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Fact Checker: President Trump made 19,127 false or misleading claims in 1,226 days
Washington Post ^ | June 1, 2020 | Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, Meg Kelly

Posted on 06/01/2020 11:10:56 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

It’s no longer a question as to whether President Trump will exceed 20,000 false or misleading claims by the time his current term is completed. Instead, we have to ask: Will he top 25,000?

As of May 29, his 1,226th day in office, Trump had made 19,127 false or misleading claims, according to the Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement he has uttered. That’s almost 16 claims a day over the course of his presidency. So far this year, he’s averaging just over 22 claims a day, similar to the pace he set in 2019.

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To: where's_the_Outrage?

NOTE: They counted every time he said “No Russia Collusion” as ANOTHER ‘lie’


41 posted on 06/01/2020 11:52:14 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: enumerated

I was just imagining the number of man-hours needed to study, research, and write all of this crap....perhaps why they missed the greatest story in US political history.

As for lies, virtually every accusation turns out to be baseless. There are soooooo damn many, it’s tiresome.

I start with “they bugged Trump Towers” ——TRUE

and

hydroxychloroquine’s has promise -—TRUE

Lots more recently challenged “ WITH NO EVIDENCE.”....such as suicides increase when govt. is shut down and unemployment skyrockets——TRUE

I’m tempted to compile the list of Trump lies proven to be TRUE.


42 posted on 06/01/2020 11:54:42 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Trump: It is 11:30pm.
Liberals: LIAR! It is 11:30pm and 10 seconds!


43 posted on 06/01/2020 12:09:43 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Maybe if they could actually PROVE just ONE.

Even our President’s most outrageous statements turn out to be based on
fact, if you dig for the truth of the matter in Question.
Every Single Time.
Every Single One.

Including curing with UV light inside one’s body.
Yes, even THAT one is based on fact. Look it up.
The EneMedia is betting you won’t.

Tired of their narrative yet?
Maybe they should go beat up on the QAnon folks some more, too.
(they are.)
Because they do the same thing with their outrageous (but true)
statements quite often, as well.

~Easy


44 posted on 06/01/2020 12:12:04 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: Mr. K

So using their logic and fact checking every time Trump was accused of Russian Collusion was a lie on their part. Probably well over a million.


45 posted on 06/01/2020 12:24:27 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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Learn Our Comms.

And Expand Your Thinking.


46 posted on 06/01/2020 12:25:51 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: Oldexpat
urinalism

LOL!

47 posted on 06/01/2020 12:33:47 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: teeman8r
for at the time, president trump did not know it was true.

Yes he did. General Rogers told him.


48 posted on 06/01/2020 12:40:52 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster
Trump ain't never lied.

Everything the derps call a lie turns out to be true.

He is overwhelming them with truth.

#MostTransparentPresidentEVER


49 posted on 06/01/2020 12:43:09 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

How many times did they “fact check” Obozo?


50 posted on 06/01/2020 12:45:06 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

If we count every time a politician says the same thing that is not exactly accurate, I imagine Pelosi would be in the thousands. I wonder why there is no newspaper anywhere compiling this?

I wonder why none of the right-wing sources are doing this. It would be entertaining. i bet if we counted Biden this way, he’d be in the thousands.


51 posted on 06/01/2020 12:48:40 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

If we count every time a politician says the same thing that is not exactly accurate, I imagine Pelosi would be in the thousands. I wonder why there is no newspaper anywhere compiling this?

I wonder why none of the right-wing sources are doing this. It would be entertaining. i bet if we counted Biden this way, he’d be in the thousands.


52 posted on 06/01/2020 12:48:48 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Glenn Kessler. Uh-huh.


53 posted on 06/01/2020 12:49:35 PM PDT by sauropod (Quarantine is when you restrict sick people, tyranny is when you restrict healthy people.)
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To: chiller

Ironically, the fake news has forfeited its credibility, not by saying things proven later to be untrue, but rather by naysaying ANYTHING President Trump says.

It doesn’t take long for people to realize that the fake news agenda has nothing to do with reporting the truth, and everything to do with opposing the President, regardless of truth.

Because they are programmed to oppose him at every turn, President Trump wields tremendous power over them. For example, he literally has the Democrats rooting for economic collapse, racial division, open borders, higher taxes, high gasoline prices, riots, closed churches, restaurants and entertainment venues, - in short, he has them supporting every unpopular thing you can imagine.

Just by saying he is against something, he forces them to speak out in favor of it! He could speak against cancer and they would suddenly be in favor of it.

The Democrats are literally against making America great again!


54 posted on 06/01/2020 12:51:52 PM PDT by enumerated
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Master trolling is not policy or fact. It’s bait and they just can’t resist it, hook, line and sinker. (As I point and laugh hysterically at the losers)


55 posted on 06/01/2020 12:54:32 PM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The previous democrat President, and many in his administration, orchestrated an attempted coup, destroying people’s lives along the way, but it’s Trump that is dishonest?


56 posted on 06/01/2020 1:09:02 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Which is about 1/10th of the lies told by the Post in the last three years.


57 posted on 06/01/2020 1:18:12 PM PDT by MCSETots
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

People are tiring of this shit while the Wapo cheers on rioters. They aren’t as bad as the NY Times who advocates for white genocide, but they still lie and suck and suck and lie.


58 posted on 06/01/2020 1:19:49 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: EasySt

‘Member this one he got so much flak for?

FEB 28
“It’s (’Rona) going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”

GEOTUS was right again.


59 posted on 06/01/2020 1:22:20 PM PDT by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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To: manc

I did a review of their stuff. I selected a batch of them from their “database” I analyzed 1068 of their claims.

Literally 2 were possibly false, and most likely bragging and the rest were declared his opinion was false, or just flat out lies by the WaPo. One of the funniest was a deal he’d worked out with the Saudi’s.

$100 billion in arms sales over 10 years. At the time of the claim, only $4.7 billion had been realized, so they claimed that the statement that he made that they had committed to $100 billion in sales was false not because they hadn’t committed to that number, but literally because they hadn’t been sold yet. Only $4.7 billion.

There were well over 300 of their claims that he lied by saying “I believe.....” Not a single statement that could be denied there, because literally they were his opinions. They spent considerable time with 198 “lies” of the economy was “great” because their crack economists, who predicted 11 of the last 4 recessions claimed it was only “good” and so he couldn’t say “great”.

All-in-all, their track record is simple. If they claim that it’s 20,000, then it’s really closer to 41.

They are sick.


60 posted on 06/01/2020 1:24:51 PM PDT by spacewarp (FreeRepublic, Rush's show prep since foundation.)
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