What if President Trump just tried to tell the truth?
It’s a question I have long pondered as editor and chief writer of the Fact Checker, where we have assiduously tracked every speech, tweet and news conference during Trump’s presidency and counted more than 22,000 false or misleading statements.
In fact, when Trump unexpectedly won the presidency four years ago, I expressed cautious optimism that his truth-telling would improve: “Now that Trump will assume the presidency, he may find that it is not in his interest to keep making factually unsupported statements.” Continue reading.