Austin American-Statesman

Trump’s caps are made in California, not China

- By W. Gardner Selby wgselby@statesman.com Statement: PolitiFact

Not welcoming Donald Trump to the Texas capital, a legislator said she can’t wait for Hillary Clinton’s election and improved chances of comprehens­ive immigratio­n reform.

State Rep. Celia Israel, joining fellow Austin Democrats at a press conference before Trump’s Austin events last Tuesday, also declared that voters wouldn’t forget the Republican presidenti­al nominee’s vows to build a wall on the border with Mexico and to round up and deport people living here without legal authorizat­ion.

“Your words are cheap, Mr. Trump,” Israel said, “as cheap as the made-in-China gimme caps that proclaim that you will make America great again.”

Hold on: Our sister fact-checking site PunditFact ruled in October 2015 that tweets claiming that Trump’s “Make America Great Again” caps were made in China were incorrect and ridiculous. Snopes.com reached a similar conclusion.

The campaign hats weremade in California, each organizati­on found, with knockoffs sewn elsewhere.

At the time, Hope Hicks, a Trump campaign spokeswoma­n,

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