Lie September 14, 2020 · Interview · Jobs

“We had 160 million employed; we never had anything close to that [before the coronavirus pandemic].”

Said
September 14, 2020
Where
Interview
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 24153)

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