Posted on 02/14/2019 9:18:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Two years after taking the oath of office, President Trump has made 8,158 false or misleading claims, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.
That includes an astonishing 6,000-plus such claims in the president’s second year.
Put another way: The president averaged nearly 5.9 false or misleading claims a day in his first year in office. But he hit nearly 16.5 a day in his second year, almost triple the pace.
We started this project as part of our coverage of the president’s first 100 days, largely because we could not possibly keep up with the pace and volume of the president’s misstatements. Readers demanded we keep it going for the rest of Trump’s presidency. Our interactive graphic, managed with the help of Leslie Shapiro of The Washington Post graphics department, displays a running list of every false or misleading statement made by Trump. You can also search for specific claims or obtain monthly or daily totals.
In the first 100 days, the president made 492 unsupported claims. He managed to top that number just in the first three weeks of 2019. In October, as he was barnstorming the country in advance of the midterm elections, he made more than 1,200 false or misleading claims.
Not surprisingly, the biggest source of misleading claims is immigration, with a tally that has grown with the addition of 300 immigration claims in the past three weeks, for a total of 1,433.
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HERE IS ONE OF THEIR FACT CHECKS:
Trump Said:
“Heroin alone kills 300 Americans a week, 90 percent of which comes across our southern border.”
WaPo fact checkers say:
The 300-a-week number checks out. But while 90 percent of the heroin sold in the United States comes from Mexico, virtually all of it comes through legal points of entry. “A small percentage of all heroin seized by [Customs and Border Protection] along the land border was between Ports of Entry (POEs),” the Drug Enforcement Administration said in a 2018 report. So Trump’s wall would do little to halt drug trafficking. Trump’s repeated claim that the wall would stop drug trafficking is a Bottomless Pinocchio claim.
I wonder if anyone has counted the false or misleading statements printed in the washington compost over the past two years?
All Ebola could come up with was “I’m an American citizen”, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”, and so on...
Are the communists counting “Make America Great Again” as a “false statement?”
The Washington Post never tells the truth when a lie advances their communists goals.
Like “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan”?
I imagine this will lead the corrupt fake news. Astonishing what this country has become allowing these unprecedented attacks on a President.
In two years? Heck, the WaPoo produces that many each week!
Proof they are mad about Trump’s approval numbers at 52%.
Could you imagine if the press actually had held Obama captive to every political hyperbole that spewed from his mouth?
Bezos who owns Amazon and the Washington Post allows them to continue to publish anti-Trump hate and lies. Maybe it is time to boycott Amazon.
Oh boy. Another fine WaPo sharticle.
Dunno has less credibility these days: them, or the Puffington Host.
This is a false and misleading claim.
Just another Fake News or BullShit Lie.....WTF
I’d like to see what 0bama’s list is.
“HOGWASH”......these people are insane. You have to be absolutely “Off-Your-Rocker” to undertake a useless project like this. Bottom Line: no one with a true functioning, object brain cares!!! Case Closed.
Who ever wrote the BS Stat is totally full of Shit....Shut the Hell Up....Moran
Where might I find a similar study of the Clinton & the Obama years?
just to compare...
NOT!!!!
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