Trump's false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years - The Washington Post
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Via: jbb • 3 months ago • 24 commentsBy: Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly (Washington Post)
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The Fact Checker counted a total of 30,573 false or misleading claims made by President Trump during his White House tenure. Here's what we learned. (Video: Adriana Usero/The Washington Post)Analysis by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly
When The Washington Post Fact Checker team first started cataloguing President Donald Trump's false or misleading claims, we recorded 492 suspect claims in the first 100 days of his presidency. On Nov. 2 alone, the day before the 2020 vote, Trump made 503 false or misleading claims as he barnstormed across the country in a desperate effort to win reelection.
This astonishing jump in falsehoods is the story of Trump's tumultuous reign. By the end of his term, Trump had accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency — averaging about 21 erroneous claims a day.
What is especially striking is how the tsunami of untruths kept rising the longer he served as president and became increasingly unmoored from the truth.
Trump averaged about six claims a day in his first year as president, 16 claims day in his second year, 22 claims day in this third year — and 39 claims a day in his final year. Put another way, it took him 27 months to reach 10,000 claims and an additional 14 months to reach 20,000. He then exceeded the 30,000 mark less than five months later.
- Read our full report on the database.
- See the pace of Trump's false claims in this amazing visual graphic.
- Visit the Trump claims database website and explore it. The database has an extremely fast search engine that will quickly locate suspect statements made by Trump. Readers can also isolate claims by time period, subject or venue.
The fact checks in the database amount to about 5 million words and many include links to sources that debunk Trump's statements.
The Trump claims database was nominated by the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University for inclusion in a list of the Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade. "The project is a sterling example of what journalists should do — holding the powerful accountable by using reporting and facts," the nomination said.
Note: The Fact Checker welcomes academic research of the Trump claims database. Recent examples include work done by Columbia University,Erasmus University of Rotterdam, University College London and the University of California at Santa Barbara. The database has also been used in art projects, such as a wall exhibited in Brooklyn and Manhattan. You can request our data files with an explanation of your research or artistic plans by contacting us at factchecker@washpost.com. May a hundred PhD dissertations bloom! (NEW: We have added a button to the database so you can download a CSV file yourself.)
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Yes, Virginia in Ohio, Trump actually did tell over 30,000 certified lies in his first term! Outside of the Fox News Bubble everyone knows that!
Is it possible that Americans are more comfortable believing lies that please them more than truths that don't?
Yes...
Like believing Glenn Kessler documented 30,000 lies when Kessler himself admits otherwise because it makes Democrats feel better about themselves.
I am sorry you were lied to by Trump. The bad is all on him...
The idea that Trump is not a pathological liar is amusing
The bad is all on him...
He's not the one who made up a claim about the Washington Post documenting lies, is he?
If Kessler fact checked your post about 30,000 lies, he'd call it false and misleading. Which you'd then turn into calling your own post a lie. Interesting how that works out, isn't it?
Now the President being a liar bothers you again? Seems to come and go depending on the letter after their name.
You have a great day Sean.. LOL
No, he is the one that told the lies.
The vast majority of those "lies" were nothing more than leftists screaming "I don't like what he said, so I deem him wrong".
Most fact checkers are nothing more than opinion editors
Biden told way more lies than Trump. Trump embellishes, exaggerates, elaborates, and stretches the truth unnecessarily, but mostly tells the inconvenient and comfortable truth about progressives and liberals,
That is false...
Flat out lie. Prove your BS? We'll wait.
Just unbelievable how some are totally blind to Trump's negatives.
Nobody in the public can touch Trump in terms of quantity and outrageousness of his lies. Probably the most basic observation of Trump is that he is a pathological liar. He makes shit up all the time. His modus operandi is to portray an alternate reality and keep repeating his lies until people believe them. He is THE lying sack of shit of modern times.
Laughably even.
Do you have a list and a total number of the lies that Biden told so that we can compare them?
Do you not have Google? You should not be demanding proof from me if you lived in the United States the last 8 years...
You got what you didn't care enough about!
So, you've lost your right to fault either side!
Trump told over 30,000 full blown 100% false confirmed certified LIES in 4 years. Biden misspoke or exaggerated a few times. He especially gets hyperbolic about his son who died of cancer. Do you really need proof FROM ME to know it?
Do you really need a list Robert? Biden certainly lied ... especially with his exaggerated folksy stories. But I certainly do not need a list or a count to recognize that Trump is the most prolific public liar of modern times. And for me, he is the most prolific liar I know of (my entire lifetime).
But worse, Trump's lies spin an alternate reality. He is intentionally lying to get people to believe his alternate reality because he knows (this is his long-standing modus operandi) that it is easier to convince people of what you want them to believe by lying than to shape actual reality to the desired state. No need to actually build the wall, just lie to the people. No need to have the best economy ever, just say that you have. People concerned about prices, simply tell them you will fix them if elected. People concerned about war, just tell them you can end the war with a phone-call. Just pick whatever reality you wish and make it so by lying. If you lose an election, just lie about it being rigged and people will believe you.
It is truly sickening that a con-man is capable of manipulating people this way but it is worse that someone could con so many in the electorate to be elected PotUS after engaging in a traitorous act of trying to steal a presidential election with fraud, lying, coercion, and incitement.
To wit, there is no need for a list; nobody holds a candle to the quantity and outrageousness of Trump's lying.
Yeah, sure.
But but but what about Hillary?
Mrs Clinton has not held any public office for over twelve years...
The right has severe CDS JBB.
2021? Really? Can't even remotely try?