WAPO: Jan 2: 45 has made 1,950 false or misleading claims over 347 days

[lindysalsagal]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/01/02/president-trump-has-made-1949-false-or-misleading-claims-over-347-days/?utm_term=.586e46d71005

By Glenn Kessler, Meg Kelly and Nicole Lewis

With just 18 days before President Trump completes his first year as president, he is now on track to exceed 2,000 false or misleading claims, according to our database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.

As of Monday, the total stood at 1,950 claims in 347 days, or an average of 5.6 claims a day. (Our full interactive graphic can be found here.)

As regular readers know, the president has a tendency to repeat himself — often. There are now more than 60 claims that he has repeated three or more times. The president’s impromptu 30-minute interview with the New York Times over the holidays, in which he made at least 24 false or misleading claims, included many statements that we have previously fact-checked.

[Orrex]

1. I still can't believe that the number is so low

[Bob Loblaw]

2. This number

apparently only takes into account those statements on the record. There is really no way to know how many lies he tells in private... or on the golf course.

[PJMcK]

4. It isn't low

While I recognize your sarcasm, Orrex, Trump's abundance of lies is a remarkable, if pathetic, accomplishment.

2,000 falsehoods in 365 days is about 5.5 lies everyday. Try it yourself. It would be incredibly hard for anyone normal to do!

[Orrex]

5. You're correct, of course. It's horrifying.

And I can count on less than one finger the number of times I've heard the mainstream media unambiguously call him a liar, or even called out any of his statements as lies.

Instead, they are misstatements, or they are incorrect statements, or they statements at odds with the facts, all of it feeding into the narrative that there's no such thing as a lie in the Trump universe.


The whole thing represents a grotesque dereliction of duty by every member of the press, on a scale that the modern world hasn't seen.

[Mc Mike]

3. What an exhausting pace he's set.

And here I've been calling him a lazy p.o.s., all this time. I have to apologize for spreading the fake news.