President Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading claims
President Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading claims
By Glenn Kessler ,
Salvador Rizzo and
Meg Kelly April 29 at 3:00 AM
It took President Trump 601 days to top 5,000 false and misleading claims in The Fact Checkers database, an average of eight claims a day.
But on April 26, just 226 days later, the president crossed the 10,000 mark an average of nearly 23 claims a day in this seven-month period, which included the many rallies he held before the midterm elections, the partial government shutdown over his promised border wall and the release of the special counsels report on Russian interference in the presidential election.
This milestone appeared unlikely when The Fact Checker first started this project during his first 100 days. In the first 100 days, Trump averaged less than five claims a day, which would have added up to about 7,000 claims in a four-year presidential term. But the tsunami of untruths just keeps looming larger and larger.
As of April 27, including the presidents rally in Green Bay, Wis., the tally in our database stands at 10,111 claims in 828 days.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/29/president-trump-has-made-more-than-false-or-misleading-claims
NanceGreggs
(27,817 posts)... for Republicans to be proud of.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)to coverup drumpf's ridiculous number of lies? If only they were lying and dying because of it.
Joe Nation
(963 posts)Lying is lying is lying no matter how you do it.
yuiyoshida
(41,836 posts)Not one President lied ever like Trump. He is the King of Lies and DECEIT.
Botany
(70,567 posts)Trump: Fox's Napolitano asked me to put him on Supreme Court.
Trump: Mothers and Doctors kill healthy babies after they are born.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)Keep the public's head spinning with confusion as to what is truth. Social media is the perfect platform with no accountability.
Then, as one of W's people once told a reporter: "we create our own reality"........
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)if it can be called that, he has. He is still a spoiled child, "young and vibrant" The mirrors in the WH must have been replaced with Fun House mirrors. He lumbers along like an overweight sumo wrestler.