“ewer than 100 miles of the approximately 760-mile long pipeline system (consisting of two parallel lines) remained to be laid,” CRS said in its February 2021 report. At the time, the pipeline was about 90% completed, according to a Dec. Pipeline construction was suspended in response to the sanctions. In December 2019, while Trump was in office, Congress approved a defense bill, signed into law by Trump, that included sanctions against companies building the Russian pipeline. 22 - the day that Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized two separatist territories in eastern Ukraine as independent states and sent Russian troops into the Donbas region of Ukraine.Ĭongress and successive administrations have opposed Nord Stream 2, and, as a result, there have been interruptions in construction of the pipeline, CRS said in a Feb. But German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stopped the certification process on Feb. Nord Stream 2 “must receive certification from German regulators before it becomes operational,” the CRS report said. 9 report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. It runs parallel with Nord Stream 1, which has been operational since 2011, according to a Dec. Nord Stream 2 is a completed, but not yet operational, pipeline under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany. He said, “You’re killing me with the pipeline.” Nobody else ended his pipeline. You know, I’m the one that ended pipeline. Trump: It’s a good thing to get along with people not a bad thing. He also misleadingly said Biden “approved it.” In talking about his ability to “get along” with the leaders of Russia, China and North Korea, Trump falsely claimed that he “ended” Nord Stream 2 - the Russian pipeline that would double the export of Russian natural gas to Germany. 1, 2020, that the Department of Justice and FBI “have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.” And in a new book to be released next week, Barr reportedly says the 2020 election wasn’t “stolen,” but rather, “Trump lost it.” Trump Didn’t End Russian Pipeline 26 remarks at CPAC, Trump again referred multiple times to a “rigged election.” His own attorney general, William Barr, said on Dec. We’ve debunked many of Trump’s bogus claims in the past few years about widespread election fraud, but in his Feb.
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history,” but illegal border crossings, as measured by apprehensions at the southwest border, were 14.7% higher in Trump’s final year in office compared with the last full year before he was sworn in. He claimed he left Biden with “the most secure border in U.S.military equipment left behind in Afghanistan, using a figure of more than $80 billion, which includes salaries and training for the Afghan security forces going back to 2001.
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Trump grossly exaggerated the amount of U.S.military withdrawal from Afghanistan in late August was “a surrender for no reason whatsoever,” not mentioning that he had set the withdrawal in motion and wanted it to occur months earlier than it did.
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was buying from Russia in 2020, and for many years before. should “start producing” as it did in 2020, rather than “buying Russian energy.” If he was referring to oil, the U.S. becoming a net exporter of petroleum in 2020, it was still a net exporter in 2021 - though that may change in 2022. 1 energy superpower” and the Biden administration “ended it almost immediately.” If he was referring to the U.S. Trump exaggerated how low gas prices were under his administration and how high economists think they could go now.Trump falsely claimed that he “ended” Nord Stream 2 - the Russian pipeline that would double the export of Russian natural gas to Germany - and misleadingly said President Joe Biden “approved it.” German regulators must approve the completed, but not yet operational, pipeline.Here we focus on assertions about foreign policy and energy. Former President Donald Trump’s keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference included several false and misleading claims, some of which we’ve fact-checked before.