President Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading claims | The Fact Check
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Opinion: Washington Post’s 10,000 Trump untruths is about 25% fake news
By Steve Goldstein
Published: Apr 29, 2019 2:27 p.m. ET
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‘Literally true’ comments can be misleading, fact checker says
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President Donald Trump is about 25% less untruthful than the Washington Post says.
President Donald Trump, according to one well-publicized tally, has told 10,000 whoppers during this presidency.
His falsehoods include such incredible claims such as accurately stating the number of new jobs since the election. Or Trump saying he signed executive orders that he did, in fact, sign. Or claiming that Sen. Bernie Sanders, who wants corporate taxes to increase, worker wages to rise, and stock buybacks to end, wants 401(k) values to “dissipate.”
If those don’t sound so fraudulent, that’s because they’re not. The Washington Post’s count of what it calls “false and misleading statements,” and what other media outlets quickly short-handed to “lies” by Trump, is itself inflated.
Sensing that the fact checkers are a bit too quick on the draw, I decided to review a series of contentions made by Glenn Kessler and the fact-checking team at the Washington Post. Rather than review all 10,000, I focused on the most recent 50 claims in both “economy” and “jobs,” mostly because I’m confident in the subject matter, and the data is well at hand. I found 27 out of 100 Trump comments to be defensible if not unimpeachably accurate.
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Opinion: Washington Post’s 10,000 Trump untruths is about 25% fake news
By Steve Goldstein
Published: Apr 29, 2019 2:27 p.m. ET
308
‘Literally true’ comments can be misleading, fact checker says
Reuters
President Donald Trump is about 25% less untruthful than the Washington Post says.
President Donald Trump, according to one well-publicized tally, has told 10,000 whoppers during this presidency.
His falsehoods include such incredible claims such as accurately stating the number of new jobs since the election. Or Trump saying he signed executive orders that he did, in fact, sign. Or claiming that Sen. Bernie Sanders, who wants corporate taxes to increase, worker wages to rise, and stock buybacks to end, wants 401(k) values to “dissipate.”
If those don’t sound so fraudulent, that’s because they’re not. The Washington Post’s count of what it calls “false and misleading statements,” and what other media outlets quickly short-handed to “lies” by Trump, is itself inflated.
Sensing that the fact checkers are a bit too quick on the draw, I decided to review a series of contentions made by Glenn Kessler and the fact-checking team at the Washington Post. Rather than review all 10,000, I focused on the most recent 50 claims in both “economy” and “jobs,” mostly because I’m confident in the subject matter, and the data is well at hand. I found 27 out of 100 Trump comments to be defensible if not unimpeachably accurate.
StoneByStone
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No sources to any of these claims.
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Read it bitch !
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
StoneByStone
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I did.
"Or Trump saying he signed executive orders that he did, in fact, sign."
Such as?
StoneByStone
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The three lies they talk about in this are very easily confirmed.
Vasquezrocks
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So now it’s 3 lies ????? Cough , cough , bullshit at its finest !
PostmodernProphet
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well there you go then.......you only faked 9,997......
Go ahead and deny that he lies on a regular basis. Pathological.
Delusional moron. Trump tard.
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The atrocity tRump is a walking dripping and oozing colostomy bag of stinking lies as demonstrated.
gemini104104
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Obviously not because that is the Trumptard style at running with fact free nonsense, and expect it to make sense. I would be so ashamed of myself if I had such a deplorable disposition in favor of a Putin puppet and a enemy of America and humanity #45 that is.
