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Fact check: What Trump got wrong, right in his State of the Union address

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump likes to boast about the records he has achieved, but there's at least one mark the White House tries to downplay - the president has amassed an unprecedented number of inaccurate statements. The Los Angeles Times' staff analyzed the State of the Union address on Tuesday to try to separate truths from falsehoods. Here are some of the highlights:

The tax cuts enacted last month are not the biggest in American history, despite what Trump asserted in his speech Tuesday night.

"Just as I promised the American people from this

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