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Trump Says: He met Vladimir Putin on 60 Minutes.Not only is there no evidence that pushing criminals into the US is Mexican policy, but statistics show that immigrants are in fact less likely to engage in criminal activity than those born in America. After expressing his outlandish theory, Trump went into even greater detail in a three-page statement released in July, in which he thunders that “the worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican Government”.

His reasoning? Illegal Mexican immigrants are destroying America as part of a plot by the Mexican Government to undermine its northern neighbour. They are, in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc.” – in a written statement, 6 July 2015Ī central part of Trump’s election platform is his promise to build an impenetrable wall along the US-Mexico border. “What can be simpler or more accurately stated? The Mexican Government is forcing their most unwanted people into the United States. Trump Says: Mexico is encouraging criminals to relocate to the US.Yet as recently as July 2015, Trump was still expressing doubt about Obama’s birthplace to the media. President Obama’s long form birth certificate was released on 27 April 2011 clearly showing that he was born in Hawaii. The Apprentice star aligned himself with birthers during an interview on Good Morning America, admitting he was a “little” sceptical of the President’s citizenship. Years before he was a contender for President, Donald Trump was already grabbing political media attention through wild claims by tapping into the “birther” movement, challenging the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency based on doubts as to his place of birth.

“Growing up no one knew him” – on Good Morning America, March 2011

Trump says: Obama was not born in America.

The media attention that his hyperbolic statements bring helps keep him in the minds and conversations of voters across the United States.Īt the same time, the pace at which he delivers untruths makes it incredibly difficult for an easily distracted media to hold him to account.Įach new claim just becomes another link in the ever-lengthening chain of Donald Trump lies.īelow you can read some of the most outlandish falsehoods that have come from the Republican primary frontrunner. In the end, many Americans do not know if white is black or black is white. From lie to reality – or from reality to lie. He is sometimes fabricating a new lie to protect the first. In fact, he has made fabrication and exaggeration a key tool of his presidential campaign. He is the Pinocchio of the Republican party and in the US election campaign of ’16.