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AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s exaggerated ‘great American comeback’
The Associated "Press" ^ | February 5, 2020 | By JOSH BOAK, CALVIN WOODWARD and HOPE YEN

Posted on 02/05/2020 3:10:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON -- The “great American comeback” President Donald Trump claimed in his State of the Union speech drew on falsehoods about U.S. energy supremacy, health care and the economy as well as distortions about his predecessor’s record.

In arguing, in essence, that he has made America great again, Trump took credit for an energy boom that actually began under Barack Obama in an assertion he recycled from his last State of the Union address. He inflated manufacturing gains, misrepresented policy on migrant detention and glossed over a rate of economic growth that has yet to reach the scale he promised.

A look at some of his statements Tuesday night and how they compare with the facts:

IMMIGRATION

TRUMP: “Before I came into office, if you showed up illegally on our southern border and were arrested, you were simply released and allowed into our country, never to be seen again. My administration has ended catch-and-release. If you come illegally, you will now be promptly removed.”

THE FACTS: Not true. Under previous administrations, Mexicans were quickly returned back over the U.S.-Mexico border, while others were held in detention until they were deported. Some migrants from other countries were released into the interior of the United States to wait out their immigration cases.

And despite Trump’s claims that all migrants are now “promptly” removed, there is a 1 million immigration court case backlog, which means many migrants wait up to three years before a court hearing before a judge who will determine whether someone is deported. And after a judge rules a migrant deported, travel papers must be obtained, which often leads to further delays.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: apbias; bias; buttociatedpress; calvinwoodward; dnctalkingpoints; fakenews; hopeyen; joshboak; journalism; media; sotu
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To: Zathras

They are getting ready to put in 10,000 housing units on one piece of property in my neck of the Florida woods. Boom times here.


41 posted on 02/05/2020 5:21:14 AM PST by lodi90
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

American Pravda is working overtime to bias the 2020 election perceptions.


42 posted on 02/05/2020 5:23:58 AM PST by a fool in paradise (We need a tax to stamp out Communism- If you espouse Marxism weÂ’ll redistribute all of your money.)
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To: mdmathis6

It would hit what a friend calls UCLA (the Upper Corner of Lower Alabama) hard. Between the Kia plant on the Alabama border in West Point, Georgia and the Hyundai plant in Montgomery, there are a ton of supplier plants.


43 posted on 02/05/2020 5:27:05 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: mdmathis6

Just for one example.


44 posted on 02/05/2020 5:27:45 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AP= FAKE NEWS!!!! Don’t believe a word they say prime fake news.


45 posted on 02/05/2020 5:40:51 AM PST by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There’s never a picture of Baghdad Bob lying around when you need one.


46 posted on 02/05/2020 5:45:59 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Fact: Reports this morning that 291,000 jobs added in January.

Those facts are pesky things.

47 posted on 02/05/2020 5:51:08 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: OttawaFreeper

At this point I will only be completely satisfied with a Reagan like win in November.

I want Trump and decent American people to send a rebuke so strong that the democrats will have to sit out the next 4 years.

They deserve worse.


48 posted on 02/05/2020 6:01:01 AM PST by Trumplican
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

THE FACTS: Not true. Under previous administrations, Mexicans were quickly returned back over the U.S.-Mexico border, while others were held in detention until they were deported. Some migrants from other countries were released into the interior of the United States to wait out their immigration cases.

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This statement is blatantly contradictory.

1) If you are quickly returned as a matter of policy, your not going to be “released into the interior”.

2) The sheer number of illegals present in the country betrays the claim that rapid, and sufficient deportations were occurring.


49 posted on 02/05/2020 6:15:06 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AP = “Always Propaganda”


50 posted on 02/05/2020 6:20:27 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AP exaggerates that they are really a news organization. They are a propaganda organization..


51 posted on 02/05/2020 6:25:19 AM PST by richardtavor
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To: trebb

:: boom that actually began under Barack Obama ::

So, these idiots say that, given a Hillary win, the US economy would be in the exact same spot it is today since Hillary would have reduced regulation, cut personal taxes and re-wrote trade deals.
Right?


52 posted on 02/05/2020 6:41:44 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Men: We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These people lie at the drop of a hat.


53 posted on 02/05/2020 6:53:49 AM PST by sauropod (If women are upset at TrumpÂ’s naughty words, who bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Grey?)
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To: usconservative
Fact: Reports this morning that 291,000 jobs added in January. Those facts are pesky things.

Well, you know how (Un)Democrats are: "We believe in TRUTH - not FACTS!"

54 posted on 02/05/2020 7:00:39 AM PST by Maceman (Trump Trumps Hate!!!)
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To: Libloather

Medal of freedom


55 posted on 02/05/2020 7:55:26 AM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trump took credit for an energy boom that actually began under Barack Obama
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It did continue during Obama’s terms, completely against his will, kicking and screaming and using whatever executive power he had to halt it on federal land, after beginning during Bush’s terms. It still had solid growth on private land during Obama’s Presidency, but really came to the forefront after Trump stopped the government from trying to kill it.


56 posted on 02/05/2020 8:51:17 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Bishop_Malachi

That’s a case where Trumps statements could be said to be excessively brief, and the facts a bit muddled because of both inconsistencies and court rulings forcing reversals.. Obama did this here, but that there - and this then and then that. The other examples are AP deceits of their own.


57 posted on 02/05/2020 8:58:53 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Funny, you never hear the ‘fact checkers’ when the ‘rats barf out asinine statements.

When the Pres said (paraphrasing), ‘Texas loyalists last stand at the Alamo’ I told my wife the F-—checkers would be all over that.


58 posted on 02/05/2020 9:59:11 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Fact check” is now in the same category as “analysis.” It’s cover for an op/ed piece.


59 posted on 02/05/2020 10:10:02 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

They prefer that folks don’t consider such relevancies - it always destroys their false claims.


60 posted on 02/06/2020 3:23:37 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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