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AP FACT CHECK: Trump swipes progress from Obama era
https://www.apnews.com/3e265c4138d04e22886e6e1818789734Excerpt:
WASHINGTON (AP) — In President Donald Trump’s estimation, the good times began to roll for the country on the night he was elected. So he doesn’t hesitate to swipe job growth from the twilight of the Obama administration and claim it as his own.
That overreach, seen in his State of the Union speech and other forums, extends to his boast about the shrinking numbers of people on food stamps, where he’s helped himself even more heartily to Obama-era progress. Likewise, a surge in energy production under President Barack Obama ended up on Trump’s ledger of achievement.
Trump’s speech to Congress made for a bountiful week of exaggeration, partial truth and outright error. Some highlights:
JOBS
TRUMP: “We have created 5.3 million new jobs and, importantly, added 600,000 new manufacturing jobs — something which almost everyone said was impossible to do.” — State of the Union speech.
THE FACTS: That’s not what he’s done. He’s measuring from Election Day in November 2016 rather than when he took office on Jan. 20, 2017.
Since January 2017, the U.S. has added 4.9 million jobs, not 5.3 million. Of them, 454,000 were in manufacturing, not 600,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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"Trump’s speech to Congress made for a bountiful week of exaggeration, partial truth and outright error."
"Outright error?"
NO!!!!!!!
They are FUCKING LIES!!!!!!!!
And you have to know he did them on purpose because the chickenshit MSM won't call him on them!
They need to join the chant:
You lie! You lie! You lie! You lie!
You lie! You lie! You lie! You lie!
You lie! You lie! You lie! You lie!
You lie! You lie! You lie! You lie!
