AP FACT CHECK: Trump skews truth on lending 援助（する）, ウイルス 危険
WASHINGTON (AP) - 大統領 Donald Trump 申し込む／申し出d a rosy portrait of a 滑らかに running 連邦の 緊急 lending program for small 商売／仕事s that doesn't match reality and 改訂するd history yet again on how 本気で he took the coronavirus 脅し, 示唆するing he に例えるd it to a pandemic flu. He never did.
A look at his （人命などを）奪う，主張するs, also covering 投票（する）ing 詐欺:
ECONOMIC RELIEF
TRUMP: "As of today, small 商売／仕事 has 過程d more than $70 billion in 保証（人）d 貸付金s and will 供給する much-needed 救済 for nearly a ４半期/4分の1 of a million 商売／仕事s already ... we´re way ahead of schedule." - news 要点説明 Tuesday.
THE FACTS: He´s glossing over reality. There have been 相当な 延期するs, with few 貸付金s 問題／発行するd.
The $349 billion 緊急 lending program just began operating Friday, but the rollout has been 疫病／悩ますd by a host of problems. Small-商売／仕事 owners have complained that they are unable to get through to the Small 商売／仕事 行政 or the banks to 適用する for 貸付金s or that they are 存在 拒絶するd by banks that say they are 受託するing 使用／適用s only from 商売／仕事s that are already 顧客s of the bank.
大統領 Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady 圧力（をかける） 要点説明 Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Two of the nation´s largest banks, JPMorgan Chase and Citibank, weren´t 最初 始める，決める up to take 使用／適用s.
The SBA´s 貸付金 過程ing system then stopped working 早期に in the week, making it impossible for 貸付金s to be 認可するd and money 分配するd, while 混乱 spread about the 文書s that 貸す人s needed from 顧客s to 完全にする 貸付金 処理／取引s. That's によれば a 貿易（する） group for community 銀行業者s and the CEO of an online lending marketplace.
As to the $70 billion, Trump appears to be 特記する／引用するing the value of 使用／適用s received but yet to be fully 治めるd. SBA spokeswoman Carol Wilkerson says more than 275,000 使用／適用s have been received for 貸付金s valued at $75 billion since the program 開始する，打ち上げるd.
財務省 長官 Steven Mnuchin had 予報するd last week that 貸付金s could be turned around and money transferred to 商売／仕事s´ bank accounts the same day as 使用／適用s were received.
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THE VIRUS THREAT
TRUMP, referring to his past comparisons of the coronavirus to the flu: "You said I said it was just like a flu. So the worst pandemic we ever had in this world was a flu. ... It was in 1917, 1918. And anywhere from 50 to 100 million people died. That was a flu, 承認する? So, you could say that I said it was a flu, or you could say, `The flu is nothing to sneeze at.´" - 要点説明 Tuesday.
THE FACTS: He´s 改訂するing history - both his own and that of the century-old pandemic.
Trump never 示唆するd the coronavirus was akin to the pandemic Spanish flu, which spread from 早期に 1918 to late 1920 and killed over 50 million 世界的な. On the contrary, he 繰り返して 解任するd COVID-19 from January until 中央の-March as 存在 いっそう少なく of a danger than the ありふれた flu and something that would disappear soon enough.
In February, he 主張するd that coronavirus 事例／患者s were going "very 大幅に 負かす／撃墜する, not up," and told Fox 商売／仕事 it will be 罰金 because "in April, 恐らく, it dies with the hotter 天候. And that´s a beautiful date to look 今後 to."
"It´s a little like the 正規の／正選手 flu that we have flu 発射s for," he told reporters on Feb. 26. "And we´ll essentially have a flu 発射 for this in a 公正に／かなり quick manner."
Two days before the World Health Organization 宣言するd the coronavirus a pandemic, Trump still 現在のd a sunny 見通し on COVID-19.
"So last year 37,000 Americans died from the ありふれた Flu," he tweeted March 9. "It 普通の／平均（する）s between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut 負かす／撃墜する, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 確認するd 事例／患者s of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!"
And in a Fox News 事実上の town hall March 24, Trump 拒絶するd に例えるing the coronavirus to the 1918 pandemic. "You can´t compare this to 1918 where の近くに to 100 million people died. That was a flu, which - a little different," he said, overstating the likely death （死傷者）数 of that pandemic.
Trump now 認めるs the U.S. "may be" entering a 後退，不況, while the White House has 事業／計画（する）d there could be 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in the U.S. from the coronavirus even if social distancing 指導基準s are 持続するd. 現在／一般に, there are over 400,000 事例／患者s and over 14,000 deaths 全国的な.
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TRUMP, asked about the 知恵 of 氷点の 基金ing to the World Health Organization during a pandemic: "I´m not 説 I´m going to do it, but we´re going to look at it." Told he had said minutes earlier he would 凍結する 基金ing, he said, "No, I didn´t. I said we´re going to look at it." - 要点説明 Tuesday.
THE FACTS: 現実に, he said きっぱりと earlier in the 要点説明 that he was going to 凍結する U.S 基金ing to the organization.
"We´re going to put a 持つ／拘留する on money spent to the 世界保健機構," h e said. "We´re going to put a very powerful 持つ／拘留する on it."
He's unhappy with the organization's coronavirus 推薦s. The 部隊d 明言する／公表するs 与える／捧げるd nearly $900 million to its 予算 for 2018-19, によれば （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） on the 機関´s website, an 量 that 代表するd one-fifth of the 世界保健機構´s total 予算 for those years.
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VOTING FRAUD
TRUMP: "Tremendous 可能性のある for 投票者 詐欺." - tweet Wednesday.
TRUMP: "Mail 投票（する）s - they cheat. 承認する? People cheat. Mail 投票（する）s are a very dangerous thing for this country because they´re cheaters. They go and collect them. They´re fraudulent in many 事例／患者s." - 要点説明 Tuesday.
TRUMP: "You get thousands and thousands of people sitting in somebody´s living room, 調印 投票（する）s all over the place. ... I think if you 投票（する）, you should go." - 要点説明 Tuesday.
THE FACTS: There´s no 証拠 of 普及した 投票（する）ing 詐欺. His advice for in-person 投票（する）ing such as in Wisconsin on Tuesday night in a pandemic also 否定するs his 仕事 軍隊´s social distancing 指導基準s, which 勧める Americans to 持続する 6 feet (1.8 メーターs) of 分離 and 避ける （人が）群がるs of more than 10 people.
It´s true that some 熟考する／考慮するs have shown a わずかに higher incidence of mail-in 投票（する）ing 詐欺 compared with in-person 投票（する）ing, but the 全体にわたる 危険 is 極端に low. The Brennan 中心 for 司法（官） said in 2017 the 危険 of 投票（する）ing 詐欺 is 0.00004% to 0.0009%.
Ignoring his own advice, Trump cast an absentee 投票（する） by mail in last month´s Florida 共和国の／共和党の 最初の／主要な.
When asked about the contradiction Tuesday, he said that it was 罰金 "because I´m 許すd to" 投票（する） by mail and that he didn't 推定する／予想する to get to Florida.
He´s 以前 主張するd without 証拠 that buses of 違法な 投票者s traveled in from Massachusetts in 2016 to 奪う him of a New Hampshire victory in the 総選挙 against 民主党員 Hillary Clinton and that millions 投票（する）d 不法に California, with people casting 投票（する）s 多重の times. A （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 Trump 会を召集するd after the 2016 選挙 to 調査／捜査する 可能性のある 投票（する）ing 詐欺 解散するd without producing any findings.
In 2016, Trump lost the popular 投票（する） by nearly 3 million 投票（する）s but 勝つ／広く一帯に広がるd in the 選挙（人）の College to 勝利，勝つ the 大統領／総裁などの地位.
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AP 商売／仕事 Writer Ken 甘い in New York 与える／捧げるd to this 報告（する）／憶測.
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EDITOR'S NOTE - A look at the veracity of （人命などを）奪う，主張するs by political 人物／姿／数字s.
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大統領 Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady 圧力（をかける） 要点説明 Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
大統領 Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady 圧力（をかける） 要点説明 Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
