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President Trump has made 4,713 false or misleading claims in 592 days

The following article by glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly was posted on the Washington Post website September 4, 2018:

The Fact Checker is keeping a running list of the false or misleading claims Trump says most regularly. Here’s our latest tally as of Sept. 3, 2018. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)

In the 592 days since he took the oath of office, President Trump has made 4,713 false or misleading claims, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.

That’s an average of about eight claims a day.

When we first started this project for the president’s first 100 days, he averaged 4.9 claims a day. But the average number of claims per day keeps climbing as the president nears the 600-day mark of his presidency.

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Disregard for Truth Threatens Democracy Itself

The following commentary by Cynthia Tucker was posted on the UExpress.com website August 30, 2018:

President Donald J. Trump has earned special notice among independent fact-checkers — people employed by respected news media organizations and universities to ferret out false claims. In their view, the president is among the most prolific liars in political history.

Trump did not have a bigger inauguration crowd than Barack Obama. He did not lose the popular vote to Hillary Clinton because of massive voter fraud. He does not have the highest approval ratings of any Republican president in history. And the independent investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, having already yielded several incidental guilty pleas and convictions, is not a witch hunt.

Those are just a few among his whoppers. Last month, The Washington Post published a remarkable story reporting that the president — already an accomplished liar — was working hard to ensure that no one could ever break his record. “In his first year as president, Trump made 2,140 false or misleading claims. Now, just six months later, he has almost doubled that total,” the Post reported.

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Trump claims, without evidence, that NBC was ‘caught fudging’ TV interview

The following article by Paul Farhi was posted on the Washington Post website August 30, 2018:

President Trump said he fired former FBI director James Comey because the organization was in “virtual turmoil” during an exclusive interview with NBC News. (NBC News)

President Trump accused NBC News and its top anchor, Lester Holt, of “fudging” elements of their interview last year in which Trump said he fired James B. Comey over his performance as FBI director, including his handling of an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Trump, who made the allegation on Twitter, didn’t specify what he believed was improperly altered in NBC’s broadcast of the interview. He also provided no evidence for his claim.

In his tweet on Thursday, Trump suggested that NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack — whom he referred to as “Andy Lack(y)” — was “about to be fired(?) for incompetence, and much worse.”

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No, 96% of Google news stories on Trump aren’t from left-wing outlets

The following article by Louis Jacobson was posted on the Politifact.com website August 29, 2018:

In a pair of early-morning tweets, President Donald Trump took aim at Google’s system of search results, saying it was biased against outlets that are friendly to him.

In two successive tweets on Aug. 28 (later deleted and reposted to correct a spelling error) Trump wrote:

“Google search results for ‘Trump News’ shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD. Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal? 96% of … results on ‘Trump News’ are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!”

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

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Google search results for “Trump News” shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake News Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD. Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal? 96% of….

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

….results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!

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FBI contradicts Trump’s claim about Hillary Clinton’s emails being hacked by China

The following article by Emily Shugerman was posted on the Independent website August 29, 2018:

‘The FBI has not found any evidence the servers were compromised,’ agency says in a statement

A short investigation into Trump’s claims of ‘RIGGED’ Google results against him

The following article by Abby Ohlheiser and Alex Horton was posted on the Washington Post website August 28, 2018:

In a Aug. 28 tweet, President Trump accused Google of “suppressing voices of Conservatives.” In response, the search engine said its searches aren’t biased. (Elyse Samuels, Patrick Martin/The Washington Post)

Early on Tuesday morning, President Trump accused Google of rigging search results for “Trump News” against “Republican/Conservative & Fair Media,” and wondered, “illegal?”

Then, he promised that the situation would be “addressed.”

(Trump deleted the original tweets a few hours later, but re-posted the statements to Twitter around 11 a.m. The newer tweets refer to the “Fake News” media” instead of the “Fake New Media,” but are otherwise the same.)

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Not just misleading. Not merely false. A lie.

The following article by Glenn Kessler was posted on the Washington Post website August 22, 2018:

The Post’s Fact Checker Glenn Kessler explains why he’s labeling President Trump’s claims about Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels “a lie.” (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)

The first denial that Donald Trump knew about hush-money payments to silence women came four days before he was elected president, when his spokeswoman Hope Hicks said, without hedging, “We have no knowledge of any of this.”

The second came in January of this year, when his attorney Michael Cohen said the allegations were “outlandish.” By March, two of the president’s spokesmen — Raj Shah and Sarah Huckabee Sanders — said publicly that Trump denied all the allegations and any payments. Even Cohen’s attorney, David Schwartz, got in on the action, saying the president “was not aware of any of it.”

In April, Trump finally weighed in, answering a question about whether he knew about a payment to porn star Stephanie Clifford, who uses the stage name Stormy Daniels, with a flat “no.”

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Trump’s Revoking of Security Clearances

Pres. Trump speaks during a rally in Ohio. Credit: John Minchillo AP

Donald Trump revoked the security clearance of a private citizen and long-standing public servant, John Brennan, because he holds Brennan responsible for the special counsel’s investigation into his campaign’s relationship with Russia.  We know this because Trump told the Wall Street Journal last night that revoking Brennan’s clearance “had to be done,” because Brennan was one of the officials who “led” the “rigged witch hunt.”

This contradicts the White House claim that Trump’s decision was “not politically motivated” and was because Brennan posed a “security risk.”

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Watch: Rudy Giuliani gets busted lying about Trump and James Comey

The following article by Tommy Christopher was posted on the ShareBlue.com website August 12, 2018:

Rudy Giuliani lied on air, and CNN’s Jake Tapper had the video to prove it.

Rudy Giuliani tried to defend Trump on TV this weekend — but only succeeded in getting caught lying during a live interview on Sunday’s edition of CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Giuliani told host Jake Tapper that “there was no conversation about Michael Flynn” between Trump and former FBI director James Comey.

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Don’t fall for Trump’s latest whataboutism

The following commentary by the Editorial Board at the Washington Post was posted on their website August 11, 2018:

PRESIDENT TRUMP tweets it repeatedly: Yes, there was collusion with Russia — except the real colluders were Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. The president was back at it again Thursday, quoting a conservative cable host’s assertion that “Hillary Clinton & the Democrats colluded with the Russians to fix the 2016 election.” This inflammatory argument may play well with the president’s supporters and others inclined to believe the worst about Ms. Clinton. But the claim that Ms. Clinton’s 2016 opposition- research activities were on the same moral or legal plane with the Trump team’s direct interactions with Russians represents a preposterous effort to confuse and distract.

Here is what the Trump team did: Senior campaign officials, including then-chairman Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner, met in June 2016 with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Kremlin-connected lawyer. They were told the lawyer could give them “very high level and sensitive information” on Ms. Clinton, as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

Here is what the Clinton campaign did: It employed a U.S. law firm that hired a U.S. research outfit that brought in Christopher Steele, a British ex-spy, to gather information on Mr. Trump from his network of sources. That network included Russians.

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