A guide to Trump's fresh batch of false claims When a politician gives rally speeches lasting nearly two hours, it's hard to decide what factually challenged statements should be examined. In the case of Donald Trump, it's especially difficult because he frequently says so many things that are false or misleading. On top of that, Trump frequently recycles false claims of achievement from when he was president that we have repeatedly fact-checked. So we decided to take a different approach — focus on new false claims that Trump has introduced to his repertory in recent months. Any of these would be worthy of at least Three or Four Pinocchios. Among the claims we examined: - Biden was declared 'incompetent' to stand trial in documents case (False)
- Prisons are being emptied around the world to flood U.S. borders (Absurdly false)
- 15 million migrants have entered the United States under Biden (Triple the real number)
- The inflation rate under Biden is 50 percent (Triple the real number)
- Native-born Americans have lost 1 million jobs to immigrants (False)
Please click the link to read the full report. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. Katie Boyd Britt's false linkage of a sex-trafficking case to Joe Biden If you were watching Sen. Katie Boyd Britt's response to the State of the Union address, you likely would have thought she was talking about a recent victim of sex trafficking who was abused in the United States and suffered because of President Biden's policies. Britt said: "I spoke to a woman who shared her story with me. She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12. … We wouldn't be okay with this happening in a Third World country. This is the United States of America, and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it. President Biden's border policies are a disgrace." Sean Ross, Britt's communications director, confirmed that she was talking about Karla Jacinto Romero — who had testified before Congress in 2015 about being forced to work in Mexican brothels from 2004 to 2008. In other words, Biden had nothing to do with Jacinto's story. As she testified, her mother threw her out of her house at age 12 and she "fell prey to a professional pimp." She says she then spent the next four years in brothels before a regular client helped her escape when she was 16 years old. Drug cartels were not involved and Jacinto was never trafficked to the United States; instead, she says many men who paid to have sex with her were "foreigners visiting my city [Guadalajara] looking to have sexual interactions with minors like me." Click the link to learn Britt's Pinocchio rating. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. We're also on TikTok. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. About the cats: It's a Friday and sometimes our fact checks deal with heavy subjects. So we hope to bring a smile to your face. Scroll down to read other sex-trafficking fact checks | 
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