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Fact check: Trump, repeating old lies on 'Meet the Press,' falsely claims US is the only country with birthright citizenship

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Crime: Trump falsely claimed, "Crime is at an all-time high."
53% : The 2020 election: Trump vaguely reiterated his lie that he was the real winner of the 2020 election, saying, "I think it's an easy argument, it was really proven even more conclusively by the win that I had on this one."
50% : "This is not true; CNN and various other outlets previously debunked the claim when Trump made it during his presidential campaign in 2015 and during his first presidency in 2018.
45% : The tariffs are paid by US importers, not foreign exporters as Trump regularly claims, and it's easy to find specific examples of companies that passed along the cost of the tariffs to US consumers.
43% : After that, he and his officials took many steps to weaken the law, though they did continue to operate the Obamacare exchanges - and they refused to defend several central provisions of the law in a lawsuit brought by a coalition of Republican-led states, instead arguing that key parts of Obamacare should be invalidated.
42% : Trump reiterated his intention to try to end birthright citizenship, in which, under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, someone born in the US is granted automatic citizenship even if their parents are not citizens.
33% : Trump has never corroborated this claim, and experts have told CNN, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org that they haven't seen any evidence that it is true.
28% : Trump and inflation: Trump falsely claimed that, during his presidency, "We had no inflation."
28% : You can read more here.Venezuela, migration and prisoners: Trump repeated his regular tale about how Venezuela has supposedly emptied prisons to allow criminals to migrate to the US.
24% : Biden and inflation: Trump falsely claimed that inflation was so low during his presidency that the Biden administration "didn't have inflation for a year and a half - they went almost two years, just based on what I had created."
22% : Here are some other false and misleading claims Trump made in the portion of the interview that NBC aired on television on Sunday morning.
22% : His legitimate victory in the 2024 election does not do anything to validate his claims that the 2020 election was stolen,Migrants and murderers: Trump repeated his frequent false claim there were "13,099 murderers released into our country over the last three years."
22% : The European Union and trade: Trump repeated a false claim he has repeatedly made about European countries and trade: "They don't take our cars, they don't take our food product, they don't take anything."None of this is true.
16% : As president, Trump tried to repeal Obamacare but failed because congressional Republicans could not amass enough votes to kill the law in 2017.
14% : Trump's tariffs: Trump falsely claimed of the tariffs he imposed during his first presidency: "They cost Americans nothing."
7% : Trump and Obamacare: Trump claimed, "I am the one that saved Obamacare."

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