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Obama Lied About How Many Manufacturing Jobs Were Added

Hank Berrien

On November 30, following Donald Trump’s deal with Carrier, White House press secretary Josh Earnest claimed, “There were 805,000 manufacturing jobs that weren’t just protected or saved, but actually created while President Obama was in office.”

Earnest argued that if Trump had saved 1,000 jobs, he would need to do it 804 more times to “meet the record of manufacturing jobs that were created in the United States while President Obama was in office.”

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