\u201cYou know, nobody died that day, you do know that? But people died in Seattle. Nobody died, but people died in Minneapolis. You know, people died in Minneapolis, and nothing happens. And nobody ever talks and nothing happens to those people. But you went after the J6 people with a vengeance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Donald Trump, in a conversation at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago, July 31<\/p>\n
In his half-hour sit-down with three journalists at NABJ, the former president and Republican presidential nominee unleashed his usual litany of falsehoods, ranging from a phony story about the ex-governor of Virginia executing a baby after birth to an absurd claim that he \u201csaved\u201d historically Black colleges and universities. To a Black audience, he yet again bragged he did more for Black people than any president since Abraham Lincoln \u2014 earning the instant rejoinder (which he ignored) from ABC News\u2019s Rachel Scott: \u201cBetter than President Johnson, who signed the Voting Rights Act?\u201d<\/p>\n
Rather than repeat ourselves, we have provided links to previous fact checks at the end of this report.<\/p>\n
Instead we will focus on a fresh claim he made. When asked about pardoning people convicted of violence during the Jan. 6 attacks \u2014 he said he would \u2014 he resorted to whataboutism. He asserted that people died in Seattle and Minneapolis during the social justice protests after the death of George Floyd in 2020 \u2014 and nothing happened to those people.<\/p>\n
As part of his argument, Trump falsely claimed that \u201cnobody died.\u201d A Senate report said that \u201cseven individuals, including three law enforcement officers, ultimately lost their lives\u201d in connection with the attack, four of them \u201cthat day.\u201d Four were Trump supporters \u2014 one shot by a U.S. Capitol police officer as she tried to climb through a broken window that led to the Speaker\u2019s Lobby, two of heart attacks and one from amphetamine intoxication. Brian D. Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer, collapsed at his desk after the attack and died a day later. The District\u2019s chief medical examiner concluded that Sicknick had suffered two strokes nearly eight hours after being sprayed with a chemical irritant. Two other officers died by suicide within days of the attack.<\/p>\n
Trump also claimed that just a few days ago there was a \u201chorrible attack on the Capitol\u201d by pro-Palestinian protesters \u2014 and \u201cthey fought with them much more openly than I saw on January 6th.\u201d That\u2019s not true. \u201cThough most demonstrators walked and chanted peacefully, there were some clashes with law enforcement, and D.C. police and Capitol Police said they arrested 15 people in total. The U.S. Park Police arrested eight people,\u201d The Washington Post reported. Trump spoke at length about the tragedy of \u201cincredible monuments, bells, lions, all these magnificent limestone and granite with red paint.\u201d The vandalism took place not at the Capitol but near Union Station \u2014 appearing on the Christopher Columbus memorial fountain and Freedom Bell, a reproduction of the Liberty Bell \u2014 and National Park Service officials said they would be cleaned within three days, despite Trump\u2019s saying of the defacement: \u201cYou\u2019ll see it in a hundred years from now.\u201d<\/p>\n
An American flag was also burned, earning condemnation from Trump\u2019s rival for the presidency, Vice President Harris.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what happened in Seattle and Minneapolis. The information on deaths during the protests came from Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project (ACLED), a nonprofit. The organization found that the overwhelming majority of the 9,000 Black Lives Matter demonstrations were peaceful, but that 11 people were killed while participating in the protests and an additional 14 died in incidents linked to them.<\/p>\n
Seattle<\/p>\n
Two people were killed, according to ACLED. Summer Taylor, a Black Lives Matter activist, died when a car rammed into the protests. Another person, 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr., was shot in an incident that ACLED said was tied to the broader unrest. (Another fatal shooting of a teen was not connected, ACLED concluded.)<\/p>\n
Dawit Kelete, 30, who drove into the protest on July 4, 2020, killing Taylor and seriously injuring another person, was sentenced to 78 months in jail. The judge said that while there was no evidence he hit the protesters intentionally, his conduct was \u201cextremely reckless.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mays died in the early morning hours of June 29, 2020, while driving a stolen Jeep in Seattle\u2019s Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone, which protesters occupied for three weeks after police abandoned the area. Mays lived in San Diego, but traveled to Seattle to be part of history, his family said. The incident led the city to shut down the protest zone.<\/p>\n
No one has been charged in Mays\u2019s death. Mays\u2019s father has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city for allowing \u201clawlessness to reign.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minneapolis<\/p>\n
One person was killed, according to ACLED. The Max It Pawn Shop was set on fire during protests on May 28, 2020, and then two months later, police discovered a charred body in the wreckage. Surveillance video footage showed Montez Terriel Lee, 26, pouring an accelerant around the pawnshop and lighting it on fire. Lee was sentenced to 10 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, the Justice Department said.<\/p>\n
These are among the false claims Trump made at the Chicago event, in the order in which he made them, with links to earlier fact checks of them.<\/p>\n
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\nBest president for Black Americans since Abraham Lincoln<\/span>
\nAn invasion of \u201c15, 16, 17 million\u201d people<\/span>
\nHarris was the \u201cborder czar\u201d<\/span>
\nMany migrants are from mental institutions<\/span>
\nThe crime rate of other countries is going down<\/span>
\nThe worst inflation in 100 years<\/span>
\nTrump was protected by the Presidential Records Act<\/span>
\nBiden was ruled \u201cincompetent\u201d in his presidential records case<\/span>
\nDemocrats allow the killing of babies after being born<\/span>
\n\u201cEveryone\u201d wanted Roe v. Wade overturned<\/span>
\nDrilling will reduce inflation<\/span>
\nGrocery bills are up 60 percent<\/span>
\nU.S. has more oil than any other country.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Pinocchio Test<\/h3>\n
Four Pinocchios<\/h3>\n