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Fact check: Pence makes wildly dishonest claim comparing pandemic job growth to number of jobs added under Obamahttps://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/politics/fact-check-pence-jobs-obama-pandemic/index.html
Washington (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence made a Wednesday claim about job creation that was both wildly dishonest in its general premise and inaccurate in its specific numbers.
Appearing Wednesday night on Sean Hannity's show on Fox News, Pence said, "We've already created more jobs in the last three months than Joe Biden and Barack Obama created in their eight years in office."
Pence later posted a tweet that repeated the claim.
Facts First: Pence's "last three months" time frame is absurd: he is boasting about the addition of about 9.3 million jobs in May, June and July right after a loss of about 22.2 million jobs in March and April; the economy is still down nearly 13 million jobs because of the coronavirus crisis. (Also, many of the added jobs were people returning to their previous jobs after temporary layoffs.) And even if you accept Pence's dishonest premise, it's not true that these last three months saw more jobs added than were added in the eight years of the Obama administration.
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Fact check: Pence makes wildly dishonest claim comparing pandemic job growth to number of jobs... (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Aug 2020
OP
Disaffected
(4,555 posts)1. The levels of lies:
There are Lies, Damned Lies and Republican Lies.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)2. Thought Pence was an obeyer of the Ten Commandments.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)3. He converted
now he is an obeyer of "king trump", and king trump loves a good liar!
Grins
(7,217 posts)4. What Obama-Biden really did...
ALL the jobs lost during the 8-year long National nightmare called the George W. Bush/Cheney administration, were brought back within the first TWO YEARS of the Obama/Biden administration.