A Republican midterm convention, an Air Force One delay and a dense campaign-speech fact check.

Bottom line

September 9 produced fourteen responsibly assessable Trump claims: two Supported, ten False and two Misleading. The roughly 91% egg-price decline is supportable only as a wholesale comparison, and El-Sayed did previously appear with Piker, who made and later walked back the September 11 remark; that does not show El-Sayed endorsed it. Investment announcements were nowhere near $20 trillion; Trump won two presidential elections, not three; immigration records contradict both the 25 million and zero-entry claims; broad prices had risen, not rapidly fallen; Social Security taxation was reduced for many seniors but not abolished; available 401(k) data were far below a $50,000 typical gain; and Iowa's regular-gasoline average was not $1.85. Democratic conferences in 1974, 1978 and 1982 refute the first-ever-any-party claim, while visible empty sections and no evidence of an equally large crowd outside refute the packed-arena claim. Talarico's emissions bill and El-Sayed's court-reform plan both support much narrower descriptions than Trump gave. The contingent $5,000 tariff-dividend promise is documented but not rated as a present factual claim. Both complete September 9 Trump-participation transcripts are now reviewed and indexed.