-PJ

Regarding the following “fact check”:
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that he is the president who got the Veterans Choice program through Congress
former President Barack Obama signed the Choice program into law in 2014. The law, which allowed eligible veterans to be covered by the government for care provided by doctors outside the VA system, was a bipartisan initiative spearheaded by two senators Trump has repeatedly criticized, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and the late John McCain of Arizona...
What Trump signed was a 2018 law, the VA MISSION Act, that modified and expanded the eligibility criteria from the Choice program.

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This “fact check” is mis-leading and doesn’t tell the full story. It limits Trump’s follow-up legislation to the 2018 VA Mission Act while ignoring an April 19, 2017 bill that extended and altered parts of the original 2014 law. Additionally, A week later, Trump signed an Executive Order designed to help whistleblowers and improve accountability.

From a Wikipedia article on the subject, we find:

On April 19, 2017, President Donald Trump signed a bill into law extending the act and expanding the eligibility for the program, where veterans are given the option for a private doctor if their VA wait is only 20 days (28 for specialty care) or their drive is only 30 minutes.

Failures with the VA Choice program emerged in a 2017 whistleblower case concerning the Manchester VA Medical Center, in which one of the administrators of the VA Choice program, Health Net Federal Services, failed to schedule appointments for New Hampshire veterans, leaving some veterans with life-threatening conditions waiting for over six months just to see a doctor. On April 27, 2017, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13793 (Improving Accountability and Whistleblower Protection at the Department of Veterans Affairs) to help whistleblowers and increase accountability at the Department of Veterans Affairs. In 2018, President Donald Trump signed the VA Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks Act of 2018 (VA MISSION Act of 2018) into law which made several improvements to the existing VA Choice program and amended the 2014 legislation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans%27_Access_to_Care_through_Choice,_Accountability,_and_Transparency_Act_of_2014