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7 checks for “Tim Scott”

Rick Scott, U.S. Senator

“Well, first off, Donald Trump walked in with a crappy economy. The number of full-time jobs has been dropping almost the entire Biden administration.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: When Biden left office in January, the number of people usually working full time — meaning 35 hours or more a week — was almost 135.9 million. That was up 8.5% from about 125.2 million full-time workers when Biden beca…

Tim Scott, U.S. Senator

“Under Donald Trump "we had the lowest unemployment rates for African Americans, for Hispanics, for Asians, a 70-year low for women.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts

FactCheck.org says: The lowest African American unemployment rate was under President Biden, and the lowest unemployment rate for Hispanics was the same under both presidents. Women also had their lowest rate since the 1950s under Biden.

Scott Morrison, Prime Minister

“... we know that the economic impact on the global economy means that this pandemic recession is 30 times worse than what we saw in the global financial crisis (GFC).”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Apples and oranges

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Morrison is comparing apples and oranges. Economists contacted by Fact Check said Mr Morrison's approach of comparing the size of the GDP contraction in each of the two years was not the normal way of assessing two e…

Donald Trump, President of the United States

“[And] we created opportunity zones, along with Tim Scott. And since then, countless jobs and $100 billion dollars of new investment have poured into 9,000 of our most distressed neighborhoods in the country.”

FactCheck.org rated this: No Evidence

FactCheck.org says: Trump has produced no evidence that $100 billion has been invested in opportunity zones and no support for his claim that it has created "countless jobs."

Donald Trump, President

“My Admin has done more for the Black Community than any President since Abraham Lincoln. Passed Opportunity Zones with @SenatorTimScott, guaranteed funding for HBCU’s, School Choice, passed Criminal Justice Reform, lowest Black unemployment, poverty, and crime rates in history.”

Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios

Washington Post says: Historians universally out Lyndon B. Johnson at the top of the list, after Lincoln, and Trump far below.