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Thu Feb 16, 2017, 07:22 PM Feb 2017

Trump Calls Press Dishonest, Then Utters Falsehoods of His Own

Trump Calls Press ‘Dishonest,’ Then Utters Falsehoods of His Own

By NICHOLAS FANDOSFEB. 16, 2017

WASHINGTON — President Trump took aim at reporters on Thursday for more than an hour at an impromptu White House news conference.

“The press has become so dishonest,” he said, and not talking about it would be “doing a tremendous disservice to the American people.” He added that the “level of dishonesty is out of control.”

In accusing the news media, though, Mr. Trump uttered several falsehoods of his own. Here is a list of some of the most important.
‘It was the biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan.’

Mr. Trump won 306 Electoral College votes, well above the threshold needed to secure the presidency but well behind several of his most recent predecessors. President Barack Obama won 332 Electoral College votes in 2012 and 365 four years earlier. President Bill Clinton received 370 Electoral College votes in 1992 and 379 in 1996. And President George Bush won 426 Electoral College votes in 1988.

The rest is at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/us/politics/trump-fact-check.html

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Trump Calls Press Dishonest, Then Utters Falsehoods of His Own (Original Post) PSPS Feb 2017 OP
he must be looking in the mirror when he says that gopiscrap Feb 2017 #1
.... pbmus Feb 2017 #2
Trumps "but I heard this from somewhere" when caught tells you all you need to know about his utter Fred Sanders Feb 2017 #3

Fred Sanders

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3. Trumps "but I heard this from somewhere" when caught tells you all you need to know about his utter
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 10:00 PM
Feb 2017

lack of intelligence and why he lies so easily....all his info. comes from RW conspiracy and fake news outlets.

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