At the debate between former President Donald Trump and incumbent President Joe Biden held this Thursday in Georgia, Trump propagated a claim that was “pure fiction,” according to Daniel Dale with CNN — the network, actually, that hosted the debate itself.

“Trump’s claim that Biden is seeking to quadruple people’s taxes is pure fiction,” Dale posted on Thursday evening as the debate neared its end. Dale’s personal feed on X, formerly called Twitter, was full of fact-checks of the former president, though he also fact-checked some claims by Biden. CNN was criticized for not including live fact-checking in its debate set-up, which left familiar falsehoods from particularly Trump going largely unchecked. The ex-president rehashed the familiar, debunked conspiracy theories of systematic fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Trump also spent a significant amount of time complaining about migrants, characterizing individuals arriving to the U.S. as destroying it.

“We’re like a Third World nation between weaponization of his election, trying to go after his political opponent,” Trump claimed at the debate, per CNN transcripts. “All of the things he’s done. We’ve become like a Third World nation, and it’s a shame. The damage he’s done to our country – and I’d love to ask him, and will, why he allowed millions of people to come in here from prisons, jails, and mental institutions to come into our country and destroy our country.”

Including in the above section, Trump also rehashed the claim that Biden is to blame for legal troubles that Trump has faced, but there’s just no real-world evidence confirming that. Even with the cases at the federal level, those are the work of prosecutors at the Justice Department serving under Special Counsel Jack Smith, who was appointed by but works generally separate from Attorney General Merrick Garland — neither of whom, evidence shows, are working at Biden’s behest.