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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Trump has made 3,251 false or misleading claims in 497 days
By Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly
June 1 at 3:00 AM
In the 497 days since he took the oath of office, President Trump has made 3,251 false or misleading claims, according to The Fact Checkers database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president. Thats an average of more than 6.5 claims a day.
When we first started this project for the presidents first 100 days, he averaged 4.9 claims a day. But the average number of claims per day keeps climbing as the president nears the 500-day mark of his presidency.
In the month of May, the president made about eight claims a day including an astonishing 35 claims in his rally in Nashville on May 29.
Among the claims at the rally: He more than tripled the projected savings from repealing Obamacare, and said the individual mandate was unconstitutional even though the Supreme Court, in an opinion written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., said it passed constitutional muster. He once again falsely said he passed the biggest tax cut in U.S. history, when its only in eighth place. He inflated the trade deficit with Mexico. And he offered a long list of false statements about immigration, ranging from mischaracterizing the visa lottery to whether his long-promised wall is being built. (Its not.) He also twisted the words of Democrats, casting words of sympathy for undocumented immigrants as support for MS-13 gang members.
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Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)That would burn his ass. And it cuts though to the core.
riversedge
(70,231 posts)that might do it.