claim: "we’ve lost 70,000 factories since china joined the world trade organization."
author: donald trump
evidence_1: mar 24, 2017 ... "since china joined — that's another beauty — the wto in 2001, the u.s. has  lost many more than 60000 factories," he said. we've heard ...
evidence_2: mar 26, 2018 ... then, nearly a month after that, trump's number grew to 70,000. (“we've lost  70,000 factories since china joined the world trade organization ...
evidence_3: apr 19, 2017 ... ... president donald trump made this claim tuesday in kenosha: “we've lost  70,000 factories since china joined the world trade organization.
evidence_4: dec 23, 2016 ... "we've lost 70,000 factories since china entered the world trade organization,"  trump said at an october rally, a refrain often repeated on the ...
evidence_5: apr 7, 2017 ... “since china joined, that's another beauty, the world trade organization in 2001,  the united states has lost many more than 60,000 factories.” true, but … mr.  trump has ... census bureau data does show that the number of manufacturing  establishments decreased by more than 70,000 from 2001 to 2014.