More Lies Perpetuated

During his Pennsylvania rally Thursday night August 2, 2018, the President vocalized his own Fake News:

Mr. Trump also repeated several other claims The New York Times has previously debunked:

• He falsely claimed the United States Steel Corporation “is opening up seven plants.” (It has not announced a single new plant.)

• He falsely claimed “Russia is very unhappy that Trump won.” (Intelligence agencies have said — and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has confirmed — that he preferred Mr. Trump to Hillary Clinton.)

• He mischaracterized NATO members as “delinquent” on payments to the alliance. (He is referring to a pledge each member set for spending on its own military.)

• He falsely claimed “NATO funding was going down” before he raised the issue. (Military spending from members has been increasing since 2015.)

• He claimed, with no evidence, that the man charged in the Manhattan truck attack in October brought in “22 relatives.” (This is not possible.)

• He hyperbolically said immigrants arrested on suspicion of crossing the border illegally “never come back” for court dates. (Most do.)

• He exaggerated the number of jobs the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines would bring, estimating 48,000 jobs. (A vast majority are temporary.)

• He misleadingly claimed that “nobody would have believed” how many jobs have been added since his election. (The number added in a comparable period before his election was larger.)

• He falsely claimed to have signed the “biggest tax cuts in the history of our country.” (Several were larger,)

• He misleadingly claimed to have “saved our family farms from the estate tax.” (About 80 family farms and small businesses were affected.)

• He took credit for passing the Veterans Choice Act, which he said other presidents had been trying to pass for 40 years. (It passed in 2014, though he did sign new overhauls,)