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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Trumps list of false and misleading claims tops 1,000
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/08/22/president-trumps-list-of-false-and-misleading-claims-tops-1000/?utm_term=.6e31663d039aWe have been tracking President Trumps false or misleading claims for more than seven months. Somewhere around Aug. 4 or Aug. 5, he broke 1,000 claims, and the tally now stands at 1,057. (Our full interactive graphic can be found here.)
Thats an impressive number by any standard. In fact, we are a little late with this update because we have simply been overwhelmed keeping track of the deluge of claims made by the president in the later part of July. Things slowed down during the presidents working vacation, so we have finally been able to catch up.
At the presidents current pace, he averages nearly five claims a day. Many are repeats of claims that have been previously debunked. We also include statements that are unacknowledged flip-flops from previously held positions, such as touting new highs in a stock market that he previously derided as being a big, fat bubble.
More than 30 of the presidents misleading statements have been repeated three or more times.
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President Trumps list of false and misleading claims tops 1,000 (Original Post)
Stonepounder
Aug 2017
OP
or as EVERY dipshit Trump troll on every message board in America posts 10 times/day...
MrPurple
Aug 2017
#11
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)1. K&R and Bookmarked!
malaise
(267,808 posts)2. A stunning LIAR
We need a new word - pathological seems tame.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)8. The biggest Presidential liar the world has ever seen
malaise
(267,808 posts)9. He sure is the worst President ever
Good effin' grief
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)3. By the time tonight's 3rd Reich Rally is over it'll top 1,100.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)4. republicans lying systematically to Americans
republicans are enemies of truth, enemies of American values.
gademocrat7
(10,623 posts)5. His pants stay on fire.
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)6. They're not lies as such. It's Trumpian Hyperbullshit. nt
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)7. But everybody lies, Hillary lied ONCE, so what is your point!
Not even once, actually, exaggerated claim about being under fire, otherwise, nope
MrPurple
(985 posts)11. or as EVERY dipshit Trump troll on every message board in America posts 10 times/day...
"If you like your health care plan, you can keep it."
Because one misjudgement of an implication of incredibly complex legislation is the same as pathologically making shit up 24/7.
MrPurple
(985 posts)10. Vegas should have an over/under on his total lie count when he leaves office
Which would basically just be a wager of whether and when you think he will be removed from office because you can bank on him putting up around 200 lies/month. It's like Lebron's points per game.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)12. K & R