Trump Unmasked
15 media myths about the first MAGA presidency (2017-2021)
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Many Americans remember the war against the Islamic State being lost in October 2019, when U.S. forces pulled back from northeastern Syria. The group had lost Baghouz, the last village it held, on March 23, seven months earlier, and has retaken no territory since.
That sequence is typical of what this book recovers. Across fifteen claims that shaped the memory of Trump’s first term, it goes to the primary record, so you can state what happened on each one and name the source that shows it: enacted appropriations, IRS return data, EPA emissions inventories, inspector general reports.
The gap is often between an announcement and an outcome. Proposed cuts to federal law enforcement drew the coverage; the appropriations Congress passed raised FBI funding from about $9 billion in fiscal 2017 to about $9.6 billion in fiscal 2020. The same record cuts against the president’s defenders: of roughly 458 miles of border wall completed, only about 80 stood where no comparable barrier had stood before.
You finish able to hold your ground on these four years with figures from both columns of the ledger, and with a question that outlasts them: is this number a proposal or an outcome?
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