Fact Check: Trump’s Address To The Republican Convention, Annotated

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President Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president on Thursday night.





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Trump, who spoke at the end of the Thursday evening program of other speakers, discussed the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, for which he promised a vaccine by the end of the year; Hurricane Laura; and unrest in Kenosha, Wis., where the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by police led to protests, followed by another shooting by a civilian.

NPR reporters provided fact checks and analysis of Trump’s remarks live. Read the annotations below.

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• 2020 presidential election