Trump's Lies vs. Obama's Lies

[DonViejo]

December 15, 2017 at 9:37 am EST By Taegan Goddard

New York Times: “After we published a list of President Trump’s lies this summer, we heard a common response from his supporters. They said, in effect: Yes, but if you made a similar list for previous presidents, it would be just as bad.”

“We’ve set out to make that list… We applied the same conservative standard to Obama and Trump, counting only demonstrably and substantially false statements. The result: Trump is unlike any other modern president. He seems virtually indifferent to reality, often saying whatever helps him make the case he’s trying to make.”



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https://politicalwire.com/2017/12/15/trumps-lies-vs-obamas-lies/

[DetlefK]

1. No fair! I wanted to post that!

[NewJeffCT]

2. And, I'm guessing that he will soon surpass

Obama for golf expenses

[forgotmylogin]

7. Surely he already has.

The Secret Service has no more budget for overtime.

[democratisphere]

3. drumpf's off the Lie-ometer Charts.

His lies are on a vertical rise!

[0rganism]

10. he's going semi-logarithmic on us!

seriously going to have to rethink how to scale these charts by the time he's done

[democratisphere]

12. Reverse the axis.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

4. Fox news cited politifact Obama 98 vs trumps 108

Their logic was each time President Obama cited you can keep your doctor.

Any talking point to throw at trumps 30 percent crowd.

[genxlib]

6. That "keep your Doctor" thing bugs the shit of me.

Not knowing the potential impacts of a policy is not a lie. At best it is a naive assumption about what affects your policy would have.

[Orsino]

8. Yeah. Failing to secure a guarantee in legislation that you didn't craft is not the same as a lie.

n/t

[uponit7771]

5. Chuck Todd: "... they both lie ..."

[yallerdawg]

9. "103 lies?"

Tell me the NYT isn't a conservative newspaper?

(WaPo over a 1,000! )

[Kirk Lover]

11. Yeah what are they talking about? Maybe they mean lies about policy because in general

this guy has lied waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than Obama, waaaaaaaaaaaay more than any politician.