Fact Check Posts – Page 37

Donald Trump
stated on September 3, 2017 in an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

"In 1986, President Ronald Reagan" cut the business tax rate to 34 percent and "it worked -- our economy boomed, the middle class thrived and median family income increased."

By Tom Kertscher • September 6, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 28, 2017 in a press conference:

"We stopped traffic coming through -- 78 percent."

By Miriam Valverde • August 31, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 22, 2017 in a rally in Phoenix:

"We have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently."

By Louis Jacobson • August 23, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 22, 2017 in a rally:

"There aren't too many people outside protesting" his speech at the Phoenix Convention Center.

By Miriam Valverde • August 23, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2017 in a question-and-answer session with reporters:

White nationalist protesters in Charlottesville "had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit."

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 17, 2017 in a tweet:

"Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!"

By Aaron Sharockman, Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2017 in a question-and-answer session with reporters:

Wages "haven’t gone up for a long time."

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2017 in a briefing on opioids:

"At the end of 2016, there were 23 percent fewer federal prosecutions than in 2011, so (prosecutors) looked at this scourge (opioid deaths) and they let it go by."

By Amy Sherman • August 9, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 9, 2017 in a tweet:

"My first order as president was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before."

By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 7, 2017 in a tweet:

Says his time away from Washington coincides with a "long planned renovation" for the White House.

By Manuela Tobias • August 8, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 5, 2017 in a tweet:

"United Nations Resolution is the single largest economic sanctions package ever on North Korea. Over one billion dollars in cost to N.K."

By Miriam Valverde • August 6, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 in an interview:

Untaxed corporate earnings used to be "$2.5 trillion … I guess it’s $5 trillion now. Whatever it is, it’s a lot more. So we have anywhere from 4 (trillion) to 5 or even more trillions of dollars sitting offshore."

By Manuela Tobias • August 3, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 28, 2017 in a speech:

"The border is down 78 percent. Under past administrations, the border didn’t go down -- it went up."

By Miriam Valverde • August 3, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2017 in a tweet:

"Corporations have NEVER made as much money as they are making now."

By Louis Jacobson • August 1, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 31, 2017 in remarks in the Oval Office:

"Business spirit is the highest it's ever been, according to polls."

By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 in a speech:

"We've achieved a historic increase in defense spending to get our troops the support they so richly deserve."

By Jon Greenberg, Manuela Tobias • July 27, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2017 in Twitter:

Amazon has a "no-tax monopoly."

By John Kruzel • July 26, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2017 in a speech at the Boy Scout Jamboree:

"We had the best jobs report in 16 years."

By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 in a tweet:

"The person in charge of the Hillary investigation, Andrew McCabe, got $700,000 from (Hillary Clinton) for wife!"

By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 19, 2017 in an interview with the New York Times:

During the Nixon Watergate investigation, "out of courtesy, the FBI started reporting to the Department of Justice. But there was nothing official."

By Jon Greenberg • July 21, 2017

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