another lie, another failure
JUST POSTED: President Trump seized on coal miners as powerful symbol of the working class during 2016 campaign against Clinton, promising to revive coal industry & bring jobs back. He failed. NYT takes a deep look at this failure & the people left behind. https://t.co/j9QXu16Khn
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) October 5, 2020
Trump bashes Biden for working to kill coal jobs, then says he, Trump, put the miners back to work and saved the industry.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2020
Here is the chart. There are 5,300 fewer coal mining jobs than there were when Trump took office. As of January, it was a Trump-era gain of…100 jobs. pic.twitter.com/V86bvvyKxV
Fact-checking Trump’s claim in Pa. that he’s ‘putting our great coal miners back to work' https://t.co/pBPbdsLCsa
— The Philadelphia Inquirer (@PhillyInquirer) October 14, 2020
The coal industry comes tumbling down in the American West – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
Sad! 