Trump Lies In Office So Far Top 1,000
We have been tracking President Trump’s false or misleading claims for more than seven months. Somewhere around Aug. 4 or Aug. 5, he broke 1,000 claims, and the tally now stands at 1,057. ( Our full interactive graphic can be found here .)
That’s an impressive number by any standard. In fact, we are a little late with this update because we have simply been overwhelmed keeping track of the deluge of claims made by the president in the later part of July. Things slowed down during the president’s “working vacation,” so we have finally been able to catch up.
At the president’s current pace, he averages nearly five claims a day. Many are repeats of claims that have been previously debunked. We also include statements that are unacknowledged flip-flops from previously held positions, such as touting new highs in a stock market that he previously derided as being a “big, fat bubble.”
More than 30 of the president’s misleading statements have been repeated three or more times.
Trump’s most repeated claim, uttered 50 times, was some variation of the statement that the Affordable Care Act is dying and “essentially dead.” The Congressional Budget Office has said that the Obamacare exchanges, despite well-documented issues, are not imploding and are expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future. Moreover, Congress has been unable to pass a law that would repeal Obamacare, making the continuation of the law Trump’s problem.
Trump repeatedly takes credit for events or business decisions that happened before he took the oath of office — or had even been elected. Forty-two times, he has touted that he secured business investments and job announcements that had been previously announced and could easily be found with a Google search. And 19 times he has boasted that he achieved a reduction in the cost of Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters , even though the price cut had been in the works before he was elected.
But some of the president’s repeated claims have nothing to do with policy but instead rehash discredited campaign rhetoric, such as the false charge that Hillary Clinton gave 20 percent of the U.S. uranium supply to Russia or that the deputy FBI director got $700,000 from Clinton . Both claims were deemed Four-Pinocchios false in 2016. Yet Trump brought them up 11 times.
Some of Trump’s favorite claims are simply odd. Eleven times, he has said that the United States has already spent $6 trillion on “Middle East wars,” money that could have been used instead on building roads in the United States. He often suggests this is a recently calculated figure, but it combines the cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (which is actually in South Asia) and then includes future obligations for veterans costs and interest on the debt through 2053.
At the six-month mark, the president was averaging 4.6 claims a day, but he has now increased his pace. At his current rate, the president won’t break 2,000 claims in his first year in office. But with five months to go, all bets are off.
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The leading paper in our nation's capitol has accounted for over 1,000 lies by President Trump during his brief period in office.
He lies so often and so casually that each individual lie loses all meaning.
The people who support this travesty need to be ashamed of themselves.
It is an odd set of circumstances when you can guarantee that Trump is either lying or has no idea what he is really saying everytime he starts speaking.
Or as somebody said, "everytime he uses words"
Ah yes, the leading liberal trash rag is ragging on the president again...
Why am I not surprised.
You don't like The Washingtom Post?
Okay, fine.
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How about Newsweek Magazine?
NEIL BUCHANAN: THE THOUSAND AND ONE LIES OF DONALD TRUMP
How does that work for you?
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How about Newsweek Magazine?
The only difference between Newsweek and the Daily Kos is Newsweek in in print.
Exactly the same as the WP only using more expensive paper and print processes.
As far as prof. Neil H. Buchanan?
He was a law clerk for federal judge Robert H Henry, Appointed to the US District Court by Bill Clinton, and is a registered democrat.
Liberal democrat judges usually only accept liberal democrat law clerks.....
Sorry, drivel is drivel no matter how much education you have or position you hold.
And John, you already know I'm not a T-Rump supporter and I didn't vote for him. the Trumpian Gazette, is just as much toilet paper is the other publications you and friends cite.
Lemme ask a question my friend? why is it when trash gets printed it automatically becomes gospel to liberals? I mean does the ink on paper have something to do with changing it's credibility from none to absolute truth for you guys?
Ted Cruz said Trump is a LIAR.
Ted Cruz is a Republican.
Mitt Romney said Trump is a LIAR.
Mitt Romney is a Republican.
I can name a lot more REPUBLICANS who say TRUMP IS A LIAR.
You got a problem with REPUBLICANS calling TRUMP A LIAR?
Nope, not in the least, you are entitled to your opinion as are they.
Besides, you only named one republican, Romney. (and Romney was a liberal democrat that switched over which automatically makes him a liar)
Cruz is a Libertarian in the republican party so he has a platform and forum. You cannot get elected without such access.
You are swimming in wishful thinking.
If you think I am wishfully thinking then refute it.
Otherwise, I submit that it is you who are wishfully imagining that you could. (like so many other times you have tried and failed John)
You know me John, you got it bring it.... Comment removed for skirting the CoC [ph]Your choice.
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Is Ted Cruz listed in the U.S. Senate as an independent?
There is no requirement that he be listed as a Republican if he is not one. There are a few Senators who are officially listed as independents. He is a Republican.
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HEY! Romney was the REPUBLICAN NOMINEE AND CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Cruz was a Primary Candidate for REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNTED STATES.
YOU DON'T GET TO CHANGE THE FACTS.
You can have whatever OPINIONS you want, but THE FACTS ARE BOTH OF THOSE GUYS ARE REPUBLICANS.
THEMS THE FACTS!
BOTH of those REPUBLICANS called TRUMP A LIAR.
THOSE ARE THE FACTS!
Your comment is bullshit.
Actually, what your saying is true, but it is also minimizing what they truly are politically. You are basically saying that republicans are republicans they are all the same there is no independent thought. (a pretty bigoted ideal to reveal if you ask me, but you are entitled to the extremely limited scope of your ideals/opinions)
Mitt Romney..... His father George was a liberal "Establishment" Republican, Governor of Michigan a traditionally blue state.
Like father like son, Mitt was elected Governor of Massachusetts and there is no more hard core deep blue state as Massachusetts. He created and instituted Romneycare a fore-runner of Obamacare. (which promised "universal" coverage, but fell way short and the increased governmental fees he thought would pay for it actually fell. He also created the ideal of government subsidies for those who could not contribute, which was directly added to Obamacare.
Which still failed to provide the promised "universal" care.
He is a liberal establishment republican like his father before him.
Ted Cruz is a Tea Party founder. That makes him politically a libertarian exactly like Ron Paul.
And of course a Libertarian would easily be able to call trump exactly what he is, primarily a showperson and a buffoon.
But he is our president, what is really sad is that your side, the Clinton establishment democrats, couldn't even mount a credible candidate sufficient to beat a buffoon.
And becasue of that, we have a presidency that you hate.
So a Liberal Establishment republican and a Tea Party republican both calling T-Rump a liar is not unusual, in fact, it is expected.
Now I can explain how the establishment Republican party moved to the left but that is a discussion for another day...
First of all, I do not have a "side". I am NOT a Democrat or a Republican.
Unlike YOU, I am a true non-party-affiliated independent.
Second, you are woefully ignorant of the American political process. You should NOT be allowed to vote because you obviously have no clue as to how politics and government work in this country.
Three, it's completely pointless to even attempt to discuss any of this with someone like you.
Over and out!
Ho, ho, hoooo,,
Ha Ha Haaaaa, snicker Ha Ha Ha...
I don't know the political process?
How refreshing, funniest damned thing I've seen written on this site since I've gotten here.....
I have to allow for the fact you do not know me at all.
And you have pre-judged me without even a smidgen of attempt to find out.
That does reveal a lot about you my dear.
Damn
Funniest thing I've seen written here....
I have to allow for the fact you do not know me at all.
And you have pre-judged me without even a smidgen of attempt to find out.
Nope!
You EXPOSED yourself. I didn't have to judge you, and I didn't. You are what you are.
p.s. Gunny, that's a BRILLIANT comment you made. Good words. The best WORDS you have ever posted I believe. Try to stick with that kind of comment from now on please.
Ooohhh!
Self justified also....
My My, you are above all the rest of us aren't you...
You think we should bow down and worship you?
My My, you are above all the rest of us aren't you...
I don't claim to be above anyone else but YOU. You must feel you are above all others. That's quite arrogant actually.
I do not want you to bow down and worship me. I would just like you to open your mind as accept the FACTS for a change, rather than simply filling your head with lies and propaganda and making excuses for your glorious leader The Proven Pathological Liar Trump. That's all. Not too much to ask really.
You see, the funniest part of all this is the assumption you have made. Couldn't be further from the truth actually.
But, it is an assumption that YOU have made, about me.
And I'll leave you to figure that one out.
But it is why most are laughing their asses of at you....
But then again most of them know me, you do not.
You prejudge and assume....
your problem not mine....
But time marches on. I've gotten what I wanted out of this discussion. There is nothing left.
It was easy....
Thank you.
There's quite a lot of BS to unpack in the following so buckle up:
Mitt Romney..... His father George was a liberal "Establishment" Republican, Governor of Michigan a traditionally blue state.
So, right off the bat we have to go back 50 years (ran for and lost nomination to Nixon) to find an example of anything like a "moderate" republican, probably the last one to run for president who would deserve that description (John Anderson was actually an even bigger throw-back to a liberal republican but he never got anywhere in the party).
Like father like son, Mitt was elected Governor of Massachusetts and there is no more hard core deep blue state as Massachusetts. He created and instituted Romneycare a fore-runner of Obamacare. (which promised "universal" coverage, but fell way short and the increased governmental fees he thought would pay for it actually fell. He also created the ideal of government subsidies for those who could not contribute, which was directly added to Obamacare.
Yeah, Mittens was a "liberal" in order to win in a liberal state and then changed his spots to go national, even running away from his signature achievement on health care in that state. A real paragon of political courage.
Which still failed to provide the promised "universal" care.
That was never promised by Obamacare. So, that's just a plain lie.
He is a liberal establishment republican like his father before him.
see above
Ted Cruz is a Tea Party founder. That makes him politically a libertarian exactly like Ron Paul.
And of course a Libertarian would easily be able to call trump exactly what he is, primarily a showperson and a buffoon.
But he is our president, what is really sad is that your side, the Clinton establishment democrats, couldn't even mount a credible candidate sufficient to beat a buffoon.
Maybe "libertarianish wing" of the republican party but not a true libertarian. True libertarians don't try to shove their primitive religious beliefs down people's throats and go on phony moral crusades pandering to whacked-out godbotherers and fanatics.
And becasue of that, we have a presidency that you hate.
No. It's because of an archaic, anti-democratic and demonstrably failed institution called the Electoral College which has twice in the past 16 years put demonstrably unfit (and now a mentally unstable) men in the presidency.
So a Liberal Establishment republican and a Tea Party republican both calling T-Rump a liar is not unusual, in fact, it is expected.
Now I can explain how the establishment Republican party moved to the left but that is a discussion for another day...
First you might want to learn the what the words "left" and "right" mean. Start easy with which hand is which and work up gradually to the political version. However, it ought to be ridiculously entertaining however you choose to approach it.
If you can't win with reason, win with CAPS!
Some MORONS can't be reasoned with and REQUIRE ALL CAPS for them to onderstand anything.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
Then there are people like Rick Wilson, republican party operative, conservative talk-radio host Charlie Sikes and former FL congressman David Jolly just to name a few of some of President Turd's (again, thanks to 1ofmany) most enthusiastic public bashers.
Trump seems to see no need to be completely factual and, instead, engages in hyperbole or exaggeration for effect like he's selling something on a street corner. The media then takes the statement literally and spins it as a lie, by parsing through everything he says as though he's making a case before a court. A example is his statement that Obamacare is dying or dead. That's not literally true, but everybody knows it will implode if it isn't tweaked, so there's some truth in the statement. This coverage strikes me like a non-stop media gaff watch and, although meaningful to the Trump resistance, it may be increasingly of no consequence to Trump's base as it goes in one ear and out the other.
Trump seems to see no need to be completely factual
Yeah, he's only the president of the United States and the presumptive most powerful person in the world. Why should he have to be factual?
There is no end to the absurdities we hear in defense of this clown.
There is no end to the absurdities we hear in defense of this clown.
Its an observation, not a defense. I don't give a shit about Trump. Go ahead and count lies if it makes you feel better but I don't want to see an article five years from now that wonders why he was re-elected with a tally of a million lies.
Good try. Kind of like when Sarah or Sean used to try to cover for Trump's lies by saying "He was just joking."
The truth is TRUMP IS A LIAR!
TRUMP is a pathological LIAR. (Ted Cruz even said so. So did Mitt Romney and a lot of other Republicans.)
TRUMP LIES.
No amount of spin or bull about hyperbole or exaggeration can change the fact that TRUMP LIES ALL THE TIME.
Who cares? Obama lied many times, and often repeated the same lies for several months in a row. Remember the big lies of: "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan?" and "An average family of four will save $2500 a year on health insurance"? How often were those repeated, even AFTER the PPACA was crafted and passed before 80% of all plans that were in effect at the time were ended and plan costs for EVERYONE not on Medicaid and Medicare increased in cost?
Obama lied about a terrorist attack in Benghazi and said it was spontaneous just so it wouldn't undermine his re-election talking point that he had the terrorists on the run. They were on the run alright . . . running straight at us on the anniversary of 911.
Hey guys!
Hot news: Barack Obama isn't President any more!
Obama is very, very yesterday. Obama is not the subject here, because Obama is very, very yesterday
Trump is today. How do you feel about Trump's lies?
Don't talk about Obama, talk about Trump.
Don't talk about Obama, talk about Trump.
Don't talk about Obama, talk about Trump.
Don't talk about Obama, talk about Trump.
Don't talk about Obama, talk about Trump.
Trump is today. How do you feel about Trump's lies
Don't talk about Obama, talk about Trump . . .
If lying is OK when Democrats lie, then why is lying bad when Trump does it? It turns the whole thing into a cynical discussion of whether or not you like the liar rather than an opposition to lying because we can't trust someone who lies. Democrats are full of shit and all that's why Trump's lying will fall on deaf ears.
1ofmany,
Does that mean you are OK with current President Trump's lies?
That is a simple yes-or-no question.
Then, if you wish, you may add that you weren't/aren't/will-never-until-your-dying-day-be-happy with former President Obama's lies...
Does that mean you are OK with current President Trump's lies?
That is a simple yes-or-no question.
I'm not ok with lying no matter who tells them. How about you?
I'm not ok with lying no matter who tells them. How about you?
Nor am I. I am not happy with the (many) lies Andy Jackson told. But that was a while ago. I think the current President requires most of our attention.
Bringing up lies from past Presidents, who are out of power, seems to me to be pointless... except to try to deflect attention away from lies of the current President, who is in power.
Bringing up lies from past Presidents, who are out of power, seems to me to be pointless... except to try to deflect attention away from lies of the current President, who is in power.
It's hard for me to take the accusation of lying seriously if the person making it just got through lying himself. If lying is bad, then condemn all liars.
If lying is bad, then condemn all liars.
Absolutely!
I do think, though, that lying now, today, massively, by the sitting President... is more preoccupying than lies of yesteryear.
The past is past. The current President is lying at a rate of four per day. So we can expect four tomorrow, four the day after, and four again and again and again... That bothers me more than the past...
Some people can't grasp that constantly reaching back in history to bolster a hypocrisy defense serves no purpose but to effectively stalemate any issue.
Some people can't grasp that constantly reaching back in history to bolster a hypocrisy defense serves no purpose but to effectively stalemate any issue.
Some people can't grasp that exposing hypocrisy may involve a contrast between past and present behavior . . . as in don't tell me that something is bad when you just got through doing it yourself.
1ofmany,
You seem to be saying that the current President is free do do whatever he wishes, as long as somewhere in history, some other President has done something similar...
Does that reasoning go back just to Washington, or do you include the kings of England... Emperors of Rome...
You seem to be saying that the current President is free do do whatever he wishes, as long as somewhere in history, some other President has done something similar...
And you seem to be saying that lies are only relevant based on who tells them.
Does that reasoning go back just to Washington, or do you include the kings of England... Emperors of Rome...
I thought I'd stick with the short time period that contrasts this administration with the one before it.
I thought I'd stick with the short time period that contrasts this administration with the one before it.
Why? If your standard for Presidential behavior is "the worst that his predecessor ever did", then why stop there? Why not include Bush, Clinton, ... Washington?
Some people can't grasp that constantly reaching back in history to bolster a hypocrisy defense serves no purpose but to effectively stalemate any issue.
Ummm... Hal??
Are you thinking about the way you reach back to the Noah story?
Are you thinking about the way you reach back to the Noah story?
I didn't know Hillary was lying back quite that far.
TRUMP LIES about ALMOST* EVERYTHING, ALMOST* ALL THE TIME to ALMOST* EVERYONE.
Where is THE WALL Trump promised. TRUMP LIED!
Where is the ObamaCare Repeal & Replace he said would be so easy? TRUMP LIED.
Where is the Tax Reform Trump promised? TRUMP LIED.
Trump said he would NEVER have time to golf. "No golf! No golf!" he said. TRUMP LIED.
Trump said he would never leave The White House. "Who would want to?" He said. TRUMP LIED.
TRUMP IS A LIAR, and anyone and everyone who believes anything Trump says is a MORON because TRUMP IS A PROVEN PATHOLOGICAL LIAR!
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*The word "ALMOST" is added ONLY because Trump may have accidentaly told the truth once, and I just want to give him the benefit of the doiubt on that. The FACT is, TRUMP is a goddamn liar!
The FACT is, TRUMP is a goddamn liar!
WHO THE HELL CARES??? The FACT is that ALL PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS are goddamned liars all the time and you don't even report it because they're on your side. Trump is the only one you despise because he threw Witch Hillary out and beat the professionals at their own game. Also, he caused a delay in the march toward the socialist state. A very long delay tovarisch.
Where is the ObamaCare Repeal & Replace he said would be so easy? TRUMP LIED.
How's it going with that "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan"? OBAMA LIED.
ALL PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS ARE LIARS!! Don't believe a word that ANY of them say, including RINO Mitt Romney.
In case you haven't noticed, Obama is not the president now.
Neither is Mitt Romney.
Neither is Hillary.
Trump is president now and TRUMP LIES MORE IN ONE WEEK than all three of them have lied COMBINED in their entire lives.
TRUMP IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR and ANYONE who still supports TRUMP is a moron.
Agreed?
BTW, you asked:
WHO THE HELL CARES???
ANYBODY who really CARES about AMERICA cares that the current POTUS is a goddamn liar! That's WHO CARES. Real AMERICANS care. Real True American Patriots care.
Guys who don't give a shit about America don't care that TRUMP is a liar. (Fake-ass Trump supporters who call themselves patriotic, lie about that just like Trump lies about everything.)
Do YOU care? All evidence seems to point to the FACT that YOU DON'T CARE. You even said "WHO THE HELL CARES???" So obviously you don't care. You know what that makes you, RIGHT?
Lemme ask a question.
What was your position on presidential lying when the previous President was lying his ass off about Healthcare reform?
Would you call him the same vile things you call the current one?
I have to ask cause I certainly don't remember you being there when those anti truthful statements were being exposed.
(and don't even claim he wasn't, there's video evidence of it all over the net)
If you have 'video evidence' then show it. SHOW IT NOW!
Ok,
You asked for it....
CLAIM: “If you like your healthcare plan, you will be able to keep your healthcare plan. ”
CLAIM: “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. ”
CLAIM: “We ’re going to lower your premiums by up to $2500 per family per year. ”
CLAIM: “No family making less than $250,000 a year will see their taxes increase. ”
CLAIM: “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits, now or in the future. ”
CLAIM: “I will sign a universal healthcare bill into law …that covers every American. ”
Google page on Videos covering Obama on Obamacare
Hundreds of pages showing his videotaped lies.
And we cannot ever forget, this was only the tip of the iceberg of his lies.....
He even apologized for his lying ....
(when it got to the point that even the friendly media had to question his claims)
All that video is lying?
Fact Check's compilation on just one lie showing the long term repetitiveness of his lying is lying?
You asked the question intimating the opposite....
Now we are done, your arguments do not stand to the truth...
Damn! TRIGGERED! You've really gone OVERBOARD on one statement that Obama made. Yes, he made that statement a number of times, but you know, I don't really believe he knew it was a lie when he made it. I believe that the INSURANCE COMPANIES in COLLUSION with THE REPUBLICAN PARTY jointly CONSPIRED to make it seem like Obama lied. But that's just my OPINION. And I am entitled to my OPINION.
But here are some FACTS for you.
Are you ready?
Get ready, because her come THE FACTS abiut YOUR HERO Donald 'The Bigky Liar" Trump...
Before he was sworn in, President Trump made a bold promise: The as-yet-unreleased Obamacare repeal and replacement plan would have “insurance for everybody.”
“We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump said in an interview with The Washington Post. “There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.”
TRUMP LIED!
As his run for president took shape, candidate Trump boasted via Twitter , “I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid” — before arguing that GOP also-ran Mike Huckabee was copying him.
That’s another promise that wasn’t born out by the CBO, which found the House Obamacare repeal measure would cut Medicaid by $880 billion.
TRUMP LIED!
Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway made a promise that almost certainly can’t be met with the House bill: “We don't want anyone who currently has insurance to not have insurance.”
In its current form, the CBO says Conway’s promise simply won’t be kept in the House bill. An estimated 24 million people will lose coverage over the next 10 years under the plan.
TRUMP LIED through Kellyanne 'The Con' Conway
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price praised the House’s repeal and replace plan on Sunday’s NBC’s “Meet the Press” arguing , “I firmly believe that nobody will be worse off financially in the process that we’re going through.”
The CBO’s analysis doesn’t evaluate each individual’s financial situation. But its score projects health premiums under GOP health bill would increase by an estimated 15 to 20 percent over the bill’s first two years — before falling thanks to looser regulations and more younger enrollees. Older enrollees, though, could face higher premiums or costs.
TRUMP LIED through Price.
Throughout the 2016 campaign, candidate Trump talked about his desire to let people buy health insurance across state lines. The idea being that it will create competition and offer better choices for people when they purchase health insurance.
"We have to get rid of the artificial lines around the states,” Trump said during the second presidential debate.
This promise isn’t met — or even addressed —
TRUMP LIED
Trump has made other, more vague promises about the repeal-and-replace endgame.
As he campaigned for the White House that he declared in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes”: “I am going to take care of everybody … Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.” More recently, Trump has promised that repeal will end with “ a beautiful picture. ”
TRUMP LIED
Now we are done, your arguments do not stand to the truth...
OH NO WE ARE NOT DONE!
I'm just getting started!
August 10, 2017, TRUMP LIED:
“Business enthusiasm’s the highest it’s been in 18 years.”
Source: Press conference at New Jersey golf club
In fact: The National Federation of Independent Business’s Index of Small Business Optimism is at its highest level since 2004, so 13 years, not 18 years. PwC’s Trendsetter Barometer, which measures the optimism of private-company CEOs and CFOs, is at 69%; it was higher in 2015, just two years ago.
August 10, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“Unemployment is the lowest it’s been in 18 years. The unemployment rate just came out. It’s the lowest it’s been in 18 years.”
Source: Press conference at New Jersey golf club
In fact: The unemployment rate is the lowest since 2001, so 16 years. Trump has repeatedly added an extra year, claiming it is the lowest in “17 years”; in this press conference, he added two extra years.
August 10, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“I want this, our nuclear arsenal, to be the biggest and the finest in the world. And we spent a lot of money, a lot of time, and a lot of effort, and it’s in tip-top shape. And getting better. And getting stronger.”
Source: Press conference at New Jersey golf club
As numerous experts pointed out, there has been not yet been a substantial change to the quality of the U.S. nuclear arsenal under Trump. Major changes take years to carry out.
Augist 10, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“My first order was, we have to do the military, but before we do the military per se, we’re going to do the nuclear.”
Source: Press conference at New Jersey golf club
In fact: Trump’s order on nuclear modernization – actually a presidential memorandum, not a formal executive order – was not his first; he had issued more than 12 other orders and memoranda by the time he issued that one.
Augst 10, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“President Obama, in his wisdom, gave them (Iran) $150 billion.”
Source: Press conference at New Jersey golf club
In fact: Experts said Iran had about $100 billion in worldwide assets at the time; after the nuclear deal unfroze Iranian assets, Iran was able to access a percentage of that $100 billion, but not all of it. Politifact reported: “The actual amount available to Iran is about $60 billion, estimates Garbis Iradian, chief economist at the Institute of International Finance. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew pinned it at $56 billion, while Iranian officials say $35 billion, according to Richard Nephew, an expert on economic sanctions at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.” Regardless, the “$150 billion” figure has no basis.
Don't stroke out on us now, you seem to be blowing a gasket here.
Remember the original question?
What was your position on presidential lying when the previous President was lying his ass off about Healthcare reform?
Would you call him the same vile things you call the current one?
Seems like you wouldn't have been anywhere near seeing the truth.
And,
The fact of the above statement seriously calls into question this claim you made.....
First of all, I do not have a "side". I am NOT a Democrat or a Republican.
Unlike YOU, I am a true non-party-affiliated independent.
You seriously take the hard core liberal side. despite what you claim to be we only have your present behavior to go on. And in the course of discourse EVERYONE reveals their true allegiances.
And yours prove the vacuity of your claims to being an independent voice. In fact you really, really go the liberal mile in ignoring/avoiding any facts about the side you support and the lies they tell to hammer your hate rhetoric home....
There you are exposed and and your credibility as an independent destroyed.
All that's left is to toss the typical insult out there to cement your complete unmasking as any worthwile source of opinion.
Now your done, and the sweetest part of it, you did it to yourself.
August 10, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“Everybody said there’s no collusion. If you look at the counsels that come in, we have a Senate hearing – we have Judiciary, we have Intelligence. So we have a House hearing. And everybody walks out, even the enemies, they said ‘No, well, there’s no collusion, there’s no collusion.’”
Source: Press conference at New Jersey golf club
In fact: Trump’s “enemies” have not flatly declared that there is “no collusion.” Some of his critics have acknowledged they have not seen evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia, but they are not walking out of hearings saying there are firmly convinced that no evidence exists.
August 10, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“There was no collusion between us and Russia. In fact, the opposite. Russia spent a lot of money on fighting me.”
Source: Press conference at New Jersey golf club
In fact: There is no evidence of this.
August 10, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“I want a strong military. You see our budget is up by – it will be hundreds of billions of dollars soon, our military budget.”
Source: Press conference at New Jersey golf club
In fact: This is an exaggeration. Trump proposed a $54 billion increase to the defence budget. The final number approved by Congress will probably differ, but it will not be an increase of hundreds of billions.
August 10, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“Hillary was going to cut the budget, substantially, the military budget.”
Source: Press conference at New Jersey golf club
In fact: There is no evidence for this claim. Like Trump, Clinton called for an end to the “sequester” that limited military spending. “The sequester makes our country less secure. Let’s end it and get a budget deal that supports America’s military, our families and our country,” she said during the campaign.
August 10, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“We’re down 78 per cent at the border, and nobody thought that was possible.”
Source: Press conference at New Jersey golf club
In fact: Trump and others use the number of apprehensions on the southwestern border as a way to measure illegal immigration. Comparing the five full months of Trump’s tenure — February through June — to the same months in 2016, apprehensions were down 58 per cent, not 78 per cent. There has never been any basis for Trump’s oft-repeated “78 per cent” figure.
August 10, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“We’re down 78 per cent, nobody thought that would be – in the old days, with other administrations, if you were down 1 per cent, it was considered a big thing. “
Source: Press conference at New Jersey golf club
In fact: Trump is falsely suggesting that there were never significant declines in the number of apprehensions on the southwestern border under previous administrations. As Politifact noted, the number of apprehensions on the southwest border fell from 1.6 million in 1986 to an average under 500,000 during Barack Obama's tenure. At various points during Obama’s tenure, there were reductions from the previous year’s apprehension numbers.
August 10, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“We are now an exporter, because of an incredible six months that I have (or had) – an exporter of oil and gas. That’s bad for Russia.”
Source: Press conference at New Jersey golf club
In fact: The U.S. is not yet a net exporter of oil and gas. The White House announced this week, citing a government agency, that the U.S. was on track to become a net exporter of natural gas alone by the end of 2017; it was a net exporter in three of the first five months of 2017. Oil, however, is a different story. The same government agency said in January, under the Obama administration, that the U.S. might become a net exporter of energy of all kinds by 2026.
August 10, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“Additionally, it seems that Russia spent a lot of money on that false report, and that was Russian money, and I think it was Democrat money, too. You could say that was collusion.”
Source: Press conference at New Jersey golf club
In fact: Trump is incorrect that Russia spent money on the now-famous investigative dossier compiled by a former British spy, which described alleged ties between Trump and Russia. Fusion GPS, the research firm that hired the ex-spy, has been accused by an investor, Bill Browder, of having worked on behalf of Russian interests on a separate matter. Browder did not allege that Russia spent money on the dossier itself.
August 9, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before....”
Source: Twitter
In fact: Trump’s order on nuclear modernization – actually a presidential memorandum, not a formal executive order – was not his first; he had issued more than 12 other orders and memoranda by the time he issued that one. And as numerous experts pointed out, there has been not yet been a substantial change to the quality of the U.S. nuclear arsenal under Trump. Major changes take years to carry out.
August 7, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“The Fake News refuses to report the success of the first 6 months: S.C., surging economy & jobs…”
Source: Twitter
In fact: There is no evidence that the economy is surging. As the Washington Post pointed out, “the economy added an average of 181,000 jobs a month in Obama's last six months in office compared to an average of 179,000 a month in President Trump's first six months.” While the stock market has surged, the stock market is not synonymous with the economy as a whole.
August 7, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“The failing @nytimes, which has made every wrong prediction about me including my big election win (apologized), is totally inept!”
Source: Twitter
In fact: The Times did not apologize for its election coverage. Trump was referring to a post-election letter, a kind of sales pitch, in which Times leaders thanked readers and said they planned to “rededicate ourselves to the fundamental mission of Times journalism.”
August 7, 2017 TRUMP LIED: (And Trump was a DRAFT DODGER during Vietnam. What a HYPOCRITE!)
“Never in U.S.history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like Senator Richard Blumenthal. He told stories about his Vietnam battles and conquests, how brave he was, and it was all a lie.”
Source: Twitter
In fact: Here, Trump takes a kernel of truth and turns it into a false claim. He is correct that Blumenthal falsely claimed he had served in Vietnam, when, in fact, Blumenthal served in the Marine Reserve in the U.S. during the war and never entered the combat theatre. But Blumenthal never spoke of participating in “battles and conquests” in Vietnam; rather, he simply said he had served there.
August 7, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“The Fake News Media will not talk about the importance of the United Nations Security Council's 15-0 vote in favor of sanctions on N. Korea!”
Source: Twitter
In fact: Major U.S. media outlets, including the New York Times and CNN, devoted significant coverage to the sanctions on North Korea on the very day Trump issued this tweet. “We talked about it today on MSNBC, and a table full of Trump critics praised it as a remarkable diplomatic achievement,” conservative writer Noah Rothman said on Twitter.
Wow! Absolute and complete meltdown.
Exactly what I would expect from someone who denies their political beliefs.
Gotta be true, you love lying to yourself so much....
Seriously, it's like watching someone have a breakdown in real time.
It's sad and disturbing.
Guys,
Please review CoC #1, this specifically,
Members should refrain from further inflaming an argument.
Those above comments are inflaming. Don't do it again.
August 7, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“The Trump base is far bigger & stronger than ever before (despite some phony Fake News polling).”
Source: Twitter
In fact: Every piece of data shows that Trump’s base has shrunk and weakened since the election and the inauguration, though it remains substantial. For example, in a CNN poll issued the week Trump spoke had 59 per cent of Republicans “strongly” approving of him, down from 73 per cent in Ferbruary. One of his senior aides, Kellyanne Conway, acknowledged the slippage in an ABC interview the day before Trump’s tweet. “In some of the polling, which of course I scour daily on behalf of the president, his approval rating among Republicans and conservatives and Trump voters is down slightly,” she said. “It needs to go up. They are telling him, ‘Just enact your program.’”
August 7, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“How much longer will the failing nytimes, with its big losses and massive unfunded liability (and non-existent sources), remain in business?”
Source: Twitter
In fact: The New York Times is not losing money: it made a net income of $16 million in the second quarter of 2017 and $13 million in the first quarter of 2017. Also, there is no evidence that its reporters have made up sources for articles on Trump.
August 4, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“We are very strong on homeland security and we are very strong with respect to FEMA. FEMA is something that I've been very much involved in already. We've had some things during the last six months, including the highway in Atlanta, where I have to say the governor and all concerned did a fantastic job of rebuilding that stretch of highway that ended up burning so badly. We found the reasons why, and it wasn’t for a good reason. But nevertheless, they did it in record time. I'm a builder and I understand they did it ahead of schedule and under budget, and that was very nice to see.”
Source: Remarks to Federal Emergency Management Agency.
In fact: Trump was wrong in suggesting that FEMA played a significant role in rebuilding the damaged stretch of Atlanta highway. It did not do so. When the Star asked FEMA what the agency actually did in response to the problem, the agency responded that it offered assistance to Georgia’s government for any “unmet needs,” and that it later “remained in contact with the state.” In other words, it did not do much.
August 4, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“And just this week, we announced a historic immigration bill to create a merit-based Green Card system that ends the abuse of our welfare system, stops chain migration, and protects our workers and our economy. As an example, you cannot get welfare for five years when you come into our country. You cannot just come in like in past weeks, years, and decades, you come in immediately and start picking up welfare. For five years, you have to say you will not be asking or using our welfare systems.”
Source: Weekly address
In fact: As the Washington Post reported, the provision in the Trump-backed RAISE Act would only apply to immigrants entering on visas granted through a new merit-points sytem. People entering under other categories — refugees, for instance — would still be eligible for welfare, and so the provision “would not apply to the vast majority of legal immigrants,” the Post reported. Further, Trump is misleading about current law, which already bans many categories of immigrants from obtaining weflare benefits for their five five years in the U.S.
There are still a dozen more TRUMP LIES just for the month of August 2017 alone.
Shall I post them?
Shall I continue with July, then June then all the way back to January?
I can. Easily. Because TRUMP LIES ALL THE TIME ABOUT ALL KINDS OF SHIT!
Cast your bread upon the waters pal! It comes back TEN FOLD!
Mere repetition does not make veracity. (yours)
Actually it served to give me the answer to my question about you.
Thank you.
You are CORRECT!
You merely REPEATED the same thing over and over again. So that makes YOUR comment weak weak weak!
I, on the other hand, provided UNIQUE comments all highlighting many of the different LIES Donald Trump has told THIS MONTH ALONE. I did NOT repeat a damn thing.
But YOU did REPEAT REPEAT REPEAT, so You just shot yourself in the foot didn't you? Good aim!
Weak weak weak....
But then again I'm used to such.
You didn't even look at the vids did you... (if you had you could not have made the claim)
But as a typical liberal you lose the argument blow a gasket then resort to being insulting....
Most of us here have been doing this long enough to have deduced the typical pattern of a liberal hater getting his/her ass handed to him/her...
And your falling right into it....
Please continue....
It's hilarious....
(but it is also sad)
I am repeating this again
Guys,
Please review CoC #1, this specifically,
Members should refrain from further inflaming an argument.
Those above comments are inflaming. Don't do it again.
My apologies. I will stick to posting FACTUAL TRUTH about Trump's many many lies from here on out. Thank you for your patience and consideration.
Lemme see... He's been in office about eight months, times thirty days per month... let's round off to 250 days for simplicity...
That's four lies per day, every day since Trump took office...
That's four lies per day, every day since Trump took office...
Yep! That's sounds about RIGHT. But those are only the LIES we know about. Trump has probably LIED a lot more, because that is what pathological LIARS like Trump do. Trump LIES all the time! Trump is PATHOLOGICAL about his LYING!
Kessler is a left wing propaganda mouthpiece. Citing him as an arbiter of truth is, in itself, dishonest.
Out of curiosity, did Kessler ever call Obama a liar for claiming to have created jobs, which Obama did all the time? I can't find any record of him doing so.
Here's some great examples of the type of hyper partisan dishonesty Kessler enegages in:
Kessler is a left wing propaganda mouthpiece. Citing him as an arbiter of truth is, in itself, dishonest.
And YOU NEVER EVER cited any RIGHT WING MOUTHPIECE in your entire life, right? RIGHT?
"Let he who is without SIN cast the first stone." You know! WWJD?
"Let he who is without SIN cast the first stone." You know! WWJD?
Well, I'll be Gahdammed Squirrel, YOU FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT. No one who supported Obama's lies and Hillary's lies is qualified to say a single word about Trump's lies. They have given up all credibility on the subject of lying politicians. Remember this and keep it close; ALL POLITICIANS LIE ALL THE TIME. Do not trust a single word that ANY of them say, including those who supposedly work for the government in Civil Service or appointed positions. They all lie to advance their own agenda. Since all politicians lie, you have to work around it by thwarting them from getting anything done at all. If the government's lackeys can't get anything done, the government also won't get anything done.
To a Leftist, who expects the government to be the babysitter of us all, this is a terrible condition. To those on the Right, who don't trust government or those who work for it to do anything good, ever, anyway, a do nothing government is not only acceptable, but may even be a good thing. IF YOU CAN'T TRUST THEM TO DO THE CORRECT THING, AT LEAST FORCE THEM TO GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY.
Couldn't have said it better myself.....
Great Comment!
Some people would think that's a great comment, but that only betrays the extremely limited ability those people have to evaluate truth and fact. Sorry if that reads like a slam, or skirting the CoC, but it's not. It is simply another obvious fact. That's all. I deal in FACTS and TRUTH unlike some people here who deal exclusively in lies and excuses.
Then why ignore the facts and truth about Obama to concentrate on facts and truths about T/Rump?
If (as you claim) you are all about truth and fact, then the obvious conclusion is the last two presidents are liars of the first order, but then again all politicians are liars in some form.
But you have to take it to gasket blowing levels to make it all about T/Rump and specifically ignore those that came before.
All that does is expose your hate, doesn't reveal any others. On a side note it also exposes your prejudgment abilities (read prejudices) about anyone that disagrees with you and where you wish to take the discussion.
Where I come from it is believed that that is revealing of a very small mind.
All three traits are found in every hard core political radical I have run across in over 40 years of political involvement.
No matter the protestations otherwise.
You have painted yourself into a corner, very publicly, as a radical. You will remain in that corner until you decide to get out of it.
You absolute free will.
But don't be surprised if people here treat you accordingly, in compliance with your behaviors demonstrated.
Where I come from it is believed that that is revealing of a very small mind.
Then I hope I NEVER go to where YOU come from.
Everything else you wrote in that comment is pure BULLSHIT.
First of all, as I have stated over and over again and will do so again for those who have difficulty understanding: I am NOT a Leftist.
In the Second place: Politically Speaking, I AM WITHOUT SIN, so I can cast all the goddamned stones I want to, and Jesus said it's A-OK with Him if I do.
Thirdly: You haven't figured out shit.
Yeah, your the perfect person.....
As I said, YOU MAY HAVE MISSED IT BECAUSE IT WASN'T IN ALL CAPS...
POLITICALLY SPEAKING I am perfect. I am without Sin.
You got that shit right!
Finally! You got something right! Finally! Looks like we're making progress with you. Good!
I can't find any record of him doing so.
Not that accuracy or truth matters to you, but I'm going to give some anyway. First, Obama never said he personally created jobs but did point out that millions of jobs came back during his presidency. Here are the comparative numbers (from BLS):
Jan. 2009 (Obama inaugurated Jan 20) the total employed civilian pop. was 144,144,000.
Jan. 2017, the civilian labor force was 152, 081,000.
That's an increase of just under 8 million additional jobs over his 8 years. Of course, there were continued job losses of about 4 million from the recession over his first three months in office, so the real increase he could rightly claim occurred would be more like 12 million, but I won't add those to his total just to keep liars about Obama from trying to make that one of the lies.
The reason you can't find things is you don't look for them and the reason you don't look is that you'd have to see facts that don't agree with your false propaganda.
trump himself has said "Words to me dont mean much, its deeds that matter.
In other words; I'll say whatever I want to get whatever I want, ... Wow what a way to lead men. NOT !
So I dont care what he says all I count on is what he does.
A lot of bloviating on behalf of Donald Trump going on in this thread.
I've got a Trump lie for you. He said he lost "hundreds" of friends in the twin towers on 911. He can't even name one of them and there is no recollection of him being seen at any of the funerals.
He was asked for the names of a couple of these friends and he came up empty.
Trump is a lying sack of shit, always has been, always will be. I could spend the rest of the weekend laying out Trump's lies, but frankly, the attentions of the people defending him here isnt worth the trouble.
Trump Won’t Name Any of the ‘Hundreds of Friends’ He Says Died on 9/11
If the GOP front runner lost hundreds of friends on 9/11, and donated hundreds of millions of dollars to 9/11 victims, there’s no public record of it.
02.17.16 12:04 AM ET
Two days after Donald Trump claimed that he “lost hundreds of friends” at the World Trade Center as a result of the 9/11 attack, his campaign continued to ignore a Daily Beast request that he name even one.
With silence comes the possibility that Trump told the most reprehensible lie of the campaign, just a few breaths from when he called both Sen. Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush liars.
By his math, Trump is trying to tell us that at least one in 10 of the 2,983 who died on 9/11 were his friends.
“If he has hundreds of friends, he should be able to tell us about them,” said a Port Authority police officer who never talks about how many comrades he lost. “If he can tell us about the hundreds of friends he lost, who they were, what kind of person they were, I might have some respect for him.”
The PA cop—who has sought to learn all he could about every single person who died in addition to the many he personally knew—wonders why nobody has seen Trump at the September 11 Memorial and Museum.
The cop also wonders why nobody seems to recall seeing Trump at the seemingly endless funerals that followed the attack. The FDNY, which had lost 343 members, had so many funerals and memorials in those dark days that the city asked citizens to attend them to fill the churches.
“I don’t remember Trump at any of them,” the cop noted. “Not even the ones that were held at St. Patrick’s, which were right down the block.”
....four years after the attack, Trump did not make a single contribution to assist the victims of 9/11, hundreds of friends or no.
The Smoking Gun reports that the records of the Donald J. Trump Foundation show a single donation in 2006 of $1,000 to a “detox” Scientology program of uncertain value for first responders.
Trump did pledge $10,000 to the Twin Tower fund while calling into The Howard Stern Show , but an online search produces no record of him actually making it. Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks has told the Daily Mail that Trump “has donated close to half a million dollars to organizations as a result of the 9/11 tragedy including the American Red Cross and the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Fund.”
August 3, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“We have auto plants expanding and coming back. They’re coming into Michigan. They’re really coming into Michigan. And they’re coming into Ohio and Pennsylvania.”
Source: Campaign rally in Huntington, West Virginia
In fact: Auto plants are not booming in Michigan or Ohio. In fact, the week before Trump’s speech, the Detroit News ran a front-page article explaining that “the opposite” is happening: U.S. automotive jobs have declined for the first time in seven years, and “plants in Michigan and in Toledo have borne the brunt of reductions, with about 6,350 workers experiencing at least temporary layoffs.” Toyota and Mazda did announce a coming 4,000-job investment on the same day as this Trump speech, but analysts believed they might well choose to operate in the South rather than the Midwest.
August 3, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“Economic growth has surged to 2.6 per cent nationwide. You have to understand what that means. Nobody thought that number was going to happen.”
Source: Campaign rally in Huntington, West Virginia
In fact: Most experts thought that number was going to happen. As FactCheck.org pointed out, various forecasts earlier in the year — from entities like the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and Moody’s Analytics — had projected growth higher than 2.6 per cent at one point or another.
August 3, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“They (Democrats) don’t talk about reforms to the VA, or about manufacturing jobs we’re bringing back to America by the hundreds of thousands.”
Source: Campaign rally in Huntington, West Virginia
In fact: Trump is not bringing back manufacturing jobs “by the hundreds of thousands.” The number of U.S. manufacturing jobs increased by just 70,000 between January 2017, the first month of Trump’s tenure, and July 2017, going from 12,355,000 to 12,425,000.
August 3, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“What the prosecutors should be looking at are Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 deleted emails, and they should be looking at the paid Russian speeches and the owned Russian companies…”
Source: Campaign rally in Huntington, West Virginia
In fact: Neither Clinton nor her campaign aides owned companies in Russia. Trump has regularly, and falsely, accused Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta of owning a Russian company.
August 3, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“Or let them (prosecutors) look at the uranium she (Hillary Clinton) sold that is now in the hands of very angry Russians.”
Source: Campaign rally in Huntington, West Virginia
In fact: It is inaccurate to say “she sold” uranium. Here’s what happened: The State Department, under Clinton, was one of nine government entities that endorsed the Russian purchase of a company called Uranium One, which was ultimately approved by President Barack Obama. There is no evidence even that Clinton was involved in the discussions at all, and the State Department did not make the final decision.
August 3, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“Most people know there were no Russians in our campaign. There never were.”
Source: Campaign rally in Huntington, West Virginia
In fact: Since Trump is being very literal: his campaign had a spokesperson, Boris Epshteyn, who was born and raised in Moscow.
August 3, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“We are taking the fight to the drug smugglers, human traffickers and the vile criminal cartels like MS-13.”
Source: Campaign rally in Huntington, West Virginia
In fact: MS-13 is a gang, not a cartel. It has developed relationships with actual cartels.
August 3, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“Our proposal prevents new immigrants from going on welfare for at least five years.”
Source: Campaign rally in Huntington, West Virginia
In fact: As the Washington Post reported, the provision in the Trump-backed RAISE Act would only apply to immigrants entering on visas granted through a new merit points sytem. People entering under other categories – refugees, for instance – would still be eligible for welfare, and so the provision “would not apply to the vast majority of legal immigrants,” the Post reported.
August 3, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low.”
Source: Twitter
In fact: U.S. relations with Russia remain tense, but they are clearly not at an all-time low, at least when counting the Soviet era. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 brought the two nations to the brink of nuclear conflict. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow shut down in 1919 after the Russian revolution; there were no diplomatic relations at all until 1933.
August 2, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“The RAISE Act prevents new migrants and new immigrants from collecting welfare, and protects U.S. workers from being displaced. And that's a very big thing. They're not going to come in and just immediately go and collect welfare. That doesn’t happen under the RAISE Act. They can't do that.”
Source: Remarks on RAISE Act immigration bill
In fact: As the Washington Post reported, the provision in the Trump-backed RAISE Act would only apply to immigrants entering on visas granted through a new merit-points sytem. People entering under other categories — refugees, for instance — would still be eligible for welfare, and so the provision “would not apply to the vast majority of legal immigrants,” the Post reported. Further, Trump is misleading about current law, which already bans many categories of immigrants from obtaining weflare benefits for their five five years in the U.S.
August 1, 2017 Trump LIED:
“GDP for the quarter – just released – at 2.6 per cent. That’s so much higher than anticipated.”
Source: Remarks to Small Business Administration gathering
In fact: This level of growth was either right in line with, or lower than, the anticipated level of growth. As FactCheck.org pointed out, various forecasts earlier in the year — from entities like the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and Moody’s Analytics — had projected growth higher than 2.6 per cent at one point or another.
August 1, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“Only the Fake News Media and Trump enemies want me to stop using Social Media (110 million people).”
Source: Twitter
In fact: At the time, Trump had fewer than 100 million total followers across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Safely assuming that many of those followers are following him on more than one platform, he is well short of 110 million actual people.
I don't think we need a separate comment for every Trump lie , do we? Unless you like to see your name fill up the comment scroll.
Okay, I finished posting just the Trump Lies from August 2017.
I am dedicated to trying to EDUCATE the IGNORANT.
I'll take a break now, because EDUCATION can be a time consuming and laborious process with the audience I am attempting to reach.
I may come back and start in on Trump's LIES from July 2017. Then June. Then May, and so forth and so on back at least as far as January 2017. I have them all available. No problem, just time consuming, but something that I feel is worthwhile to EDUCATE those who are apparently IGNORANT of the FACTS and the TRUTH.
These are the FACTS people. This is FREEDOM of SPEECH. This is MY PATRIOTIC DUTY to INFORM you all of the TRUTH.
God Bless America!
God Damn Donald Trump!