CNN: Facts Prove Trump Is A Congenital Liar

CNN has once again proven that defeated US president Donald Trump is a congenital liar, repeating bogus claims every half-chance he gets, and his speech at the latest gathering of Trump clones, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Photo Insert: Even Trump’s pre-pandemic jobs record – about 6.7 million jobs added – was far from the greatest of any president ever.

Reporting for CNN, Daniel Dale claimed that Trump bragged that “we had the greatest job history of any president ever.”

Dale said this is false as the US lost about 2.7 million jobs during Trump’s presidency, the worst overall jobs record for any president. Even Trump’s pre-pandemic jobs record – about 6.7 million jobs added – was far from the greatest of any president ever. The economy added more than 11.5 million jobs in the first term of Democratic President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.

Speaking of China, he said he “charged them” with tariffs that had the effect of “bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars pouring into our Treasury from China. Thank you very much, China.” Dale said Trump is lying.

“In reality, the US has had tariffs on China for more than two centuries, and FactCheck.org reported in 2019 that the US generated an “average of $12.3 billion in custom duties a year from 2007 to 2016, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission DataWeb.”

Also, US importers, not Chinese exporters, make the actual tariff payments – and study after study during Trump’s presidency found that Americans were bearing most of the cost of the tariffs.

Dale noted that Trump repeated the false claim he made more than 100 times as president – that the US used to have a trade deficit with China of more than $500 billion. He claimed it was “five-, six-, seven-hundred billion dollars a year.” Dale said the facts shatter Trump’s hallucination.

“The US has never had a $500 billion, $600 billion or $700 billion trade deficit with China even if you only count trade in goods and ignore the services trade in which the US runs a surplus with China. The pre-Trump record for a goods deficit with China was about $367 billion in 2015. The goods deficit hit a new record of about $418 billion under Trump in 2018 before falling back under $400 billion in subsequent years,” Dale concluded.

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