AP FACT CHECK: Trump claims, and gets, undue credit

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

AP FACT CHECK: Trump claims, and gets, undue credit

By CALVIN WOODWARD and ALICIA A. CALDWELL
Feb. 23, 2017 8:10 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is giving himself too much credit for sending criminal foreigners out of the country and saving money on fighter planes. He's getting too much credit from one of the few women with a top White House job for elevating women in the administration.

A look at some statements Thursday by Trump and presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway:

TRUMP: "We're getting gang members out, we're getting drug lords out, we're getting really bad dudes out of this country, at a rate nobody has ever seen before. ... It's a military operation because what has been allowed to come into our country, when you see gang violence that you've read about like never before and all of the things, much of that is people who are here illegally. And they're rough and they're tough, but they're not tough like our people. So we're getting them out."

THE FACTS: Trump is broadly embellishing his brief track record on immigration and wrongly branding the deportation effort a military operation.

The number of people expelled from the country since Trump took office Jan. 20 has not been released. No available data supports his claim that immigrants in the country illegally are being expelled at a rate "nobody has ever seen before." Deportations were brisk when Barack Obama was president.

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[Thor_MN]

1. He uses vague phrases that can't be proven wrong.

Immigrants in the country illegally are being expelled at a rate "nobody has ever seen before." Well, yeah, nobody has seen the numbers being expelled because the data hasn't been released. So he lets his idiot followers believe the US is kicking those nasty foreigners out at a great, a fantastic rate, believe me - when no one can prove his statement is false. He will probably have his toadies not release the numbers long enough that the quantities of other lies make this fade down the memory hole.