Fact check: President again twists truth and bends reality as supporters roar in key state
ANALYSIS — President Donald Trump mostly sang the hits with familiar themes Thursday night during his second re-election rally, but he sprinkled in plenty of eyebrow-raising lines and claims.
Trump took an early victory lap over Attorney General William P. Barr earlier this week concluding Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III failed to find criminal-level collaboration between his 2016 campaign and Russians. And he again twisted the facts by saying Mueller’s report, according to Barr, gave him “total exoneration” on obstruction of justice; Barr reported the special counsel found evidence on both sides of the obstruction argument.
From there, he made his usual boasts about the state of the economy and conjured more than one “lock her up!” chant when he mentioned Hillary Clinton and declared “walls work” when making yet another pitch for his proposed southern border wall.
View the complete March 29 article by John T. Bennett on The Roll Call website here.