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Border-wall construction claim and accounting

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Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks
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Documented public claim and fact-check

Trump described the border-wall program as delivering large amounts of new wall. FactCheck.org's December 2020 accounting found that much of the construction replaced or reinforced existing barriers and that construction remained below the original campaign promise.

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independent-corroboration

Dated sources

  1. — FactCheck.org (Independent reporting)
  2. — Washington Post claims database (Independent claims archive)

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Border-wall construction claim and accounting. Donaldtrumpler.com. https://donaldtrumpler.com/records/2020-12-border-wall-progress-claim/

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