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Trump criticized CNN at length at his campaign rally in Tupelo. Then he gestured toward the back of BancorpSouth Arena and informed the crowd that he had just seen the light on CNN’s camera go out.
“Their light just went off. See? Look. Their light was on — they just turned it off,” he said.
When the light is on, he explained, “that means you’re live.” CNN had stopped broadcasting live, he said, because it didn’t want to air his scathing criticism.
He made up this whole story.
Trump did not make an innocent mistake: this is at least the eighth time as President he has made a baseless claim about the lights on television cameras being turned off as he has criticized the media. We think it’s especially egregious: it’s the President looking at his devotees and deceiving them about something happening in that very room.
Trump made more false claims at the rally. Among others:
Veterans Choice
Trump claimed he was the one who got the Veterans Choice health care program passed.
Facts First: President Barack Obama signed the Choice program into law in 2014; in 2018, Trump signed another bill, the VA MISSION Act, that expanded and modified the Choice program.
Pre-existing conditions
Trump claimed he would “always protect patients with pre-existing conditions, always.”
Unemployment
Trump claimed the unemployment rate is the lowest in “over 51 years.”
Mississippi unemployment
Trump claimed “unemployment in Mississippi has reached the lowest rate ever recorded. Ever recorded.”
Michelle Obama
Trump claimed that first lady Michelle Obama, along with President Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey, had campaigned for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in Georgia in 2018.
Facts First: Michelle Obama did not campaign for Abrams at all, though Barack Obama and Winfrey did.
Tariffs on Chinese products
Trump claimed that the tariff revenue being allocated to farmers who have been affected by his trade war with China is coming “compliments of China.”
Economic relations with China
Boasting about the billions of dollars the US Treasury is receiving because of his tariffs on imported Chinese goods, Trump said the money is coming “from a country that never gave us 10 cents; they only took.”
We’ll have a comprehensive list of Trump’s false claims at the rally for our weekly fact check update on Wednesday.
UPDATE: This article has been updated to reflect that CNN provided a live online stream of the rally, though CNN did not air the rally live on television.
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