President Donald Trump accepted his party’s nomination in a speech filled with familiar falsehoods.
Issues: defense spending
Trump’s False Military Equipment Claim
FactChecking the March Democratic Debate
FactChecking the New Hampshire Democratic Debate
Yang’s Top-Gun Tale
Making a point about Defense Department waste, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang related a secondhand story about a Navy fighter pilot who said that airmen routinely dumped fuel into the Pacific Ocean at the end of the fiscal year as a way to preserve the following year’s fuel budget. But the story doesn’t add up.