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Donald Trump's facts about America mostly false, says study
Donald Trump draws support from voters who see him as a "straight talking guy". But only a fraction of what he says is actually true, a study finds
The Donald was back on stage, barking out his critique of America - too many illegal immigrants and not enough people in work, before promising to use his talents to make the country "great again".
In this country, Mr Trump bellowed, the “real” unemployment rate is as high as “about 40 per cent”.
It was a fact that has helped catapult the television celebrity to the forefront of the Republican presidential race, with fans praising him for “telling it like it is”. But it was also a barefaced lie.
For those taking a closer look, not much of what Mr Trump tells the electorate is said to be true.
PolitiFact, , a Pulitzer-prize winning website that scrutinises the veracity of American politicians’ claims, studied 52 recent statements made by Mr Trump and concluded that none of them was factually correct.
Five of the answers were deemed “mostly true” and a further eight “half true”. But the rest – 75 per cent - were either “mostly false”, “false”, or a “pants on fire” untruth.
The Republican presidential frontrunner appears so convinced that the real unemployment rate in the US is approximately 40 per cent, that he invoked the statistic whilst announcing his tax plan last month.
He claimed that the official unemployment rate, currently 5.1 percent, is “phoney”.
PolitiFact traced the claim to a column written David Stockman, who served as former President Ronald Regan’s budget director. But they then cited several modern day economists explaining why the rate is wildly inaccurate.
To reach this figure, the website concluded, Mr Trump included students, the elderly, stay at home mums, and other people choosing not to be employed.
“We rate this his claim Pants on Fire,” the website said.
PolitiFact goes on to take apart some of Mr Trump’s other grander claims.
Mr Trump recently told a New Hampshire crowd that he would send refugees from Syria who came to the US back to their home country, despite the on going civil war.
He later explained in a television interview that this was because, among those fleeing "there aren't that many women, there aren't that many women."
PolitiFact pointed out that according to the statistics most of the four million refugees in United Nations’ camps are woman and children.
The list goes on. In another example, the fact checkers looked into Mr Trump’s claim that his 1987 memoir ‘The Art of the Deal’ is the “No. 1 selling best business book of all time”. PolitiFact found that while popular, the book was far from the top title. Perhaps ironically, the book sales remain far behind the book How to Win Friends and Influence People by Stephen Covey.