Critics Jog Lara Trump's Memory After Her Claim About Father-In-Law's Presidency
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The RNC co-chair made a misleading claim on Fox News about unemployment under Donald Trump.
Lara Trump boasted about unemployment under her father-in-law, former President Donald Trump, and received a much-needed reality check on social media.
“We remember Donald Trump as president for four years. You remember how low the unemployment number actually was — the real unemployment number,” the new Republican National Committee co-chair told Fox News’ Sean Hannity Monday while comparing Donald Trump to his successor, President Joe Biden.
But as users on X, formerly Twitter, noted, the former president left office with an unemployment rate of 6.3% — 1.6% higher than it was when he was sworn in.
In 2020, when the pandemic hit, unemployment skyrocketed from a 50-year low of 3.5% to 14.7%.
Under Biden, unemployment dipped back down to pre-pandemic lows. The lowest unemployment rate under Biden was 3.4% in February last year. In February of this year, it was 3.9%.