CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale stated on Tuesday that Minnesota’s Democratic Governor Tim Walz inaccurately asserted that former President Donald Trump recorded the highest number of manufacturing job losses during his tenure.
During a Monday appearance on “The View,” Walz claimed that Trump was responsible for the most significant decline in manufacturing jobs while also criticizing Republican Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, suggesting that both Vance and Trump acted as “venture capitalists” who contributed to the outsourcing of jobs. Dale challenged Walz’s assertion, highlighting that the job losses experienced during Trump’s administration were primarily a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“If you’re going to say something is simply factual, it should be factual. This is not. It’s not true that the Trump presidency lost more manufacturing jobs than any other presidency,” Dale told “CNN News Central” host Kate Bolduan. “Under George W. Bush, there were about 4.5 million manufacturing jobs lost. Under Trump, it was about 178,000. But there are also more manufacturing jobs lost than under Trump: under Eisenhower, under Ford, under Reagan. So Trump does not have the record.”
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