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Checked by FactCheck.org5 Aug 2020United States
Donald Trump, President of the United States

“[W]e ended ... a rule that, basically, you build low-income housing and you build other forms of housing — also having to do with zoning — and destroy people that have lived in communities in suburbia.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts

FactCheck.org says: The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2015 final rule on “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing,” implemented under then-President Barack Obama, did not mandate either low-income housing or rezoning.

Checked by FactCheck.org4 Aug 2020United States
Donald Trump, President

“I think we’re doing very well, and I think that we have done as well as any nation. If you really look, if you take a look at what’s going on, especially now with all these flareups and nations that they were talking about.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading

FactCheck.org says: The U.S., by a variety of metrics, has not “done as well as any nation.” The outbreaks in numerous countries have been smaller and led to fewer deaths, even when including more recent upticks.