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Trump claimed in March that the Saudi deals would bring 40,000 American jobs.
Last edited Sat Oct 20, 2018, 03:32 PM - Edit history (1)
David Fahrenthold Retweeted:Trump claimed in March that the Saudi deals would bring 40,000 American jobs. This month, has made it 450,000, then 500,000, and today, per @JDiamond1, 600,000.
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This is the arms-sale version of the “U.S. Steel is opening ___ plants” lie, which started at six, then went to seven, then eight, then “minimum of eight,” then “eight or nine.”
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he has also claimed $450billion of "things"
(from LATimes)
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RogueAltGov Retweeted:
In March, Trump said the Saudi military deals would produce 40,000 jobs.
A week ago, he made it 450,000 jobs. Wednesday, 500,000 jobs. Yesterday afternoon, 600,000 jobs.
Yesterday evening: "The million jobs."
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then 60 million and finally 600 million jobs. More jobs than people.
