Question

Trump family plans to Leave America If Trump Loses the Election.

Answer 1

The claim that Trump's family plans to leave the US if Donald Trump loses the election was published by PoliticsVideoChannel (PVC) on X (Formerly Twitter). The post does not appear to link any sources for the claim either- putting into question the legitimacy of the post. Further, other posts from PVC don't seem to provide sources either. With this in mind, Donald Trump has suggested that he would leave for Venezuela if he were to lose the election. He made these remarks in an interview with Elon Musk: the owner of Twitter and CEO of Tesla. In the interview, Trump stated that Venezuela was a "far safer place" than the US in the outcome of a victory by Kamala Harris in the 2024 general election (Hindustan Times & Vanity Fair).

In addition, no other credible sources or outlets have supported this most recent story- further suggesting that Trump's family might not be leaving the US under a potential Harris presidency. A generous take would be that PoliticsVideoChannel was exaggerating the comments made by Trump in the Musk interview; however, the comments Trump made were back in August 2024 and not anytime near the post's date of publishing (October 29th, 2024).

Ultimately, the story appears to be false or misleading and wider reporting needs to be released in order for this determination to change.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/donald-trump-publicly-admits-plan-to-flee-us-if-he-loses-2024-elections-tells-elon-musk-we-ll-meet-next-time-in-101723542265361.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-suggests-hell-flee-to-venezuela-if-harris-wins-the-election

Comments

Good job on this very thorough reply! I completely agree with your assessment of this claim running with a seemingly offhanded comment that doesn't appear to hold any real weight. The fact that the original source provides no further information or sources reinforces that this was likely posted for quick attention and to mislead audiences.

Answer 2

The claim that Trump's family plans to leave the U.S. if he loses the election was published by Politics Video Channel on the platform X also known as Twitter. In this article it doesn't contain any links that connect directly to the claim. However when you search this claim up a article from Vanity Fair claims that in a interview with Elon Musk CEO of Tesla and X, Trump mentions that he would rather move to Venezuela if Harris gets elected because he feels it would be safer there then the U.S. under Kamala Harris. These comments have not been published by any other news networks and no major publishers, as well as the date that Trump had this interview was from August 2024 so no where near the publish date of the article. Therefore I would say this is exaggerated and misleading. 

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-suggests-hell-flee-to-venezuela-if-harris-wins-the-election?srsltid=AfmBOormFFaIxKFwq7-aeabT1RIQgUEwim34J0cS0gySEX_7hik6fsl3

Comments

I feel like this is a really strong fact check. I really liked how you referenced a solid source, while also not completely playing off the claim on the article. I feel as if stating that the source was misleading and exaggerated was the best way to explain it.

Answer 3

The claim that the Trump family plans to leave America if Trump loses the election is false. The claim is in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter) by an account called 'PoliticsVideoChannel'. This tweet has no information besides the title itself and an unrelated picture of the Trump family.

Upon further research, I found that the closest thing to a source that this tweet could be based on is an interview that Elon Musk and Trump had. The direct quote stating that "If something happens with this election, which would be a horror show, we’ll meet the next time in Venezuela, because it’ll be a far safer place to meet than our country. So you and I will go and we’ll have a meeting and dinner in Venezuela.” (Vanity Fair). 

However, the implication that the entire Trump family would move to Venezuela if Trump lost cannot be sufficiently claimed from this source (which wasn't given in the tweet). Overall this claim is false and misleading and has no linkage to any credible sources.