Former President Donald J. Trump, in the closing days of the 2024 election, continues to be a font of exaggerations, misleading claims and outright lies.
For Mr. Trump, no topic is too important or too insignificant when it comes to making inaccurate or distorted assertions. In the past two weeks, he has shared false claims about voting, immigration, economic policy and his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as whales, an astronaut, Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey and his own uncle, among countless other misleading statements.
Mr. Trump frequently revisits certain claims or inflates old exaggerations into even more egregious falsehoods.
Here’s a fact-check of his recent remarks.
On the trail, Mr. Trump has turned to:
- False Claims of Voter Fraud
- Inaccurate Attacks on Harris
- Doubling Down on Old Falsehoods
- A Grab Bag of Errant Claims
False Claims of Voter Fraud
Mr. Trump has continued to repeat the lie that the 2020 election was stolen (it was not), reprising a number of inaccurate claims about the race that year: insisting that courts threw out all of his election lawsuits without considering the merits (of 64 lawsuits filed by Mr. Trump and his supporters, 20 were dismissed before being heard on the merits, 30 included a hearing on merits and 14 were dismissed by the plaintiffs themselves); asserting that election observers were not given access (his own lawsuits say otherwise); and claiming that former President Jimmy Carter had opposed mail-in voting (he supported it in 2020).
As Election Day nears, Mr. Trump has again cited examples of what he calls fraud.
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