Posted on 04/29/2019 8:12:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Washington Post is out with an updated count of President Trump's false and misleading statements since Inauguration Day. And it shows that Trump has surpassed the 10,000 mark. It's a milestone, but not a cause for celebration. Whatever the opposite of popping champagne is, do that, I guess?
"The president continues to say false or misleading statements at an unbelievable pace," The Post's fact-checker-in-chief, Glenn Kessler, said on CNN's "New Day" Monday morning.
"He hit 5,000 in September. Now here it is, seven months later, and he's now hit 10,000," Kessler said. "That's an average of about 23 false or misleading claims a day in the last seven months."
Kessler's new story, co-written with Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly, says "the tsunami of untruths just keeps looming larger and larger."
Many of the misstatements are about immigration issues with distortions and utter falsehoods about migrants, border walls, and Democrats.
Other common bogus claims relate to Robert Mueller's probe, trade talks with other countries, and Trump's accomplishments in office. The Post's database includes everything from exaggerations to outright lies.
As of Saturday night, after the president held a rally in Wisconsin, the Post's official count was 10,111 false or misleading statements in 828 days. The Post has observed that Trump has become looser and looser with the facts over time.
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If so he is still way way behind the politicians,newspapers and TV.
Like the time he said his wires were tapped. Oh, wait a minute, they were tapped.
Media Matters whore, Stelter, lives in his own world.
Yes who is the media to judge. Give me the news and I will judge who is wrong.
“The Washington Post; where honest journalism goes to die in the dark.”
More Leftist garbage makes its way to FR. The sources of Washington Post and CNN should be a clue.
Funny. I can't think of even one.
And I tried.
Burgers stacked a mile high
Why don’t they publish the quotes, instead of giving their followers generalizations.
WAPO is stuck on stupid.
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WAPO=C_A=DEEPSTATE=SCARED ,,, Nobody is going to walk away from what’s coming.
Since Trump has been on The View 18 times, can we accuse Stelter of 18 lies? That’s probably how the Post would evaluate a similar error by Trump.
I don’t remember which site it was, but some conservative site recently analyzed several hundred of the alleged “lies” and found that they were either wholly or partially true.
Name one, Bezos!!!! Elaborate!!
“The Post has observed that Trump has become looser and looser with the facts over time.”
Yet we are supposed to take it on faith that this trash excuse for a news org that has been peddling in falsehoods, innuendo, skirting the truth and all sort of propaganda is some bastion of knowledge here?
Give him another two or three hundred years and he may catch up to CNN!
They consider the president calling them “fake” news is a lie so I guess 10,000 would be just about right! Boy, that’s all they got?
Washington Post says Trump has topped 10,000 false or misleading statements
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Hmmm...how many false and misleading statements have the Washington Post and CNN topped?
He’s not a lawyer or a diplomat. He just speaks roughly without precision, but the ordinary person understands perfectly what he is trying to say. I doubt there are any deliberate falsehoods on their list if looked at that way.
I wish the WP would give this some context. Didn’t Obama say some crazy crap too never mind all the previous Presidents. I think all politicians just go there and say incorrect comments either because their staff have not fully investigated the talking point or they just want to make their point no matter how wrong they are.
As for Trump, I try not to listen to him too much and instead focus on his policy proposals. From there, I can make a decision whether it is a good policy or not. Maybe the Post should do the same.
RE: I doubt there are any deliberate falsehoods on their list if looked at that way.
The problem with the WaPo is they count one specific thing he says as ONE lie. And then when he repeats the same thing 10 times, they consider it 10 lies.
Take ‘This is the greatest economy ever’. You can dispute that statement and point to other times in the past when the GDP was much higher than today’s and then call Trump’s statement a “lie”. For me, the worst you can call it is an exaggeration. If he repeats it 10 times, then the waPo, on that basis, calls it 10 lies.
With this way of looking at things, which modern politician has not lied 10,000 times ( if they bothered to trail that person and count )?
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