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Heres A Running List Of President Trumps Lies And Other Bullshit
There’s a high bar to accusing someone of committing a “lie,” and we don’t do it lightly.
A lie isn’t just a false statement. It’s a false statement whose speaker knows it’s false. In these instances, the president — or his administration — have clear reason to know otherwise. Reporters are understandably cautious about using the word — some never do, because it requires speculating on what someone is thinking. The cases we call “lies” are ones where we think it’s fair to make that call: Trump is saying something that contradicts clear and widely published information that we have reason to think he’s seen. This list also includes bullshit, speech that is — in its academic definition — “unconnected to a concern with the truth.”
A lie isn’t just a false statement. It’s a false statement whose speaker knows it’s false. In these instances, the president — or his administration — have clear reason to know otherwise. Reporters are understandably cautious about using the word — some never do, because it requires speculating on what someone is thinking. The cases we call “lies” are ones where we think it’s fair to make that call: Trump is saying something that contradicts clear and widely published information that we have reason to think he’s seen. This list also includes bullshit, speech that is — in its academic definition — “unconnected to a concern with the truth.”
Feb. 7, 2017: Claimed he was facing a historic delay to get all of his cabinet nominees confirmedTrump’s words: The same day that Trump’s education pick Betsy DeVos was confirmed, he tweeted that it is a “disgrace” that his “full Cabinet is still not in place” and that the delay is the longest “in the history of our country.”
The Truth: Though overall Trump’s nominees are getting confirmed more slowly than those of most previous modern presidents, he still hasn’t been without a full cabinet longer than his predecessors were. Obama’s final nominee wasn’t confirmed, for example, until April of 2009, and both Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush had nominees confirmed in March.
Feb. 7, 2017: Lied that the murder rate was the highest in 45 years
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Feb. 6, 2017: Claimed that terrorist attacks across Europe are “not even being reported”
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Feb. 2, 2017: Lied that Kuwait had issued a visa ban on several Muslim-majority countries after his immigration order
~~~More...https://www.buzzfeed.com/maryanngeorgantopoulos/president-trump-lie-list?utm_term=.dlMOL67bDb#.epEkVnY0R0
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