By Athena Papakosta

The president of the United States gave his first televised interview, Donald Trump on the television network Fox News at dawn (Greece time).

Speaking to his staunch supporter, Sean Hannity, he chose to repeat the same false claims he made three days earlier at the White House about the 2020 presidential election, the 2024 presidential election, immigration and storming the capitol.

This time, as the American network CNN points out, the said “list” was also added his claim that the attacks on police officers on January 6 were nothing more than “minor incidents”.

Beginning to unravel the thread of Trump’s statements regarding the bloody incidents that took place during his followers invaded the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the new president of the United States said that the special committee of the House of Representatives that conducted the relevant investigation “deleted and destroyed all the information it had collected.”

As CNN reports, this is not the case. The committee has maintained a large amount of data. Specifically, according to fact-checking and fact-checking website FactCheck.org, the commission released an 800-page report that includes transcripts of interviews with more than 140 witnesses.

In the same interview, Donald Trump repeated that won the youth vote by 36 points. As the American network explains, Mr. Trump has not explained how he and his staff define the youth vote, adding that there is no basis for that claim. In particular, CNN explains that since voting in the United States is secret, there is no official source of how the various voter subgroups fared in the presidential election.

However, there are the polls and many other metrics, such as that of the Associated Press, which conclude that Donald Trump did not win the youth vote in the 2024 election, let alone by 36 points, although it is true that he did better among young people compared to the presidential elections in 2020. In particular, according to these data, CNN reports that the former vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris won the Donald Trump among 18-24 year olds 54% to 43%, 25-29 year olds 53% to 45% and 30-39 year olds 51% to 45%.

In regards to presidential election in 2020Donald Trump once again insisted that “there were reports” that he won “almost 75 million votes.” And at this point the new president of the country proves to be wrong since the total number of votes counted in his favor was about 74.2 million votes.

From the conversation with Sean Hannity, the allegations about of fraud in the previous presidential elections. This time, however, he linked the issue to his storming supporters in the Capitol, and describing the bloody incidents as “just a protest” he stressed that his supporters “knew they stole our election and they were protesting.” And at this point the American network intervenes and repeats that Joe Biden’s victory in the November 2020 election was not the result of fraud, also refuting his claim that the Biden administration is nothing but “those who stole the election.”

Donald Trump also referred to the ongoing his anti-immigration policy. He claimed, therefore, that the number of immigrants who entered the country while Joe Biden was president was 21 million. According to CNN, 11 million have come to authorities during the Biden administration across the country. Two million were immediately deported from the United States, even those, CNN says, who had escaped screening. Republicans estimate their number at 2.2 million.

Sticking to the point, Donald Trump repeated the claim that foreign countries have “emptied their prisons” in order to somehow bring them to the United States. And in particular he mentioned Venezuela where the Observatory on violence in the country explains that there is no relevant evidence.

Accordingly, his claim of “the largest tax cut in US history”, as he claimed to have done in 2017, is not confirmed either.

Attack on Biden

The US president also attacked the previous administration, which he accused of mishandling inflation, the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan and the handling of the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars.

Trump noted that it will take time, money and a lot of effort to solve the problems facing the country. “We can take our country back. But if we had not won this election, I truly believe our country would have been lost forever,” he said.

He also criticized Joe Biden for his decision to award thanks to members of his familyto members of the congressional committee investigating the invasion of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and to Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which handled the response to the pandemic of the coronavirus in the US.

“And you know, the funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is that he didn’t pardon himself,” Trump told Hannity.

At another point in the interview, he referred to the legal adventures he had after his first term in the White House, saying that he spent “four years of hell from these scum that we had to deal with. I went through four years of hell. I spent millions of dollars in legal fees and I won, but the hard way.”

Asked if he would like Congress to investigate his predecessor, Trump replied: “I think we’ll let Congress decide.”

The second part of the first televised interview that Trump gave to Fox News and Sean Hannity will be broadcast early Friday (04.00 Greek time).