NBC News Fact-Checks 4 Trump Claims on Iran, Jan. 6 and California Voting

1 articles · Updated · NBC News · Jun 7

Trump’s “Meet the Press” remarks on Iran, gas prices, Jan. 6 and California elections included multiple false or exaggerated claims, according to an NBC News review aired Sunday.
On Iran, Trump said U.S. strikes “totally obliterated” nuclear sites and stopped an imminent bomb, but prior U.S. intelligence said Tehran had not decided to build one, and one site was mostly destroyed while two were less damaged.
The review said Iran still likely holds nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium enriched to 60%, while Trump also overstated military damage: the Pentagon says about 90% of Iran’s conventional navy is destroyed, but roughly half its unconventional navy remains.
On fuel costs, Trump said prices would fall once a deal is reached, yet oil executives said restoring Middle East flows and rebalancing inventories would take weeks to months even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens quickly.
NBC also rejected Trump’s Jan. 6 and election claims, noting no evidence FBI agents ushered rioters into the Capitol and no evidence California’s slow vote count reflects fraud rather than mail-ballot rules.