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ABC Presidential Debate: Moderators David Muir, Linsey Davis check Trump 5 times, 0 for Harris
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ABC Presidential Debate: Moderators David Muir, Linsey Davis check Trump 5 times, 0 for Harris

ABC Presidential Debate co-moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis fact-checked former President Trump five times during the heated 90-minute debate and failed to correct Vice President Kamala Harris once on Tuesday night.

Aside from the skewed number of fact-checks, many experts said Trump was asked far more challenging questions and that ABC moderators largely gave Harris a pass on several issues. But the skewed fact-checking has been a central focus of critics of the Disney-owned network.

“ABC is making a huge mistake by trying to fact-check this live. They just prove how biased they are,” Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer posted on social media.

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David Muir, Linsey Davis

ABC Presidential Debate co-moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis fact-checked former President Trump five times during the 90-minute event and failed to correct Vice President Kamala Harris once on Tuesday night. (ABC News)

Here are fact checks of the ABC Presidential Debate from the National Constitution Center:

Fact Checks on Trump

1. Abortion

Trump was asked about his stance on abortion, as ABC’s Davis pointed out that the former president has bragged about overturning Roe v. Wade and called himself “the most pro-life president in American history,” but has since stated that he would be great for women’s reproductive rights. Trump also recently said that Florida’s six-week abortion ban is “too short,” but said he would vote against a ballot initiative that would lift the state’s six-week ban on abortions.

“The reason I’m casting that vote is because… they have abortions in the ninth month. They’ve actually done it, and you can look at the governor of West Virginia, the previous governor… not the current governor, who’s doing a great job, but the governor before that, he said, ‘The baby will be born, and we’ll decide what to do with the baby,’ in other words we’ll execute the baby. And that’s why I did it,” Trump said.

Davis raised eyebrows with the first fact check of the evening.

“There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it is born,” Davis said.

2. Pets

Trump said illegal immigrants eat people’s pets

“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came here. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country. And it’s a disgrace,” Trump said.

Muir shot back: “I just want to clarify, you mentioned Springfield, Ohio. And ABC News reached out to the city manager there. He told us that there have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being abused, injured or mistreated by individuals within the immigrant community.”

Trump said he saw it on TV, but the ABC host wasn’t amused.

“People on TV are saying my dog ​​was taken and used for food. So maybe he said that and maybe that’s a good thing for a city manager to say,” Trump responded.

“I’m not getting this from television. I’m getting it from the city manager,” Muir said.

“But the people on television are saying their dog was eaten by the people who went there,” Trump said.

“Again, the Springfield city manager says there is no evidence of that,” Muir responded.

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Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. (Screenshot: Fox News simulcast of ABC News Presidential Debate)

3. Crime

At one point, Trump said, “The crime rate in this country is sky high,” but Muir quickly objected.

“President Trump, as you know, the FBI says that violent crime in this country is generally going down,” the ABC host responded.

“The FBI — they falsified affidavits. They didn’t include the worst cities. They didn’t include the worst crime cities. It was fraud. Just like their number of 818,000 jobs that they said they created, turned out to be fraud,” Trump responded.

4. Sarcasm

Trump said he was being sarcastic when he recently said he lost the 2020 election to President Biden.

“I said that sarcastically. You know. They said, ‘Oh, we lost by a hair.’ They said that sarcastically. Look, there’s so much evidence. You just have to look at it. And they should have sent it back to the legislature for approval. I got almost 75 million votes. The most votes a sitting president has ever gotten. I was told if I got 63, which I got in 2016, you’re unbeatable.”

Muir shot back: “I watched all of these video clips. I didn’t notice the sarcasm.”

Muir then told viewers that judges had said there was “no widespread fraud.” She immediately asked Harris if she felt Trump was trying to intimidate voters by claiming he would prosecute anyone who helped rig the election.

5. Pelosi

There were other moments that weren’t full fact checks but were seen as hostile toward Trump, such as when Muir noted that a question wasn’t about former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, when Trump himself referred to Pelosi during an answer.

“I showed up to give a speech. I said, I think it’s going to be big. I went to Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of Washington, D.C. And the mayor put it in writing, as you know. I said, ‘You know, this is going to be a very big rally or whatever you want to call it.’ And again, it wasn’t done by me. It was done by others. I said I want to give you 10,000 National Guard or soldiers. They turned me down. Nancy Pelosi turned me down,” Trump said.

“It would never have happened if Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of Washington had done their jobs. I was not responsible for security,” he continued. “Nancy Pelosi was responsible. She didn’t do her job.”

Muir responded: “The question was about you as president, not about former Speaker Pelosi.”

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Fact Checks on Harris

There were none.

Many have pointed out that Muir and Davis failed to correct Harris when he said that Trump had once said there were “very fine people” on both sides of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

Critics of Trump have claimed for years that he called neo-Nazis “very fine people,” when in fact he was referring to people protesting a statue of Robert E. Lee. President Biden and his allies in the mainstream media regularly promote this idea.

But earlier this year, the left-wing fact-checking website Snopes acknowledged that Trump never called neo-Nazis “very fine people” during his press conference following the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.

“During a press conference after the rally against the planned removal of a Confederate statue, Trump said there were ‘very fine people on both sides,’ referring to the protesters and counterprotesters. He said in the same statement that he was not referring to neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be ‘completely condemned,'” Snopes wrote.

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Trump assisted the ABC hosts by informing viewers that Harris’ claim has been “debunked.”

Harris said we need to stop belittling people and minutes later called Trump a “disgrace,” but ABC moderators failed to emphasize that. Harris also connected Trump to Project 2025, but moderators failed to emphasize that Trump has completely distanced himself from the polarizing plan.

Harris also misrepresented Trump’s comment about a “bloodbath” and Trump’s position on IVF without checking. Additionally, ABC moderators failed to ask Harris questions about gun bans and mandatory buybacks and the fact that there were no active-duty military personnel in a combat zone.