Kamala Harris Debate List of Lies
By Douglas V. Gibbs
CanadaFreePress.com
Kamala Harris was full of lies during the 2020 Vice Presidential Debate. Let’s go over them.
► Lie: 210,000 dead people in our country in just the last several months (due to COVID-19).
Truth: CDC admitted numbers are being padded and that actually only 9,210 have died due to COVID-19 alone.
► Lie: Frontline workers that have been treated like sacrificial workers?
► Lie: Over 30 million people filed for unemployment during the last month.
Truth: Department of Labor reports about between 837,000 and 879,000 new initial claims each of the weeks September, which adds up to less than 4 million new claims for the month. The report further explains the total number of people claiming benefits in all programs for the week ending September 12 was 26,529,810, an increase of 484,856 from the previous week. It is also likely that a considerable amount of those who are on unemployment are more likely as a result of shut-down orders by Democrat Governors in Blue States than any action taken by the Trump administration.
► Lie: In January the Trump administration knew the dangers of the coronavirus and did not tell the American Public…imagine if you knew on January 28th? ... they knew and they covered it up.
Truth: January 3: CDC Director Robert Redfield sent an email to the director of the Chinese CDC, George Gao, formally offering to send U.S. experts to China to investigate the coronavirus.
January 5: CDC Director Redfield sent another email to the Chinese CDC Director, George Gao, formally offering to send U.S. experts to China to investigate the coronavirus outbreak,
January 6: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a level I travel notice for Wuhan, China due to the spreading coronavirus.
January 7: The CDC established a coronavirus incident management system to better share and respond to information about the virus.
January 11: The CDC updated a Level 1 travel health notice for Wuhan, China.
January 17: The CDC began implementing public health entry screening at the 3 U.S. airports that received the most travelers from Wuhan – San Francisco, New York JFK, and Los Angeles.
January 20: Dr. Fauci announces the National Institutes of Health is already working on the development of a vaccine for the coronavirus.
January 21: The CDC activated its emergency operations center to provide ongoing support to the coronavirus response.
January 23: The CDC sought a “special emergency authorization” from the FDA to allow states to use its newly developed coronavirus test.
January 27: President Trump tweeted that he made an offer to President Xi Jinping to send experts to China to investigate the coronavirus outbreak.
January 27: The CDC issued a level III travel health notice urging Americans to avoid all nonessential travel to China due to the coronavirus.
January 27: The White House Coronavirus Task Force started meeting to help monitor and contain the spread of the virus and provide updates to the President.
January 29: The White House announced the formation of the Coronavirus Task Force to help monitor and contain the spread of the virus and provide updates to the President.
January 31: The Trump Administration: Declared the coronavirus a public health emergency.
Announced Chinese travel restrictions.
Suspended entry into the United States for foreign nationals who pose a risk of transmitting the coronavirus.
► Lie: The President said it [the coronavirus] was a hoax.
Truth: Even the Associated Press indicated that the Biden Camp claiming Trump said the coronavirus was a hoax was not true. He was calling their politicization of it their “latest hoax.”
► Lie: “You know this administration took the word ‘science’ off the website?”
Truth: The word “science” was not scrubbed from U.S. government websites by the Trump Administration, and that fact was even confirmed as not true by liberal left NBC News.
► Lie: They still don’t have a plan.
Truth: Trump administration’s plans regarding coronavirus began out the gate at a time the Democrats were claiming the alleged virus was nothing to worry about.
► Lie: Donald Trump paid $750 in taxes.
Truth: The Washington Examiner reports that “most, if not all, of the facts appear to be inaccurate” in The New York Times’ reporting regarding Trump’s taxes. The Times’ reporting also ignores that the President paid $7.4 million in federal taxes in 2017, not $750.
► Lie: [Donald Trump] passed a tax bill benefiting the top 1% and the biggest corporations of America.
Truth: Fact Check dot org explains that the claim is out of context, and not necessarily true. The plan to cut taxes wound up reducing the tax burden for just about everyone across the board. Later in the debate Harris claims they plan to only raise the taxes for people making $400,000 per year or more after Pence claimed Biden supports raising everyone’s taxes. Even if Kamala’s claim is true, and the increase of taxation will only affect the top earners, the tax burden would largely land on those who own businesses, or are high ranking persons in these corporations, who do the hiring, and who adjust prices of their products based on the company’s cost to do business. So, Biden’s plan would reduce hiring, and pass the tax on to the average workers (and newly unemployed) with higher prices of products ... an economics lesson they have apparently never understood.
► Lie: Trump’s tax cuts led to a two trillion dollar deficit.
Truth: After the tax plan, because of the growing economy as a result of the tax cuts, federal tax revenue increased. According to the Institute for Policy Innovation, “federal revenue has consistently increased in the years after the Trump tax cuts. Despite the enormous tax cut, federal revenue increased by $10 billion in 2018, by $130 billion in 2019, and was projected to grow by even more in 2020 before the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic effects.”
► Lie: Joe Biden will only raise taxes on those who make more than $400,000 per year.
Truth: The Tax Foundation concluded Biden’s plan would lead to higher taxes “across all income groups.”
► Lie: Trump’s investment in infrastructure never happened.
Truth: President Trump released an infrastructure plan more than two years ago. Congress, specifically the Democrats in the House of Representatives, have blocked his call to invest in our infrastructure. In February 2018, President Trump unveiled a plan to spur $1.5 trillion in new infrastructure spending. The President included his infrastructure plan in both his FY 2019 and his FY 2020 budgets.
► Lie: Trump’s tax plan led American companies to go offshore to do their business.
Truth: Common sense indicates that if they got the tax breaks Harris claims the big corporations got, they wouldn’t take their businesses off shore. They’d stay where the tax breaks favor them. Therefore, without even having to go very deep, it is obvious her statement contradicts earlier statements. That said, in 2012 the Washington Post was very critical of the Obama administration for the number of jobs under his watch going overseas. During the Trump presidency not only has Trump brought back jobs from overseas, a list that includes some very high-profile companies, but by March of 2019 the boost of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. had leaped 399%.
► Lie: Joe Biden will not end fracking.
► Lie: Affordable Care Act brought health care to over 20 million Americans.
Truth: According to the Census Bureau, the number of uninsured Americans has been on the rise since the creation of the Affordable Care Act.
► Lie: Trump is working to take away protection for those with pre-existing conditions.
Truth: President Trump has signed an executive order designed to, in addition to other things, protect those with pre-existing conditions. President Trump has made protecting “all pre-existing conditions” a key point in his second term agenda.
► Lie: The West Coast of the United States is burning, the East Coast is being battered by storms, Iowa crops destroyed because of floods, Joe believes in science (in discussion about Climate Change) ... “an existential threat to us as human beings.”
Truth: Fires in west largely due to poor forest management. Science has shown that the number of hurricanes and the severity of the storms has not increased. University of Newcastle’s (UON) fresh research found further evidence to support the notion that severe flooding events occur cyclically, challenging the widely approved assumption that floods occur randomly, or that any change in flooding could be due to the notion of man-made climate change.
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