5 debunked hoaxes related to Donald Trump

By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Tuesday, September 17, 2024

3. 'Bloodbath'

During last week's presidential debate, Harris reiterated accusations that Trump was fomenting political violence during a campaign rally in March when he warned of a "bloodbath" if he is not re-elected.

Trump's "bloodbath" comment, made during his March 16 speech at the Dayton International Airport in Ohio, was using the word in the economic context by which it is defined in the dictionary, as noted by FactCheck.org.

The media is lying about Donald Trump with this narrative about a “bloodbath” if he loses the election. He was very clearly talking about the car manufacturing industry—before and after he used the word.

You have to be extremely disingenuous to take what he’s saying out of… pic.twitter.com/qhctYGpi7K
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 17, 2024

His remark came while discussing American autoworkers losing their jobs to Mexico, and he accused China of building automobile factories that will further cost U.S. autoworker jobs. He promised to slap a 100% tariff on cars coming over the Mexican border to offset such a trend.

"We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars," he said. "If I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath, for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it. But they’re not going to sell those cars."

The Biden-Harris campaign issued a statement at the time, effectively accusing Trump of trying to invoke a violent insurrection.

"He wants another January 6, but the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge," they said.

Trump later defended himself personally in a March 18 post on Truth Social, writing, "The Fake News Media, and their Democrat Partners in the destruction of our Nation, pretended to be shocked at my use of the word BLOODBATH, even though they fully understood that I was simply referring to imports allowed by Crooked Joe Biden, which are killing the automobile industry."