09-27-2018, 12:43 PM
Fact-checking Donald Trump’s press conference on eve of Kavanaugh, Ford hearings
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter...nce-eve-k/
"U.S. steel is opening up a minimum of eight plants."
That’s False. It would be huge news, given the company only has four steelmaking facilities in the United States. But there’s no evidence on their website that any new mills are on the horizon. U.S. Steel is restarting two shuttered mills. Other companies are re-opening or building a few other mills.
"We have trade imbalances with almost everybody. It's a rare exception that we don't."
This is incorrect. In March, we looked at the full list of countries and country equivalents that are tracked by the United States on trade balances to see whether the United States had a surplus or a deficit with them.
We found 129 countries or country equivalents with whom the United States had a surplus in 2017, out of 234 entities listed overall. This means that the United States had a surplus in 55 percent of those countries, or a majority.
Says Brett Kavanaugh finished No. 1 in his class at Yale.
Kavanaugh graduated from Yale Law School in 1990 and from Yale College in 1987. We found no indication that Kavanaugh finished first in his class from law school or college.
Yale Law School’s explanation of its current grading system says that individual class rank is not computed. Yale Law School in 1968 converted its grading system from letter grades to a modified pass-fail system, "partly to alleviate the destructive competition and anxiety among students," according to the Association of American Law Schools.
Says Brett Kavanaugh finished No. 1 in his class at Yale.
in a press conference – Wednesday, September 26, 2018
"We spent $3.2 (billion), and we’re getting another $1.6 (billion), and eventually we’re getting the whole thing and we’ll complete the wall."
This is not accurate. Trump has not received money for his promised border wall. His administration so far has received $1.6 billion for new and replacement border fencing and technology — but the funds can’t be used to build the wall he promised.
Even though his administration contracted companies to build wall prototypes, none of them will be used as the design standard for future border wall construction, Customs and Border Protection previously told PolitiFact.
The Trump administration is seeking an additional $1.6 billion for the border wall in fiscal year 2019, but that has not been appropriated by Congress.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter...nce-eve-k/
"U.S. steel is opening up a minimum of eight plants."
That’s False. It would be huge news, given the company only has four steelmaking facilities in the United States. But there’s no evidence on their website that any new mills are on the horizon. U.S. Steel is restarting two shuttered mills. Other companies are re-opening or building a few other mills.
"We have trade imbalances with almost everybody. It's a rare exception that we don't."
This is incorrect. In March, we looked at the full list of countries and country equivalents that are tracked by the United States on trade balances to see whether the United States had a surplus or a deficit with them.
We found 129 countries or country equivalents with whom the United States had a surplus in 2017, out of 234 entities listed overall. This means that the United States had a surplus in 55 percent of those countries, or a majority.
Says Brett Kavanaugh finished No. 1 in his class at Yale.
Kavanaugh graduated from Yale Law School in 1990 and from Yale College in 1987. We found no indication that Kavanaugh finished first in his class from law school or college.
Yale Law School’s explanation of its current grading system says that individual class rank is not computed. Yale Law School in 1968 converted its grading system from letter grades to a modified pass-fail system, "partly to alleviate the destructive competition and anxiety among students," according to the Association of American Law Schools.
Says Brett Kavanaugh finished No. 1 in his class at Yale.
in a press conference – Wednesday, September 26, 2018
"We spent $3.2 (billion), and we’re getting another $1.6 (billion), and eventually we’re getting the whole thing and we’ll complete the wall."
This is not accurate. Trump has not received money for his promised border wall. His administration so far has received $1.6 billion for new and replacement border fencing and technology — but the funds can’t be used to build the wall he promised.
Even though his administration contracted companies to build wall prototypes, none of them will be used as the design standard for future border wall construction, Customs and Border Protection previously told PolitiFact.
The Trump administration is seeking an additional $1.6 billion for the border wall in fiscal year 2019, but that has not been appropriated by Congress.