President Trump’s alternate reality on Ukraine

Washington Post logoPresident Trump often presents a funhouse-mirror version of events when he talks about Ukraine and the House impeachment inquiry, and then fogs up the discussion by repeating these fantasy claims. For example, this Four Pinocchio fact check is headlined, “Trump inverts time and invents conversations to thwart impeachment.”

We’re taking a look at some of the Trump claims that cross into alternate reality. Our custom is not to give Pinocchios when we round up several statements. Some of the claims below have received Pinocchios previously, yet the president keeps saying them over and over.

“I still ask the FBI: Where is the server? How come the FBI never got the server from the DNC? Where is the server? I want to see the server. Let’s see what’s on the server. So, the server, they say, is held by a company whose primary ownership individual is from Ukraine.” (Remarks at the White House, Oct. 16)

View the complete October 29 article by Salvador Rizzo on The Washington Post website here.