RNC Day 4: Trump delivers longest acceptance speech in history

Trump has gone off script pushing false claims about the 2020 election and immigrants stealing jobs.

He used the racist phrase "China virus" which has been used to push anti-Asian hate, and called about "partisan witch hunts" and "Crazy Nancy" Pelosi.

There was a six-minute rant where the teleprompter froze and several other times where it scrolled trying to catch where he was going.

Despite saying himself he wouldn't say the name "Biden," he has used it several times.

Trump said of Biden's administration, "This is the only administration that said we're going to raise your taxes by four times what you're paying now."

False.

Biden proposes a tax increase of roughly 7% over the next decade, not 300%, as Trump claims. About 83% of the proposed Biden tax increase would be borne by the top 1% of taxpayers, who earn just under $1 million a year in income.

Trump displayed a chart on undocumented migrants coming into the U.S. that he said he was discussing at the time of his assassination attempt during Saturday's rally.

Trump credited the chart, which he turned his head to look at, with saving his life.

"Without that chart I will not be here today," he said, to cheers.

Trump said, "We've had the worst inflation we've ever had, under this person (Biden)."

Although inflation is still considered an economic problem for the U.S., the overall rate is nowhere near a record.

The highest inflation rates were recorded in the 1970s and early 1980s, when the annual price increase sometimes hovered between 12% and 15%. The highest rate on Biden's watch was around 9% in summer 2022. That was the highest monthly figure in about four decades, but not the highest ever.

Inflation is down to around 3% now, about two-thirds lower than its 2022 peak.