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Marshall beats Trump on lie, false statement rate
30 false, misleading or unsupported claim groups in roughly 110 minutes.
That is the current tally from Roger Marshall’s and Donald Trump’s October 19 speeches in Park City, near Wichita.
This is the core list reviewed so far. Additional review could identify more. Related statements are grouped together, and claims repeated by both speakers are counted separately for each speaker.
*To be fair, Trump meandered with unrelated stories and was interrupted nearly a dozen times so his lie rate is not as high as Marshall’s.
Marshall: 9 flagged claim groups in about 11 minutes
0.82 per minute, or one every 1 minute, 13 seconds.
Trump: 21 flagged claim groups in about 98 minutes
0.21 per minute, or one every 4 minutes, 40 seconds.
COMBINED: 30 in approximately 110 minutes
roughly one every 3 minutes, 40 seconds.
ROGER MARSHALL
FRANCE: AN UNSUBSTANTIATED IMMIGRATION NARRATIVE.
The demonstrations concerned rising living costs, school conditions and underfunded public services. France’s domestic intelligence agency, DGSI, categorically denied specific reports of Islamist-linked rioters carrying automatic weapons.
reuters.com/world/students-t…
lemonde.fr/societe/live/2026…
Le Monde documented Trump and his MAGA allies promoting an immigration explanation while disregarding protesters’ demands. Security expert François Heisbourg called those interventions “interference.”
lemonde.fr/en/international/…
APOLOGIZING FOR BEING WHITE: A FALSE CHARACTERIZATION.
Hamilton discussed recognizing racial advantages and repenting his own indifference to injustice. An attack ad joined remarks made almost a minute apart, changing their meaning. He did not tell people to apologize for their skin color.
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CONTEXT: MARSHALL’S FORMER PASTOR REJECTED THE RADICAL PORTRAYAL.
Joshua Leu, a former senior pastor at Marshall’s church, described Hamilton as a “middle-of-the-road pastor” willing to listen to different perspectives. Leu also preached about racism and encouraged listening to Black and Hispanic neighbors.
Marshall served on that church’s board and invited Leu to deliver the House’s opening prayer.
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BEEF AND CLIMATE: EDITED REMARKS OMIT CONTEXT.
Hamilton preached about environmental stewardship and suggested dietary changes among ways to reduce emissions. An attack ad spliced comments about cattle emissions together with a broader call to repentance.
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Marshall has also acknowledged agriculture’s greenhouse-gas emissions and supported legislation to accelerate approval of emissions-reducing feed additives. He separately voted to advance food-labeling legislation that drew objections from pork producers. His record deserves the same context as Hamilton’s remarks.
hpj.com/2023/07/07/senator-m…
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