What Trump Got Right and Wrong On Friday
Here's what Trump got wrong, and right, in his Friday afternoon speech.
1. "Your taxes go way down under a Trump administration.”
Unless Trump’s crowd is filled with extremely wealthy Americans, their taxes will not go “way down.”
The wealthy would see the biggest tax cut under Trump's plan, according to the conservative Tax Foundation’s analysis. The bottom 80% of Americans, would see 0.8 percent to 1.9 percent more after-tax income thanks to Trump’s tax cuts. The richest 1 percent of Americans would see income gains between 10 percent and 16 percent.
2. “Crooked Hillary is doing no more public events until after the debate. They say she’s doing debate prep, but really she’s just resting.”
It’s true that Clinton doesn’t have any publicly scheduled events until after the debate, but there is no evidence she is napping. She prepares at length: For a previous debate, Clinton hunkered down in hotels near her home for day-long sessions of debate prep with her advisors, often working until very late at night.
3. “Hillary bleached and deleted 33,000 emails after a Congressional subpoena. She got a subpoena from Congress…and she said get rid of ‘em, delete ‘em, bleach ‘em, nobody bleaches because it’s such an expensive process, she bleaches them, and then she made everyone get rid of iPhones, hammer them.”
Clinton requested that 33,000 emails deemed personal by her team be deleted weeks before the Congressional subpoena; she did not stop their deletion, but it was not a direct response to the subpoena. She did not use an expensive process to delete her emails. She used a free app called BleachBit. Some of her mobile phones were destroyed with a hammer, but that was also not a response to the Congressional subpoena.
4. Trump said Qatar gave $1 million dollars for “Bill Clinton’s birthday party.”
The Emirate gave the Clinton Foundation $1 million dollars as a birthday present; that money went towards charitable acts, not festivities.
5. “WikiLeaks shows media conspires with the campaign, including giving the questions and answers before the debate.”
CNN and DNC Chair Donna Brazile deny that a debate question was ever given to the Clinton campaign, though an email does appear to show a question being offered up by Brazile to the Clinton campaign.
6. “I have no idea who these women are,” Trump said of the women who have come forward to accuse him of improper sexual advances and groping.
This has become a routine denial for Trump, but months before he started denying he knew a Miss Utah who accused him of kissing her on the lips without consent, he argued that she’d personally recanted the story and that she was a “nice girl.”
7. “Biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan.”