Trump’s lies about terrorism

18 lies about terrorism, out of 72 false or misleading claims on the topic (25% rated lies). Each one links to the fact-check.

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1. Jun 3, 2020 · Interview“We have Antifa, we have anarchists, we have terrorists, we have looters. We have a lot of bad people in those groups. … There's some great people but there are a lot of really, really bad people in there.”
2. Jun 3, 2020 · Social post“If you watch Fake News @CNN or MSDNC, you would think that the killers, terrorists, arsonists, anarchists, thugs, hoodlums, looters, ANTIFA & others, would be the nicest, kindest most wonderful people in the Whole…
3. Oct 25, 2018 · Remarks“We are doing very well in our fight against ISIS. They are virtually knocked out entirely in Syria. In another short period of time, they'll be gone, and also in Iraq and in lots of other places.”
4. Oct 16, 2018 · Interview“We've defeated ISIS. ISIS is defeated in all of the areas that we fought ISIS, and that would have never happened under President Obama.”
5. Sep 24, 2018 · Remarks“If you look at various parts of the Middle East, you look at Syria, we've wiped out ISIS. We're in the very final throes.”
6. Aug 20, 2018 · Interview“We’ve defeated ISIS. ISIS is essentially defeated.”
7. Jul 16, 2018 · Press conference“We have just about eradicated ISIS in the area.”
8. Jul 16, 2018 · Interview“We discussed ISIS and, as you know, we've pretty much eradicated ISIS in the Middle East.”
9. Mar 13, 2018 · Remarks“In one year, we did more damage to ISIS than other administration, a certain other administration, did in many ways.”
10. Nov 29, 2017 · Speech“We're doing numbers like ISIS has never seen before. We're wiping them out -- terrorists, they're bad.”
11. Nov 15, 2017 · Speech“Earlier this year, in Saudi Arabia, I spoke to the leaders of more than 50 Arab and Muslim nations about our strategy to defeat terrorists by stripping them of financing, territory, and ideological support. And I…
12. Sep 19, 2017 · SpeechU.S. “has achieved more against ISIS in the last eight months than it has in many, many years combined.”
13. Sep 15, 2017 · Social post“We have made more progress in the last nine months against ISIS than the Obama Administration has made in 8 years.Must be proactive & nasty!”
14. Sep 7, 2017 · Press conference“We have done better in eight months of my presidency than the previous eight years against ISIS.”
15. Jul 18, 2017 · Remarks“We're very much decimating ISIS.”
16. Jul 12, 2017 · Interview“In five months we have done more against ISIS than anybody's done since the beginning and we are having tremendous success with that.”
17. Jul 6, 2017 · Remarks“We have fought very hard and very powerfully against ISIS since I've been president. And we've made tremendous gains, far greater than has ever been made with respect to that group.”
18. Feb 28, 2017 · Speech“According to data provided by the Department of Justice, the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside of our country.”