Washington Post: Donald Trump is Claiming Credit for Saving U.S. Jobs. Does He Deserve It?

By Philip Bump:

Dow Chemical

What Trump said: At a rally last month, Trump introduced Dow chief executive Andrew Liveris, whom the president-elect tapped to run the American Manufacturing Council.

Liveris told the crowd that his company would be creating jobs in Michigan.

“We're going to invest a new state-of-the-art innovation center in Michigan,” he said. “We're going to put an R-and-D center in place. This decision. . . . Because of this man. And these policies. We could have waited. We could have put it anywhere in the world. Several hundred jobs, on top of the thousands. We aren't waiting.”

What really happened: The “thousands” mentioned by Liveris appears to refer to existing Dow jobs in the state. In a subsequent news release, the company offered more details. “The innovation center will support approximately 200 research and development jobs in Michigan,” it read, “including 100 newly created jobs while repatriating 100 jobs from other Dow facilities throughout the globe to Midland.”

The Full Story (January 3, 2017)