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Trump made 30 false claims in his wild Montana rally speech. With 43 false claims, last week was the eighth-most-dishonest of his presidency: thestar.com/news/world/ana…
Among Trump's major lies last week (1/2):
- "Millions" are signing up for new association health plans (aren't even being offered yet)
- "We've never had a rush like this" at Mexico border (not even close)
- "The NYT was ready to fold" before Trump came along (not even close)
Among Trump's major lies last week:
- Obama tried to get a meeting with Kim but got denied (never happened)
- Obama was close to war with North Korea (no)
- No Republican had won Wisconsin since 1952 (1956, 1960, 1968, 1972, 1980, 1984)
- Democrats colluded with Russia (nonsense)
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Off to a strong start! Trump made 78 false claims in the first week of 2019, including 24 at his first press conference of the year and a rally-level 32 at his first Cabinet meeting of the year: thestar.com/news/world/ana…
It was non-fun catching up on five weeks of Trump fact-checking, but he actually had a relatively quiet December by his recent lie-standards: before last week's 78, weeks of 41, 22, 32 and 21 false claims. That was more like his 2017 level. (He didn't do as many speaking events.)
Trump is now up to 4,122 false claims for his presidency, an average of 5.7 per day. He averaged 8.3 per day in 2018, nearly triple his 2017 average of 2.9 per day. Here's the comprehensive database: projects.thestar.com/donald-trump-f…
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Most of the heroin Trump is talking about comes through legal ports of entry, not through unwalled areas.
Trump has never personally presented detailed data about how many children are being fraudulently used for border-crossing purposes, merely implying it's common. The evidence suggests it's a small minority of the families who cross.
Democrats have not made a "request" for a steel barrier, as far as anyone knows. They don't want any of this.
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In my experience, immediately fact-checking Trump's immigration lies is harder than immediately fact-checking most other Trump lies -- they're often written into his speeches by people more sophisticated at deception than he is.
Most of Trump's lying is just Trump being a liar -- it's him ad-libbing out of speeches that are more or less factual. The immigration lying is an administration-wide strategy.
He repeats a lot of them, so outlets should be prepared to respond to those right away. But there's really no way to counteract a barrage of live-to-air Trump immigration lies with fact-checking, even if live-TV-fact-checking were a common thing - you can't do it fast enough.
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