Former President Barack Obama delivered a sustained attack on Donald Trump’s record and policies in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Thursday as Kamala Harris battled with Trump over the crucial swing state ahead of Election Day.

Polls show a neck-and-neck race between Vice President Harris and former President Trump. That’s what a new Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday shows Harris has a three-point lead among likely voters in Pennsylvania.

While Obama made no obvious falsehoods, Newsweek listed several claims he made in Pittsburgh that require further examination.

“He wants the middle class to pay the price for another huge tax cut that would mostly help him and his country club friends.”

This is a reference to Donald Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The law, which is set to expire in 2025, was enacted under his presidency in 2017. It leads to a uniform corporate tax rate of 21 percent (previously 35 percent).

If elected, Trump plans to expand his tax cuts and go even further by eliminating taxes on tips and Social Security benefits and cutting the corporate tax rate again, from 21 percent to 15 percent.

While the tax cuts could benefit middle-class households, analysts expect the largest proportional benefit will go to the wealthy. According to the Penn Wharton Budget Model, an initiative designed to analyze the fiscal impact of public policies, a middle-class household with an income of $80,000 would gain $1,700 after taxes under Trump’s plan, while a household with an income of $14 million under Trump’s plan would gain $377,000.

The Penn Wharton Budget Model estimates the plan would increase the national debt by $5.8 trillion. While the benefit estimates showed that low-, middle- and high-income households would fare better under the plans on a conventional basis, the gains and losses “do not include the additional debt burden on future generations who will have to finance almost all of it.” Tax is reduced.”

A 2017 analysis by the Tax Policy Center found that higher-income households would receive “larger average tax cuts as a percentage of after-tax income” and that the largest cuts as a share of income went to taxpayers in the 95th percentile . The bill would reduce taxes “on average for all income groups.”

“Donald Trump was told that Mike Pence was at the Capitol about 40 feet away from an angry mob chanting ‘Hang Mike Pence’ and his response was ‘So what?'”

This emerges from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion investigation. Late last month, Smith’s office filed the 165-page document presenting new evidence against Trump in the election subversion case, accusing the former president of four felony counts.

Less than a week later, a redacted version of the document was released to the public, removing all sensitive information and dozens of names related to Smith’s investigation.

One entry said an adviser spoke with Trump and tried to ensure the safety of then-Vice President Mike Pence during the riot at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

“When he received a call informing him that Pence had been moved to a safe location (redacted), he rushed to the dining room to inform the defendant (Trump), hoping that the defendant would take action, to ensure Pence’s safety,” it said.

“Instead, after the (redacted) message was delivered, the defendant looked at him and simply said, ‘So what?'”

Smith’s briefing said the government did not intend to use Trump’s conversations with White House staff at that point in the trial as evidence, but would only provide them in the briefing as “necessary context.”

A video of rioters chanting “Hang Mike Pence” was played in 2022 to the House special committee investigating the attack on the Capitol, as reported by The Washington Post.

“What he’s proposing is essentially a Trump sales tax that could cost the average family almost $4,000 a year.”

The This claim was repeated throughout the Harris campaign. It is based on an analysis by a left-leaning think tank, the Center for American Progress (CAP). It says Trump’s plans to increase tariffs on imported goods by 10 to 20 percent – or 60 percent on all goods imported from China – would do this amount to a tax increase of $3,900 for middle-income families.

However, other estimates, such as the Peterson Institute for International Economics, suggest that the proposed 20 percent tariff would cost the typical American household just over $2,600 per year.

“When it comes to health care, you heard in the debate that Donald Trump has an answer: end the Affordable Care Act.”

Trump has said throughout his campaign that he would not end the Affordable Care Act, dubbed Obamacare by his opponents, despite repeated attempts to repeal it throughout his presidency.

“I am not running to repeal the ACA as corrupt Joe Buden constantly misinforms and misinforms, I am running to close the border, stop inflation, make our economy great, strengthen our military and repeal the ACA or “Making Obamacare, as they call it, much better, stronger and much cheaper,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in March.

However, Trump was directly questioned about it during his debate with Harris in September, suggesting that if elected he might implement different policies if his administration found a replacement.

“Obamacare was lousy health care. “It’s always been that way,” Trump said at the debate.

“It’s not very good today. And what I said: If we think of something, we will work on it, we will do it and we will replace it.”

Newsweek emailed a Trump media representative for comment.

“Why was the number of immigrants basically the same when you left office as when you took office?”

According to the government, this is misleading. It’s true that between Trump’s inauguration in 2017 and his departure in 2021, the number of illegal migrants living in the United States is not estimated to have changed significantly. However, compared to historical data, it had decreased, although not significantly.

Department of Homeland Security data from 2018 and 2024 show that the estimated number of illegal immigrants was 11.4 million in January 2017 and fell to 10.5 million by January 2020. No results were recorded in the DHS data for January 2021 due to “significant challenges related to …” COVID-19,” which affected the reliability of the data source, the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.

A recent Pew Research Center analysis of unauthorized immigration based on expanded U.S. Census Bureau data found the population was 10.5 million in 2021.

However, the number of illegal immigrants appears to have stagnated during the nearly two decades of government. According to DHS analysis, the population has ranged between estimates of 10.5 million and around 12 million over the past 19 years. Although the number increased between 2020 and 2022, it was still below Pew’s estimated record high of around 12.2 million in 2007.

Newsweek emailed an Obama media representative for comment.

According to the Census Bureau, the total number of aliens residing in the United States, including U.S. and non-U.S. citizens, rose to 45.2 million a year from 43.7 million in 2016, the first year of Trump’s administration 2021.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the number of encounters at the Southwest border increased from 415,517 to 977,509 between fiscal years 2017 and 2019.

The figure has sunk to 400,651 in 2020, with a sharp decline in April 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic began. The following year, Encounters rose to over 1.7 million.