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Trump Tells Whopper of a Lie and Claims (Again) Ivanka Created 15 Million Jobs, ‘Daddy I Want to Help With Jobs!’

Donald Trump has again claimed that his daughter Ivanka has created an impossible amount of jobs since he came to office in 2017.

Speaking at an event for Hope for Prisoners in Las Vegas, Trump made the claim that Ivanka has created 15 million jobs, and quoted her as saying “Daddy, I want to help with jobs!”

Trump called called Jared Kushner the “father of criminal justice reform.” GAG.

This would be impressive if it wasn’t completely untrue.

When he came to office, Trump had promised to create 25 million jobs but a report from USA Today in December showed that in 33 months as president he had only succeeded in creating as many as 5.7 million jobs, a respectable figure but one that is still short of those created by Barack Obama.

We’re not sure why Trump has praised Ivanka so much for job creation but he does have a history with this.

In November he claimed that Ivanka had created 14 million times, which at the time was reported to be associated to her role as a co-chair a workforce policy board that aims to increase training opportunities for workers.

Forbes adds that Ivanka obtained pledges from around 300 companies who vowed to create training and other kinds of opportunities, with herself stating that even that figure only equated to a total of 6.3 million, still considerably short of the 15 million floated by her father.

This begs the question of why Trump has boasted about these figures again and added an extra million, especially when these roles could be barely considered jobs.

An unbelievable lie, even by the president’s standards.

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