The AP is out with a "fact check" article regarding Donald Trump and the American auto industry. It's amazing that in the guise of a "fact check", the AP just gushes lies. Here are some examples:
The AP says, "Trump's tweet on Thursday asserting that he had dissuaded Ford from moving a Kentucky factory to Mexico was a stretch, at the very least."
Here is what Trump said in his tweet, "Just got a call from my friend Bill Ford, Chairman of Ford, who advised me that he will be keeping the Lincoln plant in Kentucky - no Mexico."
Look at that tweet, the only one on the subject that Trump sent. He doesn't assert that he had dissuaded Ford from moving. He just says Ford told him that they are not moving the plant to Mexico. So the AP criticizes Trump for allegedly saying something that he clearly never said.
Here's another example: Trump said during the campaign that auto jobs had fled the country and been moved to other places like Mexico. In this article, the AP says, "As for jobs fleeing the U.S., the U.S. auto industry has actually added 300,000 jobs since June 2009, when the recession ended." Earlier in the same article, the AP says this, "There aren't as many jobs at U.S. auto plants as there were a decade ago." So, AP, which is it? Are there fewer auto jobs than there were ten years ago, or has there been a boom in auto employment? It can't be both.
Anyone can make a mistake, so possibly the AP reporter and his editor just erred in the article. I doubt it. The AP well knows that its so called facts are wrong. I doubt we will ever see a correction, however.
The AP says, "Trump's tweet on Thursday asserting that he had dissuaded Ford from moving a Kentucky factory to Mexico was a stretch, at the very least."
Here is what Trump said in his tweet, "Just got a call from my friend Bill Ford, Chairman of Ford, who advised me that he will be keeping the Lincoln plant in Kentucky - no Mexico."
Look at that tweet, the only one on the subject that Trump sent. He doesn't assert that he had dissuaded Ford from moving. He just says Ford told him that they are not moving the plant to Mexico. So the AP criticizes Trump for allegedly saying something that he clearly never said.
Here's another example: Trump said during the campaign that auto jobs had fled the country and been moved to other places like Mexico. In this article, the AP says, "As for jobs fleeing the U.S., the U.S. auto industry has actually added 300,000 jobs since June 2009, when the recession ended." Earlier in the same article, the AP says this, "There aren't as many jobs at U.S. auto plants as there were a decade ago." So, AP, which is it? Are there fewer auto jobs than there were ten years ago, or has there been a boom in auto employment? It can't be both.
Anyone can make a mistake, so possibly the AP reporter and his editor just erred in the article. I doubt it. The AP well knows that its so called facts are wrong. I doubt we will ever see a correction, however.
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AP----Associated Propaganda!!!
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