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KayF

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Wed Mar 6, 2019, 05:46 PM Mar 2019

L.A. Times: When will Trump tell his 10,000th lie?

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/enterthefray/la-ol-trump-march-madness-lies-office-pool-20190305-story.html

President Trump passed an ignominious milestone during his weekend speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend. According to a tracker kept by the Washington Post, Trump made more than 100 “false or misleading claims” over a span of two hours, a performance that pushed him over 9,000 lies in the first 773 days of his presidency through Sunday.

Which raises the question: When will Trump utter his 10,000th lie?

Well, this year he’s let loose with an average of 22 whoppers a day. Looking at the calendar and doing a little doodling math, I’ll take April 15 in the office pool, which has a lovely synchronicity since that’s the day the bill literally comes due for taxpayers.

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L.A. Times: When will Trump tell his 10,000th lie? (Original Post) KayF Mar 2019 OP
Lemme see...72 now...my guess is about 70 yrs ago. ret5hd Mar 2019 #1
When will he be properly punished for ANY of them? FiveGoodMen Mar 2019 #2
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