Re: Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years
Originally Posted by
Bread
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What's he done wrong then ?
Hear no eveil, see no evil.
Well done, Bread.
Prior to Trump’s taking power, unemployment had risen spectacularly during the 2008 financial crisis, which took place at the end of George W. Bush’s presidency and lasted into the beginning of Barack Obama’s first term. After 2012, it dropped steadily.
When Trump took office in January 2017, the American economy was back on track. The country had entered a period of expansion that would be described as the longest in its history.
According to Feeding America, the largest network of food banks in the United States, nearly one in six Americans suffered from food insecurity in 2020, including 18 million children.
The United States is undoubtedly poorer at the end of Donald Trump’s time in office.
Having undermined its social safety net, the president deprived the country of crucial weapons in the fight against poverty, at a time when an unprecedented health crisis set it soaring.
(The Fact check US section received support from Craig Newmark Philanthropies, an American foundation fighting against disinformation.)