Lie September 18, 2020 · Press conference · Jobs

“But even before, it was at the highest stock market, best unemployment numbers and employment numbers. We were up to 160 million people -- just short of 160 million people employed. We were never close to a number like that.”

Said
September 18, 2020
Where
News conference
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 24490)

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