Give us a list of some of his statements and
what's actually true and what's not true.
It's it's a long list,
Jim. And I only heard part of the speech because
I was a fact checking,
fact checking in midway through.
But he repeated this familiar claim that,
you know, all this, the case was all done by
Joe Biden,
he said in total conjunction with the White House and
DOJ,
the Department of Justice. Again,
not a shred of evidence that that is true.
This case was brought and perpetuated by a locally elected,
yes, Democratic prosecutor. No evidence of communications with President Biden
or the White House.
He repeated this claim that he was not allowed under
any circumstances by the judge to call an expert in
election law to testify.
He said the judge knocked him out.
That is not true. It is true the judge limited
the scope of the possible testimony of this expert,
former FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith,
but did not say the gentleman could not testify at
all.
It was Trump's defense that decided not to call the
expert after the judge limited the testimony.
And former President Trump also repeated this familiar claim that,
oh, you know, wow. Prosecutors in Manhattan were focusing on
on his nonviolent supposed offenses.
Crime is rampant in New York,
he said. Crime in New York is at levels nobody
has ever seen before.
That is not remotely true.
And I'll give you one example.
There were 391 murders in New York City last year.
Well, in 1990, there were 2262.
And other forms of crime have also plummeted since the
highs of the early 1990s in New York.
So nowhere close to unprecedented levels.
And I'll give you one more.
I could continue, but I'll give you one more.
He said Michael Cohen, his former lawyer and fixer and
a key prosecution witness,
got in his own legal trouble.
For things that he, Trump said had nothing to do
with me,
it was Cohen's a taxi business and so on.
Well, that is misleading at best.
Gym. Because while Cohen did get in trouble and indeed
go to prison for offences related to lies about income
tax about his taxi medallion business,
he was also sentenced to prison for crimes directly related
to Trump.
Campaign finance violation directly related to the same hush money
scheme Trump got in trouble for.
And for lying to Congress related to negotiations about a
Trump Tower project never came to fruition in Russia.
So directly related to Donald Trump.