The facts behind Donald Trump’s many falsehoods

miamited said:

Hi albion,

Well, again I would ask that we be a bit more careful in what we say. The report isn't false.

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Then be more careful, Ted.

Having read it again, there was nothing wrong with what I wrote there.

Eryk said:

Dana Milbank:

Certainly, Clinton tells whoppers, too. But Glenn Kessler, The Post’s Fact Checker, tells me that in his six years on the beat, “there’s no comparison” between Trump and other politicians. Kessler says politicians’ statements get his worst rating — four Pinocchios — 15 percent to 20 percent of the time. Clinton is about 15 percent. Trump is 63 percent to 65 percent.​

PolitiFact, similarly, rated Clinton statements false 28 percent of the time (including 2 percent rating “pants on fire,” the worst rating), while rating 70 percent of Trump statements false (including 17 percent “pants on fire”).​

In March, Politico analyzed a week’s worth of Trump’s words and found that he averaged one misstatement every five minutes.
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The facts behind Donald Trump’s many falsehoods
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New update::

The New York Times used a full page in this week's paper to print out every lie President Donald Trump has publicly told since taking office just over five months ago.

The list contains Trump's contradictions on a slew of topics, like the Iraq War, NATO, the administration's controversial travel ban, the crowd size at Trump's inauguration, the ongoing controversy over Russia's interference in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign's possible role in it, and more.

Trump has contradicted himself on a regular basis since taking office and during the presidential campaign.

The New York Times used a full page to print all of Trump's lies since taking office


See it here:

President Trump’s Lies, the Definitive List

Good grief...

I knew this man had a loose grip on the truth, but a lie a day for 40 days straight....!?

Maybe he is "the best" at something after all....

Allandavid said:

Good grief...

I knew this man had a loose grip on the truth, but a lie a day for 40 days straight....!?

Maybe he is "the best" at something after all....

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We should start a go fund effort to make this a billboard campaign.

Albion said:

So now we have one more. He was angry--and rightly so, whatever might be said about his demeanor--at the Father. He did not denigrate the soldier son. And yet, look at the kind of language you used in that post.

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Well of course he was rightly angry! The man dared to publicly criticize the President!

(and you're right not to want to discuss his demeanor; the less said, the better)

camille70 said:

New update::

The New York Times used a full page in this week's paper to print out every lie President Donald Trump has publicly told since taking office just over five months ago.

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I took a look at the link and chose one so-called lie at random. It took only a second to recognize that the idea of it being a lie was bogus.

But we already know that the NYTimes is going to call any misstatement or colloquial expression such as we all use a "lie," a practice all the NYTimes fans around here have picked up also, and that is something that would make every president and every one of us liars if applied across the board. But of course that isn't going to happen.

If the president says something that is slightly vague as to time or something else that's incidental, it'll be a "lie." But not so with Obama. Would you care to see a list of his alleged lies? When some Dem leader purposely makes up a big fish story or misstates something, well, that's supposed to be nothing special, or else it doesn't get commented on at all.

We're marking this "news" report *Mostly False.*

Albion said:

I took a look at the link and chose one so-called lie at random. It took only a second to recognize that the claim was false. But of course, we already know that the NYTimes is going to call any misstatement a "lie," which people around here have picked up also, and that is something that would make every president and every one of us liars if applied across the board. But of course that isn't going to happen.

If the president says something that is slightly questionable as to time or something else that's incidental, it'll be a "lie." When some Dem leader purposely makes up a big fish story, well, that's supposed to be nothing special or else it doesn't get commented on at all..

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Got anything better than argument um nu uh!

Albion said:

I took a look at the link and chose one so-called lie at random. It took only a second to recognize that the idea of it being a lie was bogus.

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Yeah, which one out of the hundred or so?

Albion said:

Hillary would be the third term for Obama. What could be worse for America?

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If you're going to regurgitate this common Right talking point, why not explain how Obama was so unthinkably horrible to America?

Albion said:

...What could be worse for America?

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ANd of course the answer is, what we have now.

Sultan Of Swing said:

PolitiFact is owned by the Tampa Bay Times, which has officially endorsed Clinton for President.

Is it surprising they have rated Clinton well, and Trump badly?

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Conversely, after assessing that Trump is more dishonest than any other politician - by a good measure - is it surprising that they would endorse his political opponent?

Aside from that absurd comment about the president being the most dishonest pol of all, Politifact was an arm of the Democratic Party from before the election, so don't take that wording about an endorsement of Hillary Clinton too narrowly.

Albion said:

Aside from that absurd comment about the president being the most dishonest pol of all, Politifact was an arm of the Democratic Party from before the election, so don't take that wording about an endorsement of Hillary Clinton too narrowly.

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The true absurdity is those who keep rejecting the claims put forth in the OP as "biased", without offering any evidence in support of their counter claims.

Keep focusing on bias and ignore the facts. #MAGA

Albion said:

Aside from that absurd comment about the president being the most dishonest pol of all, Politifact was an arm of the Democratic Party from before the election, so don't take that wording about an endorsement of Hillary Clinton too narrowly.

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I'll join the queue...which of Donnie's many listed lies are you defending...?

Albion said:

Aside from that absurd comment about the president being the most dishonest pol of all, Politifact was an arm of the Democratic Party from before the election, so don't take that wording about an endorsement of Hillary Clinton too narrowly.

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Politifact is independent, but I understand the need to attack anything that disagrees with one's world view.

"It's not me, it's reality that is wrong"

TLK Valentine said:

If you're going to regurgitate this common Right talking point, why not explain how Obama was so unthinkably horrible to America?

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His Presidency resulted in Donald Trump being elected?

Vylo said:

Politifact is independent, but I understand the need to attack anything that disagrees with one's world view.

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Sometime, you might appreciate reading some of the assessments made by other people as to the accuracy of PolitiFact's ratings.

But anyone who is alert can see in some of the judgments made by PolitiFact that it is not an objective service.

Allandavid said:

Good grief...

I knew this man had a loose grip on the truth, but a lie a day for 40 days straight....!?

Maybe he is "the best" at something after all....

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Just another formerly worldly trait that is now Christian fruit since the man was elected. I started to say since the wolf in sheep's clothing was elected, but Trump never tried to hide being a wolf. His supporters could see he was deceitful and double minded from the start, so there are no (good) excuses they can fall back on for choosing to elect him. I have to give them credit though, they knew he was a disaster in the making, and instead of complaining about him being a disaster, they are upholding all his bad traits as an ideal to striive to achieve.

If I as a child, or even as an adult, behaved like Trump, my mama would have knocked me into next week. Now our children have a president whose most famous quote is "grab them by the p***y". They are being taught which behaviors are rewarded with success and devotion and none of them are the Christian fruit the bible teaches us to use as a guide. We have people around here who basically say whatever Trump does is ok because "he's a Christian now" and that none of his former behavior matters. Unbelievable.

OMGosh! The NYT taking out an ad listing Trump "lies". Shocker! Just like they did with Obama, right?