Posted on 01/02/2018 5:26:04 AM PST by Sub-Driver
President Trump has made 1,950 false or misleading claims over 347 days
By Glenn Kessler, Meg Kelly and Nicole Lewis January 2 at 3:00 AM
With just 18 days before President Trump completes his first year as president, he is now on track to exceed 2,000 false or misleading claims, according to our database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.
As of Monday, the total stood at 1,950 claims in 347 days, or an average of 5.6 claims a day. (Our full interactive graphic can be found here.)
As regular readers know, the president has a tendency to repeat himself — often. There are now more than 60 claims that he has repeated three or more times. The president’s impromptu 30-minute interview with the New York Times over the holidays, in which he made at least 24 false or misleading claims, included many statements that we have previously fact-checked.
We currently have a tie for Trump’s most repeated claims, both made 61 times. Both of these claims date from the start of Trump’s presidency and to a large extent have faded as talking points.
One of these claims 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. Indeed, healthy enrollment for the coming year has surprised health-care experts. Trump used to say this a lot, but he’s quieted down since his efforts to repeal the law flopped.
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Useless twaddle from a useless rag.
Bezos’ Blog.
Giving them the benefit of a doubt and accepting their premise that the Donald has by now made 2000 false or misleading statements - I contend that all 2000 combined do not equal (or do the damage of) a single repeated mantra of “If you like your doctor ... if you like your health plan...” There are degrees of “falsehoods” and “misleading claims”, but nothing matches a bold-face outright lie, repeated over and over to the point that some mind-numbed robots still accept and defend it as fact - even as it was destroying 1/5 of our nation’s econnomy.
Every president tells whoppers for one reason or another, it’s what they actually DO that matters. I’ve been pleasantly surprised to see the progress the president has made with slamming the brakes on Obama’s “phone & Pen” executive order agenda and his appointment of judges that will guide the country in decades to come.
That’s great. Will never surpass the liberals. He’s beating them at their own game.
That right there is a false and misleading statement......
Muslim and incest... hmmm related indeed
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