AP FACT CHECK: A rash of Trump statements under scrutiny
The intensifying investigations into Russian interference in the election and the potential involvement of associates have reached his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and appear to have caught the president in a bare-knuckled mood.
A look at some of the assertions under scrutiny in recent days, before Trump flew home and raged about "fake news" leaks from the White House.
[...] no money is pouring in and countries do not pay the U.S. Nor do they pay NATO directly, apart from administrative expenses, which are not the issue.
The countries agreed in 2014 to stop cutting their military spending and to start increasing it "toward" 2 percent of their gross domestic product by 2024.
In an April 21 interview with The Associated Press, Trump said he believed an attack that week on police officers in Paris would help the National Front leader because the violence played to her strengths.
Whoever is the toughest on radical Islamic terrorism, and whoever is the toughest at the borders, will do well in the election.
Trump's own State Department's human rights report, updated in March, described in harsh terms the more than 6,000 killings by police and vigilantes of suspected Philippine drug dealers and users.
The killings, carried out without formal evidence or trials, were to fulfill a Duterte campaign promise to eliminate illegal drug activity in the country by the end of last year.
The report said Duterte released lists of suspected drug criminals on at least two occasions and some on those lists were killed in police or vigilante operations.
TRUMP, on his Oval Office meeting May 10 with Russia's foreign minister and ambassador: Just so you understand, I never mentioned the word or the name 'Israel,' never mentioned it in that conversation.
Speaking to reporters on Air Force One en route to Italy on Thursday night, he added that natural gas is such a cleaner fuel and the U.S. could become a manufacturing powerhouse by spending on wind and solar energy.
Natural gas supplies have surged with the advent of fracking, making coal increasingly uncompetitive as an energy source.
[...] the Trump-supported rollback of President Barack Obama's health care law would reduce federal money that 31 states and the District of Columbia have relied on to extend coverage to low-income adults under Medicaid.
The Republican health care bill passed by the House would cap the overall federal share of Medicaid spending, meaning it would no longer be an open-ended entitlement.
[...] the Trump budget could compound those restrictions by reducing the rate of growth in federal Medicaid money even more.
MULVANEY: I went back and looked at some of the economic assumptions that the Obama administration made in its first couple of years.
The multinational deal froze Iran's nuclear program in return for an end to a variety of oil, trade and financial sanctions on Tehran.
[...] there are a lot of folks in Washington who have felt that sometimes NAFTA panels overstep their bounds" and don't defer to American laws, says Dean Pinkert, a partner at the Hughes Hubbard & Reed law firm and former member of the U.S. International Trade Commission.
TRUMP told Coast Guard cadets of his "historic investment in our military," adding: "I'm proud to say that under my administration, as you just heard, we will be building the first new heavy icebreakers the United States has seen in over 40 years." — speech to Coast Guard Academy May 17.
The icebreaker project he boasts about started under the Obama administration and Trump's budget would advance it only incrementally, spending $19 million to continue efforts "toward awarding a contract" for design and construction in 2019.