Donald Trump’s rally in Oaks included false and misleading claims about housing, immigration, Afghanistan and jobs.
Donald Trump’s Monday Town Hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania, made headlines for his impromptu 30-minute listening party and multiple medical emergencies that halted conversation with supporters.
Moderated by South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, proceedings were paused while two attendees received medical attention, at which point Trump jokingly asked whether « anybody else would like to faint? » He then said: « Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music. Let’s make it into a music. Who the hell wants to hear questions, right? »
The Republican presidential nominee stopped taking questions from the audience about an hour after arriving and instead played music for 39 minutes.
There were also multiple false and misleading claims throughout the evening, which Newsweek’s Fact Check team has analyzed.
Newsweek reached out to a Trump representative via email for comment. »We didn’t lose one soldier in 18 months until this catastrophe happened when they took over. »
This refers to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which Trump frequently mentions at his rallies. The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan at the end of August 2021, days after an ISIS-K suicide bombing at the Kabul airport killed 13 American service members and 170 Afghan civilians.
His claim about « not losing one soldier in 18 months » before the withdrawal is not true. The Department of Defense’s Defense Casualty Analysis System shows that there were two hostile deaths in the 18 months before the withdrawal in August 2021 and five non-hostile/pending deaths. »We had interest rates at 2 percent, and now they’re 10 percent. »
Trump claimed that mortgage interest rates have hit 10 percent. This is not true. During Trump’s presidency, the lowest recorded average interest rates on 30-year and 15-year fixed-rate mortgages were 2.
