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The Trump campaign has consistently pointed to unauthorized immigration as the cause of a series of problems it says plagues the country. That is rarely actually the case.To former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, the root cause of many of the issues in the United States is simple. Be it gun violence, high housing costs, long wait times at emergency rooms or an impending depletion of disaster relief funding, Mr. Trump and Senator JD Vance have offered the same diagnosis: All are because of unauthorized immigration. “The mass migration invasion has crushed wages, crashed school systems —...

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...

WASHINGTON — In President Joe Biden’s telling, he was a teenage civil rights activist, a former trucker, the first in his family to go college and the nephew of a cannibalism victim. All of these claims stretch the truth or are downright false. But Biden persists in telling personal tales with rhetorical flourishes and factual liberty when he works a room or regales an audience. They are a way to connect with voters, emphasize his “middle-class Joe” persona and charm his audience. Despite Biden’s penchant for exaggerating details when recounting episodes from his life, these autobiographical embellishments differ in scale...

WASHINGTON — Hours after pleading not guilty to 34 counts of filing false business records in a courtroom in Lower Manhattan, former President Donald Trump maintained his innocence Tuesday before a crowd of supporters at Mar-a-Lago. He repeated a host of familiar and inaccurate attacks on his opponents. Here’s a fact-check of his remarks. What Was Said: “From the beginning, the Democrats spied on my campaign, remember that? They attacked me with an onslaught of fraudulent investigations. Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine impeachment hoax No. 1, impeachment hoax No. 2, the illegal and unconstitutional raid on Mar-a-Lago right here.”...

A growing chorus of conservative pundits and politicians have said the failure of Silicon Valley Bank was the result of the bank’s “woke” policies, blaming the California lender’s commitments to workplace diversity and environmentally and socially conscious investments. These claims are without merit. The bank’s collapse was due to financial missteps and a bank run. Moreover, the firm’s policy on diversity, equity and inclusion — also known as D.E.I. — is similar to ones that have been broadly adopted in the banking sector. So is its approach to taking environmental and social considerations into account when investing — referred to...

Where are the fact checkers when you need them? We'd like to debate them. Nowhere to be found. We'd like them to fact check the NY Times fact check of the Malone Rogan interview. No dice.Steve Kirsch18 hr ago 557153 On February 8, The New York Times fact checked the Malone interview on Joe Rogan.I don’t think it went so well for the Times.I wondered…who is fact checking the Times? I guess it’s up to me.I don’t have time to go through the whole thing which would probably bore you, so I’m just going to address items in the first...