<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>While visiting Canada today for a Group of 7 summit, US President Donald Trump repeated one of his many false claims about Canada — again wrongly blaming former Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for getting Russia booted out of the group formerly known as the Group of 8.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Speaking of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/KfeTjlkKxts?feature=shared&amp;t=296" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><span>claimed</span></a><span>: "He was thrown out by Trudeau, who convinced one or two people, along with Obama. He was thrown out. And he's not a happy person about it, I can tell you that."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In fact, Trudeau did not become Canada's prime minister </span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-trudeau-liberal-cabinet-ministers-1.3302743" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><span>until November 2015</span></a><span> — more than 19 months after Russia's </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/24/politics/obama-europe-trip" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><span>2014 ouster</span></a><span> from the Group of 8, a forum made up of countries with large industrialised economies.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-anthony-albanese-meeting-in-doubt-after-white-house-announces-early-g7-departure/2a1d579c-528d-451e-9760-62be996785f5" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Trump snub 'understandable', PM's office says</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It was Trudeau's Conservative predecessor as prime minister, Stephen Harper, </span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-harper-says-he-ll-push-for-russia-s-expulsion-from-the-g8-1.2583034"><span>who</span></a><span> </span><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-leads-charge-to-expel-russia-from-g8-ramp-up-sanctions/article17631725/?login=true" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><span>led</span></a><span> the effort to kick Russia out in the wake of Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trudeau's Liberals were not even the biggest opposition party in Canada's House of Commons at the time.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trump made the false claim while standing beside Prime Minister Mark Carney, Trudeau's successor as Liberal leader.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-makes-false-claims-about-trudeau-ukraine-and-immigration-at-g7-summit/8f669276-8f25-499d-925c-bcb28f2848ea" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trump made a similar false claim about Trudeau during an exchange with reporters at the White House in May, incorrectly </span><a href="https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-fifa-world-cup-2026-task-force-white-house-may-6-2025/#119" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><span>saying</span></a><span> of Russia's removal from the Group of 8: "I thought it was a very bad decision. It was headed by Trudeau, by the way, and Obama. They were the ones that really fought hard to get Russia out."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/laos-backpacker-hostel-opens-after-australian-teenager-deaths-from-suspected-methanol-poisoning/9a175dd5-dc1e-4099-a44a-3375b99794f5" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>'Worst news': Devastating revelation after methanol poisoning tragedy</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><h3><strong><span>Trade and US aid to Ukraine</span></strong></h3></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trump made other false claims in his remarks at the G7.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Speaking to reporters alongside UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump </span><a href="https://x.com/acyn/status/1934723630015111632?s=46" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><span>erroneously described</span></a><span> his trade deal with the UK as a deal with the European Union, which the UK does not belong to.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trump then twice repeated his long-debunked assertion that former president Joe Biden had given "$350 billion" in aid to Ukraine.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The figure is not close to correct.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German think tank that </span><a href="https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/ukraine-support-tracker-data-20758/" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><span>closely tracks</span></a><span> international aid to Ukraine, the US had committed about $US138 billion in military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine from late January 2022, just prior to Russia's full-scale invasion, through April 2025.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/super-boost-for-millions-of-australians/1980b070-203f-4393-b77b-6e0350e5df6c" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Millions of Aussies to be thousands of dollars better off from next month</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>That period includes more than three months of Trump's current presidency.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It's possible to arrive at different totals using different counting methodologies, but there is, regardless, no basis for Trump's "$350 billion" figure.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The US government inspector general overseeing the response to the invasion of Ukraine </span><a href="https://www.ukraineoversight.gov/Funding/" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><span>says</span></a><span> on its website that the US had appropriated about $US185 billion for the response through March 2025, including about $US90 billion actually disbursed — and that includes money </span><a href="https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-supporting-ukraine-revitalizing-us-defense-industrial-base" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><span>spent in the US</span></a><span> or sent to </span><a href="https://www.ukraineoversight.gov/Funding/Security-Programs-Authorities/" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><span>countries other than Ukraine</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/matthew-perry-doctor-charged-with-supplying-friends-star-with-ketamine-will-plead-guilty/98a0cda8-a2e8-423a-b42c-3f73f85c5199" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Doctor charged with supplying Matthew Perry ketamine will plead guilty</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><h3><strong><span>The number of Biden-era migrants</span></strong></h3></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>While talking about undocumented immigrants at the G7 today, Trump </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/KfeTjlkKxts?feature=shared&amp;t=356" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><span>repeated</span></a><span> his frequent assertion that "Biden allowed 21 million people to come into our country".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>That "21 million" figure is wrong, too.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Through December 2024, the last full month under the Biden administration, the country had </span><a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><span>recorded</span></a><span> under 11 million nationwide "encounters" with migrants during that administration, including millions who were rapidly expelled from the country; even adding in the so-called gotaways who evaded detection, </span><a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/December-24-SS.pdf" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><span>estimated</span></a><span> by House Republicans as being roughly 2.2 million, there's no way the total was "21 million".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" 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