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Fact-checker issues blistering audit of Trump's 'everything is cheaper' lie
Trump Didn’t Fix Prices. He Repackaged Them.The Egg Is the PropDonald Trump’s latest economic boast is a familiar fraud: pick one visible price, declare victory, and hope the public won’t look at the rest of the receipt. The source material makes the problem plain. CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale audited Trump’s claim that “everything” is cheaper and found the opposite: prices have risen across far more categories than they have fallen.Eggs are the showpiece because they are easy to talk about and easy to remember. That is exactly why they are useful to a politician trying to turn inflation into…
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