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Quick fact check of some of Trump's BS today
Daniel Dale @ddale8President Trump uttered numerous false claims, including long-debunked lies, at his press conference today - in addition to several very-much-uncorroborated claims, like the one about how every living former president is saying “to their friends” that the US should’ve started this war long ago.
Quick fact check of some of his remarks:
- Trump repeated his 11-year-old lie that his 2000 book advised the authorities to take out Osama bin Laden. It contained no advice about bin Laden at all, just one passing mention.
- Trump falsely claimed, at a press conference focused on what happened after the US lost two planes to Iranian fire, that “really” the “only” planes the US has lost during the war have been the result of friendly fire.
- Trump repeated his familiar lie that he’s “ended eight wars.” His “eight” list, among various other problems, includes two situations that weren’t actually wars and at least one war that didn’t actually end.
- Trump again greatly exaggerated the US troop presence in South Korea, saying twice that it’s “45,000.” Pentagon data from year-end says it was 26,722, 23,395 of them on active duty.
- Trump repeated his assertion that Venezuela’s Maduro “released hundreds of thousands of people from jails into our country,” a claim he and his team have never substantiated even though he’s made it for years now.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/06/politics/fact-check-trump-iran-war
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