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‘Does not exist’: Trump’s sweeping Time interview claims get brutally fact-checked
What happened
RawStory reports that Time fact-checked 12 claims President Donald Trump made during a Sept. 28 White House interview. Trump said he won 86% of the popular vote in 2024. He actually received 49.8%, against Kamala Harris’s 48.3%; the figure 86 referred to his Electoral College margin, 312 votes to 226.
Trump also claimed 99% popularity in Israel and 107 million views for a September Republican midterm-convention speech. Time found no poll showing 99% approval, citing instead a 2026 Pew survey in which 66% of Israelis expressed confidence in him. Nielsen data cited by Time showed…
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