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Fact-checking President Trump’s latest tweetstorm

President Trump’s Twitter feed is like a fact-checking buffet sometimes, with all different kinds of false or misleading claims from which to choose.

But instead of choosing, we’re rounding up a bunch of different tweets. (Here are a few other roundups we’ve done of Trump’s rapid-fire Twitter bursts, including this one from exactly one year ago.)

Over the past two days, Trump tweeted a slew of suspect claims on immigration, Obamacare, the census, disaster relief for Puerto Rico and the Russia investigation. Each of them is worth a closer look.

View the complete April 3 article by Salvador Rizzo and Glenn Kessler on The Washington Post website here.

In a Fox-Inspired Tweetstorm, Trump Offers a Medley of Falsehoods and Misstatements Image

The following article by Julie Hirschfeld Davis was posted on the New York Times website July 3, 2018:

President Trump boarded Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base on Tuesday. Credit: Doug Mills The New York Times

WASHINGTON — The string of insults, misstatements, exaggerations and outright falsehoods emanating from the White House began just after sunrise.

In the space of a few hours, President Trump on Tuesday took credit for averting a war with North Korea, charged without proof that President Barack Obama had secretly granted citizenship to thousands of Iranians as part of nuclear disarmament negotiations and appeared to suggest that customers of the motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson were psychic.

He called a sitting congresswoman “crazy” and “corrupt.” He branded the National Security Agency’s handling of millions of telephone call records “a disgrace” — and suggested it was connected to the special counsel investigation into whether his campaign worked with Russia to interfere in the 2016 elections.

View the full article on the New York Times website here.