At a United Nations meeting, President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. “found that China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election.” But the president offered no evidence of covert actions, such as the kind that Russia engaged in during the 2016 election.
The United States had a trade surplus with China for passenger cars of $8.9 billion in 2017. Exports of cars to China totaled $10.5 billion, while imports from China were $1.6 billion. Yet President Donald Trump claimed that China “won’t take” U.S. cars.
Trump wrongly claimed that the Paris Agreement would allow China to “build hundreds of additional coal plants” and allow India to “double its coal production by 2020” but the United States “can’t build the plants.”
President Donald Trump did a flurry of TV interviews and held a campaign-style rally to mark his first 100 days, and he left a trail of false, misleading and sometimes puzzling statements in his wake.
Donald Trump, the candidate we dubbed the ‘King of Whoppers’ in 2015, has held true to form as president.
In an interview with the AP, the president stretched the facts on China, his border wall and job creation.
As the election comes to a close, we provide a sampling of the misleading claims made by Hillary Clinton during speeches this week.
This edition of Groundhog Friday, an occasional wrap-up of recent repeats, includes claims from the presidential candidates about Libya, income inequality, nuclear weapons and more.
Biden twisted international data on economic growth when he said the U.S. is “the only country in the world expected to continue to grow.”
In his sixth annual address, the president stretched some facts on his record.