The wildest remark Trump made over the weekend at a rally was pitching the idea of a ‘migrant fight league. What?
He added that he had suggested to Dana White, who runs the Ultimate Fighting Championship, “Why don’t you set up a migrant league of fighters?”
He continued, referring to the U.F.C.: “And then you have the champion of your league — these are the greatest fighters in the world — fight the champion of the migrants? I think the migrant guy might win! That’s how tough they are.”
Here is a list of the false claims he reiterated this weekend:
– Trump claimed Democrats rigged the 2020 presidential election when privately he admitted he had lost.
– Trump claimed “every legal scholar” wanted Roe v. Wade overturned and the power to set abortion policy returned to individual states, which is a blatant falsehood.
– Trump claimed that the US has record inflation, though the current inflation rate, 3.3% in May which is nowhere near the US record (23.7% in 1920) or even the 40-year high (9.1%) that was hit in June 2022.
– Trump claimed “there are states that allow” the execution of babies after birth.
– Trump claimed he had been indicted more than notorious gangster Al Capone, while Capone still holds a dubious record.
Trump claimed Biden was the person who indicted him in the New York criminal case, though, as everyone knows, a jury of ordinary citizens indicted him on 34 counts. He continues to frame it as a political hit job when it’s clearly not.