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By Thaleigha Rampersad, The Washington Free Beacon
ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis fact-checked former president Donald Trump in real-time during Tuesday night’s debate. When Vice President Kamala Harris made false statements, they kept quiet.
Muir pushed back on Trump’s claim that crime is “up and through the roof,” saying the “FBI says overall violent crime is actually coming down in this country.” Experts say the FBI’s stats are incomplete.
Davis, meanwhile, pushed back after Trump said vice presidential nominee Tim Walz supported “execution after birth.”
When Harris repeated falsehoods, however, Muir and Davis stood down. Harris, for example, said Trump called anti-Semitic white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va. “very fine people,” a claim Snopes shot down in June.
Harris also said Trump “left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression.” Unemployment was 6.4 percent when Trump left office.
Muir and Davis did not interject to fact check those claims.
