A recap of Trump's first State of the UnionPresident Trump gave one of the longest State of the Union addresses in history, which means The Fact Checker was busy this week. The...
| |  | | Democracy Dies in Darkness | | | | | | | | | | The truth behind the rhetoric | | | | | | A recap of Trump's first State of the Union President Trump gave one of the longest State of the Union addresses in history, which means The Fact Checker was busy this week. The president once again boasted that he signed the largest tax cuts in history — that's a Four Pinocchio claim. We also found that Trump was off the mark talking about jobs, unemployment claims, energy exports, immigration, and assorted other issues. All told, we examined 18 claims made by the president. We then turned our sights to four of the responses to Trump's speech from Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Eight of their claims about health care, chief executive compensation, the Russia investigation and labor regulations didn't quite add up. As is our practice, we didn't hand out Pinocchio ratings for Trump's address or these responses. Let's just say that both fact-checks add up to 4,160 words and leave it at that. |  | | Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this e-mail was forwarded to you, sign up here for the weekly newsletter. Hear something fact-checkable? Send it here, we'll check it out. | | A tour through Kevin McCarthy's old deli Kevin McCarthy has had a remarkable run in politics, rising to House majority leader after seven years in Congress. But he often tells audiences and interviewers that he was shaped by his experience as a small business owner in the years before he finished college. A Fact Checker reader who had been tracking and researching McCarthy's statements about his deli — Kevin O's — reached out to us and said the story didn't quite add up. We looked into it, researching what the sandwich scene looked like back then in McCarthy's hometown of Bakersfield, Calif.; talking to people who were around at the time; and interviewing McCarthy himself about the deli, which he ran in his aunt and uncle's yogurt shop. Readers can form their own conclusions about McCarthy's origin story; we are not handing out Pinocchios for this episode far in the past. | | | Scroll down for this week's Pinocchio roundup. –Salvador Rizzo | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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