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Sunday, April 20, 2025

FACT FOCUS: A look at claims around Trump’s initiatives as he prepares to address Congress - Akron News-reporter

By MELISSA GOLDIN

President Donald Trump will address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night to highlight changes he has made since taking office six weeks ago. Among the areas he may cover are negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war, cutbacks to the U.S. Agency for International Development, scrutiny of Social Security recipients and border security crackdowns. But some of the Republican president’s recent statements on these topics, among others, have been false and misleading.

Here’s a look at the facts:

Russia-Ukraine war

Trump berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an Oval Office meeting on Friday for being “disrespectful.” He then abruptly called off the signing of a minerals deal that he said would have moved Ukraine closer to ending its war with Russia. The relationship between Trump and Zelenskyy has changed significantly since Feb. 19, when Trump made a number of false statements about Zelenskky, including calling him “a dictator.”

Trump, speaking at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Feb .18, suggested Ukraine started the...



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