Nonilex6h ago

#FactCheck #TrumpLies

Exclusive: #US #intelligence assesses #Iran maintains significant missile launching capability, sources say

Roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers are still intact & thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran’s arsenal despite the daily pounding by US & #Israel strikes against military targets over the past 5 weeks, acc/to recent US intelligence assessments, 3 sources familiar told CNN.

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https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/politics/iran-missiles-us-military-strikes-trump

Exclusive: US intelligence assesses Iran maintains significant missile launching capability, sources say

Roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers are still intact and thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran’s arsenal despite the daily pounding by US and Israeli strikes against military targets over the past five weeks, according to recent US intelligence assessments, three sources familiar with the intel told CNN.

CNN
Debrianna Mansini-I’m Spartacus7h ago
He hires only the best people #Predator47 #TrumpLies #pinks

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(((JaneinNJ)))7h ago

“Live Updates: Strong Showing for Job Market in Latest Report.” On principle, I’m going to assume that there are “falsehoods” in this report. Could someone smarter than me please explain where to look and what not to believe? I am not joking. Gift link. #hivemind #Fediverse #LaborReport #TrumpLies

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/03/business/jobs-report-economy?unlocked_article_code=1.YFA.k8aq.jS4KafDs-4vx&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Jobs Report Live Updates: U.S. Added 178,000 Jobs in March With Market Stronger Than Expected

U.S. employers added 178,000 jobs in March, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.3 percent, a robust showing after a run of weakness.

The New York Times
Church of Jeff1d ago
#PamBondi #TrumpEpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinCoverup #Trump #TrumpLies #Project2025
Political Cartoon Gallery1d ago
Dave Brown @DaveBrownToons on #Trump #TrumpLies #AttackOnIran #IranWar @Independent – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
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The White House website offers a far lower number, $10.5 trillion, & that figure appears to include some investment commitments made during the #Biden admin.

A study published in January raised doubts about whether more than $5 trillion in investment commitments made last year by many of America’s biggest trading partners will actually materialize & questions how it would be spent if it did.

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https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-investment-foreign-2f7dc458d48f044c31fbc9128e867206

Trump's trillion-dollar investment promises face skepticism

President Donald Trump strong-armed America’s biggest trading partners into pledging trillions of dollars of investment in the United States. But a study out Tuesday raises doubts about whether the money will actually materialize and questions how it would be spent if it did. “How realistic are these commitments?’’ write Gregory Auclair and Adnan Mazarei of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “The short answer is that they are clouded with uncertainty.’’ They looked at more than $5 trillion in investment commitments made last year by the European Union, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Persian Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

AP News
Show threadNonilex1d ago

CLAIM: #Trump cited “record-setting setting investments coming into the United States, over $18 trillion.”

THE FACTS: Trump has presented NO evidence that he’s secured this much domestic or foreign investment in the US. Based on statements from various companies, foreign countries & the White House’s own website, that figure appears to be exaggerated, highly speculative & far higher than the actual sum [total bullshit].

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#Oil is a commodity, “the price of which is set in a global market,” University of Chicago #energy analyst Sam Ori said before Trump’s speech, “& a disruption anywhere affects the price everywhere.’’ Which is why the price of benchmark #US crude oil is up more than 50% since the #Iran #war began, & the average price of US gallon of #gasoline cracked $4 a gallon this week.

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CLAIM: “We’re now totally independent of the #MiddleEast, & yet we are there to help. We don’t have to be there. We don’t need their #oil.”

THE FACTS: It’s true that the #US is by far the world’s leading producer of oil & relies on the Persian Gulf for a fraction (8.5% in 2025) of the oil it imports. But, as is obvious at US gas pumps, that doesn’t mean it is unaffected by the turmoil in the Middle East.

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However, HRANA said thousands more may have been killed, though internet & communication restrictions in #Iran since have made verifying the reports incredibly difficult. It put total arrests at more than 53,000.

Iran’s government, which long has played down death tolls in other unrest, offered its only toll on Jan. 21, saying 3,117 people were killed.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #IranWar #Trump