Jun 11 AP fact check: Trump overstates benefits from Mexico tariffs By Tom Krisher, Paul Wiseman, Associated Press In tweets Tuesday, President Donald Trump exaggerated how much of the auto industry had moved to Mexico and inaccurately asserted that if he imposed a tax of 25 percent on all Mexican goods, all the automaker jobs would immediately return… Continue reading
Apr 07 AP fact check: Trump’s bad-guy talk belies migrants’ reality By Calvin Woodward, Associated Press When President Donald Trump talks about the masses of Central Americans trying to get into the U.S., he describes a horde of beefy men with ill intent. Figures from his own administration tell a different story: Those coming are increasingly… Continue reading
Mar 03 AP fact check: Trump twists Cohen’s words on collusion By Hope Yen, Calvin Woodward, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Assailed by his ex-lawyer at every turn, President Donald Trump nevertheless claimed a measure of vindication from Michael Cohen’s statement that he possessed no direct evidence of collusion with Russia from his time serving the boss. But contrary… Continue reading
Feb 14 AP fact check: Declaring an emergency to build a border wall would be an extraordinary step By Hope Yen, Calvin Woodward, Associated Press The emergency action Trump has been contemplating would be rare. The presidents he has cited did not use emergency powers to pay for projects that Congress wouldn't support. Continue reading
Dec 10 AP fact check: Manafort, Cohen filings do not exonerate Trump By Hope Yen, Eric Tucker, Associated Press President Trump insists he's been fully vindicated by court filings released Friday that lay out the level of cooperation from two of his former top advisers, whom prosecutors have accused of lying to federal investigators or Congress. In fact, Trump's… Continue reading
Oct 23 Watch 6:20 Fact checkers identify increasing rates of false claims by the president At a Monday rally, President Trump made comments about a caravan of Central American migrants that had fact-checkers on the alert. Since the president took office, they’ve identified 2,915 claims that cannot be verified by the truth. Daniel Dale, Washington… Continue watching
Oct 10 Fact-checking Trump’s bleak op-ed on Democratic health plans By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press President Trump cast the idea as a dangerous scheme by "radical socialists" as he played up potential pitfalls of a government-paid system without citing any of the benefits, such as the disappearance of most medical bills. Continue reading
Aug 07 AP fact check: Wildfire, water experts rebut Trump’s claims By Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press For one thing, the wildfires are in the hills, far from the Pacific Ocean and from the man-made storage and distribution system that carries water from California's wetter north to the drier, more populated south. Continue reading
Jul 30 AP fact check: A look into Trump’s claims on ‘historic’ economic gains By Hope Yen, Josh Boak, Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press President Donald Trump exaggerated his role in boosting U.S. economic growth, falsely claiming full credit for positive economic news and inaccurately declaring a "historic" turnaround. Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch 15:02 What’s happened to the truth under President Trump? In just the last few weeks, President Trump has made a number of misleading or inaccurate statements on subjects ranging from Russian interference, to farmers and trade, to NATO defense. Judy Woodruff takes a closer look with Peter Wehner, who… Continue watching