In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims

By Glenn Kessler December 29 at 3:34 PM

President Trump gave an impromptu half-hour interview with the New York Times on Dec. 28. We combed through the transcript and here’s a quick roundup of the false, misleading or dubious claims that he made, at a rate of one every 75 seconds. (Some of the interview was off the record, so it’s possible the rate of false claims per minute is higher.)

“Virtually every Democrat has said there is no collusion. There is no collusion. .?.?. I saw Dianne Feinstein the other day on television saying there is no collusion.”

Trump appears to be referring to an interview with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. She did not flatly say there was no collusion and instead was more nuanced. Asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper on Nov. 5 whether she had “seen any evidence that this dirt, these emails, were ever given to the Trump campaign,” she replied: “Not so far.” Tapper than asked: “Have you seen any communications that suggested that the Trump campaign wanted them to release them through a different means?” She answered: “I have not.”

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“There was collusion with the Russians and the Democrats. A lot of collusion. .?.?. Starting with the dossier. But going into so many other elements. And Podesta’s firm.”

Trump has falsely accused Clinton campaign manager John Podesta of being involved with a Russian company. Tony Podesta co-founded the Podesta Group, a lobbying firm, with his brother John. But it’s a U.S.-based company, not a company in Russia. Trump likely is referring to the Podesta Group being paid $170,000 over six months to represent Sberbank, a Russian bank. The Podesta Group said its work for Sberbank USA was “never about getting sanctions lifted,” and “was simply about helping to clarify to what extent our client, the U.S. subsidiary [of Sberbank], was subject to sanctions. We confirmed they were not.” As for alleged collusion between the Democrats and Russia, Trump is referring to the fact that Fusion GPS, the political research firm that assembled the dossier as part of an assignment for Democrats, relied on a British intelligence agent who used Russian sources for his research. So that’s a rather big stretch.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/12/29/in-a-30-minute-interview-president-trump-made-24-false-or-misleading-claims/

[gopiscrap]

1. not surprising

as of 12/15/17 he had lied 1605 times

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Just for fun I fact checked Obama lies, and found less in his entire life than trump in one day.

NOt exaggerating.

Go to fact check . org

In his LIFE he has lied less than trump does in ONE average day.

And most of what even they call lies on Obama were not outright lies, for instance he said his red line for Syria was chemical weapons then a year later said it was the UN red line, they called that a lie.

[Girard442]

3. So, math says that for at least six minutes he wasnt lying.

Not necessarily consecutive minutes, but still. Just another example of the lying press covering up good news.

[MurrayDelph]

4. 24 lies in 30 minutes?

Trumpy is slowing down.