Some of Trump's lies in 2025
 

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Stated on January 7, 2025 in a press conference:

“They’re still counting the (2024 election) vote in some areas.”

Trump said, "They’re still counting the (2024 election) vote in some areas."

He gave the impression that two months after Election Day, ballots are still being tabulated in the presidential race. That’s not happening.

States certified their results by December, and Congress accepted the Electoral College results the day before Trump made this claim.

Some state and local races remain under litigation, but that is not the same as counting ballots.

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False.

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Stated on January 20, 2025 in remarks:

The United States is the only country with unrestricted birthright citizenship.

Trump said that the U.S. is the only country in the world to have unrestricted birthright citizenship.

This is incorrect. Around three dozen other countries offer automatic citizenship to children born within their borders, regardless of their parents’ immigration status.

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False.

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Stated on January 22, 2025 in an interview:

The U.S. House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “deleted and destroyed all of the information that they collected over two years.”

Trump said the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack "deleted and destroyed all of the information that they collected over two years."

The committee publicly released an 845-page report, more than 100 transcripts of testimony, memos, depositions and documents. Much of the committee’s work remains available online.

The committee didn’t release videos of witness interviews that members said contained "law enforcement sensitive operational details" and information that could have endangered witnesses. The committee said its actions complied with House rules.

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False.

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Stated on January 30, 2025 in a press briefing:

“I changed the Obama policy (on hiring air traffic controllers) ... And then Biden came in and he changed it.”

As he speculated about the Jan. 29 air crash’s cause, Trump said "I changed the Obama policy (on hiring air traffic controllers) ... And then Biden came in and he changed it."

The White House said he was referring to two separate policies.

The first was a push to hire more people with disabilities that started under Obama. Trump didn’t end the initiative — he expanded the effort by announcing a program aimed at hiring 20 people with disabilities to be air traffic controllers. All air traffic controllers had to pass medical, security and skills tests, regardless of any disability.

The second involved an Obama-era hiring assessment that critics said prioritized diversity over qualifications. Trump was wrong to say that Biden reinstated it — he did not. The assessment has not been in place since 2018, when Trump ended it. But even under that practice, training standards did not change.

Trump conflated policies, obfuscated about his role in them and misled about what they did.

Investigators are still piecing together what led to the crash, a process that could take months. Trump’s leap to connect these policies to what unfolded over the Potomac has no basis.

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False.

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