Fox & Friends tried harder than typical -- no longer specially hard, however more difficult than traditional -- to mission President Donald Trump.
It did no longer work very well.
Trump ranted dishonestly for tons of his fifty three-minute Friday interview together with his favorite morning show, time and again refusing to permit the show's co-hosts get in a phrase in edgewise. When they did control to make a semi-vital factor, Trump brushed them off.
When co-host Steve Doocy requested Trump if he became certain about his declare that the Democratic National Committee had given an vital pc server that became hacked in 2016 to Ukraine (that they had now not), Trump said, presenting no proof and bringing up no resources, "That's what the phrase is."
When co-host Brian Kilmeade corrected Trump's claim that European nations have not furnished resource to Ukraine, Trump didn't respond. (Kilmeade had quickly moved on to the next question.) When Kilmeade corrected Trump's declare that he has "pulled out" of Syria, noting that Trump is retaining masses of squaddies within the united states of america, Trump again said nothing. (Kilmeade fast moved on once more.)
Trump made as a minimum 18 false claims inside the interview -- and that is our preliminary count number. We're still searching into some other claims.
The list to this point:
A factory in Texas
Trump said, "I just were given back from Austin, Texas, in which I changed into with Tim Cook. He's going to be constructing a $1 billion facility to make anything he makes. You recognise, it really is Apple. And he is gonna build this excellent facility. We toured every other facility in which they make the Mac Pro, which is outstanding, which turned into beginning -- the purpose we, -- it opened that day."
Facts First: The plant Trump visited did now not open that day. The Flex Ltd. Facility has been making Apple's Mac Pro computer systems seeing that 2013.
Apple did smash floor that day on a $1 billion campus in Austin, approximately a mile from the plant Trump toured with Cook, however no production is expected to be executed at the campus. You can examine a complete truth take a look at right here.
The Ukraine scandal and impeachment
CrowdStrike
Trump said that Democrats gave a pc server that changed into hacked in 2016 to "a company owned by using a totally wealthy Ukrainian."
Facts First: The cybersecurity business enterprise that investigated the hack, CrowdStrike, is a publicly traded American organization co-founded by means of Dmitri Alperovitch, an American citizen who became born in Russia, now not Ukraine. Regardless, such companies do now not usually take possession of bodily servers to behavior their analysis.
Asked if he's certain the Democrats gave the server to Ukraine, Trump did no longer cite any specific evidence. He said, "That's what the phrase is."
The accuracy of the whistleblower
Trump stated that the whistleblower grievance about his July telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "bore no dating to my call."
Facts First: The whistleblower's account of the call has in large part been tested correct.
In fact, the hard transcript launched by Trump himself showed that the whistleblower's three primary allegations approximately the call have been accurate or very near accurate.
You can study a complete fact test right here.
The identity of the whistleblower
Trump stated "lots of human beings assume" that the House Intelligence Committee chairman, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, is "basically the whistleblower."
Facts First: This is easy nonsense. Schiff is not the whistleblower, "essentially" or otherwise.
The whistleblower is someone who works in the intelligence community. The whistleblower sought guidance from Schiff's committee earlier than filing their grievance, however there is no evidence Schiff dictated the content of the complaint, an awful lot less that Schiff can himself be taken into consideration the whistleblower.
The timing of Schiff's comments
Trump said that Schiff made up what Trump stated on the call with Zelensky, but then, while Trump launched his tough transcript of the call, anyone changed into "embarrassed."
Facts First: Trump can moderately criticize Schiff for Schiff's feedback at a House Intelligence Committee listening to in September; as we've written earlier than, Schiff's blend of close to-charges from Trump, his own evaluation, and intended "parody" become a minimum of confusing. But Schiff spoke the day after Trump launched the tough transcript, now not earlier than.
Before he started out claiming that Schiff did not count on a transcript to be launched, Trump had complained that Schiff did now not read the transcript to be had to him.
European resource to Ukraine
Trump stated of aid to Ukraine, "Why isn't Germany placing up money? Why isn't always France putting up money? Why is not all of the European nations, why are not they placing up?"
Facts First: European nations have supplied loads of millions of dollars' worth of help to Ukraine on the grounds that Russia's invasion in 2014. (Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade informed Trump on this interview that Europe has indeed furnished resource.)
Zelensky stated European "help" throughout his meeting with Trump at the United Nations in September, although he stated the sector's efforts were insufficient so far: "And, I'm sorry, however we do not want assist; we want assist. Real support. And we thank -- thank anybody, thank all of the European international locations; they every assist us. But we also need to have greater -- extra."
You can read a complete truth test here.
Obama's aid to Ukraine
Trump stated President Barack Obama sent simplest "pillows and sheets" in useful resource to Ukraine, adding, "He would not send some thing else."
Facts First: Obama did refuse to offer deadly aid to Ukraine, however he did not send mere pillows and sheets; he sent counter-mortar radars, drones, armored Humvees and night imaginative and prescient devices, among other things.
You can read a full truth check right here.
Hunter Biden's profession
Trump said that Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden managed to get enterprise possibilities all through Joe Biden's vice-presidency even though Hunter Biden "in no way made 10 cents in his lifestyles."
Facts First: This is an exaggeration. While it's in reality truthful for Trump to elevate questions on how qualified Hunter Biden become for the positions he secured whilst Joe Biden changed into vice-president, Hunter Biden did have prior expert revel in.
Hunter Biden has mentioned that he probable might not have gotten a seat at the board of a Ukrainian power employer, Burisma, if his dad were not Joe Biden. However, it's now not genuine that he had by no means made "10 cents." Hunter Biden, a legal professional, had labored previous to Joe Biden's vice-presidency as a bank executive, at the Department of Commerce and as a lobbyist. He had additionally served on the board of Amtrak.
Prosecutor Viktor Shokin
Trump stated that the Ukrainian prosecutor Joe Biden had driven to oust, Viktor Shokin, turned into "prosecuting" the corporation in which Hunter Biden sat on the board, Burisma.
Facts First: Shokin turned into now not prosecuting Burisma.
While there were an investigation of the agency, Shokin's former deputy, Vitaliy Kasko, has said that it turned into dormant on the time of Joe Biden's intervention. (The former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, George Kent, testified in Trump's impeachment inquiry that Shokin become corrupt; the United States and its allies had made a coordinated attempt to oust him.)
Zelensky and Marie Yovanovitch
Trump stated of former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch: "By the way, when I changed into speaking to President Zelensky, it's proper at the smartphone, you could examine it. He failed to like her. He added up her call and he did not like her in any respect."
Facts First: The rough transcript of the July smartphone name indicates that Trump, now not Zelensky, changed into the only who delivered up Yovanovitch: "The former ambassador from the USA, the girl, changed into terrible news and the humans she was dealing with inside the Ukraine had been horrific news so I just want to permit you to recognise that," Trump stated. Zelensky responded, "It become wonderful which you have been the first one who informed me that she changed into a bad ambassador due to the fact I consider you one hundred%."
Zelensky did criticize Yovanovitch, pronouncing, "Her mindset toward me became far from the excellent as she trendy the previous President and she turned into on his aspect. She might now not receive me as a brand new President nicely sufficient." But he have been caused by means of Trump, no longer disparaging her on his very own.
Marie Yovanovitch and Trump's photograph
Trump claimed approximately Yovanovitch: "This ambassador that everyone says is so terrific, she wouldn't hang my photograph inside the embassy. ... She's in price of the embassy. She wouldn't hold it. It took like a yr and a half, or two years, for her to get the picture up."
Facts First: There is not any evidence that Yovanovitch refused to dangle Trump's photograph. It took the Trump management more than nine months after his inauguration to distribute an official photograph of Trump to authorities homes together with embassies, CNBC reported in 2017. More than seven months into the time period, the White House informed The Washington Post that Trump had not but sat for the image.
A State Department authentic who has lately served in Kiev stated Yovanovitch in no way sought to prevent Trump's image from being placed up at the embassy. The professional said the image did no longer arrive till past due 2017.
Yovanovitch's prison crew did no longer at once reply to CNN's request for remark, however NBC obtained this response from a person "connected to her felony crew": "The Embassy in Kyiv hung the authentic pix of the president, vice chairman, and secretary of kingdom as quickly as they arrived from Washington, D.C."
Soldiers
The treatment of veterans
Trump stated, "The vets: for years you will turn on your tv, each night time you'll see a story approximately the vets and how badly they may be being treated, it's a horror display. You do not hear that anymore."
Facts First: We can't communicate for what Trump himself has seen on tv, however it is simply now not true that the relaxation folks now not hear about veterans being treated badly at VA centers.
Merely considering that August, there have been news stories approximately "11 suspicious deaths on the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center," "how Veterans Affairs did not forestall a pathologist who misdiagnosed 3,000 instances" and wasn't fired until 2018, how "a Veterans Affairs scientific center in West Virginia is being investigated over allegations that one in all its physicians sexually assaulted greater than a dozen sufferers," and how a veteran at a VA facility in Georgia turned into allegedly bitten by using ants "100 times before his loss of life."
Veterans Choice
Trump claimed to had been the only who passed the Veterans Choice health care software.
Facts First: The Choice invoice, a bipartisan initiative led through senators Bernie Sanders and the past due John McCain, become signed into law by way of Barack Obama in 2014. In 2018, Trump signed the VA Mission Act, which increased and modified the program.
The US presence in Syria
Trump said: "I'm pulling again. I just pulled out of Syria, except I stored the oil, if it became ok with you."
Facts First: Trump did now not "pull out" of Syria. While he did withdraw US troops from the northeastern region, earlier of a Turkish offensive in that place, he has stored masses of troops inside the united states of america -- as Kilmeade noted to Trump, responding, "You have 600 guys there, proper?"
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated weeks ago that there might be "probably in the 500-ish body. Maybe 600" squaddies left in northeast Syria (he stated the quantity could in reality be much less than 1,000), in addition to the separate force of greater than one hundred infantrymen stationed in southern Syria near Jordan.
Military leaders have stated that the US will no longer maintain any sales from the Syrian oil fields they may be securing, however Trump has persisted to suggest that the USA is seizing the oil for itself.
China
China's financial performance
Trump stated China is having its worst financial yr in "57 years."
Facts First: China's 2d-area GDP increase of 6.2% and 1/3-area GDP boom of 6% have been its worst considering the fact that 1992, 27 years in the past. Trump has again and again made clean that he is aware of that 27 years is the said figure, however he has brought additional years for no apparent cause.
Who is procuring Trump's price lists on China
Trump blamed "the media" for trying to persuade human beings that Americans are deciding to buy Trump's tariffs on China.
Facts First: A bevy of financial research have determined that Americans are bearing the overwhelming majority of the tariff fees, and Americans make the real tariff bills.
The records of tariffs on China
Trump said the USA has never previously taken in "10 cents" from price lists on China.
Facts First: Again, these tariffs are paid through Americans. Aside from the question of who is paying, it is no longer actual that the Treasury has in no way acquired "10 cents" from tariffs on China. The US has had tariffs on China for greater than centuries; FactCheck.Org suggested that the USA generated, from such tariffs, an "average of $12.3 billion in custom obligations a 12 months from 2007 to 2016, in step with the U.S. International Trade Commission DataWeb."
Trump's declare additionally ignores China's masses of billions of greenbacks in purchases of US goods -- more than $300 billion during Trump's presidency by myself. The US had generated over $37 billion from Trump's new tariffs on China as of November 20, in line with reputable statistics published with the aid of Customs and Border Protection.
The trade deficit with China
Trump said america has for years had a "$500 billion" change deficit with China.
Facts First: Through 2018, there had never been a $500 billion trade deficit with China. The deficit became $381 billion ultimate year when counting goods and services, $420 billion while counting goods on my own.
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