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“This is the Trump stock market because my polls against Biden are so good that investors are projecting that I will win, and that will drive the market up.”
Donald Trump Claim dated 29 Jan 2024.
Deutsche Welle rated thisFalse

What Deutsche Welle found

The boom in the US stock market has less to do with Trump's poll ratings and more with the interest rate policy of the Federal Reserve (FED).

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Donald Trump made this claim around 29 January 2024. Deutsche Welle (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 April 2024, 68 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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