“The Postal Service is a joke because they’re handing out packages for Amazon and other Internet companies. And every time they bring a package, they lose money on it.”
What Washington Post found
USPS says it is making money, as required by law. Treasury cannot show USPS is actually losing money on its contract with Amazon, as Trump claims. It can assert only that USPS does not know whether it makes a profit.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 24 April 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 April 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
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.
Where the claim appeared
- publicpool.kinja.comhttps://publicpool.kinja.com/subject-remarks-by-president-trump-at-a-signing-ceremo-18430…
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