It is often that members of the Trump administration are wrong when stating a fact about their work, but it isn’t frequent at all that they offer a correction for an error. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders did so Tuesday night (Aug. 14) for stating that President Trump has created triple the amount of jobs for the African-American community than President Obama over the course of his two terms.


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Speaking at the White House press briefing Sanders stated, “That’s 700,000 African-Americans that are working now that weren’t working when this President took place. When President Obama left, after eight years in office, he had only created 195,000 jobs for African-Americans.”

The Labor Department states that the numbers are off. While there have been 700,000 jobs that have been newly acquired by African-American citizens, it is far from the 3 million that President Obama created.

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“Correction from today’s briefing: Jobs numbers for Pres Trump and Pres Obama were correct, but the time frame for Pres Obama wasn’t. I’m sorry for the mistake, but no apologies for the 700,000 jobs for African Americans created under President Trump,” Sanders issued online.