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Supported 2
Car thefts had doubled and carjackings had more than tripled in Washington over the prior five years.
↗A crime-data analyst told FactCheck.org the description was accurate, while noting both crimes had fallen from their 2023 peaks.
Apple announced a $600 billion U.S. investment commitment over four years.
↗Apple announced that a new $100 billion commitment increased its planned U.S. spending and investment to $600 billion over four years.
False 22
Washington, D.C., had become a crime-free zone with no crime.
↗Crime continued to occur in Washington; short-term declines after the federal deployment did not make the city crime-free.
Washington, D.C., always has one murder every week.
↗Weekly homicide totals vary, and the absolute formulation was contradicted by homicide-free stretches.
An 11-day span without D.C. homicides was the first time that had happened in years.
↗D.C. had a 16-day period without a reported homicide earlier in 2025, from February 25 to March 12.
A week without a Washington, D.C., murder was the first such week in anyone's memory.
↗Washington had already experienced a 16-day period without a reported homicide earlier in 2025.
Washington, D.C., hit an all-time high in total crime in 2024.
↗Official data showed violent crime fell sharply in 2024 and was far below historical peaks; the broad all-time-high claim was unsupported.
The United States had spent $350 billion on Ukraine.
↗U.S. Ukraine-related appropriations and support made available were far lower than $350 billion.
Europe had spent only $100 billion on Ukraine.
↗Comparable direct-aid tracking showed European allocations exceeded U.S. allocations.
The United States is the only country that uses mail-in voting.
↗Numerous other countries permit mail voting for all or some voters.
States are agents of the president in counting votes and must follow his instructions.
↗States administer elections under constitutional authority with congressional, not presidential, oversight.
Mail-in voting causes massive voter fraud.
↗Fraud is rare and has not been shown at a scale that changed a national election.
Voting machines are highly inaccurate.
↗Audits and election-security reviews found no evidence that voting systems changed the 2020 result.
Paper ballots produce election results that night, unlike voting machines that take two weeks.
↗Paper ballots still require counting and verification, and election-night totals are unofficial.
The United States had spent more than $300 billion, possibly $350 billion, on Ukraine.
↗The reviewed U.S. appropriations and oversight totals were far below the figure Trump gave.
The United States had given Ukraine $350 billion.
↗FactCheck.org found Congress approved about $174 billion and an oversight report put total U.S. support made available at more than $187 billion.
Europe had given Ukraine only $100 billion.
↗Comparable Kiel Institute tracking showed European direct aid allocations exceeded the U.S. total.
Washington, D.C., had 41 homicides per 100,000 people and ranked first in the world.
↗The city had a high homicide rate, but the international ranking and absolute comparison were not supported.
Murders in Washington, D.C., reached the highest rate probably ever in 2023.
↗The 2023 rate was the highest in about 20 years, but the city peaked in 1991 at more than twice the 2023 rate.
More than $17 trillion in investment commitments was coming into the United States.
↗The administration's total mixed multiyear pledges, trade targets, previously planned spending and purchases; independent reviews put substantiated new investment far below $17 trillion.
The 2020 presidential election was 100% rigged.
↗Courts, audits, election officials and Trump's own Justice Department found no fraud sufficient to change the certified result.
India had the highest tariffs of any country.
↗India's average tariff was high, especially for agricultural goods, but international tariff data did not rank it as the world's highest-tariff country.
Strong Biden-era jobs numbers were announced just before the 2024 election and declared wrong immediately afterward.
↗The preliminary annual benchmark revision was announced in August 2024, months before the election; routine later revisions were not an immediate post-election reversal.
A large downward jobs revision was released just after the 2024 election to help Biden and Harris.
↗The preliminary annual benchmark revision was announced in August 2024, before the election, and the November jobs report itself showed weak growth.
Misleading 5
Trump had ended seven wars, four through tariff threats.
↗Experts credited him with a significant role in ending fighting in some conflicts, but several examples were not wars or were not conclusively settled.
Cashless bail lets people accused of murder get out instead of remaining in jail.
↗FactCheck.org found no serious bail-reform model required automatic release for murder suspects; judges generally retain detention authority.
Crime was out of control in Washington, D.C., with rising violence.
↗Washington had serious crime problems, but official and independent data showed violent crime had fallen since the 2023 spike.
Every place in the country with no cash bail is a disaster and the policy started crime problems in New York and Chicago.
↗Research and city data did not support a broad causal claim that bail reform worsened crime in those places.
Under no-cash-bail policies, murder suspects are released before the day is out.
↗Some jurisdictions allow judges to release murder suspects without cash bail in rare cases, but many policies have violent-felony exemptions or detention discretion.
Unresolved 5
The death penalty is a very strong preventative for murder.
↗A National Research Council review found existing research was not informative enough to determine whether capital punishment deters homicide.
D.C. gave fake crime numbers to create a false illusion of safety.
↗There were investigations and allegations about crime-data handling, but experts said homicide data were reliable and public evidence did not establish the broad charge.
Washington police were giving phony crime statistics.
↗A commander was under investigation over crime-data changes, but public evidence did not establish broad falsification of D.C. crime statistics.
Bureau of Labor Statistics employment figures were politically rigged.
↗Trump offered no evidence of political manipulation; BLS revisions follow published methods and arise as more survey and administrative data become available.
Weak July employment figures were rigged or phony.
↗No evidence showed political manipulation of the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates; routine revisions follow a published methodology.
Totals reflect verdicts on attributable Trump claims published in the daily editions for this month. Evidence gaps that are not claims are excluded.