Fact-check: Trump’s seven-year jail claim for fixing a car is false
FactCheck.org debunks Trump’s assertion that someone was jailed for seven years for fixing his car. The pardon he cited concerned Troy Lake, who actually served seven months for violating the Clean Air Act by tampering with emissions monitoring on hundreds of trucks, not seven years, and the case is only tangential to the broader right-to-repair debate about consumers fixing their own vehicles and access to telematics data.