“If you go back to the Trump presidency, we had 12,000 factories that were built during Donald Trump’s presidency.”
JD Vance
GOP vice-presidential nominee. remarks during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press". Claim dated 25 Aug 2024.
Washington Post rated thisFour Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
These aren't factories and the number is wrong
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
JD Vance (GOP vice-presidential nominee) made this claim around 25 August 2024. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 August 2024, 3 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
JD Vance has 38 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 21 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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