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Dan Pfeiffer
American political advisor and commentator.
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Trump's Wars Are Bankrupting America
21 attributed claims Checked July 2026
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Trump started two forever wars: a war with Iran and a trade war with everyone, and they are bankrupting the country.
The United States was engaged in an ongoing war with Iran in the reported period, and Trump's tariff policies have been described as a trade war. However, 'forever wars' and 'bankrupting the country' are political characterizations rather than established factual descriptions, and the transcript provides no evidence that either policy was literally bankrupting the United States.
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Trump told Axios that he was considering a massive attack on Iran, bigger than ever before, because Iran had not received enough pain.
Axios reported on July 23, 2026 that Trump said he was considering a 'massive attack' on Iran that would be 'bigger than ever before' and said the Iranian regime had not received enough pain.
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A U.S. intelligence report concluded that more bombing would not change Iran's negotiating position.
The Washington Post reported that a new intelligence assessment concluded Iran was unlikely to significantly soften its negotiating position as a result of additional U.S. military strikes.
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Nothing is getting through the Strait of Hormuz, oil is above $100 per barrel, and U.S. gasoline is above $4 per gallon.
Reports described the Strait of Hormuz as severely disrupted or effectively closed and reported Brent crude briefly exceeding $100 per barrel. But the absolute statement that nothing was getting through is too broad, and the transcript does not specify the gasoline grade, location, or date needed to verify the nationwide '$4 per gallon' claim.
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Trump went to Dover Air Force Base to witness the dignified transfer of four Americans killed in the war.
The Army, Associated Press, and Reuters reported that Trump attended a July 22, 2026 dignified-transfer ceremony at Dover for four U.S. service members killed in the Middle East during the Iran war.
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Pete Hegseth said, "it takes money to kill bad guys."
The cited reporting confirms Hegseth publicly defended an urgent war-funding request, but the available reliable sources do not verify this exact quotation.
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Trump announced a new 50% tariff on most imports from Canada, including wine, hockey sticks, and cement.
Trump did impose additional 50% tariffs on selected categories of Canadian imports, including wine, hockey sticks, and cement, but the measures did not cover most Canadian imports generally.
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Trump announced tariffs as high as 200% on imported generic drugs within a few years, with the policy intended to push drug manufacturers to produce in the United States by 2028.
Trump announced a plan for a 100% tariff on imported generic drugs beginning in August 2028, rising to 200% after one year, and described the purpose as encouraging manufacturers to relocate production to the United States.
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Imported generic drugs make up the vast majority of prescriptions in the United States.
Generic drugs account for roughly 88–90% of prescriptions filled in the United States, but that does not establish that imported generic finished drugs constitute the vast majority of prescriptions. Much generic-drug production, especially active pharmaceutical ingredients, occurs abroad, while the precise share of finished prescriptions supplied by imports is more complicated.
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TrumpRx is presented as a major discount on prescription drugs, but it is not actually a significant discount being offered to Americans.
TrumpRx does offer discounts on some prescription medicines, including manufacturer-backed reductions. However, independent analyses found that many listed prices were comparable to or already available through services such as GoodRx, so portraying the program as wholly not a discount is misleading.
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Emerson found Democrats 11 points ahead on the generic congressional ballot, Pew found them 6 points ahead, and Fox News found them 7 points ahead; Fox's poll showed Democrats at 53%, the highest share either party had received in its generic-ballot polling since 1996.
The July 2026 Emerson poll reported an 11-point Democratic advantage, and the contemporaneous Fox News poll reported a 7-point advantage with Democrats at 53%. Reporting on the Fox poll states that 53% was the highest share either party had reached in Fox generic-ballot polling since 1996; the transcript's Pew figure is also consistent with contemporaneous poll reporting.
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In the Fox News poll, Democrats were more trusted on income inequality by 22 points, health care by 21, inflation by 10, the economy by 9, foreign policy by 7, and immigration shifted from an 8-point Republican advantage in April to a 1-point Democratic advantage.
The reported Fox News poll results match these issue-by-issue margins, including the change from an 8-point Republican advantage on immigration in April to a 1-point Democratic advantage in the newer poll.
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In the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses, there was still no winner declared when people left Iowa the day after the caucuses.
The caucuses occurred on February 3, 2020, but technical problems and reporting inconsistencies delayed results; contemporary reporting noted that no official winner had been declared by the following morning.
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The primary calendar cannot simply be changed in some states because the election date has already been set by the state legislature.
State law or legislative control can constrain when a primary is held, but the statement is too broad: primary scheduling authority varies by state, and in New Hampshire the secretary of state has statutory authority to set the presidential primary date.
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South Carolina has a large Black population, comprising roughly one-quarter of the state's population.
The Census Bureau reports that 24.4% of South Carolina's population identified as Black alone in the 2020 Census, making the description of a large Black population accurate.
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New Hampshire law requires its presidential primary to be held at least seven days before any similar election in another state, effectively requiring it to go first.
New Hampshire Revised Statutes §653:9 requires the secretary of state to schedule the presidential primary seven or more days before any other state's similar election, or on the second Tuesday in March, whichever is earlier.
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New Hampshire held its Democratic primary first in 2024 and initially received no delegates under the DNC rules.
The January 23, 2024 primary was held in violation of the DNC-approved calendar and did not initially award delegates, but the DNC later seated New Hampshire's full delegation after a separate party-run delegate-selection process. Thus, saying New Hampshire ultimately got no delegates is incorrect.
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Nevada is a vote-by-mail state where ballots postmarked by Election Day can still be counted after Election Day.
Nevada generally mails ballots to active registered voters, and official election guidance states that mailed ballots postmarked on or before Election Day may be counted if received by the statutory deadline afterward. The statement omits the receipt deadline but is accurate in substance.
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On Tuesday evening, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted a roughly one-minute video on his official Twitter account showing the Oval Office and admiring Donald Trump's interior decorating.
Scavino did post a video showcasing the Oval Office's gold additions and model airplanes, but reporting identifies the platform as Instagram and the posting date as Wednesday, July 22, 2026, not Tuesday evening on Twitter.
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A new Washington Post poll found that about two-thirds of Americans were unhappy about Trump's renovations and other projects in Washington, D.C., with opposition led mostly by Democrats and independents.
A July 2026 Washington Post-Ipsos poll found that 65% of Americans were dissatisfied or upset about Trump's ballroom, Reflecting Pool, and triumphal-arch projects. Negative views were especially prevalent among Democrats and independents: about 90% of Democrats and 73% of independents viewed the projects negatively.
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A Washington Post-Ipsos poll found that 67% of Democrats chose “upset” as their descriptor for Trump's Washington projects, while 31% of Republicans chose “enthusiastic.”
The poll asked about Trump's White House ballroom, triumphal arch and Reflecting Pool projects and reported exactly these figures for Democrats and Republicans.
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