Trump Didn't Say Americans Are "Going To Die" When He's Not President
The Claim
Donald Trump says Americans are "going to die" when he's not the president.
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Emerging story
A video of an interview with President Trump Fox Trump has been circulating online in early September 2020. The video claims that President Trump said in a television interview that Americans are "going to die" when he's not the president. The video went viral attracting thousands of social media users.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar investigation finds that the video is snipped footage from Trump's Aug. 31 interview with FOX News host Laura Ingraham, taking his words out of context. The claim used out-of-context clips from the FOX News interview to insinuate Trump denigrated his staff, calling them "incompetent and stupid" as well as claiming Americans are "going to die" when he is not the president. Those quotes and others were taken out of context and do not accurately reflect the questions he was answering or the topics he was addressing.
These are the full answers the president gave in his interview with Ingraham, showing how users who circulated the claim picked and chose words out of context.
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