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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 06:50 PM Aug 2017

President 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=.6e31663d039a

We have been tracking President Trump’s 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.)

That’s 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 president’s “working vacation,” so we have finally been able to catch up.

At the president’s 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 president’s 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
K&R and Bookmarked! smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #1
A stunning LIAR malaise Aug 2017 #2
The biggest Presidential liar the world has ever seen Angry Dragon Aug 2017 #8
He sure is the worst President ever malaise Aug 2017 #9
By the time tonight's 3rd Reich Rally is over it'll top 1,100. BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #3
republicans lying systematically to Americans Achilleaze Aug 2017 #4
His pants stay on fire. gademocrat7 Aug 2017 #5
They're not lies as such. It's Trumpian Hyperbullshit. nt Xipe Totec Aug 2017 #6
But everybody lies, Hillary lied ONCE, so what is your point! Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #7
or as EVERY dipshit Trump troll on every message board in America posts 10 times/day... MrPurple Aug 2017 #11
Vegas should have an over/under on his total lie count when he leaves office MrPurple Aug 2017 #10
K & R L. Coyote Aug 2017 #12

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
4. republicans lying systematically to Americans
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 06:59 PM
Aug 2017

republicans are enemies of truth, enemies of American values.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
7. But everybody lies, Hillary lied ONCE, so what is your point!
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 07:16 PM
Aug 2017

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...
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 08:13 PM
Aug 2017

"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
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 08:08 PM
Aug 2017

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.

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