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To: IC720 who wrote (1507491)	12/10/2024 6:59:41 PM
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Trump’s Biggest Lies From His ‘Meet the Press’ Interview From immigrants to Obamacare, the president-elect continued his campaign trail falsehoods By Peter Wade December 8, 2024 Donald Trump gave his first network interview since the election and spread falsehoods about immigrants, the Affordable Care Act and — of course — the 2020 election. In an interview that aired on Sunday’s Meet the Press, Trump gave his usual bluster and ignored some important facts. 13,099 MurderersTrump claimed that the U.S. had “13,099 murderers released into our country over the last three years” who were undocumented immigrants. That claim is false. Trump may have pulled that number from a letter the deputy director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent to Rep. Tony Gonzales that listed “the number of noncitizens on ICE’s docket convicted or charged with a crime.” On the letter, ICE lists 13,099 noncitizens who had been convicted or charged with homicide who are living in the U.S. and who are on ICE’s “nondetained docket,” but those numbers are from not just the Biden administration but all administrations over the past 40 years, including Trump’s. Plus, not all of those people listed are walking free. The list includes those who are currently in jail or prison but who are not being held in immigration detention. Welker confronted Trump with that fact, saying, “The 13,000 figure I think goes back about 40 years.” “Nope. No it doesn’t,” Trump said. “It’s within the three-year period. It’s during the Biden term. No, that was a fiction that they put that out. This was done by the border patrol. It’s 13,099, and it’s during the Biden period of time. And these are murderers, many of whom murdered more than one person. You don’t want those people in this country.” A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told CNN in a September email: “The data in this letter is being misinterpreted. The data goes back decades; it includes individuals who entered the country over the past 40 years or more, the vast majority of whose custody determination was made long before this Administration. It also includes many who are under the jurisdiction or currently incarcerated by federal, state or local law enforcement partners.” Trump went on to claim that prisons in Venezuela are “at the lowest point in terms of emptiness that they’ve ever been,” implying that those criminals are coming to the U.S. But FactCheck.org writes, “Experts in and out of Venezuela told us there is no evidence to back up Trump’s claim. Reported crime is trending down in Venezuela — though not nearly as dramatically as Trump claims — but crime experts in the country say there are numerous reasons for that and they have nothing to do with sending criminals to the U.S.” “I Am the One That Saved Obamacare”Trump repeated a false claim that he said during the presidential debate, alleging that he “made it so that it ( Obamacare) works” and said, “I am the one that saved Obamacare.” But as president, Trump tried to repeal and roll back the Affordable Care Act through multiple channels, including executive action, lawsuits, and Congress. On day one of his first administration, Trump signed an executive order that stated: “It is the policy of my Administration to seek the prompt repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” The order also told government agencies to “exercise all authority and discretion available to them to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation” of parts of the ACA that constituted a burden. He also cut $90 million in funding for promotion of ACA enrollment and decreased funding by nearly half for people who helped others sign up for ACA coverage.