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    Many of Trump's State of the Union claims don't hold up

    by Jackie Calmes, Don Lee and David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times Feb 05, 2020 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - It's just a fact: President Donald Trump gets a lot of his facts wrong, willfully or not. In his third State of the Union address, he made a number of erroneous or misleading claims.

    We've fact-checked some of them.

    - Jobs and Manufacturing

    "Since my election, we have created 7 million new jobs," Trump said, adding that such success was possible because he'd "reversed the failed economic policies" of the Obama administration.

    Some 6.7 million new jobs were created during Trump's first 35 months in office, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That compares with

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