Thread by @ddale8

Here's a non-exhaustive list of the false claims Trump made in his ABC interview, whose transcript has been posted here: abcnews.go.com/Politics/trans…

Trump said again that he "got" the Veterans Choice program, and John McCain couldn't. John McCain wrote the Choice bill with Bernie Sanders. That bill was passed in 2014 and signed by Obama. Trump signed a law, the VA MISSION Act, that changes the Choice program.

For the 11th time, Trump said he got 52% of the women's vote in 2016. It was 52% of the *white* women's vote, according to exit polls; 41% of all women.

Trump said, regarding North Korea, "We've gotten -- the remains. And they continue to come back..." The U.S. military announced in May that the remains recovery effort had been suspended for the rest of the fiscal year because North Korea has gone silent and uncooperative.

For the second time, Trump said that the Mueller report talked about dozens of "bloggers in Moscow." The Mueller report talked about hackers, not bloggers. They are different.

"Hillary Clinton conspired with Russia." There's no basis for this at all.

Trump continues to describe all unfavorable polling as "suppression polling" deliberately manipulated to deflate enthusiasm among his supporters. He's shown zero evidence for this.

Trump said of Clinton emails: "Not only did they delete, but they acid washed them."

Nobody "acid washed." The free email-deletion software is called BleachBit. Trump originally started saying Clinton didn't merely delete but "bleached," then turned that into "acid washed."

"I was for pre-existing conditions." Trump can perhaps insist that he was always for these protections deep down, but the bills he tried to get passed would've eliminated or weakened them, and he has proposed no plan that would preserve them. (He says a new plan is coming soon.)

Trump said that the media used to have an approval rating "in the 90s" but is now "in the teens."

There are lots of different polls and ways to ask about media trust, but Gallup's poll shows the media at 45% trust, up from the 2016 low of 32%. news.gallup.com/poll/243665/me…

Trump said he won every poll from all of his 15 debates in 2016. Three of those debates were with Clinton. Scientific polling -- as in, not anyone-can-click junk polls on websites -- had Clinton winning all three of those debates. (Trump has previously pointed to the junk polls.)

Trump flatly denied that Americans are paying his tariffs, though that is what experts say is happening. (And Americans are the ones who make the literal payments.) He also baselessly said "most of the companies" are moving out of China to avoid tariffs, then made it "many."

Trump keeps saying he "gave" Mueller 500 witnesses. That is the total number of witnesses. Even if he did have control over people in his administration and broader orbit, he's wrongly suggesting he "gave" Mueller people like Yates, Comey, McCabe, Rybicki.