WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump officially opened his 2020 campaign Tuesday with a speech exaggerating what he’s done for the economy and against illegal immigration. In the late 1990s, growth topped 4 per cent for four straight years, a level it has not yet reached on an annual basis under Trump. Trump has legitimate claim to a good economy but it’s not a record-breaker and it flows from an expansion that began in mid-2009. Trump has added strikingly little length to barriers along the Mexico border despite his pre-eminent 2016 campaign promise to get a wall done. ——Find AP Fact Checks at http://apne.ws/2kbx8bdFollow https://twitter.com/APFactCheckEDITOR’S NOTE — A look at the veracity of claims by political figures

Source: National Post June 19, 2019 00:33 UTC