“We have captured Osama bin Laden and Suleimani al-Baghdadi,” McClain said in a statement. Trump ordered a drone strike in Iraq in 2020 that killed Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran, and actually presided over the 2019 invasion of Syria that resulted in the ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Unemployment
Criticizing the state of the economy under President Joe Biden, McClain said, “Unemployment: 40 years old.” Facts First: False again. Unemployment is actually close to a 52-year low, not a 40-year high. The rate in March was 3.6% – just a tick higher than the 3.5% low of the Trump era, which was the lowest since late 1969. Unemployment has fallen sharply under Biden. After rising up to 14.7% under Trump in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it was 6.4% in January 2021, the month Biden was sworn in. McClain’s accent of “unemployment” was more like “rehabilitation.” it is theoretically possible he was wrong when he was thinking about inflation, which is at a high of 40 years. But it was not corrected at the rally and its office did not respond to requests for comment on the allegation.
War’s
“Under President Trump, if I remember correctly, I do not think we had wars. We have a war in Ukraine right now,” McClain said. Facts First: McClain’s memory did not serve her well. There were obviously wars during the Trump presidency. US ground troops have fought under Trump in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, although Trump has reduced the US military presence in all three countries. A Navy SEAL was killed in a 2017 raid on Al Qaeda during the civil war in Yemen. The U.S. carried out Trump-era airstrikes against ISIS in Libya amid the civil war there. In Somalia, the United States has carried out airstrikes and raids against al-Shabaab, an al-Qa’eda affiliate. And since McClain criticized Biden for referring to the war in Ukraine, which did not involve US troops, it is worth noting that there were wars in the world under Trump that did not involve US troops. Trump himself has boasted that he has not started a new war. This claim is different from McClain’s claim that we did not even have wars under Trump.
Who won the 2020 elections
Speaking to the crowd at Macombe County Rally, McClain said: “But take a look around you for a minute. Tell me Joe Biden won? Union. ” Facts One: Biden was the legitimate winner of the 2020 election. The size of a crowd says nothing about who won the election. McClain did not explicitly say that Biden was not the real winner in 2020, but he certainly suggested it. Her office did not respond to requests for comment. McClain voted Jan. 6 and 7, 2021, against certifying Biden’s victories in Arizona and Pennsylvania – while along with 146 other Republicans in Congress, they opposed one or both of the results. Asked in a January 2022 appearance on a Michigan television program if he had any doubts that Biden had won Michigan in 2020 – he won by more than 154,000 votes – he said, “Well, I think there are a lot of doubts.”
