AP FACT CHECK: Too much credit going to President Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is giving himself too much credit for sending criminal foreigners out of the country and saving money on fighter planes.
TRUMP: We're getting gang members out, we're getting drug lords out, we're getting really bad dudes out of this country, at a rate nobody has ever seen before. ...
It's a military operation because what has been allowed to come into our country, when you see gang violence that you've read about like never before and all of the things, much of that is people who are here illegally.
Trump is broadly embellishing his brief track record on immigration and wrongly branding the deportation effort a military operation.
The government has not provided information about who was arrested in that roundup, so it's impossible to determine how many gang members or drug lords were in that group.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, responsible for finding and deporting immigrants in the country illegally, is a civilian law enforcement agency.
TRUMP, at a White House meeting with manufacturers, again claimed credit for a $700 million savings in the military's contract with Lockheed for the F-35 fighter jet.
"There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of additional F-35 cost savings as a result of President Trump's intervention," said Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with the aerospace consulting firm Teal Group.
CONWAY at a conference of the Conservative Political Action Committee: He has been promoting and elevating women in the Trump Corporation — in the Trump campaign, in the Trump Cabinet, certainly in the Trump White House.
Trump's top four Cabinet positions — secretary of state, attorney general, treasury secretary and defense secretary — are all filled by men.