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jpak

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Wed Jun 19, 2019, 09:37 AM Jun 2019

Fact check: Trump's Orlando rally featured more than 15 false claims over 76 minutes [View all]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/politics/fact-check-trump-orlando-rally/index.html

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump kicked off his formal reelection campaign Tuesday night with a rally in Orlando. His 76-minute speech featured more than 15 false statements, many of them ones that he's repeated frequently in the past.

Here's a fact check:

Energy

Trump boasted about his administration's energy policies.

"And we've ended the last administration's cruel and heartless law on American energy. What they were doing to our energy should never be forgotten. The United States is now the number-one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world."

"We are, by the way, the number-one producer of energy in the world because of what we've done right now."

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