Lie May 5, 2020 · Remarks · Jobs

“Best employment numbers in the history of our country. ... Most number of jobs. Almost 160 million jobs. We were never even close to that.”

Said
May 5, 2020
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Jobs
Repeated
188 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 19591)

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  2. May 11, 2020 · Press conference“Employment … where we had our best numbers, almost 160 million people.”
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  4. May 14, 2020 · Remarks“We had the best job numbers we've ever had. We had almost 160 million people working. And we were never even close to that.”
  5. Apr 22, 2020 · Press conference“Best employment numbers ever. Not only African American, Asian American, Hispanic American -- every American. We were breaking records at every level. We had almost 160 million people employed.”
  6. May 19, 2020 · Remarks“Black unemployment, Hispanic unemployment, Asian unemployment was the best ever in the history of our country. We've never had anything like it. We've never had so many African American jobs ever -- ever -- in the…