Donald Trump is, once again, taking credit for jobs he had no part in creating

[DonViejo]

Trump really, really wants you to think he's bringing jobs back to the country, even though it isn't true

MATTHEW ROZSA

Donald Trump is taking credit for a jobs deal that he objectively had nothing to do with.

The president-elect bragged on Wednesday about brokering a deal in which Sprint will bring 5,000 jobs to the United States and another company, OneWeb, will bring 3,000 jobs into this country. This is consistent with a theme that Trump has been spouting off about on Twitter all week — namely, that he deserves credit for the nation’s currently prosperous economic conditions.

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“Because of what’s happening and the spirit and the hope I was just called by the head people at Sprint and they’re going to be bringing 5,000 jobs back to the United States,” Trump said to reporters outside his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Wednesday. “Masa and some other people were very much involved with that.”

The problem is that, like so much of what Trump says, it simply isn’t true.

“This is part of the 50,000 jobs that Masa previously announced,” said a Sprint spokeswoman to Engadget on Wednesday. “This total will be a combination of newly created jobs and bringing some existing jobs back to the U.S.”

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http://www.salon.com/2016/12/29/donald-trump-is-once-again-taking-credit-for-jobs-he-had-no-part-in-creating/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. 1) Trump reminds me of 20 years ago. New York Magazine advertised on city buses

that it was one of the few things that Rudy (Giuliani) couldn't take credit for. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/02/nyregion/judge-rejects-giuliani-s-attempt-to-kill-bus-ads-using-his-name.html

In December 1997, New York magazine ran advertisements on 75 New York City buses along with a picture of Mayor Rudy Giuliani that said: "Possibly the only good thing in New York Rudy hasn't taken credit for." Mayor Giuliani had a deputy call the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to complain that he had not given the magazine permission to use his name in its ad and the ads were removed. The magazine sued the City, alleging that it was violating the magazine's First Amendment rights. The City's lawyers contended that the advertisements "irreparably harm(ed)' Mayor Giuliani's right to control how his name is used in advertising." Judge Scheindlin held that the ads were "clearly a hybrid of commercial speech and political satire." "Salting her opinion with mild sarcasm amid a methodical analysis of the constitutional protections afforded to commercial speech, the judge ordered the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to restore the advertisements immediately to the buses." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shira_Scheindlin
(No, she ISN'T RELATED TO Judge Judy.)

2) If a company like Ford sent out press releases to "correct the record", e.g., IT made the decision independently of Donald Trump, there's the chance it would be setting up for retribution in the future for contradicting him.

[bowens43]

2. WRONG! trump said it so it's true....ask any deplorable

[SamKnause]

3. He is a con man and a liar.

That is what they do.

His supporters are easily conned and believe every lie he tells.

[Cha]

4. This seems like more than a few are reporting on this.. so he

doesn't get to rewrite history except to the gullibles.

[smirkymonkey]

5. It doesn't matter if it isn't true.

His deplorables will believe it and revere him for it. They are immune to the truth.

[ck4829]

6. He's going to take credit for a lot of things that weren't his

He will stand on a platform over the blood, sweat, and tears of Muslims and others in that region who defeated Daesh and proclaim it was his plans and actions that did them in.