CLAIM: “We were a dead & crippled country after the last administration & made it the hottest country anywhere in the world by far, with no inflation.”

THE FACTS: This is a standard #Trump claim. But the #economy he inherited was far from weak. In 2024, the last year of the #Biden presidency, #US #GDP grew 2.8%, adjusted for #inflation, faster than any wealthy country in the world except Spain. It also expanded at a healthy rate from 2021 through 2023.

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Last year, in fact, #US economic growth decelerated under #Trump to a still-respectable 2.1%, partly because the 43-day federal government #shutdown slashed growth from October through December.

Nor has #inflation vanished. The #Labor Department’s #consumer price index was up 2.4% in February compared with a year earlier. It’s still above the #FederalReserve’s 2% target.

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CLAIM: “#RegimeChange was not our goal. We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders’ death. They’re all dead. The new group is less radical & much more reasonable.”

FACTS: #Trump’s depiction of the new #Iran leadership stretches credulity.
Israel’s airstrike at the start of the war killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali #Khamenei. Iran then installed his son, Mojtaba, who is even more hard-line, as supreme leader.

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The monthlong #war has seen #Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard [#IRGC] grow even more ascendant. Iran’s civilian leadership — broadly untouched by the war — acknowledges it has little command & control over the Guard’s actions.

Both #Trump & #Israel have signaled they would tell the Iranian people to rise up at a point in the war to take back their government. That hasn’t happened.

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CLAIM: “This murderous regime also recently killed 45,000 of their own people who were protesting in Iran.”He offered no evidence to support those figures.

THE FACTS: A death toll that high has not been verified.

The US based group Human Rights Activists News Agency, which has been accurate in multiple rounds of demonstrations in #Iran, said it confirmed the deaths of just over 7,000 people in the nationwide protests that reached their apex in January.

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