“We're setting record job numbers.”
Donald Trump
president. a White House briefing. Claim dated 21 Jul 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
Trump is fixating on one piece of the jobs puzzle, the job gains in May and June, while ignoring the rest of the picture. Those gains made up less than 40% of the jobs lost in April.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 21 July 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 July 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly 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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