Fact check: Trump makes false claims about January 6, Europe, NATO and Canada

Washington CNN — President-elect Donald Trump made numerous false claims during a wide-ranging Tuesday news conference in Florida, many of them related to foreign affairs and international trade. Europe and Canada Trade with the European Union 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 farm products, they don’t take anything.” He also said, “European Union: We have a trade deficit of $350 billion.” Facts First: None of this is true. And while Trump could have fairly said he didn’t start new wars, his claim that the US was “in no wars” isn’t true. “I do a daily news search to see what’s going on in prisons around the world and have seen absolutely no evidence that any country is emptying its prisons and sending them all to the US,” Helen Fair, co-author of the prison population list and research fellow at the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research at Birkbeck, University of London, said in June, when Trump made a similar claim. Rather, the gag order forbids Trump from three specific categories of speech: 1) Speaking publicly or directing others to speak publicly about known or foreseeable witnesses, specifically about their participation in the case 2) Speaking publicly or directing others to speak publicly about prosecutors, members of the district attorney’s staff and the court staff, or family members of any of these people including Bragg, if those statements are made with the intent to interfere with the case 3) Speaking publicly or directing others to speak publicly about jurors or prospective jurors The legitimacy of elections Trump returned to his dishonesty about the legitimacy of US elections, describing the Biden administration as election cheaters and saying unspecified Trump opponents “tried” to “rig” the 2024 election but were unable to do so.