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Latest Fact-Checks On Donald Trump

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Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2019 in a State of the Union Address:
San Diego’s border barrier “almost completely ended illegal crossings.”
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By Chris Nichols • February 7, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on January 19, 2019 in a speech:
“One in three women is sexually assaulted on the dangerous journey north.”
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By Miriam Valverde • January 25, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on November 21, 2018 in a tweet:
Just before Thanksgiving, oil was $54 a barrel, down from $82. “Thank you to Saudi Arabia.”
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By Kyra Haas, Louis Jacobson • November 26, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on November 7, 2018 in in a press conference:
“This election marks the largest Senate gains for a president’s party in a first midterm election since at least President Kennedy’s in 1962.”
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By John Kruzel • November 8, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on October 12, 2018 in a speech:
“All across Ohio, steel mills are reopening.”
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By Kyra Haas • October 24, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on October 16, 2018 in in a tweet:
“I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia.”
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By John Kruzel • October 18, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2018 in a rally in Wheeling, W.Va.:
“The United States is now the No. 1 energy producer in the world. That happened just recently.”
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By Warren Sterling • October 4, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on September 11, 2018 in press conference:
“Puerto Rico’s electric grid and their electric generating plant was dead before the storms ever hit. It was in very bad shape. It was in bankruptcy. It had no money. It was largely — you know, it was largely closed.”
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By Manuela Tobias • September 13, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on May 20, 2018 in a tweet:
The Mueller investigation is “soon to be $20,000,000.”
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By Louis Jacobson • May 23, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on April 28, 2018 in a speech in Washington, Mich.:
“We have spent $7 trillion, trillion with a T, $7 trillion in the Middle East.”
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By Jon Greenberg • May 1, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on April 26, 2018 in an interview on "Fox & Friends":
The nuclear deal gave Iran “$150 billion, giving $1.8 billion in cash — in actual cash carried out in barrels and in boxes from airplanes.”
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By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2018 in a press conference:
“The United States has a massive trade deficit with Japan. It’s anywhere from $69 billion to a $100 billion a year.”
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By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on April 1, 2018 in a tweet:
Says caravans of people are coming to cross the Mexico-U.S. border.  
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By W. Gardner Selby • April 2, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on March 18, 2018 in a tweet:
Robert Mueller’s investigative team has “13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans.”
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By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on March 14, 2018 in in a tweet:
Says Democratic obstruction is the reason why “many important positions in government are unfilled.”
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By John Kruzel • March 16, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on March 8, 2018 in a cabinet meeting at the White House:
The last private rocket launch “cost $80 million. If the government did it, the same thing would have cost probably 40 or 50 times that amount of money. I mean, literally.”
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By Jon Greenberg • March 12, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on March 8, 2018 in remarks before a Cabinet meeting:
American aluminum and steel “are vital to our national security. … They are the bedrock of our defense industrial base.”
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By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 in State of the Union address:
Many gang members have taken advantage of “glaring loopholes and our laws to enter the country as illegal, unaccompanied, alien minors.”
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By Miriam Valverde • February 7, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on January 26, 2018 in a speech in Davos, Switzerland:
“Consumer confidence, business confidence, and manufacturing confidence are the highest they have been in many decades.”
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By Louis Jacobson • February 2, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 in the 2018 State of the Union address:
“Apple has just announced it plans to invest a total of $350 billion in America, and hire another 20,000 workers.”
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By Jon Greenberg • January 31, 2018
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