Statement·self record·said 2016-06-29
“During my administration we boosted U.S. exports to Canada and Mexico by about 50 percent. That supports about 2.8 million American jobs.”
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2016-07-05Reasoning
PolitiFact rated this Mostly False: the export increase was closer to 30 percent off a 2008 baseline, and the 2.8 million figure was total export-supported jobs, not jobs created by the increase.
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