Lie August 24, 2020 · Rally · Jobs

“We employed more than 160 million people prior to the plague coming in from China and now we're bringing it back again very, very quickly.”

Said
August 24, 2020
Where
Campaign rally
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 21990)

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  1. Aug 24, 2020 · Speech“We were up to 160 million jobs. We were never anywhere near that.”
  2. Aug 23, 2020 · Interview“She's [Ivanka] created 15 million jobs. 15 million.”
  3. Aug 22, 2020 · Interview“We had 160 million people working. We were never even close to that. We just about hit 160 million people working. Never happened before, never even close.”
  4. Aug 28, 2020 · Rally“We had almost 160 million Americans working, we had never had numbers like that.”
  5. Aug 18, 2020 · Remarks“But the numbers that we have for unemployment and employment, frankly -- we had 160 million people working. We've never even been close to that.”
  6. Sep 7, 2020 · Press conference“By the way, many plants are being built right now -- auto plants -- in Michigan, just like I said. They're being built in Ohio; they're being built in South Carolina, North Carolina.”