Here's A Running List Of President Trump's Lies And Other Bullshit
Buzzfeed.com
Updated March 20, 2017
There's a high bar to accusing someone of committing a "lie," and we don't do it lightly.
A lie isn't just a false statement...It's a false statement whose speaker knows it's false.
In these instances, the president - or his administration - have clear reason to know otherwise.
Reporters are understandably cautious about using the word - some never do, because it means speculating on what someone is thinking.
The cases we call "lies" are ones where we think it's fair to make that call.
Trump is saying something that contradicts clear and widely published information that we have reason to think he's seen.
The list also includes bullshit: speech that is - in it's academic definition - "unconnected to a concern with the truth."
MARCH 20; CLEARLY MIS=CHARACTERIZED THE FBI DIRECTOR AND DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE'S TESTIMONY ABOUT RUSSIAN INVOLVEMENT IN THE 2016 ELECTION
President Trump@POTUS
(Trump's words)
"The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process."
LIE
Trump posted the above tweet just hours after FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence Mike Rogers began testifying about Russian interference in the 2016 election in favor of Trump.
Comey testified that the FBI came to believe that Russia was using "active measures" to hurt the Clinton campaign and help the Trump campaign.
"They wanted to hurt our democracy, hurt her and help him," Comey said.
"Putin hated Secretary Clinton so much that the flip side of that coin was that he had a clear preference for the person running against the person he hated so much."
Trump's tweet - and the video clip included with it - is a selective portion of the hearing where Nunes was asking Rogers if he had evidence Russian changed vote tallies in selected states.
More:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/maryanngeorgantopoulos/president-trump-lie-list