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Fact-check: Michael Knowles’s $17 trillion investment claim
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Michael Knowles said the first part of the Trump administration delivered "$17 trillion, new investment in America." We rate that false. Truth score 0.1, confidence 0.9.
The White House's own list of investment announcements totalled $8.8 trillion the month that number was first said publicly, and BEA measures $232.2 billion in actual new foreign direct investment for all of 2025.
The Michael Knowles Show, Ep. 2043, 21 August 2026, at 36:09. The line arrives as an appositive inside a sentence about midterm enthusiasm — no source, no…
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