Fact-checking President Trump’s tax speech in Indianapolis

The following article by Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee Lee was posted on the Washington Post website September 28, 2017:

President Trump announced his tax plan on Sept. 27 in Indianapolis. We fact checked his address. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)

President Trump’s speech on the administration’s still-somewhat-vague tax plan, delivered in Indianapolis on Sept. 27, was filled with many of his favorite, inaccurate claims. For instance, he repeatedly says he is offering the “largest tax cut in our country’s history,” a dubious claim when properly measured as a percentage of the nation’s gross domestic product.  Here’s a sampling of other inaccurate claims — and one case in which he appears to have adjusted his language because of our previous fact checks. Continue reading “Fact-checking President Trump’s tax speech in Indianapolis”