White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday admitted she made a mistake when she falsely stated that President Donald Trump tripled the number of jobs President Barack Obama created for black Americans.
Sanders tweeted her correction hours after Tuesday’s press briefing.
“When President Obama left after eight years in office — eight years in office — he had only created 195,000 jobs for African-Americans,” Sanders told reporters during the press briefing. “President Trump in his first year and a half has already tripled what President Obama did in eight years.”
Obama had actually increased employment for black Americans by about 3 million jobs during his time in office, January 2009 to January 2017,