Washington Post says Trump has topped 10,000 false or misleading statements

CNN ^ | 04/29/2019 | By Brian Stelter

[SeekAndFind]

The Washington Post is out with an updated count of President Trump's false and misleading statements since Inauguration Day. And it shows that Trump has surpassed the 10,000 mark. It's a milestone, but not a cause for celebration. Whatever the opposite of popping champagne is, do that, I guess?

"The president continues to say false or misleading statements at an unbelievable pace," The Post's fact-checker-in-chief, Glenn Kessler, said on CNN's "New Day" Monday morning.

"He hit 5,000 in September. Now here it is, seven months later, and he's now hit 10,000," Kessler said. "That's an average of about 23 false or misleading claims a day in the last seven months."

Kessler's new story, co-written with Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly, says "the tsunami of untruths just keeps looming larger and larger."

Many of the misstatements are about immigration issues — with distortions and utter falsehoods about migrants, border walls, and Democrats.

Other common bogus claims relate to Robert Mueller's probe, trade talks with other countries, and Trump's accomplishments in office. The Post's database includes everything from exaggerations to outright lies.

As of Saturday night, after the president held a rally in Wisconsin, the Post's official count was 10,111 false or misleading statements in 828 days. The Post has observed that Trump has become looser and looser with the facts over time.

[Conserv]

Stetler is the one of the biggest stooges on TV..

and he does certainly look the part.

[Vaduz]

They can’t use truth spin is all they have It’s why they have to take sleeping pills to get to sleep.

[eclectic]

WAPO is stuck on stupid.

[Lurkinanloomin]

That’s a daily total for the Ministry of Propaganda.

[I want the USA back]

bammy and hillary said millions of lies, but since the media wasn’t counting, they’re not telling us.

[butlerweave]

Trump has even made 10,000 statements ,LOL

[SeekAndFind]

CNN: COLLUSION NEWS NETWORK

[Logical me]

CNN the garbage dump.

[bathousebarry_kenyan_cokehead]

Even if this were true, 10,000 lies would equal merely .00001 percent of the lies the wash post has told since its inception or for that matter the number that Bath house Barry told during his first campaign.

[BitWielder1]

Any examples?

"To believe Trump, you have to disbelieve the press..."
Already there.

[aynrandfreak]

The nature of socialism is deception, because people won’t won’t let you take their stuff if you put it that plainly.

[Eddie01]

Equally interesting, the Washington Post just surpassed 12 million false or misleading statements.

so...

[WriteRight]

And how does that compare with the numbers they kept during the Obama administration? What?? You mean they weren’t counting?

[Mr. K]

They count each time he says “there was no collusion” as a ‘lie’

[Steve_Seattle]

"Trump hasn't even made 10,000 statements."

I changed your statement to what I think you meant to say. The same thought occurred to me: 10,000 "lies" works out to about ten a day, and I don't think Trump makes that many distinct statements every day. He might give one speech, one comment on proposed legislation, and a few Tweets. That's why I think they are calling things like unfulfilled aspirations, e.g., "We're going to build a wall," opinions, "The press is the enemy of the American people," and exaggerations, "This is the best economy ever," as "lies."

[1Old Pro]

Trump’s a lightweight, the media has 10,000 per DAY.

[Eddie01]

The Washington Post IS Lord of the Flies.

[TMN78247]

One wonders what percentage of the public believes or CARES what “The Washington COM-post” publishes, that is more controversial than the daily sports scores?

“The COM-post” has told so many OUTRIGHT LIES, on so many subjects & for such a long time, that I believe NOTHING that that rag claims, absent POSITIVE PROOF from KNOWN, NEUTRAL & TRUSTWORTHY sources.
(Especially obvious “departures from the truth” were the MANY completely false reports/accusations leveled against the Armed Forces service-members, who were in combat in Viet-Nam.)

For just ONE such KNOWINGLY FALSE report, my college friend, 1LT Jerry C_________, late of the USASF, was accused of “committing many war crimes in South Vietnam in 1972”. - 1Lt C________ had been KIA in 1969, by the “COM-post”, ABC, CBS & NBC.
When his widow (Martha Anne) sent the official report of his death in combat about two years before the accusations (as well as photos of his tombstone/gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery), reporters from the “mainstream national press” accused him of additional war crimes, that he supposedly committed after his death.

Yours, TMN78247

[Steve_Seattle]

"And how does that compare with the numbers they kept during the Obama administration? What?? You mean they weren’t counting?"

That points to the main problem with the "fact-checking" industry: they have complete carte blanche over what facts to check. They can put Trump under a microscope, analyze and parse every sentence, yet completely ignore the statements of other politicians, or of the press itself, and/or cherry-pick which statements they want to fact-check.

[Seaplaner]

Were not the Clinton Cartel and the Obama Syndicate responsible for some of the most outrageous and numerous falsifications and lies in our young history as a country? (The answer is easily discoverable, as brief online searches will attest.)

WaPo knows the real truths and the real lies, one highly suspects.