{"id":134930,"date":"2024-12-09T03:02:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T20:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134930"},"modified":"2024-12-09T03:02:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T20:02:49","slug":"fact-check-trump-repeating-old-lies-on-meet-the-press-falsely-claims-us-is-the-only-country-with-birthright-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134930","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Trump, repeating old lies on \u2018Meet the Press,\u2019 falsely claims US is the only country with birthright citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\">Washington<\/span><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4fuvv4y002n26nthrimgbsw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            President-elect Donald Trump repeated numerous false claims during an interview that aired Sunday on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d \u2013 including his old lie that the US is the world\u2019s only country with birthright citizenship.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4fuwwcl0004356mvlrgnf8q@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump reiterated his intention to try to end birthright citizenship, in which, under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, someone born in the US is granted automatic citizenship even if their parents are not citizens. And he asserted, \u201cWe\u2019re the only country that has it.\u201d <strong\/>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4fuwwcl0005356mua3d3vsg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            This is not true; CNN and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2015\/08\/trump-on-birthright-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">various other outlets<\/a> previously debunked the claim when Trump made it during his presidential campaign in 2015 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/31\/politics\/birthright-citizenship-world-intl\/index.html\">during his first presidency in 2018<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/the-world-factbook\/field\/citizenship\/#:~:text=citizenship%20by%20birth%20describes%20the,of%20the%20citizenship%20of%20parents.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">About three dozen countries<\/a> provide automatic citizenship to people born on their soil, including US neighbors Canada and Mexico and the majority of South American countries.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4fuwwcl0006356mo8t4bb0t@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Here are some other false and misleading claims Trump made in the portion of the interview that NBC aired on television on Sunday morning. (CNN has not yet reviewed the additional chunks of the interview that NBC released online.)\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4fuwwcl0007356mzw7xozvk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <strong>Crime<\/strong>: Trump falsely claimed, \u201cCrime is at an all-time high.\u201d That is nowhere close to true. Both violent crime and property crime rates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2024\/04\/24\/what-the-data-says-about-crime-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have plummeted in the US since the early 1990s<\/a> and are far below all-time highs. FBI data shows that crime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/23\/politics\/2023-crime-report\/index.html\">declined again in 2023<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4fuwwcl0008356mh8wpcbym@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <strong>Trump\u2019s tariffs<\/strong>: Trump falsely claimed of the tariffs he imposed during his first presidency: \u201cThey cost Americans nothing.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w25638\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Study<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w25672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usitc.gov\/publications\/332\/pub5405.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one from the federal government\u2019s bipartisan US International Trade Commission<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2023-03-16\/supply-chain-latest-us-importers-bore-cost-of-trump-s-china-tariffs-itc-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> that Americans bore almost the entire cost of Trump\u2019s tariffs on Chinese products. The tariffs are paid by US importers, not foreign exporters as Trump regularly claims, and it\u2019s easy to find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/03\/18\/politics\/donald-trump-tariffs-trade-war\/index.html\">specific examples<\/a> of companies that passed along the cost of the tariffs to US consumers.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4fuwwcl0009356mbaisf74m@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <strong>Trump and inflation<\/strong>: Trump falsely claimed that, during his presidency, \u201cWe had no inflation.\u201d In fact, cumulative inflation during Trump\u2019s presidency <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/CPIAUCNS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was about 8%<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4fuwwcl000a356myfb75h7g@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <strong>Biden and inflation: <\/strong>Trump falsely claimed that inflation was so low during his presidency that the Biden administration \u201cdidn\u2019t have inflation for a year and a half \u2013 they went almost two years, just based on what I had created.\u201d In reality, there was <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/CPIAUCNS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cumulative inflation of about 14%<\/a> over Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2023\/01\/bidens-numbers-january-2023-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first two years as president<\/a>; the Biden-era peak for month-over-month inflation, 9.1%, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/13\/economy\/cpi-inflation-june\/index.html\">occurred in June 2022<\/a>, during those first two years.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4fuwwcl000b356m2iqnrvz8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <strong>The 2020 election<\/strong>: Trump vaguely reiterated his lie that he was the real winner of the 2020 election, saying, \u201cI think it\u2019s an easy argument, it was really proven even more conclusively by the win that I had on this one.\u201d His legitimate victory in the 2024 election does not do anything to validate his claims that the 2020 election was stolen,\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4fuwwcl000c356me48wpvjz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <strong>Migrants and murderers<\/strong>: Trump repeated his frequent false claim there were \u201c13,099 murderers released into our country over the last three years.\u201d In reality, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/29\/politics\/fact-check-trump-harris-immigrants-homicide\/index.html\">the Department of Homeland Security and independent experts have noted<\/a>, that official figure is about immigrants with homicide convictions in the US today who entered the country over decades, including during Trump\u2019s own administration, not over the past three years or solely under the Biden administration. You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/29\/politics\/fact-check-trump-harris-immigrants-homicide\/index.html\">here<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4fuwwcl000d356mg9o2qjve@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <strong>Venezuela, migration and prisoners<\/strong>: Trump repeated his regular tale about how Venezuela has supposedly emptied prisons to allow criminals to migrate to the US. Trump has never corroborated this claim, and experts have told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/18\/politics\/fact-check-trump-october-immigration\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2024\/apr\/10\/donald-trump\/donald-trump-exaggerates-venezuelan-crime-drop-and\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PolitiFact<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2024\/06\/crime-drop-in-venezuela-does-not-prove-trumps-claim-the-country-is-sending-criminals-to-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FactCheck.org<\/a> that they haven\u2019t seen any evidence that it is true.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4fuwwcl000e356m72tjbaiq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <strong>The European Union and trade<\/strong>: Trump repeated a false claim he has repeatedly made about European countries and trade: \u201cThey don\u2019t take our cars, they don\u2019t take our food product, they don\u2019t take anything.\u201d<strong> <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4fuwwcl000f356mhnhzdv2x@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            None of this is true.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4fuwwcl000g356mer3rl6u7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/foreign-trade\/balance\/c0003.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exported about $368 billion<\/a> in goods to the European Union in 2023 (while importing about $576 billion from the EU that year), US federal figures show. According to a December 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/fact\/fact-sheet-eu-us-vehicle-trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the European Automobile Manufacturers\u2019 Association, the EU is the second-largest market for US vehicle exports \u2014 importing 271,476 US vehicles in 2022, valued at nearly 9 billion euro. (Some of these are vehicles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/econographics\/us-eu-auto-tariffs-what-s-at-stake-copy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made by European automakers at plants in the US<\/a>.) And the US government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trade.gov\/country-commercial-guides\/eu-agricultural-sector\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> the EU was the fifth-largest 2022 export market for US agricultural and related products, behind China, Canada, Mexico and Japan.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4fuw00p0000356m255ua2lf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <strong>Trump and Obamacare<\/strong>: Trump claimed, \u201cI am the one that saved Obamacare.\u201d This is misleading at best.<em> <\/em>As president, Trump tried to repeal Obamacare but failed because congressional Republicans could not amass enough votes to kill the law in 2017. After that, he and his officials took many steps to weaken the law, though they did continue to operate the Obamacare exchanges \u2013 and they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/07\/politics\/trump-admin-aca\/index.html\">refused to defend<\/a> several central provisions of the law in a lawsuit brought by a coalition of Republican-led states, instead arguing that key parts of Obamacare should be invalidated. 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