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Fact check: Donald Trump skews record on Biden-Harris, US economy

Trump also misrepresented Biden's position on taxes, again minimised the coronavirus threat and exaggerated his own record on the economy

Donald Trump. (Bloomberg photo)
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Biden would raise taxes, primarily on the wealthy. But a July estimate by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget finds that the increase is a small fraction of what Trump claimed. (Bloomberg photo)

AP | PTI Washington
President Donald Trump greeted the Democratic presidential ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris this past week with a litany of distortion and falsehoods, raging against cases of voting fraud where they didn't exist and declining to quash conspiracy theories about Harris' eligibility for office.

Trump also misrepresented Biden's position on taxes, again minimised the coronavirus threat and exaggerated his own record on the economy.

A look at some of the past week's rhetoric and the facts:

On Biden-Harris

Trump: If Biden would win ... he's going to double and triple everybody's taxes. news conference Wednesday.

The Facts: Trump

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