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Before the presidential campaign, "I didn't know Steve (Bannon).”

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Interview

Not true. Trump appeared as a guest on Bannon's radio show nine times, and met with Bannon in 2011 to discuss a possible presidential campaign.

“Hopefully if there is a second one [Supreme Court nomination] for me during my administration -- and there could be as many as four -- in fact, under a certain scenario there could even be more than that.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Remarks

Few presidents get more than two shots at a Supreme Court nomination so Trump's math is curious. Anthony Kennedy, 80, was a Republican pick and so perhaps could be inspired to retire under Trump. Liberals Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 84,and Stephen Breyer, 78, presumably would need to die or become very ill before they leave the court under Trump. That adds up to four, but how does Trump "more than that"? Clarence Thomas is only 68 and Samuel Alito is 67, and the other justices are even younger.

“We had a very, very fine delegation come over from Egypt, and also from Iraq. And they said more has been done in the last six weeks than has been done in years with the previous administration, and believe me, we’re going to keep it that way.”

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Remarks

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This is nonsensical. Little of significance has happened in the fight against the islamic State terror group in the first six weeks of Trump's term, compared to the steady progress made in recent years to roll back its territory. In the past year, Islamic State has lost eastern Mosul and the Iraq cities of Fallujah, Ramadi, and a number of towns along the Tigris River. Iraqi troops also took Makhmour and Qayyarah, establishing bases for the attack on Mosul.

“We’ve spent $6 trillion in the Middle East, as of two months ago.”
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Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Interview

Trump is lumping together the wars in Iraq (in the Middle East) and Afghanistan (in South Asia), which together cost about $1.6 trillion from 2001 to 2014. He is also adding in estimates of future spending, such as interest on the debt and veterans' care for the next three decades.

“When you look for a job, you can’t find it and you give up. You are now considered statistically employed.”

Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

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This is false. A person who has given up looking for a job is considered no longer in the labor force.

“If you look at what's happened with Ford and with General Motors and with Fiat-Chrysler and so many other car companies, you see what they're doing back in Michigan and Ohio -- they were leaving. They were going to Mexico and many other places. They're now staying here.”
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Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

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Trump keeps taking credit for projects that were long in the works before he became president. For example, he repeatedly claims credit for Ford’s decision to abandon its plans to open a factory in Mexico and instead expand its Michigan plant. But analysts say Ford’s decision has more to do with the company’s long-term goal — particularly, its plans to invest in electric vehicles — than the administration. It’s easier for companies to find highly skilled workers to build new products, such as electric cars, in the United States than in Mexico

“There was very large infrastructure bill that was approved during the Obama administration -- a trillion dollars -- nobody ever saw anything being built.”

Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

When the $800 billion stimulus bill was passed in 2009, Trump praised it for the emphasis on infratrucure spending. (It also included tax cuts and grants to states.)

“And then one day, Trump wins, and a few days later, they get a knock on the door, 'Sir, the Keystone Pipeline was just approved.' Can you imagine? I want to see the expression on his face. And he's a nice guy, he actually -- they came to the office because you know, I did say you have to use American steel, you have to fabricate it here. Now, they had already bought 60, 70 percent of it, so you can't be too wild, right? But I was signing the order and I said where'd they buy the steel? I didn't like the answer. I said who fabricated this deal? I didn't like the answer. I said, 'From now on, we're going to put a clause, got to be made in America. We want American steel made in America.' One hundred percent.”
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Mar 28, 2017Mar 21

Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

Trump makes it sound like he is insisting the Keystone XL is being built with U.S. steel. But the pipeline segments were already built, with half manufactured in the United States (by an India-owned company) and the rest from overseas.

“.@FoxNews from multiple sources: "There was electronic surveillance of Trump, and people close to Trump. This is unprecedented." @FBI”

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Twitter

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Trump cited a Fox News report to allege spying by the Obama administration. But it appears to refers to national-security survelliance of foreign offcials that picked up references to U.S. citizens. Generally, those identities are masked, but officials can request the names in order to better understand the significance of the intelligence report.

“When will Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd and @NBCNews start talking about the Obama SURVEILLANCE SCANDAL and stop with the Fake Trump/Russia story?”
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Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

The CIA concluded in 2016 that Russia intervened in the U.S. presidential election to help elect Trump, an assessment backed up by FBI Director James B. Comey and then-Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. On Jan. 6, the intelligence community released a declassified report expressing "high confidence" in this judgement. Senate and House committees led by Republicans have begun their own investigations, and at least one Republican lawmaker has called for the appointment of a special prosecutor.

“Remember when the failing @nytimes apologized to its subscribers, right after the election, because their coverage was so wrong. Now worse!”
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Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

The New York Times did not apologize to its subscribers for its coverage of Trump.

“We've already eliminated a devastating, anti-coal regulation but that was just the beginning.”
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Mar 21, 2017Mar 20

Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

The impact of repealing the regulation is debatable, as industry estimates of 77,000 jobs being saved was based on dubious survey data. Trump promises he will bring coal miners back to work but has never explained how he would overcome markets forces, such as a preference for natural gas, that has taken a toll on the industry.

“We believe in those really magnificent words, made in the USA.”
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Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Remarks

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Trump has a long history of outsourcing a variety of his own products. The Fact Checker has counted a total of 12 countries where Trump products were manufactured (China, the Netherlands, Mexico, India, Turkey, Slovenia, Honduras, Germany, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam and South Korea).

“First, today’s energy independence action calls for an immediate re-evaluation of the so-called Clean Power Plan.”

Topic: Environment

Source: Remarks

The United States in many cases already has energy independence, being a net exporter in coal, in refined petroleum products and by 2018, in natural gas.

“Why isn't the House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill & Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian speech....”
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Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

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Trump repeats a Four Pinocchio claim he used during the campaign. It wasn't a "Bill & Hillary deal"; the State Department was one of nine agencies on a committee that approved the sale of majority of shares of a uranium mining company to the Russians. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission also separately approved the deal. There's no evidence Clinton got involved in the deal personally, and it's highly questionable this deal even rose to the level of the secretary of state.

“I never said I was going to repeal and replace in the first 61 days.”
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Mar 24, 2017

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Interview

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He repeatedly pledged he'd start the repeal process on "day one" and that the repeal would be immediate. In a January 2017 interview, he said an Obamacare repeal vote would happen before his inauguration and replacement wold come “very quickly or simultaneously, very shortly thereafter.”

“You've all heard my speeches. I never said repeal it and replace it within 64 days. I have a long time.”
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Mar 24, 2017

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Remarks

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He repeatedly pledged he'd start the repeal process on "day one" and that the repeal would be immediate. In a January 2017 interview, he said an Obamacare repeal vote would happen before his inauguration and replacement wold come “very quickly or simultaneously, very shortly thereafter.”

“You know what, we’re doing even better now because we’ve brought back -- Ford is moving back in and General Motors, they’re going to be doing a lot of new plants and thousands and thousands of people coming back into Michigan.”
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Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

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Trump keeps giving himself credit for business decisions made before he became president. Ford’s decision has more to do with the company’s long-term goal — particularly its plans to invest in electric vehicles — than with the administration. Here’s what Ford chief executive Mark Fields said about the company’s decision to abandon plans to open a factory in Mexico: “The reason that we are not building the new plant, the primary reason, is just demand has gone down for small cars.” General Motors announced plans to rehire about 700 laid-off workers in Michigan and create 200 new jobs, but the company did not credit Trump or his election.

“Huma and Anthony, you know, what I tweeted about that whole deal, and then it turned out he had it, all of Hillary’s email on his thing.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Interview

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No. Weiner did not have all of Clinton’s emails on his laptop. The FBI ultimately concluded none of the emails added new information to the investigation into Clinton’s private server.

“Brexit, I was totally right about that. You were over there I think, when I predicted that, right, the day before.”

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Interview

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Trump’s timeline is off. He said in March 2016, three months before the June 23 vote on whether Britain should remain part of the European Union, that he thinks “Britain will separate from the EU. I think that maybe it’s time, especially in light of what’s happened with the craziness that is going on with immigration, with people pouring in all over the place I think that Britain will end up separating from the EU.” He was less sure about it on June 22, the day before the vote: “I don’t think anybody should listen to me because I haven’t really focused on it very much."

Q: "The claim that Muslims celebrated 9/11 in New Jersey …"
Trump: "Well, if you look at the reporter, he wrote the story in The Washington Post.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Interview

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This is yet another Four-Pinocchio claim that we have checked over and over. Trump claimed he saw on television thousands of Muslims cheer the collapse of the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11 attacks. There is no TV footage, no newspaper coverage, just scattered, unconfirmed reports of five or six people — not necessarily Muslim, probably teenagers — celebrating. There was a small reference buried deep in an article in The Post. When the reporter said it did not support Trump’s claim, Trump mocked his disability.

“This just came out. This is a Politico story: Members of the Donald Trump Transition team possibly including Trump himself were under surveillance during the Obama administration following November’s election. House intelligence chairman Devin Nunes told reporters, wow. Nunes said, so that means I’m right, Nunes said the surveillance appears to have been … incidental collection, that does not appear to have been related to concerns over Russia.”

Topic: Russia

Source: Interview

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Nunes cited one anonymous source and didn’t provide any details. Still, the same Politico story Trump quotes says Nunes disputed that the information Nunes obtained vindicated Trump: “The White House and Trump’s allies immediately seized on the statement as vindication of the president’s much-maligned claim that former president Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower phones — even though Nunes himself said that’s not what his new information shows.”

“Why do you say that I have to apologize? I’m just quoting the newspaper, just like I quoted the judge the other day, Judge Napolitano, I quoted Judge Napolitano, just like I quoted Bret Baier, I mean Bret Baier mentioned the word wiretap. Now he can now deny it, or whatever he is doing, you know. But I watched Bret Baier, and he used that term. I have a lot of respect for Judge Napolitano, and he said that three sources have told him things that would make me right. I don’t know where he has gone with it since then. But I’m quoting highly respected people from highly respected television networks.”

Topic: Russia

Source: Interview

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Fox News said it has no evidence to back up claims by Andrew Napolitano, a judicial analyst and commentator on Fox News. Bret Baier said on his show: “We love the judge, we love him here at Fox, but the Fox News division was never able to back up those claims and was never reported on this show.” As for Baier, Trump is apparently referring to a March 3 interview with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.). Baier referred to an unconfirmed report that there was a “wiretap at Trump Tower with some computer and Russian banks.” Ryan responded: “I am saying I have seen nothing of that. I have seen nothing come of that.”

“I inherited a mess with jobs, despite the statistics, you know, my statistics are even better, but they are not the real statistics because you have millions of people that can’t get a job, okay.”

Topic: Jobs

Source: Interview

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The economy was not a mess when Trump became president. The stock market was booming and the unemployment rate was below 5 percent. Trump has falsely claimed that 94 million Americans cannot get a job but most of them do not want a job, as they are retired, in school, taking care of young children or are disabled.

“I've taken historic action to eliminate unnecessary job killing regulations, and we've just started on that one. But we've gotten rid of a lot of them. That includes eliminating regulations crushing our coal industry. We're going to put our great coal miners back to work. Clean coal, clean coal.”
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Topic: Jobs

Source: Prepared speech

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The impact of repealing the regulation is debatable, as industry estimates of 77,000 jobs being saved was based on dubious survey data. Trump promises he will bring coal miners back to work but has never explained how he would overcome markets forces, such as a preference for natural gas, that has taken a toll on the industry.