Trump and the fact checkers...

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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/donald-trump-versus-the-fact-checkers/article/2572266

A well-known fact checker flunked Donald Trump in June for suggesting incorrectly that there are no Chevys in Japan, that the Islamic State has built a hotel in Syria, and that nuclear warheads in the United States are likely inoperable — and all of these fact checks came from a single speech.

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Since launching his campaign in June, Trump has claimed that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has "done nothing to help the [veterans]," that Florida housed five sanctuary cities while Jeb Bush was governor, and that Christian Syrian refugees are barred from entering the United States.

Each of these assertions earned a "false" tag from PolitiFact.

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For RedState contributor Leon Wolf, the problem isn't so much that Trump has a penchant for stretching the truth. It's that he does it with such regularity, and that the volume of questionable comments is so great, that fact checking everything becomes a nearly impossible task.

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"When a politician goofs once, it's easy for that to get stuck in the feedback loop of the media and other candidates. Watching Donald Trump speak and answer questions, though, is like watching a billion targets appear in the sky all at once, for a political opponent. Each thing he says is so bizarre, or ill informed, or demonstrably false, or unpresidential in tone or character, that it becomes impossible to know which target to lock on to or focus on," he added.