Trump: 836 false or misleading claims since January.
Note: I am reposting in this forum as it was bounced from Breaking News.
Source: The Washington Post
"Shortly before reaching the six-month mark of his presidency, President Trump made an assertion and then paused that perhaps he should not be so definitive. “I better say ‘think,’ otherwise they’ll give you a Pinocchio. And I don’t like those — I don’t like Pinocchios.”
As it turned out, the president’s claim — that he has signed more bills (42) at this point than “any president ever” — was completely wrong. Just among recent presidents, he’s behind Jimmy Carter (70 bills signed), George H.W. Bush (55) and Bill Clinton (50).
So it goes with Trump, the most fact-challenged politician that The Fact Checker has ever encountered. As part of our coverage of the president’s first 100 days, The Fact Checker team (along with Leslie Shapiro and Kaeti Hinck of the Post graphics department) produced an interactive graphic that displayed a running list of every false or misleading statement made by the president. He averaged 4.9 false or misleading claims a day.
Readers encouraged us to keep the list going for the president’s first year. So at the six-month mark, the president’s tally stands at 836 false or misleading claims. That’s an average of 4.6 claims a day, not far off his first 100-day pace."
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/07/20/president-trumps-first-six-months-the-fact-check-tally/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_factcheck-trumpsixmonthsb-743am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.e42f161d52bc
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Almost makes it sound acceptable, like anyone might fall prey, given the variety of perspectives out there, but let's stop sugar-coating this: we're talking about Lies here. The president is a pathological Liar and Liars can't be trusted.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 836 times -- ???
Sadly, I don't believe a single word that comes out of this President's mouth. Not a single word. If I wasn't so angry about this, I'd cry. And much as I hold 45 in personal contempt, the entire republican party is to blame for this.
Sigh. . .
G-r-r-r-r-r 