“Pres. Obama destroyed the lobster and fishing industry in Maine.”
What FactCheck.org found
The lobster industry hadn't yet been banned from a 2016-designated marine monument. A review conducted by the Trump administration found fishing vessels overall garnered a small percentage of their catch from that area.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 24 June 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 June 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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