Tag: Trump lies

President Trump has made more than 5,000 false or misleading claims

On Sept. 7, President Trump woke up in Billings, Mont., flew to Fargo, N.D., visited Sioux Falls, S.D., and eventually returned to Washington. He spoke to reporters on Air Force One, held a pair of fundraisers and was interviewed by three local reporters.

In that single day, he publicly made 125 false or misleading statements — in a period of time that totaled only about 120 minutes. It was a new single-day high.

The day before, the president made 74 false or misleading claims, many at a campaign rally in Montana. An anonymous op-ed article by a senior administration official had just been published in the New York Times, and news circulated about journalist Bob Woodward’s insider account of Trump’s presidency.

View the complete September 13, 2018, article by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly where.

‘Never give an inch’: Trump keeps touting perceived failures as successes

President Trump on Sept. 11 praised his administration’s response to the damage to Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria, where the death toll was nearly 3,000. (The Washington Post)

An estimated 3,000 people died after the devastating Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico last year. Large swaths of the island were without power for months. FEMA was short thousands of workers and underestimated how much food and supplies were needed in the recovery, according to a federal government report.

But in the eyes of President Trump, the government’s response was a raging success — and one he touted this week as a monstrous hurricane pinwheeled toward the Carolinas.

“We got A Pluses for our recent hurricane work in Texas and Florida (and did an unappreciated great job in Puerto Rico, even though an inaccessible island with very poor electricity and a totally incompetent Mayor of San Juan),” he wrote Wednesday on Twitter.

View the complete post by Josh Dawsey posted September 12, 2018, on the Washington Post website here.

Anatomy of a Trump rally: 68 percent of claims are false, misleading or lacking evidence

President Trump’s Montana rally was laden with claims that are false, misleading or lack evidence. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)

More than two-thirds of every factual claim made by President Trump at two of his rallies turns out to be false, misleading or unsupported by evidence.

In July, The Fact Checker examined every factual claim made by the president at a rally in Montana. He returned to Montana on Sept. 6, and we decided once again to put every statement of material fact to the truth test to see whether the July rally was an outlier.

In July, 76 percent of his 98 statements were false, misleading or unsupported by the evidence. Last week the tally, out of 88 statements, was 68 percent. The average percentage for the two rallies was 72 percent.

View the complete September 12, 2018, article by Glenn Kessler on the Washington Post website here.

Trump managed to lie about the economy 64 times in just one tweet

Trump is ‘desperately cherry-picking the data’ on the economy, according to the Washington Post.

President Trump Credit: AP Photo, Susan Walsh

Trump has racked up thousands of lies in his short tenure in the White House — but his most recent statement about the economy essentially managed to squeeze 64 lies into a single tweet.

Trump falsely claimed that U.S. GDP growth (which was 4.2 percent last quarter) is higher than the country’s unemployment rate (currently 3.9 percent) for the first time in more than 100 years.

Like much of what Trump says, this is flatly untrue. But even for Trump, it’s a whopper of epic proportions.

View the complete article by Dan Desai Martin on the ShareBlue.com website September 10, 2018.

Omarosa Releases Tape of Sarah Huckabee Sanders Agreeing With Trump’s ‘Lies’

The following article by Matt Wilstein was posted on the Daily Beast website September 10, 2018:

In a new tape played by Omarosa Manigault Newman on ‘The View,’ Sarah Huckabee Sanders can be heard confirming Trump’s distortion of the Russia story.

With Bob Woodward’s new book climbing the best-seller charts ahead of its official release this week and all of Washington still obsessing over that anonymous op-ed in The New York Times, it’s possible Omarosa Manigault Newman is starting to feel a little left out.

The author of Unhinged returned to The View on Monday morning armed with yet another secret audio recording that she says was made inside the White House. Introduced by Whoopi Goldberg as someone who went from one of Trump’s “biggest defenders to one of his biggest nightmares,” Manigault-Newman came out swinging against the president.

“You cannot silence someone when they’re coming forward to expose corruption,” she said of the Trump team’s arbitration action against her. “I’m going to keep on fighting.”

View the complete article here.

Trump’s top economist says he can’t explain Trump’s false tweet on the economy

The following article by Damian Paletta and Jeff Stein was posted on the Washington Post website September 10, 2018:

Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett said Sept. 10 he couldn’t explain President Trump’s false tweet about the economy. (The Washington Post)

The White House’s top economist on Monday acknowledged that President Trump had made a false statement hours earlier when he used a pair of statistics to describe the strong economy.

Kevin Hassett, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, speaking in the White House press room, said he did not know how Trump obtained the false information.

“The history of thought about how errors happen is not something I can engage in, because from the initial fact to what the president said, I don’t know the whole chain of command,” Hassett said.

View the complete article here.

Under pressure from base, Trump falsely inflates administration’s progress on his border wall

The following article by David Nakamura was posted on the Washington Post website September 7, 2018:

President Trump at border-wall prototypes in March in San Diego. Credit: Evan Vucci, AP

As pressure mounts on President Trump to fulfill his key campaign pledge to build a border wall, he has hit on a quick and easy method to demonstrate progress: Just inflate how much his administration is already spending on the project.

Over the past week, including at a campaign rally Thursday night in Billings, Mont., Trump has begun boasting that he has spent $3.2 billion on the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border — twice as much as has been authorized by Congress.

“We’ve started the wall,” Trump told thousands of supporters at the event. “We’ve spent $3.2 billion on the wall. We’ve got to get the rest of the funding.” Later, he repeated the monetary figure and added: “We’ve done a lot of work on the wall. A lot of people don’t understand that.”

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Donald Trump wrongly says Social Security and Medicare are stronger

The following article by Jon GReenberg was posted on the PolitiFact website September 6, 2018:

President Donald Trump is rejecting the image of policy chaos and bitter staff infighting captured in the latest book by Washington Post editor Bob Woodward.

At a meeting with Kuwait’s leader Sheikh Al-Sabah, Trump called the book “fiction” and said in contrast to what it describes, no administration has gotten more done on tax cuts, deregulation and the courts than his. And the accomplishments don’t end there.

“We’re saving Medicare,” Trump said Sept. 5. “The Democrats want to destroy Medicare. If you look at what they’re doing, they’re going to destroy Medicare. And we will save it. We will keep it going. We’re making it stronger. We’re making Social Security stronger. We’re making our whole country stronger. So all you have to do is look at the achievements.”

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President Trump’s repeated claim: ‘The greatest economy in the history of our country’

The following article by Glenn Kessler was posted on the Washington Post website September 7, 2018:

President Trump insists this is the best economy in U.S. history. But proving that isn’t easy. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)

“In many ways this is the greatest economy in the HISTORY of America”

— President Trump, in a tweet, June 4

“We have the strongest economy in the history of our nation.”

— Trump, in remarks to reporters, June 15

“We have the greatest economy in the history of our country.”

— Trump, in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, July 16

View the complete article here.

Spoiler Alert:  He gets 3 Pinocchios

Trump Says He Never Spoke to Famed Watergate Reporter — But This 11-Minute Recording Proves He’s Lying

The following article by Matthew Chapman was posted on the AlterNet.org website September 4, 2018:

Trump heaped praise on Bob Woodward during their interview earlier this year. Now that his highly critical book is out, Trump won’t admit their interview even exists

Credit: BobWoodward.com

With the release of Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” President Donald Trump is not pleased. And he is raging that Woodward did not even bother to consult him.

“It’s just another bad book. He’s had a lot of credibility problems,” Trump said of the former Watergate reporter in an exclusive interview with the right-wing Daily Caller. “It’s just nasty stuff. I never spoke to him. Maybe I wasn’t given messages that he called.”

As a matter of fact, Trump did speak to Woodward, in a lengthy interview in April that was posted to YouTube.

View the complete article here.