The Democratic Party is holding its convention in Philadelphia this week.
Every day, ABC News will be fact-checking speakers at the Democratic National Convention.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants
Rating: True. Trump has promised to deport undocumented immigrants, although he later said he would not describe his deportation policy as including “mass deportations.”
Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois described Trump as “someone who promises to round up and deport families, millions of families and then put up a wall between them and us.”
Background: This claim is difficult to evaluate since Trump has offered statements that seem to conflict.
On multiple occasions, Trump has made it clear that he intends to deport undocumented immigrants.
Trump later said he does not support “mass deportations,” in an interview with Bloomberg: “No, I would not call it mass deportations,” Trump said, when pressed on whether he would issue “mass deportations,” Bloomberg reported.
While it does not matter what Trump calls his policy, it is worth pointing out that after promising to deport undocumented immigrants, Trump later said explicitly that his immigration policy does not include “mass deportations.”
Claim: Trump wants to eliminate the federal minimum wage
Rating: Mostly true. Asked about raising the minimum wage, Trump said the federal government should not set a minimum-wage floor. But he has also said the federal minimum wage should stay the same.
Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania described Trump as someone “who wants to get rid of the federal minimum wage.”
Background: Trump has indeed said minimum wages are a state issue, not a federal one. Before that, he had made contradictory statements.
In May, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Trump about calls to raise the minimum wage above $7.25. Trump said he was “actually looking at that.” Previously, Trump had said during a primary debate that we should “leave it the way it is.”
Four days after the CNN interview, when NBC’s Chuck Todd asked why Trump was suddenly open to raising the minimum wage, Trump said, “I would like to see an increase of some magnitude. But I’d rather leave it to the states. You let the states decide.”
Asked “should the federal government set a floor” for a minimum wage, Trump responded: “No, I’d rather have the states go out and do what they have to do.”
It’s not correct to say that Trump wants no minimum wage at all, as Politifact notes. He has indeed indicated that the federal government should not set a minimum-wage floor, but since Trump was being asked about raising the minimum wage and since he had said previously that the federal minimum wage should be left as is, it’s not entirely clear that Trump wants to do away with the federal minimum as it currently stands.
Claim: Donald Trump opposes equal pay for women
Rating: Questionable. Donald Trump has said he believes women deserve equal pay for equal work.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said: “Donald Trump thinks that women should just work harder because -- and I’m quoting -- ‘You’re gonna make the same if you do as good of a job.’ Every woman in America knows -- that’s not true! Hillary believes that women deserve equal pay for equal work.”
Background: Asked on "Morning Joe" in August 2015 if he supports equal pay for women, Donald Trump gave a discursive answer, calling it a “tricky question” because of the difficulty in determining when work is truly equal, then made a passing reference to global competitiveness. Yet he also said: “If they do the same job, they should get the same pay.” He concluded his response by saying equal pay is “one of the things that we have to look at very strongly.”
Based on this response, it seems fair to conclude Trump has expressed support for equal pay, with some reservations. This stance appears to be consistent with the quote Gillibrand cites from Trump’s remarks at the October 2015 No Labels Problem Solver Convention.
As the below excerpt between Trump and an audience member shows, Trump in fact does not suggest that women need to work harder to earn equal pay, contrary to Gillibrand’s claim:
QUESTION: I want to get paid the same as a man and I think you understand that. So if you become president, will a woman make the same as a man and do I get to choose what I do with my body?
TRUMP: You're going to make the same if you do as good a job. And I happen to be pro-life. OK? I'm pro-life.
Ivanka Trump last week told the Republican National Convention that her father has “made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career” to pay women an equal wage, and that “he will fight for equal pay for equal work.”
So there’s reason to believe Trump supports equal pay -- at least in theory.
An analysis of payroll data by the Boston Globe, however, revealed that men working for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in April made, on average, about 35 percent more than women working on the campaign. (In fairness, data show Hillary Clinton’s Senate office paid women less, and the Clinton Foundation paid high-ranking female employees less than their male counterparts.) It should also be noted the RNC platform makes no mention of wage equality.
Claim: Trump dress shirts are made in Bangladesh; furniture is made in Turkey; picture frames are made in India; wine glasses are made in Slovenia; neck ties are made in China
Rating: Mostly true. Various reports have confirmed that the provenance of most of these products with a Trump label as listed by Sen. Casey are true.
Background: Sen. Casey said, “Where are his quote, ‘tremendous’ Trump products made? Dress shirts: Bangladesh; furniture: Turkey; picture frames: India; wine glasses: Slovenia; neckties: China. China.”
According to several reports, Casey accurately stated the provenance of these products:
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