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The false claims that Trump keeps repeating

  

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Via:  don-overton  •  6 years ago  •  1 comments

The false claims that Trump keeps repeating
The president has a habit of exaggerating; this time his exaggeration is the size of his proposed tax cut. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)

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The Fact Checker has evaluated false statements President Trump has made repeatedly and analyzed how often he reiterates them. The claims included here – which we're calling "Bottomless Pinocchios" – are limited to ones that he has repeated 20 times and were rated as Three or Four Pinocchios by the Fact Checker.

Even before President Trump’s tax cut was crafted, he promised it would be the biggest in U.S. history – bigger than Ronald Reagan’s 1981 tax cut. Reagan’s tax cut amounted to 2.9 percent of the gross domestic product and none of the proposals under consideration came close to that level. Yet Trump persisted in this fiction even when the tax cut was eventually crafted to be the equivalent of 0.9 percent of GDP, making it the eighth largest tax cut in 100 years. This continues to be an all-purpose applause line in the president’s rallies.


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1  seeder  Don Overton    6 years ago

Hummmmm seems to be all the facts and nothing but the facts

 
 

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