AP FACT CHECK: Trump's epic speech is laced with fabrication
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's epic speech is laced with fabrication
By KEVIN FREKING, HOPE YEN and CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump uttered a dizzying number of false statements in his epically long weekend speech, to an audience that didn't seem to mind at all.
He got the unemployment rate wrong. He misstated his winning margin in the election. He reprised some of his most frequently told fictions and dusted off old ones, even going back to the size of his inauguration crowd.
A look at some of his words in his two-hour-plus speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday:
UNEMPLOYMENT
TRUMP: "We're down to 3.7 percent unemployment, the lowest number in a long time."
THE FACTS: The unemployment rate is 4 percent. It was 3.7 percent in September.
READ MORE: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/a...
By KEVIN FREKING, HOPE YEN and CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump uttered a dizzying number of false statements in his epically long weekend speech, to an audience that didn't seem to mind at all.
He got the unemployment rate wrong. He misstated his winning margin in the election. He reprised some of his most frequently told fictions and dusted off old ones, even going back to the size of his inauguration crowd.
A look at some of his words in his two-hour-plus speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday:
UNEMPLOYMENT
TRUMP: "We're down to 3.7 percent unemployment, the lowest number in a long time."
THE FACTS: The unemployment rate is 4 percent. It was 3.7 percent in September.
READ MORE: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/a...
