Pro-Hillary Clinton operatives wasted no time responding to a leaked copy of Donald Trump’s acceptance speech Thursday afternoon, and quickly posted a fact-check that challenged its assertions about crime, the economy and global terrorism.
“We got an advance copy of what appears to be Trump’s remarks for his primetime speech at the Republican National Convention tonight,” said Trump Lies, a project of the pro-Clinton Super PAC Correct the Record.
“We annotated his remarks with the fact checks we have … so far,” the site added.
“In 2009, pre-Hillary, [the Islamic State] was not even on the map. Libya was cooperating. Egypt was peaceful. Iraq was seeing a reduction in violence. Iran was being choked by sanctions. Syria was under control,” Trump’s speech claimed.
Trump Lies responded by quoting PolitiFact as saying, “The roots of [the Islamic State] trace back to 2004, when Bush was president and before Clinton was Obama’s secretary of state.”
Another section of Trump’s GOP convention address read, “After four years of Hillary Clinton, what do we have? ISIS has spread across the region, and the world. Libya is in ruins, and our ambassador and his staff were left helpless to die at the hands of savage killers.”
Trump Lies responded again by quoting PolitiFact, which said on June 23, 2016, “None of the numerous congressional investigations into the attacks have faulted Clinton for her actions as the attacks unfolded that day or said she could have done something different on Sept. 12 that would have saved lives.”
Yet another section of the GOP nominee’s convention speech claimed, “My opponent has called for a radical 550 percent increase in Syrian refugees on top of existing massive refugee flows coming into our country under President Obama. She proposes this despite the fact that there’s no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from.”
The pro-Clinton Trump fact-checking site responded with, “PolitiFact rated Donald Trump’s claim that there was ‘no system to vet’ refugees ‘False.'”
It goes on like that for the entirety of Trump’s prepared remarks.
The billionaire businessman’s planned address for the fourth and final evening of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland was leaked Thursday afternoon.
It was quickly republished by major newsrooms, including the Washington Post and Politico, and soon picked apart by reporters and pundits.
