On the night of the Michigan primary, Eric Trump falsely claimed that on his father’s watch “[m]ore manufacturing jobs have been created in Michigan than just about every state.” Manufacturing jobs over the last three years have increased in Michigan by less than 2% — half the national average.
We fact-check several claims from President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, and one from the Democratic response, in this video.
The president’s address included false and misleading claims on jobs, wages, energy, immigration and more.
Statistical measures of how things have changed during Trump’s first three years.
President Donald Trump rattled off several false claims in his Nov. 12 speech to the Economic Club of New York, in which he contrasted the supposedly “bleak” outlook at the end of his predecessor’s term with an exaggerated portrayal of the economy’s strong performance during his own tenure.
In this video, we highlight several claims made by some of the candidates in the Oct.15 Democratic presidential debate.
The spin focused mainly on the economy and health care.
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.
President Donald Trump falsely suggested that California admitted that “a million votes” were cast as part of “much illegal voting” in that state during the 2016 presidential election.
In launching his reelection campaign, President Donald Trump repeated a claim about new auto plants that he made a year-and-a-half ago. It’s still not true, and it fits a pattern of Trump falsely boasting of unexpected or unusual gains in the auto industry.