100 days of Trump claims

Predicting job losses or gains from a trade agreement is fairly difficult and often inaccurate but no credible analyst projected the loss of "millions" of U.S. jobs from the TPP.

Trump now calls for Americans to “buy American, hire American.” But this is misleading. 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).

Trump’s attack on NAFTA is over the top. It is often difficult to separate out the impact of trade agreements on jobs, compared to other, broader economic trends. But the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service in 2015 concluded the “net overall effect of NAFTA on the U.S. economy appears to have been relatively modest, primarily because trade with Canada and Mexico accounts for a small percentage of U.S. GDP,” though it noted “there were worker and firm adjustment costs as the three countries adjusted to more open trade and investment among their economies.”

Long before Trump started complaining about NATO, members had committed to having defense spending account for two percent of each nation's gross domestic product by 2024.

Trump takes undue credit for business decisions made prior to his election. Ford’s decision to abandon its plans to open a factory in Mexico and instead expand its Michigan plant has more to do with the company’s long-term goal — particularly its plans to invest in electric vehicles — than with the administration. Fiat Chrysler's plan to invest $1 billion for a factory in Michigan had been in the works for more than a year and had nothing to do with Trump. Japanese company SoftBank announced its $100 billion technology investment fund three weeks before the U.S. elections, when Trump faced a narrow path to victory. Sprint said its hiring plan was a part of a commitment by SoftBank, which owns a controlling stake in Sprint. And Intel announced it would create at least 10,000 jobs at a “new” plant in Arizona. But Intel actually announced a $5 billion investment in this factory in 2011 with then-President Barack Obama.

Trump is wrong to refer to "unending illegal immigration and mass uncontrolled entry" as Illegal immigration has been declining in general for years. He refers to the decline in apprehensions from December through March, which was 72 percent. Trump's rhetoric certainly has contributed to a decline in traffic along the border, but it's unclear how long the trend will last.

There were empty seats in the stands when Trump spoke at his 100th day rally in Harrisburg, Pa.

The New York Times did not apologize to its subscribers for its coverage of Trump. The Times has seen spikes in audience and subscribers.

The Fact Checker's Trump Promise Tracker shows that of Trump's 100-day promises, he had kept six, broken five and taken no action on more than half of his promises.

This is an extreme estimate produced by opponents of the agreement.

Trump falsely claims China stopped devaluing its currency since he took office. China had not devalued its currency for about two years prior to his election. In fact, as recently as 10 days before his announcement that China was not manipulating its currency, Trump falsely blamed China for being a “world champion” of devaluing the yuan.

Trump again is counting the January jobs report, even though that concerns data for the period of Dec. 12 to Jan. 12, before he became president. So all of these numbers are inflated. Moreover, even if you counting January jobs, that brings the total to 533,000. The correct figure is 317,000. The other corrected jobs numbers are: construction (65,000); manufacturing (37,000) and mining (21,000). Obviously, a new president has little influence over broad economic trends.

Trump refers to the decline in apprehensions from December through March, which was 72 percent. Trump's rhetoric certainly has contributed to a decline in traffic along the border, but it's unclear how long the trend will last.

Trump appears to be combining two disputed figures — 28,000 jobs for Keystone XL and 12,000 for the Dakota Access Pipeline-- and then hyping it even more. We have looked closely at the Keystone numbers, and the same methodological issues appear to apply to the Dakota estimates. The actual number of Keystone construction jobs, for instance, is just 3,900 on an annualized basis — and other jobs have already been created (such as for building high-strength line pipe.) In the context of the U.S. economy, which just in January added 230,000 jobs, these are not many jobs.

Trump takes credit for the lowered cost, but the Pentagon had announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million on the F-35 before Trump began meeting with Lockheed Martin’s chief executive. Trump over time keeps increasing the money he allegedly saved.

Long before Trump started complaining about NATO, members had committed to having defense spending account for two percent of each nation's gross domestic product by 2024.

The Affordable Care Act is not imploding and is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

This is false. All eight of the Tennessee's rating areas have at least one insurance carrier and three of them have two carriers.

The increase in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in Trump's first 100 days is impressive -- a five percent gain. But George H.W. Bush had a 7.7 percent gain in his first 100 days, so Trump does not have the record. Moreover, what counts in the long run is the state of the economy at the end of a term, as Bush (who lost re-election) could tell Trump.

Trump actually weakened Obama-era rules that were tougher and reduced transparency.

The MS-13 gang far predates Obama, and has been active since the 1980s. According to the Congressional Research Service in 2005 and 2008, the gang had spread across the country since the 1980s. Moreover, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump has been arresting an increasing number of noncriminals, indicating that it's not just the gang members that are being targeted by his administration.

Flynn had received a security clearance under Obama, but Obama also fired Flynn from his post as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Trump named Flynn as his national security adviser, before firing him three weeks after he took office, and the White House has not explained why his lobbying activities had not received greater scrutiny before Trump elevated him to the such a top security position.

The American Health Care Act, the House GOP plan, would have made significant changes in such coverage if a state sought possible waivers from rules for people who had more than a two-month lapse in insurance.

Jon Ossoff, the Democrat Trump is referring to, supports a comprehensive immigration bill that allows a "path to legal status" for undocumented people (excluding felons) living in the country. But he also said he supports strong border security. As PolitiFact found, this is not the same as "allowing illegal immigration." On taxes, factcheck.org found that Ossoff has proposed to simplify the tax code, and that “in order to lower tax rates, we can eliminate carve-outs and special treatment in the tax code that privilege large organizations at the expense of small businesses.”

Trump certainly deserves credit for breaching the so-called “blue wall” – the Midwestern states that have backed Democrats in recent years. But Republicans have an advantage because they have an edge in small, rural states, which in the electoral college system requires fewer votes per elector. In Wyoming, for instance, there are 143,000 people for each electoral vote, compared to 500,000 in a state like California. Since Democrats tend to concentrated in large cities, the impact of those votes are dissipated. This is one reason why in two recent elections – 2000 and 2016 -- the Democrat won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College.

There is little evidence that human trafficking takes place over the U.S.-Mexican border. While human trafficking is a problem in some parts of the world, experts say it is relatively limited in the United States, especially for sexual exploitation. But in general data is limited on the extent of human trafficking. As for drugs, that is also dubious. Experts say that drugs are actually shipped through the border on the underside of vehicles that have permits to cross the border in a special lane.

Of about 400 individuals charged with or credibly involved in jihad-inspired activity in the U.S. since 9/11, just under half (197) were U.S.-born citizens, according to research by the nonpartisan think tank New America Foundation. An additional 82 were naturalized citizens, and 44 were permanent residents.

By just about any standard, Trump's start of the presidency falls short of Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous first "100 days," as well as other presidents. Political scientists note that Trump has not signed into law any major piece of legislation.

The Affordable Care Act is not imploding and is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

By just about any standard, Trump's start of the presidency falls short of Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous first "100 days," as well as other presidents. Political scientists note that Trump has not signed into law any major piece of legislation.

This is almost certainly a false statement, though because Trump failed to disclose his tax returns that's difficult to verify. But just the elimination of the alternative minimum tax -- which cost Trump $31 million in 2005 -- would be a huge savings for Trump. The New York Times estimated the proposed tax plan would have saved Trump about $50 million in 2005.

In 2016, China barred a North Korean freighter and blacklisted 31 vessels covered by United Nations Security Council sanctions, according to Reuters.

Trump is citing figures for trades in goods, but not including services. The United States had a trade surplus of $12 billion with Canada and trade deficit of $55 billion when services are included.

Not true. There’s barely a trade deficit in goods with the United Kingdom, according to the International Trade Commission, and the United States has a trade surplus with Hong Kong ($30 billion), Netherlands ($24 billion), United Arab Emirates ($21 billion), Belgium ($15 billion), Australia ($14 billion), Singapore ($10 billion) and Brazil ($4 billion), among others.

This is false. All eight of the Tennessee's rating areas have at least one insurance carrier and three of them have two carriers.

Actually, the so-called "cornhusker kickback" -- which would have provided additional Medicaid funding to Nebraska -- was removed from the Affordable Care Act before it was passed into law.

Trump is falsely labeling nonpartisan investigations as made up by Democrats. 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.

Flynn had received a security clearance under Obama, but Obama also fired Flynn from his post as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Trump named Flynn as his national security adviser, before firing him three weeks after he took office, and the White House has not explained why his lobbying activities had not received greater scrutiny before Trump elevated him to the such a top security position.

Trump is simply wrong when he says the United States is the highest taxed nation in the world. The Pew Research Center, using 2014 data, found that the tax bill for Americans, under various scenarios, is below average for developed countries. In 2014, according to comparative tables of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), revenue as a percentage of the gross domestic product — the broadest measure of the economy — was 26 percent for the United States. Out of 34 countries, that put the United States in the bottom third — and well below the OECD average of 34.4 percent.

There was never any polling indicating that Democrat Jon Ossoff was going to get 56 percent of the vote in an open primary in Georgia's strongly Republican 6th Congressional District. There was a possibility he would get just over 50 percent, which would have eliminated a run-off election and been an embarrassing loss for the GOP. Trump took credit for the Ossoff getting 48 percent, even though Republicans in the race distanced themselves from Trump as the election got closer.

Trump suggests insurance companies are major backers of Democrats, but opensecrets.org says that 68 percent of insurance company contributions go to Republicans.

The Obamacare website did not cost $5 billion. The Department of Health and Human Services offered an estimate that topped $800 million. A study by Bloomberg News, with a more expansive definition of federal spending, came up with an estimate of $2.1 billion. Moreover, while the website had trouble in its early months, those were quickly fixed and it now works.

The ruling blocking Trump's executive order on santuary cities was issued by a U.S. district court judge in San Francisco. It had not yet been taken up by an appeals court.

A trade deficit can reduce the gross domestic product, as the balance of trade is part of the GDP formula. But Trump greatly overstates the impact on economic growth. The United States has been running trade deficits for three decades, both when GDP growth was high and when it was low.

San Francisco and Santa Clara County, the governments that sued over Trump's sanctuary order, are in California. So that's where they would need to file a lawsuit. They also did not get to choose the judge that ruled against Trump. We have earlier explored the claim about the Ninth Circuit being overturned 80 percent. The Ninth Circuit is not the most overturned court by the annual reversal rate. It does have a high raw number of reversals or number of cases on the Supreme Court docket. But it also reviews more cases than other circuits, is larger than other circuits and terminates far more cases than other circuits.

San Francisco and Santa Clara County, the governments that sued over Trump's sanctuary order, are in California. So that's where they would need to file a lawsuit. They also did not get to choose the judge that ruled against Trump. We have earlier explored the claim about the Ninth Circuit being overturned 80 percent. The Ninth Circuit is not the most overturned court by the annual reversal rate. It does have a high raw number of reversals or number of cases on the Supreme Court docket. But it also reviews more cases than other circuits, is larger than other circuits and terminates far more cases than other circuits.

There is limited research on the impact of sanctuary policies and crime. And the research that does exist challenges Trump’s claim. There’s no official definition of “sanctuary,” but it generally refers to rules restricting state and local governments from alerting federal authorities about people who may be in the country illegally. A handful of studies looked at whether there is a causation between sanctuary cities and crime. They either found no statistically significant impact of sanctuary policies on crime, or a reduction in crime due to immigrant-friendly policing strategies.

There is little evidence that human trafficking takes place over the U.S.-Mexican border. While human trafficking is a problem in some parts of the world, experts say it is relatively limited in the United States, especially for sexual exploitation. But in general data is limited on the extent of human trafficking.

There is little evidence that human trafficking takes place over the U.S.-Mexican border. While human trafficking is a problem in some parts of the world, experts say it is relatively limited in the United States, especially for sexual exploitation. But in general data is limited on the extent of human trafficking.

The Affordable Care Act is not imploding and is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Trump is wrong about how he characterizes these polls. Both the final Post-ABC poll (47-43) and NBC/WSJ poll (44-40) had Clinton ahead by four points; both outlets emphasized the four-way result, but also tested preferences excluding third-party candidates that showed +3 for Post-ABC and +5 for NBC/WSJ. Clinton won the national popular vote by 2.1 points. This level of error is quite good for national pre-election polls in the United States.

The final Post-ABC pre-election poll showed Clinton winning the popular vote by three percentage points in a head-to-head match-up. She won by 2.1 percentage points. Trump also falsely suggests he won the popular vote when in fact he lost it.

The Affordable Care Act is not imploding and is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Trump’s claim that the wall would halt the flow of drugs is dubious. Experts say that drugs are actually shipped through the border on the underside of vehicles that have permits to cross the border in a special lane.

Trump’s claim that the wall would halt the flow of drugs is dubious. Experts say that drugs are actually shipped through the border on the underside of vehicles that have permits to cross the border in a special lane.

Trump keeps claiming he saved hundreds of millions of dollars on the cost of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter planes by intervening in negotiations with Lockheed Martin. But Lockheed already had planned cost reductions, and Trump overstates his role.

In a speech on Oct. 22, Trump issued an unusually detailed 100-day-plan of action, which he called the “Contract with the American Voter.” The Fact Checker has used the plan as a template for tracking in campaign promises.

Trump falsely claims China stopped devaluing its currency since he took office. China had not devalued its currency for about two years prior to his election.

The United States spends about 3.6 percent of gross domestic product on defense spending , far more that NATO’s guideline of 2 percent. The median spending level for the 28 NATO countries is 1.53 percent of GDP, though NATO members are not expected to reach the 2 percent level until 2024. Meanwhile, the United States has defense responsibilities around the world, especially in Asia, which accounts for why U.S. spending is higher. In fact, U.S. bases in Europe are often used to redeploy forces in other theaters, such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa.

Trump exaggerates the number of jobs created since he became president; the number of net new jobs since January 2017 is 317,000. Trump also continues to claim undue credit for corporate decisions that were made before he was elected president. Ford’s decision to expand in Michigan rather than in Mexico had more to do with the company’s long-term goals than with the administration. General Motors announced jobs plans in January and March 2017, but the company did not credit Trump or his election. Intel announced it would create at least 10,000 jobs at a “new” plant in Arizona but the investment was announced in 2011. Chinese e-company Alibaba's founder Jack Ma has been pitching his company as a U.S. job creator since as early as 2015.

Immigration advocates and lawyers say a “dreamer” (beneficiary of Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program) has been deported under Trump’s broadened enforcement guidelines. The government disputes that the dreamer was deported. In any case, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump is arresting an increasing number of people with no criminal records, indicating that it’s not just the criminals who are being targeted by his administration. According to The Washington Post’s analysis, the biggest spike in arrests of undocumented immigrants from Jan. 20 to March 13 was of immigrants with no criminal records.

Trump falsely claims he had not heard of WikiLeaks prior to the 2016 campaign. As CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski found, Trump denounced WikiLeaks as early as 2010.

When NATO was founded in 1949, terrorism long existed in Europe, often by separatist groups (such as Irish Republicans) or anarchists. A bombing in 1867 in London by the Irish Republican Brotherhood killed 12 people and injured 120.

Trump certainly deserves credit for breaching the so-called “blue wall” – the Midwestern states that have backed Democrats in recent years. But Republicans have an advantage because they have an edge in small, rural states, which in the electoral college system requires fewer votes per elector. In Wyoming, for instance, there are 143,000 people for each electoral vote, compared to 500,000 in a state like California. Since Democrats tend to concentrated in large cities, the impact of those votes are dissipated. This is one reason why in two recent elections – 2000 and 2016 -- the Democrat won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College.

Trump calls the 100-day mark a ridiculous standard but before the election he grandly announced a 100-day he titled the "Contract with the American Voter." Few of the promises made in that documents have been kept in Trump's first 100 days.

Cummings has disputed this account. Cummings told CNN that he said Trump he could become a good president “if . . . IF . . . he took steps to truly represent ALL Americans rather than continuing on the divisive and harmful path he is currently on.”

Trump’s attack on NAFTA is over the top. It is often difficult to separate out the impact of trade agreements on jobs, compared to other, broader economic trends. But the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service in 2015 concluded the “net overall effect of NAFTA on the U.S. economy appears to have been relatively modest, primarily because trade with Canada and Mexico accounts for a small percentage of U.S. GDP,” though it noted “there were worker and firm adjustment costs as the three countries adjusted to more open trade and investment among their economies.” Meanwhile, Canadian dairy is exempted from NAFTA.

Who was that “somebody” who put out the plan? It was somebody named Donald Trump. In a campaign speech on Oct. 22 delivered in Gettysburg, Pa., Trump outlined at substantive length each law he pledged to pass in his first 100 days.There were 60 promises embedded in the plan. According to our tally as of April 24, Trump has failed to meet most of his objectives.

Trump is way off. Chris Wallace's exclusive December 2016 interview with Trump nabbed the show's second-highest rated broadcast ever, at 2.3 million total viewers.

In 2016, China barred a North Korean freighter and blacklisted 31 vessels covered by United Nations Security Council sanctions, according to Reuters.

Trump exaggerates Clinton's spending. As of Dec. 9, 2016, Clinton's campaign committee had $565 million in total expenses and Trump's campaign committee had $322 million in expenses.

As Daniel Dale at the Toronto Star noted, Gorsuch graduated "cum laude" from Harvard Law School, receiving high honors but not as impressive as "summa cum laude" or "magna cum laude."

Trump is citing a survey by the National Association of Manufacturers but that is not necessarily representative of all manufacturers. NAM declined to say whether NAM members are randomly surveyed -- and NAM members make up just six percent of manufacturing firms. This is a very low level of coverage for a survey of any population attempting to represent all industries.

During the presidential campaign, Trump used to claim that he could build a 1,000-mile-long wall, made of precast concrete slabs 40 feet high, for $8 billion. The Fact Checker checked with construction experts and instead received estimates as high as $25 billion. A report issued by Senate Democrats in April came up with an even higher estimate: nearly $70 billion, before paying for land acquisition. The report said that maintenance costs would run about $150 million a year. Trump’s claim that the wall would halt the flow of drugs is dubious. Experts say that drugs are actually shipped through the border on the underside of vehicles that have permits to cross the border in a special lane.

Trump is slightly off on the numbers. Then-presidential candidate Trump’s Jan. 3, 2016, interview with host John Dickerson on CBS’s “Face the Nation” had an audience of 4.6 million. Of the total audience, about 1 million were adults aged 25 to 54, the coveted demographic among advertisers. The overall audience was the largest since Sept. 16, 2001, and the rating among adults 25 to 54 years old was the best since Nov. 17, 2013, according to CBS News.

Trump’s attack on NAFTA is over the top. It is often difficult to separate out the impact of trade agreements on jobs, compared to other, broader economic trends. But the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service in 2015 concluded the “net overall effect of NAFTA on the U.S. economy appears to have been relatively modest, primarily because trade with Canada and Mexico accounts for a small percentage of U.S. GDP,” though it noted “there were worker and firm adjustment costs as the three countries adjusted to more open trade and investment among their economies.”

Trump took credit for the upcoming runoff election in Georgia's 6th Congressional District, even though Republicans in the race distanced themselves from Trump as the election got closer. While the Republicans avoided an embarrassing loss, it wasn't exactly a BIG "R" win that Republican Karen Handel will face Democrat Jon Ossoff in the runoff.

Trump now calls for Americans to “buy American, hire American.” But this is misleading. 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).

The MS-13 gang far predates Obama, and has been active since the 1980s. According to the Congressional Research Service in 2005 and 2008, the gang had spread across the country since the 1980s. Moreover, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump has been arresting an increasing number of noncriminals, indicating that it's not just the gang members that are being targeted by his administration.

Jon Ossoff, the Democrat Trump is referring to, supports a comprehensive immigration bill that allows a "path to legal status" for undocumented people (excluding felons) living in the country. But he also said he supports strong border security. As PolitiFact found, this is not the same as "allowing illegal immigration." On taxes, factcheck.org found that Ossoff has proposed to simplify the tax code, and that “in order to lower tax rates, we can eliminate carve-outs and special treatment in the tax code that privilege large organizations at the expense of small businesses.”

Jon Ossoff, the Democrat Trump is referring to, supports a comprehensive immigration bill that allows a "path to legal status" for undocumented people (excluding felons) living in the country. But he also said he supports strong border security. As PolitiFact found, this is not the same as "allowing illegal immigration." On taxes, factcheck.org found that Ossoff has proposed to simplify the tax code, and that “in order to lower tax rates, we can eliminate carve-outs and special treatment in the tax code that privilege large organizations at the expense of small businesses.”

By any standard, Trump's start of the presidency falls short of Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous first "100 days," as well as other presidents. Political scientists note that Trump has not signed into law any major piece of legislation.

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).

This is a flip-flop of an earlier flip-flop. Less than a week before he made this claim, Trump said he would not release any guidelines on rewriting the tax code until a new health-care bill passes -- which was a flip-flop from when he said he would pursue a tax code overhaul rather than move forward with a health-care bill.

Trump hypes the possible connection between these trade deals and the loss of jobs and factories. (He also increased the number of factories to 70,000, from his usual 60,000.) The Congressional Research Service concluded in 2015 that NAFTA likely had little impact on jobs. Manufacturing jobs in the United States have been adversely affected by many factors, especially changing consumer tastes and technology. Similarly, drawing a connection between China’s entry in the WTO and factory losses is a stretch, especially because the Great Recession play a big role in factory closings.

This was a reauthorization bill, designed to constrain the administration from making wholelsale changes in existing projects. It was considered by lawmakers to be a staus quo bill. Actual funding would come from other legislation.

Trump’s attack on NAFTA is over the top. It is often difficult to separate out the impact of trade agreements on jobs, compared to other, broader economic trends. But the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service in 2015 concluded the “net overall effect of NAFTA on the U.S. economy appears to have been relatively modest, primarily because trade with Canada and Mexico accounts for a small percentage of U.S. GDP,” though it noted “there were worker and firm adjustment costs as the three countries adjusted to more open trade and investment among their economies.”

Trump appears to refering to an executive action he issued but he exaggerates its impact. The revived Keystone pipeline would not have to meet this requirement. The president's memo also offer a lot of legal wiggle room, with phrases such as "to the maximum extent permitted by law."

North Korea detonated its first nuclear test in 2006, during George W. Bush's presidency and conducted more tests during the Barack Obama administration. So North Korea long had nuclear weapons before Trump became president.

The decision to pull the health care bill just before a House vote because scores of Republicans would vote against it was indeed a loss.

Trump now calls for Americans to “buy American, hire American.” But this is misleading. 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).

Jon Ossoff, the Democrat Trump is referring to, supports a comprehensive immigration bill that allows a "path to legal status" for undocumented people (excluding felons) living in the country. But he also said he supports strong border security. As PolitiFact found, this is not the same as "allowing illegal immigration." On taxes, factcheck.org found that Ossoff has proposed to simplify the tax code, and that “in order to lower tax rates, we can eliminate carve-outs and special treatment in the tax code that privilege large organizations at the expense of small businesses.”

Trump oversells his diplomacy with China, which has barely begun, as superior to all previous presidents. China has interests in North Korea that it has always sought to protect, such as the preservation of the communist regime, leading to eventual disappointment by U.S, officials.

This is an odd statement. It's unclear whether Trump knows that there have been three North Korean leaders since Bill Clinton's presidency, all with the last name Kim. It's a misleading claim that the past three presidents have "all been outplayed by this gentleman." It's actually three men in the same Kim family: Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Il and Kim Jong-Un.

This is not correct. Every Republican president since Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876 won a larger share of the electoral college votes than Trump, with the exception of George W. Bush and Richard Nixon.

This is a flip flop. Throughout the campaign, Trump falsely blamed China for being a “world champion” of devaluing the yuan.

In an interview with Financial Times that published on April 2, he repeated an out-of-date talking point. Not only is the United States not being hurt by China’s current currency manipulation, China is also not devaluing its currency anymore. In fact, China is selling foreign currency to prop up its own, in an effort to prevent the yuan from depreciating further and destabilizing the Chinese and global economy.

Trump made this claim in an interview with Financial Times that published on April 2. The trade deficit was about $500 billion in 2016.

Trump repeated one of his favorite claims during an interview with Financial Times that published on April 2. 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.”

Three things in this tweet are false. Estes, seeking a congressional seat long held by Republicans, did not have an easy win, Democrats did not spend heavily (Republicans did) and Democrats did not predict victory.

The House Republican legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act was pulled from a looming House vote on March 24 after congressional leaders realized that it would fail to pass by a large margin. There’s no way to spin this except as a failure, especially since passage in the House would only be the first step on a long legislative journey. Senate Republicans generally are cool to the House proposal and are likely to pursue their own path. Then the two versions must be reconciled and pass both chambers before success could be declared. But Trump failed to advance even to first base. It’s true he might get another chance at-bat, but the effort is indeed a failure so far.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office report on the Republican bill said it would reduce the deficit by $337 billion over the next decade. Trump appears to be referring to a $900 billion reduction in revenue from the repeal of Obamacare taxes, but that’s actually money lost to the federal government. The proposed law would have reduced federal spending on health care by $1.2 trillion but the repeal in taxes means the impact on the budget is significantly smaller.

Trump suggests that he isn’t filling administration posts because of Democratic obstruction. Democrats have slow-walked many of his cabinet nominees, but Trump has been much slower than his predecessors in filling sub-cabinet posts and other positions. Out of 553 key positions requiring Senate confirmation, 478 still have no nominee, according to the Partnership for Public Service. Another 29 have been announced but not formally nominated; only 22 positions have been confirmed. Republican senators have said they are growing impatient with the White House’s slow pace. So Trump really should be pointing the finger at his own staff.

Trump has it backward. On July 5, 2016, Comey issued a tough statement about Clinton’s actions concerning her private email server, saying she was “extremely careless” in the handling of classified information, but he said it is “our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” Comey added that the FBI looked back at previous cases involving the handling of classified information. “We cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts,” he said. “All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.”

Trump continues to grasp on slim reeds to claim he was correct when he falsely tweeted that former president Barack Obama “tapped” his phones at Trump Tower. No evidence has emerged to support that claim and it was denied by Comey. But in recent days he has claimed former national security adviser Susan Rice may have violated laws because she requested the identities of U.S. citizens who were incidentally recorded or referenced in surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency. Numerous former national security officials said that Rice had every right to make those requests. CNN reported that a review of classified documents by both Republican and Democratic documents found no evidence that Rice and other Obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal.

Trump is mixing up different headlines for the print and Internet editions. In print, the headline was: “Wiretapped data used in inquiry of Trump aides.” Online, the headline read: “Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry Into Trump Associates.” The headlines were not changed as part of any stealth editing. In any case, the text of the New York Times article under either headline was identical.

This is a flip-flop. In 2013 and 2014, Trump repeatedly tweeted against Obama launching air attacks against Syria for allegedly deploying chemical weapons. Trump repeated this in more than a dozen tweets, saying Obama should “stay the hell out of Syria,” and that it would be “stupid” and that “very bad things will happen.” He urged Obama to instead “fix U.S.A.” and “focus on making our country strong and great again.”

Again, this is a flip-flop. Trump now criticizes Obama for inaction after declaring a “red line,” or Obama’s threat to take U.S. military action if Syria used chemical weapons. In September 2013, Trump mocked Obama’s announcement and warned against attacking Syria.

Trump continues to falsely claim credit for a host of corporate decisions that had nothing to do with his election or his policies.

Not true. The campaign to reclaim the Iraqi city of Mosul was expected to be a slog. Officials from the U.S.-led coalition had predicted from the beginning of the operation that it likely would take weeks, possibly months.

This is a flip flop. Throughout the campaign, and as recently as March 22, Trump declared the trans-Atlantic alliance “obsolete, because it doesn’t cover terrorism.” Of course, this was factually incorrect: NATO has been involved in counterterrorism since 1980, and especially since 9/11.

This is a flip flop. Throughout the campaign, and as recently as 10 days before this announcement, Trump falsely blamed China for being a “world champion” of devaluing the yuan.

This is a flip flop. But as recently as November 2015, Trump repeatedly claimed he not only knew Vladimir Putin, but knew him “very well,” and that he had a relationship with the Russian president. Trump changed his stance in July 2016, while facing criticism about his relationship with Kremlin: He declared he didn’t know Putin, after all.

This is a flip flop. In May 2016, Trump said he would “most likely” replace Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen. During a September 2016 general-election debate, Trump criticized Yellen and the Fed for low interest rates, implying it was politically motivated: “This Janet L. Yellen of the Fed. The Fed is doing political — by keeping the interest rates at this level.”

This is a flip flop. On the campaign trail, Trump criticized the bank and said he found it unnecessary: “It’s a one-way street also. It’s sort of a featherbedding for politicians and others, and a few companies. And these are companies that can do very well without it. So I don’t like it. I think it’s a lot of excess baggage. I think it’s unnecessary. And when you think about free enterprise it’s really not free enterprise. I’d be against it.”

Contrary to Trump's claim, the carrier group was not headed toward the Sea of Japan to deter North Korea but instead was steaming in the opposite direction to engage in exercises in the Indian Ocean, some 3,000 miles away.

Trump, apparently quoting the president of China, left out a significant amount of context that distorted the relationship between the two countries. Korea and China have long been intertwined, geopolitically and culturally. But Korea was not a spinoff of China,

Trump again is counting the January jobs report, even though that concerns data for the period of Dec. 12 to Jan. 12, before he became president. Moreover, even if you counting January jobs, that brings the total to 533,000. The correct figure is 317,000.

Trump continues to take credit for corporate decisions made separate from his election. Asked whether Trump’s policies played a role in the company’s investment decision, Toyota’s spokesman said: “No, but we do share his goal of growing the economy and jobs in the U.S.”

Trump is citing a survey by the National Association of Manufacturers but that is not necessarily representative of all manufacturers. NAM declined to say whether NAM members are randomly surveyed -- and NAM members make up just six percent of manufacturing firms. This is a very low level of coverage for a survey of any population attempting to represent all industries.

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.

This is a flip flop. After failing to rally enough Republican votes in support of the GOP replacement bill for the Affordable Care Act, Trump announced he was moving on from health care to pursue a tax code overhaul. He said on March 24, the day House Speaker Paul D. Ryan pulled the doomed bill: “We’ll be going right now for tax reform, which we could have done earlier, but this really would have worked out better if we could have had some Democrat support. Remember this: We had no Democrat support. So now we’re going to go for tax reform, which I’ve always liked.”

Trump is citing a survey by the National Association of Manufacturers but that is not necessarily representative of all manufacturers. NAM declined to say whether NAM members are randomly surveyed -- and NAM members make up just six percent of manufacturing firms. This is a very low level of coverage for a survey of any population attempting to represent all industries.

Trump compares figures from March 2016 to March 2017, to claim credit for the decline in number of people apprehended or "deemed inadmissible" at the Southwest border. But a more accurate comparison that reflects the impact of the Trump administration would be February-March 2016 to February-March 2017, which shows a 52.4 percent decline.

According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 60 of 84 foreign nationals arrested during a three-day operation in the Pacific Northwest had criminal histories.

Trump once again takes credit for the lowered cost, but the Pentagon had announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million before Trump began meeting with Lockheed Martin’s chief executive. As the weeks have passed, he keeps increasing the value of the savings so now he's suggesting "many billions" over a period of years.

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.

This is a flip flop. In more than a dozen tweets in 2013 and 2014, Trump consistently opposed U.S. military action and urged then-President Barack Obama against launching air attacks on Syria for allegedly deploying chemical weapons. Trump said the United States should focus on domestic issues instead.

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.

This is a flip-flop. At the time Obama was considering air strikes against Syria over alleged use of chemical weapons, Trump tweeted that it would be a huge mistake that would lead to "very bad things." He urged Obama "stay out of Syria."

Cummings said this is a misquote. He says he told Trump that "he could be a great president if … if … he takes steps to truly represent all Americans rather than continuing on the divisive and harmful path he is currently on.”

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.

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.

This is false. All eight of the Tennessee’s rating areas have at least one insurance carrier and three of them have two carriers.

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

This is an absurd Four-Pinocchio claim, based on a real number. The 100 million "forgotten" that Trump refers to are based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data from 2015. It turns out that 93 percent do not want a job at all. The picture that emerges from a study of the data shows that the 95 million consists mostly of people who are retired, students, stay-at-home parents or disabled.

This is a flip-flop. At the time Obama was considering air strikes against Syria over alleged use of chemical weapons, Trump tweeted that it would be a huge mistake that would lead to "very bad things." He urged Obama "stay out of Syria."

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.

This was a minor blip likely caused by seasonal fuctuations.

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.)

The evidence is quite slim for Trump’s claim that he has “won awards on the environmental protection.” We know of one award Trump received personally, the Green Space Award for donating 436 acres to the New York state park system after he scrapped his plans to build a golf course there. The Metropolitan Golf Association in 2007 gave an award to his golf course in Bedminster, N.J. The golf course was later cited for environmental violations.

Trump is citing the 61 percent decline in Southwest border apprehensions from January 2017 to March 2017. It's unclear yet if Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly made an impact, or if it was a result of Trump's rhetoric on immigration throughout the presidential campaign. There tends to be less activity during winter months, and the numbers bounce back in March and through the spring, so it's unclear whether this is a blip or a lasting trend. Moreover, the January data captures the whole month, not just since Inauguration Day.

This was a largely symbolic move. The deal was basically dead in Congress.

Trump constantly changes the number of jobs that might be created by the pipeline. This is a high-end estimate which we have previously given Two Pinocchios.

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.

Trump is citing the 61 percent decline in Southwest border apprehensions from January 2017 to March 2017. It's unclear yet if Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly made an impact, or if it was a result of Trump's rhetoric on immigration throughout the presidential campaign. There tends to be less activity during winter months, and the numbers bounce back in March and through the spring, so it's unclear whether this is a blip or a lasting trend. Moreover, the January data captures the whole month, not just since Inauguration Day.

Trump overstates the disclosure about Clinton reportedly getting a single debate question. During the Democratic primaries, a debate was held in Flint, Mich., to focus on the water crisis. Donna Brazile, then a CNN analyst, sent an email to the Clinton campaign saying that a woman with a rash from lead poisoning was going to ask what Clinton as president could do the help the people of Flint. There’s no indication Clinton was told this information, but in any case it’s a pretty obvious question for a debate being held in Flint.

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.

Trump cited a rather vague 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.

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.

The article cited by Trump noted that the Trump administration has the power to take steps that would mitigate the situation that Trump appears to celebrate.

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.

The Times, like The Post, has seen spikes in audience and subscribers. Moreover, the day that Trump announced House Speaker Paul Ryan would be pulling the Obamacare replacement bill, Trump personally called two reporters before speaking publicly: Robert Costa from The Post, and Maggie Haberman from the Times.

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

The investment projects announced the day before were in line with the contract Ford negotiated with the United Auto Workers in 2015.

Trump is citing the 61 percent decline in Southwest border apprehensions from January 2017 to March 2017. It's unclear yet if Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly made an impact, or if it was a result of Trump's rhetoric on immigration throughout the presidential campaign. There tends to be less activity during winter months, and the numbers bounce back in March and through the spring, so it's unclear whether this is a blip or a lasting trend. Moreover, the January data captures the whole month, not just since Inauguration Day.

The investment projects announced later that day were in line with the contract Ford negotiated with the United Auto Workers in 2015.

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.

Trump, in saying “thousands and thousands of jobs,” leaves himself some wiggle room here. (He’d previously incorrectly said 28,000 jobs.) Moreover, some of these jobs have already been created. Workers in Arkansas, for instance, have already built about half of the high-strength line pipe needed for the project, some 333,000 tons.

The January jobs report, showing 230,000 jobs were created, reflects the last month of the Obama administration. The data was collected in early January, when Obama was still president.

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).

The investment projects announced later that day were in line with the contract Ford negotiated with the United Auto Workers in 2015.

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.

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.

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.

Trump is referring to the Clean Power Plan, but the 2015 rule was halted by the Supreme Court in early 2016. Since then, more than 9,000 coal mining jobs have disappeared, continuing a trend from the 1980s fostered more by a preference for natural gas than anti-coal regulations.

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.

In an interview with the New York Times magazine published March 26, Trump manages to throw together a number of bogus claims -- about moving jobs back to the United States and cutting the price of Lockheed aircraft -- with the absurd suggestion that he's already accomplished more than any previous president in so many days. As the Times noted, "Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson would take exception to this claim."

The Affordable Care Act is not exploding and is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

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.”

Trump trumpeted the company’s announcement that it would invest $25 billion in the United States and hire 20,000 workers over four years, but the company’s jobs plan was in the works as early as June 2015.

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.”

Trump trumpeted the company’s announcement that it would invest $25 billion in the United States and hire 20,000 workers over four years, but the company’s jobs plan was in the works as early as June 2015.

The $100 million came from the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act signed by President Barack Obama in December 2016. The Environmental Protection Agency sent the check in March, but this was an Obama initiative.

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.

This is false. Trump at a rally on Feb. 11 made a reference to “what’s happening last night in Sweden,” confusing people in that country since nothing had happened. Trump then clarified in a tweet that his statement “was in reference to a story that was broadcast on @FoxNews concerning immigrants& Sweden.” Then two days later, riots broke out in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood in the northern suburbs of the country’s capital, Stockholm. But no one died.

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.

False on several levels. NATO has been involved in counterterrorism since 1980, and especially since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001. As for NATO’s financing, Trump apparently still does not understand how it works. NATO’s guideline, established in 2006, is that defense expenditures should amount to 2 percent of each country’s gross domestic product by 2024. In 2016, only four countries besides the United States met that standard, but NATO documents also show that defense spending has increased about 3 percent from 2015 to 2016. In any case, the money would not be going to the United States or even necessarily to NATO; this is money that countries would spend to bolster their own military.

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."

Trump has invented a convenient excuse to cover up the fact that he accused the Obama administration of spying on him. In some tweets, he used quotes. But this is the key tweet: “How low has President Obama gone to tapp phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”

Trump is mixing up different headlines for the print and Internet editions. In print, the headline was: “Wiretapped data used in inquiry of Trump aides.” Online, the headline read: “Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry Into Trump Associates.” The headlines were not changed as part of any stealth editing. In any case, the text of the New York Times article under either headline was identical.

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.

We’ve repeatedly debunked this. There are instances of people illegally voting, but they are rare. The National Association of Secretaries of State said it did not know of “any evidence” backing up Trump’s claims.

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.”

Trump overstates the disclosure about Clinton getting a debate question. During the Democratic primaries, a debate was held in Flint, Mich., to focus on the water crisis. Donna Brazile, then an analyst with CNN, sent an email to the Clinton campaign saying that a woman with a rash from lead poisoning was going to ask what Clinton as president could do the help the people of Flint. There’s no indication Clinton was told this information, but in any case it’s a pretty obvious question for a debate being held in Flint. The woman in question also was not happy with Clinton’s answer.

By “newspaper,” Trump is referring to the National Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid owned by a prominent supporter. The thinly sourced article alleged that Ted Cruz’s father, Rafael, worked with Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy. Trump has repeatedly ignored the fact that the article was denied and deemed false even before he ever mentioned it on the campaign trail.

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.”

Trump is well behind any sort of record for Time covers. Trump has been on the cover of Time magazine about a dozen times. Richard Nixon holds the record: 55.

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.

In his statement to Iranians on the Nowruz holiday, Trump cited a supposed quote from Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, which stretched from the Balkans to South Asia at its height. But Mic reported that experts and historians who study the Achaemenids say this is a bogus Cyrus quote. It apparently came from a 2006 book on leadership advice that places high in Google results.

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.

This is false. All eight of the state’s rating areas have at least one insurance carrier and three of them have two carriers.

The Affordable Care Act is not imploding and is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Trump is citing the 61 percent decline in Southwest border apprehensions from January 2017 to March 2017. It's unclear yet if Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly made an impact, or if it was a result of Trump's rhetoric on immigration throughout the presidential campaign. There tends to be less activity during winter months, and the numbers bounce back in March and through the spring, so it's unclear whether this is a blip or a lasting trend. Moreover, the January data captures the whole month, not just since Inauguration Day.

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.

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.

Trump takes undue credit for business decisions made prior to his election. Ford’s decision to abandon its plans to open a factory in Mexico and instead expand its Michigan plant has more to do with the company’s long-term goal — particularly its plans to invest in electric vehicles — than with the administration. Fiat Chrysler's plan to invest $1 billion for a factory in Michigan had been in the works for more than a year and had nothing to do with Trump. Japanese company SoftBank announced its $100 billion technology investment fund three weeks before the U.S. elections, when Trump faced a narrow path to victory. Sprint said its hiring plan was a part of a commitment by SoftBank, which owns a controlling stake in Sprint.

Trump once again takes credit for the lowered cost, but the Pentagon had announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million before Trump began meeting with Lockheed Martin’s chief executive. Sometimes Trump says he saved $600 million, other times $700 million.

This is a misleading comparison. A lot has changed in the past century, including the capacity of ships. The U.S. Naval fleet now includes nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, compared to gunboats and small warships of 100 years ago. The Navy, which currently has 275 ships, is on track to grow to just over 300 ships, approximately the size that a bipartisan congressional panel recommended for the current Navy.

We would beg to differ. Trump has so many Four-Pinocchio ratings because many of his claims lack evidence or a factual basis. Under our standards, being off by 100th of a percentage point would likely result in a Geppetto Checkmark.

This is false. Keystone did not drop the suit. The company had filed a $15 billion claim for arbitration under the North American Free Trade Agreement after President Barack Obama rejected the pipeline. When Trump said he would reinstate the deal, the company suspended the arbitration claim. But it says it will pursue it if Trump does not follow through with a permit.

The trade deficit was about $500 billion in 2016.

Trump takes credit for the lowered cost, but the Pentagon had announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million before Trump began meeting with Lockheed Martin’s chief executive.

This is a clear flip-flop from the stance he held for many years prior to the release of the Bureau of Labor Statistics employment report in February, after his first full month in office. He repeatedly questioned the accuracy of BLS employment statistics, and called figures calculated by career economists as "phony." White House press secretary Sean Spicer was asked about this contradiction at a news briefing after the report’s release. His response: “I talked to the president prior to this and he said to quote him very clearly. They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.” Moreover, Trump is counting a job report that reflects jobs created when Obama was president.

Trump takes credit for fulfilling his campaign promise of cracking down on illegal immigration, but these arrests are routine. ICE has always targeted dangerous criminals in enforcement priorities. The immigration arrests under Trump so far, however, did include people who would not have fallen under narrowed enforcement priorities under Obama.

“Welfare” is a broad term and can apply to people who are working but receiving government assistance. If someone is receiving means-tested assistance, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are not working.

There are anecdotes of some doctors, especially older ones, who are frustrated about adopting electronic health records under Obamacare. But physicians leave the industry for many reasons, mainly aging and burning out. As the baby boomer patient population gets older and has more complex conditions, there is greater demand on physicians and their services. Recent data from the Association of American Medical Colleges shows physicians are actually retiring two years later, and the group ahs not seen a significant number of physicians leaving the industry because of the Affordable Care Act.

Premiums increased overall in 2017 — but Trump cherry-picks the 116 percent increase in Arizona, the state hit hardest by premium increases. The average increase for the second-lowest-cost silver plan (which is used as the benchmark to calculate government subsidies) is 25 percent. A few states, such as Indiana, will actually see a decrease.

Trump is citing the 61 percent decline in Southwest border apprehensions from January 2017 to March 2017. It's unclear yet if Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly made an impact, or if it was a result of Trump's rhetoric on immigration throughout the presidential campaign. There tends to be less activity during winter months, and the numbers bounce back in March and through the spring, so it's unclear whether this is a blip or a lasting trend. Moreover, the January data captures the whole month, not just since Inauguration Day.

Trump hypes the possible connection between these trade deals and the loss of jobs and factories. The Congressional Research Service concluded in 2015 that NAFTA likely had little impact on jobs. Manufacturing jobs in the United States have been adversely affected by many factors, especially changing consumer tastes and technology. Similarly, drawing a connection between China’s entry in the WTO and factory loses is a stretch, especially because the Great Recession play a big role in factory closings.

India imposes a 100 percent import tariff on motorcycles. But the company largely has been able to get around the tariff by assembling its bikes in India, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

Trump hypes the possible connection between these trade deals and the loss of jobs and factories. The Congressional Research Service concluded in 2015 that NAFTA likely had little impact on jobs. Manufacturing jobs in the United States have been adversely affected by many factors, especially changing consumer tastes and technology. Similarly, drawing a connection between China’s entry in the WTO and factory loses is a stretch, especially because the Great Recession play a big role in factory closings.

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).

Trump likes to use anecdotes as evidence for associating violent crimes with illegal immigration, telling stories of victims of homicide by undocumented immigrants. Clearly, stories like this exist. But the vast majority of unauthorized immigrants do not fit Trump’s description of aggravated felons, whose crimes include murder.

Trump likes to use anecdotes as evidence for associating violent crimes with illegal immigration, telling stories of victims of homicide by undocumented immigrants. Clearly, stories like this exist. But the vast majority of unauthorized immigrants do not fit Trump’s description of aggravated felons, whose crimes include murder.

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.

This is a flip-flop for Trump. Long before U.S. troops left Iraq in 2011, Trump had been urging they be removed immediately.

Intelligence officials have not focused on Trump's possible involvement in Russian efforts to sway the election but on associates of Trump and people involved in the campaign.

The information on Russian efforts to sway the 2016 election was developed by the intelligence community and published in a declassified report, in which the agencies said they had "high confidence" it was correct.

This was a strange claim, especially because if you watch the video, National Security Agency director Rogers makes clear that, when asked about whether Russian cyber-actors changed vote tallies in Michigan and other states, he replied: “I would highlight we are a foreign intelligence organization, not a domestic intelligence organization. So it would be fair to say, we are probably not the best organization to provide a more complete answer.” Indeed, when later asked about the presidential tweet, FBI director James Comey said it did not reflect what he and Rogers had said: “It certainly wasn’t our intention to say that today.”

This was false. Comey was specifically talking about the Jan. 6 document issued by the intelligence agencies — a document that the Trump White House has largely ignored, except to suggest it was fake. Former director of national intelligence James Clapper later issued a statement saying it was “in the best interest of all Americans” to investigate possible Trump-Russia ties.

Comey was very careful not to discuss individuals, such as fired national security adviser Michael Flynn. He noted that the listeners were not to draw any unwarranted conclusions from his refusal to comment. But apparently his warning fell on deaf ears at the White House.

The FBI and the Democratic National Committee disagree on whether the FBI requested access to the DNC's servers. FBI Director James Comey testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that the bureau made "multiple requests at different levels" to access DNC's servers, but the DNC said the FBI never requested access. The DNC ultimately allowed a private company to review its database and share findings with the FBI.

Intelligence officials have not focused on Trump's possible involvement in Russian efforts to sway the election but on associates of Trump and people involved in the campaign.

The information on Russian efforts to sway the 2016 election was developed by the intelligence community and published in a declassified report, in which the agencies said they had "high confidence" it was correct.

Germany provides in-kind services for the U.S. bases, and the cost of running them is a pittance of the U.S. militraty bases. Germany owes no money to NATO, but has not yet acheived a goal, set for 2026, to spend at least two percent of its gross domestic product on defense.

This is a clear flip-flop from the stance he held for many years prior to the release of the Bureau of Labor Statistics employment report in February, after his first full month in office. He repeatedly questioned the accuracy of BLS employment statistics, and called figures calculated by career economists as "phony." White House press secretary Sean Spicer was asked about this contradiction at a news briefing after the report’s release. His response: “I talked to the president prior to this and he said to quote him very clearly. They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.” Moreover, Trump is counting a job report that reflects jobs created when Obama was president.

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).

The Affordable Care Act is not imploding and is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Trump takes this comment out context. Bill Clinton’s remark on Oct. 3 about “the craziest thing I’ve ever seen” did not refer to the Affordable Care Act. Instead, he was talking about the fact that people who did not qualify for insurance subsidies did not have a way to buy into Medicare or Medicaid. He noted that his wife, Haillary Clinton, had a plan to fix that defect.

This is false. All eight of the state’s rating areas have at least one insurance carrier and three of them have two carriers.

Premiums increased overall in 2017 — but Trump cherry-picks the 116 percent increase in Arizona, the state hit hardest by premium increases. The average increase for the second-lowest-cost silver plan (which is used as the benchmark to calculate government subsidies) is 25 percent. A few states, such as Indiana, will actually see a decrease.

Trump takes this comment out of context. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton on Oct. 12 faulted Republicans in Congress for refusing to adjust the law, which he said was the reason why individual health insurance was “no longer affordable to increasing numbers of people.”

This is false. All eight of the state’s rating areas have at least one insurance carrier and three of them have two carriers.

The Affordable Care Act is not imploding and is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Trump appears to not understand how NATO financing works. Headquarters costs are based on gross national income, with the United States paying 22 percent. Then, NATO members are required to spend at least two percent of gross domestic product on national defense -- but that is goal to be achieved by 2024.

The Affordable Care Act is not imploding and is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

This is false. All eight of the state’s rating areas have at least one insurance carrier and three of them have two carriers.

The United States spends far more on defense than any other country, or even the next seven countries combined. It's a stretch to say it is "depleted."