Anatomy of a Trump rally: 76 percent of claims are false, misleading or lacking evidence

The following article by Salvador RIzzo and Meg Kelly was posted on the Washington Post website July 10, 2018:

President Trump’s campaign style rally on July 5 was littered with claims that are false, misleading or lack evidence. (Meg Kelly /The Washington Post)

We’re doing something new: analyzing every factual claim from President Trump’s campaign rally in Montana on Thursday.

According to The Fact Checker’s database, the president had made 3,251 false or misleading claims at the end of May, and his average daily rate was climbing.

This side of Trump really comes alive during campaign rallies, so we wanted to do the math and find out whether the president speaks more fictions or facts in front of his crowds.

View the complete article on the Washington Post website here.