CNN Fact check: Trump's Orlando rally featured more than 15 false claims over 76 minutes

CNN ^ | 06/19/2019 | Daniel Dale

[SeekAndFind]

President Donald Trump kicked off his formal reelection campaign Tuesday night with a rally in Orlando. His 76-minute speech featured more than 15 false statements, many of them ones that he's repeated frequently in the past.

Here's a fact check:

ENERGY

Trump boasted about his administration's energy policies.

"And we've ended the last administration's cruel and heartless law on American energy. What they were doing to our energy should never be forgotten. The United States is now the number-one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world."

"We are, by the way, the number-one producer of energy in the world because of what we've done right now." Facts First: The US was the world's number-one energy producer before Trump took office — since 2012, under the very president Trump accused of waging the heartless war.

The government's official source for energy data, the Energy Information Administration, said in 2016: "US petroleum and natural gas production first surpassed Russia in 2012, and the United States has been the world's top producer of natural gas since 2011 and the world's top producer of petroleum hydrocarbons since 2013."

It is crude oil production in particular in which the US became top in the world under Trump, according to the EIA: it surpassed Saudi Arabia and Russia in 2018.

RUSSIA

Trump suggested the Russian investigation was illegal and criticized the amount of money it had cost.

"We accomplished more than any other president has in the first two and a half years of a presidency, and under circumstances that no president has had to deal with before, because we did, in the middle of the great and illegal witch hunt, things that nobody have been able to accomplish, not even close."

[allwrong57]

How many were in Obama’s speech in Brazil a few days ago? Machineguns being bought everywhere by Americans over the internet, etc!

[Democrats hate too much]

CNN cares about facts... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

[Mr. K]

For many freepers this is the ONLY (and best) source of news.

[scrabblehack]

“US petroleum and natural gas production first surpassed Russia in 2012, and the United States has been the world’s top producer of natural gas since 2011 and the world’s top producer of petroleum hydrocarbons since 2013”

It is crude oil production in particular in which the US became top in the world under Trump, according to the EIA: it surpassed Saudi Arabia and Russia in 2018.

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It sounds like what happens is that when the US imports crude oil, and then refines it, it counts as domestic production of petroleum hydrocarbons.

Russia was ahead of USA before then? Ever since the 1970’s,
if not before? Wow.

[richardtavor]

You got it. Our Domestic production has increased from a low of about 5.8 million bbls in the last 15 years daily to about 11 million bbls daily, mainly because of new technology with shale oil and gas. If you recall, the Obama admin fought shale development every where they could. The great state of New York has opted out of it totally, even though they are going bankrupt. They are passing a bill this week to be totally non carbon in 20 years. Maybe we producing States might be willing to sell them some (at the right price.)

[richardtavor]

You got it. Our Domestic production has increased from a low of about 5.8 million bbls in the last 15 years daily to about 11 million bbls daily, mainly because of new technology with shale oil and gas. If you recall, the Obama admin fought shale development every where they could. The great state of New York has opted out of it totally, even though they are going bankrupt. They are passing a bill this week to be totally non carbon in 20 years. Maybe we producing States might be willing to sell them some (at the right price.)

[Maceman]

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

[blondiegoodbadugly]

CNN fact check:

Now that’s funny!

[lepton]

The server company employee told the FBI that he had deleted the emails after belatedly realizing he had forgotten to carry out a request made by Clinton aide Cheryl Mills, prior to the subpoena,

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The thing is, that even by his account he realized it after a client discussion which involved the subpoena.

[lepton]

The African-American unemployment rate dropped from 12.7% in January 2009, when Obama took office, to 7.9% in December 2016, Obama’s last full month in office.

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And a great many of that difference were not becoming employed, but moving off the roles, by means such as either via reclassification as disabled, or becoming long-term unemployed.

What’s the raw number of hours worked?

[RooRoobird20]

The mentally ill CNN fake newsies were EXTREMELY EXTREMELY depressed and negative last night—I loved it!!

They know Trump had a FANTASTIC rally last night, and the Rat clown car woosies are going to be DESTROYED by Trump.

I think several of the CNN mental patients are literally on suicide watch right now. I hope so, bwaahhh hah hah hah!!!!

[Waverunner]

No, it’s a joke about the number of appendages a guy has to count with.

[DannyTN]

LOL okay