Fact check: Trump makes false claims about his record on manufacturing and coal jobs - News Summed Up

Fact check: Trump makes false claims about his record on manufacturing and coal jobs


CoalAfter denouncing Biden for the Obama administration's efforts to reduce the use of coal, Trump said, "I saved it. The Samsung and LG US washing machine factories were both announced in 2017, months before Trump announced the tariffs in 2018 . Immediately before this record gain of about 10.6 million jobs over four months, there was a much larger record loss of about 22.2 million jobs over two months. In other words, as of August, the country was still down 11.5 million jobs since March. (And as of August, the economy was down 4.7 million jobs since the beginning of Trump's presidency.)


Source: CNN September 23, 2020 21:00 UTC



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