Fact Check Posts – Page 8

Barack Obama
stated on August 2, 2016 a White House press conference:

The Trans-Pacific Partnership "knocks out 18,000 tariffs that other countries place on American products and goods."

By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy • August 4, 2016

Doctors Without Borders
stated on July 21, 2016 a press release:

Trade deals threaten "India’s role as the pharmacy of the developing world" for new HIV medicines.

By Jon Greenberg • August 3, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2016 an interview before a speech in Winston-Salem, NC:

Says he and Bernie Sanders have "very similar" views on trade

By Will Doran • July 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland:

"Our trade deficit in goods reached nearly … $800 billion last year alone."

By Lauren Carroll • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 a speech at the Republican national convention:

Says Hillary Clinton "supported North American Free Trade Agreement), and she supported China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization…. She supported the job-killing trade deal with South Korea. She supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership."

By Linda Qiu • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention:

"America has lost nearly one third of its manufacturing jobs since 1997, following the enactment of disastrous trade deals supported by Bill and Hillary Clinton."

By Jon Greenberg • July 22, 2016

Jeff Sessions
stated on July 18, 2016 the GOP convention in Cleveland:

Says Hillary Clinton "has been a champion of globalist trade agreements. ... Worst of all, they are now pushing the disastrous 5,000-page Obamatrade — the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement."

By Linda Qiu • July 19, 2016

Joe Biden
stated on July 13, 2016 a speech in San Diego:

"95 percent of the world’s customers are … beyond our shores."

By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2016

Sherrod Brown
stated on July 3, 2016 an interview on ABC "This Week" :

Says Donald Trump made a lot of money from outsourcing jobs thanks to NAFTA "but never, ever raised his voice against it when Congress was considering it."

By Nadia Pflaum • July 8, 2016

Russ Feingold
stated on May 9, 2016 a news conference:

Says Ron Johnson justifies his support of trade agreements by saying the U.S. has the Trade Adjustment Assistance program for displaced workers, but then he "voted to eliminate it."

By Jonathan Anderson • July 6, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2016 remarks in Ottawa, Canada:

"The steel industry is producing as much steel in the United States as it ever was. It’s just (that) it needs one-tenth of the workers that it used to."

By Louis Jacobson • July 5, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2016 a press conference at the North American Leaders Summit:

"During my administration, for example, we boosted U.S. exports to Canada and Mexico by about 50 percent. That supports about 2.8 million American jobs."

By Neelesh Moorthy • July 5, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 28, 2016 a speech in Monessen, Penn.:

"As Bernie Sanders said, Hillary Clinton ‘voted for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions, millions of jobs.’ "

By Linda Qiu • June 29, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 21, 2016 a tweet:

"Hillary Clinton surged the trade deficit with China 40% as Secretary of State, costing Americans millions of jobs."

By Louis Jacobson, Taylor Leighton • June 28, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 22, 2016 a speech:

Says Hillary Clinton "has even deleted this record of total support (for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) from her book."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 23, 2016

Joyce Beatty
stated on May 25, 2016 in a press conference:

In Ohio, "each year an estimated 1,000 children become victims of human trafficking, and over 3,000 more are at risk."

By Nadia Pflaum • June 10, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 2, 2016 a foreign policy speech:

"A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful."

By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2016

U.S. Dairy Export Council
stated on May 9, 2016 a press release:

Says a WHO proposal "portrays milk and dairy products as an obstacle to a healthy start in life."

By Jon Greenberg • May 20, 2016

Ted Strickland
stated on May 9, 2016 a campaign stop at Steelworkers 1104 in Lorain, Ohio:

Trade deals are negotiated in "secret" and, unlike corporate interests, politicians never invite "the leaders of the AFL-CIO or steelworkers or the mine workers to come in and sit down in these meetings."

By Nadia Pflaum • May 19, 2016

Newt Gingrich
stated on May 15, 2016 an interview on "Fox News Sunday":

"The Chinese last year probably stole $360 billion in intellectual property from the United States."

By Louis Jacobson • May 17, 2016

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