2020 Elections Special: 21 Excellent Questions You Should Answer Before You Vote (and then 21 more)

So you’ve read Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage? The acclaimed journalist quotes a conversation with President Trump they held last March, in which the president explained he was playing down the pandemic to avoid panic in America. 

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True. A contagious President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Monday and immediately took off his face mask for a photo op. Trump then offered some bizarre advice about the virus that killed more than 200,000 Americans: ‘Don’t let it dominate you. Don’t be afraid of it. You’re gonna beat it. We have the best medical equipment. We have the best medicines, all developed recently.’

That’s true. The final debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden got a mute button to allow each candidate to speak uninterrupted. 

That’s right. President Trump received $72.9 million in tax returns over the last 18 years. This refund has been under an IRS audit since 2011, which remains unresolved and could end up costing him $100 Million in court.

Joe Biden spoke directly to President Trump and said: ‘You’re the worst president America has ever had.‘ He then added: ‘come on.’

Trump promptly replied that he did more in 47 months in office than Biden did in 47 years.

That’s right. President Donald Trump called New York City a “ghost town” during the final debate on Thursday, Oct 22, 2020. New Yorkers naturally fired back with ‘Ghostbusters’ memes.

That’s true. While he stands no chance of actually winning, according to American media, West’s name is on the ballot in a few states. He even launched an ad campaign, the first of which is focused on religion.

Correct. Amy Coney Barrett famously considers late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia as her mentor.

Correct. During the 2020 debate with Vice President Mike Pence, Kamala Harris said marijuana would be decriminalized at a federal level in the United States under a Biden administration. As a result, U.S.-listed shares of major cannabis producers saw a surge right after the debate.

The New York Times reports that while declaring losses, President Trump has managed to take tax deductions on personal expenses such as residences, aircraft and hairstyling for television.

Exactly. In his first interview since being hospitalized, for Fox Business, President Trump said: “I’m back because I am a perfect physical specimen and I’m extremely young. And so I’m lucky in that way.”

Six men were charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in reaction to her “uncontrolled power.” Seven others were indicted for allegedly targeting police and seeking a “civil war.” After police foiled the alleged plot to kidnap her, Whitmer said President Trump’s words had been a “rallying cry” for extremists.

“Mexico is paying for the wall,” President Trump said in a New Hampshire rally on the second to final 2020 election weekend. That’s untrue. The Mexican government refused to contribute to extending or reinforcing barriers on U.S. soil. “Mexico will be paying for it because we’re going to charge a fee,” Trump explained in a different rally.

According to the Times report, President Trump’s financial records indicate that he may have as little as $873,000 left to sell.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, now President Trump’s personal attorney, is seen in a scene from the new movie Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,   laying back in a hotel room bed, reaching into the front of his pants after a fake TV interview. Giuliani called the scene  ‘a complete fabrication,’ explaining he was ‘tucking in my shirt after taking off the recording equipment.’

On the Oct. 15 town hall meeting aired on NBC News, President Trump said adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory were at least “strongly against pedophilia.” He then added he knew nothing more on the subject. QAnon believers are told that the Democratic elite is a pedophilic satanist group and that Trump was their savior. QAnoners prominently took part in the Jan. 6 Capitol Riots.