Washington (CNN) —
Former President Donald Trump is littering his public remarks with fictional stories.

… the Republican presidential nominee is telling colorful lies that are completely untethered to reality.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/fact-check-donald-trump-fictional-stories

Here is LIE #10 from Donald Trump:

Migrants, prisons and ‘the Congo’

For months, Trump has told a story about how “the Congo” has deliberately emptied prisons to somehow get its criminals to come to the United States as migrants. “Many prisoners let go from the Congo in Africa, rough prisoners,” he said at an August event in Arizona. At an August rally in Pennsylvania the week after, he said, “In the Congo, in Africa: 22 people deposited into our country. ‘Where do you come from?’ ‘The Congo.’ ‘Where in the Congo?’ ‘Jail.’”

But Trump has presented zero evidence that “the Congo” has actually emptied any prisons for migration purposes. Representatives for the governments of both the Democratic Republic of Congo and the neighboring Republic of Congo have told CNN on the record that the claim is fiction, experts on the two countries say they have seen no evidence it is true, and Trump’s campaign has ignored requests to offer any substantiation.

Trump has been making this claim for months. The relevant governments say this never happened, and experts on the Congo haven’t seen any evidence for this claim. So, we have good reason to doubt this story. Trump has had months to provide evidence supporting this claim, but has provided ZERO EVIDENCE. Why? Because he has no evidence to provide because he just makes shit up.

Trump is a pathological liar and a SOCIOPATH. He is unfit to be a manager of a McDonald’s drive-thru, let alone be the leader of the United States of America.

Also, inventing this story and making it about a country in Africa is an obvious dog-whistle to the many racist Evangelicals and MAGA shitheads who support Trump. Like all would-be dictators, Trump uses racism and ethnic prejudices to manipulate people into following and supporting him.