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struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 11:06 PM Jan 2018

State of the Union fact check

By ABC NEWS
Jan 30, 2018, 9:50 PM ET

... "We enacted the biggest tax cuts and reforms in American history" ... False ...

"We are now an exporter of energy to the world" ... Mostly spin ... The U.S. has exported energy .. for a long time ...

"Unemployment claims have hit a 45-year low. Something I’m very proud of. African-American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded, and Hispanic American unemployment has also reached the lowest levels in history" ... The figures have been on a downward trend for years ...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/state-union-fact-check-donald-trump-claiming/story?id=52712047

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State of the Union fact check (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2018 OP
Fact checking is easy - no facts presented Miigwech Jan 2018 #1
Fact-checking State of the Union address struggle4progress Jan 2018 #2
A Deeper Look at Trump's Immigration Comments struggle4progress Jan 2018 #3
FACT CHECK: State Of The Union Address struggle4progress Jan 2018 #4

struggle4progress

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2. Fact-checking State of the Union address
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 11:12 PM
Jan 2018

By CNN's Reality Check Team
Updated 9:57 PM ET, Tue January 30, 2018


... "As we rebuild America's strength and confidence at home, we are also restoring our strength and standing abroad" ... DEBATABLE ... the 2018 edition of Edelman's annual trust barometer showed trust in the U.S. declining by 9 percentage points since their 2017 report, the steepest decline ever measured. By way of contrast, trust in China increased by the biggest proportion globally ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fact-check-trump-state-of-the-union-2018-01-30-live-updates/


struggle4progress

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3. A Deeper Look at Trump's Immigration Comments
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 11:14 PM
Jan 2018

Laura Meckler

... the largest share of the immigration section of his speech was focused on casting immigrants as criminals, drug dealers, competition for American workers ...

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-state-of-the-union-address-2018

struggle4progress

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4. FACT CHECK: State Of The Union Address
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 11:19 PM
Jan 2018

... "Our massive tax cuts provide tremendous relief for the middle class and small business, to lower tax rates for hard-working Americans. We nearly doubled the standard deduction for everyone."

According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, 65 percent of the savings from the tax cut this year will go to taxpayers in the top 20 percent of the income ladder; 20 percent of the savings will go to the top 1 percent. By 2027, when many of the personal tax cuts are set to have expired, 83 percent of the savings will go to the top 1 percent of earners. (The bottom 60 percent will see a tax increase.)

Scott Horsley
NPR White House Correspondent ...


https://www.npr.org/2018/01/30/580378279/trumps-state-of-the-union-address-annotated
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