CPAC: Trump talks like he'll ever be able to prove the fraud

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.

George Orwell, he/his/him

A look at Trump's remarks Sunday at the Conservative Political Action Conference:

TRUMP, assailing Democrats on energy policy: "The windmill calamity that we're witnessing in Texas … it's so sad when you look at it. That will just be the start".

THE FACTS: "Windmill calamity" is a false characterization.

TRUMP: "This election was rigged and the Supreme Court and other courts didn't want to do anything about it".

THE FACTS: All of this is flatly wrong, except it is true that the high court did not intervene, because the justices — Trump nominees among them — saw no reason to.

TRUMP: "We built the strongest economy in the history of the world".

THE FACTS: No, the numbers show it wasn't the greatest in U.S. history, much less in the history of the world. He was actually the first president since Herbert Hoover in the Depression to leave the office with fewer jobs than when he started.

The U.S. did have the most jobs on the record before the pandemic, but population growth explains part of that. The 3.5% unemployment rate before the pandemic-induced recession was at a half-century low, but the percentage of people working or searching for jobs was still below a 2000 peak.

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CPAC: Trump talks like he'll ever be able to prove the fraud

"I may even decide to beat them for the third time"