The Washington Post has a fact-checker who tries to keep count of Trump’s misstatements, false claims, and lies. It’s a hard job but someone has to do it. The fact-checker is currently eight weeks behind because the lies come so fast every day.
Salvador Rizzo writes:
As President Trump entered the final stretch of the election season, he began making more than 50 false or misleading claims a day.
As of Aug. 27, the tally in our database that tracks every errant Trump claim stood at 22,247 claims in 1,316 days, counting from his inauguration through his acceptance speech at this year’s Republican National Convention.
We added thousands of new claims to the database this week, our last update before the Nov. 3 election. We’ve been able to update the database only to that point as of now — so already we are eight weeks behind.
In the first 27 days of August, the president made 1,506 false or misleading claims, or 56 a day. Some days were extraordinary: 189 claims (a new Trump record he will likely not boast about) on Aug. 11; 147 claims on Aug. 17; 113 claims on Aug. 20.
The fact-checker links to a fuller account here.
Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, and Meg Kelly write:
As President Trump entered the final stretch of the election season, he began making more than 50 false or misleading claims a day. It’s only gotten worse — so much so that the Fact Checker team cannot keep up.
As of Aug. 27, the tally in our database that tracks every errant claim by the president stood at 22,247 claims in 1,316 days...
Just in the first 27 days of August, the president made 1,506 false or misleading claims, or 56 a day. Some days were extraordinary: 189 claims (a record) on Aug. 11, 147 claims on Aug. 17, 113 claims on Aug. 20. The previous one-day record was 138 claims — on Nov. 5, 2018, the day before the midterm elections.
The previous monthly record was 1,205 in October 2018.
In 2017, Trump’s first year as president, he averaged six claims a day. That jumped to 16 a day in 2018 and 22 in 2019. So far in 2020, the president has averaged 27 claims a day.
At his current pace, the president will surely exceed 25,000 claims before Election Day. In fact, he probably crossed that threshold this week...
The Fact Checker also tracks Three- or Four-Pinocchio claims that Trump has said at least 20 times, earning him a Bottomless Pinocchio. There are now nearly 50 entries, with many of the new items either false claims about the novel coronavirus or about Joe Biden’s campaign policies.
The coronavirus pandemic has spawned a whole new genre of Trump’s falsehoods. The category in just six months has reached nearly 1,400 claims, more than double all of his tax claims. Trump’s false or misleading claims about the impeachment investigation — and the events surrounding it — contributed almost 1,200 entries to the database.
So far during his presidency, Trump’s most repeated claim — 407 times — is that the U.S. economy today is the best in history. He began making this claim in June 2018, and it quickly became one of his favorites. He’s been forced to adapt for the tough economic times, and doing so has made it even more fantastic. Whereas he used to say it was the best economy in U.S. history, he now often recalls that he achieved “the best economy in the history of the world.”
Surely the last debate added many more items to Trump’s false claim, including his boast that he was the best president for black Americans since Lincoln.
I shouldn’t be but I am amazed that people can be so gullible to believe anything that Trump says. Anything!! I can understand children believe the big man on TV. Children have not learned to filter the lies from the truth. People with learning disabilities may not be able to filter the lies from the truth. Children and people with learning disabilities have a rationale reason for the lack of a lie verse truth filter
But reasonably intelligent people with even a small amount of common sense can see that Trump has built his life and fortune on lies, half-truths, bullying, and cheating. The very basis for his life is what is destroying this nation. We can only hope that enough people with the proper filters go out and vote this individual out of office.
I totally believe the far right media is responsible for people not getting any facts. I have subscribed to several such email medias and read them occasionally to find out what is being said.
If ALL you do is read that garbage and listen to Fox then you can be intelligent without having a clue about what is happening. Giving these people facts is alway met with, “That’s fake news.”
It is disgusting.
Here’s an example of blatant lying that many people will believe.
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RenewedRight.com
Fox News did something surprising with the Hunter Biden email story
Hunter Biden’s emails and their alleged revelations of corrupt foreign business dealings are the biggest news on the campaign trail.
Joe Biden is on the defensive and went into hiding.
The New York Post published the story of Hunter Biden’s emails after Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani came into possession of a laptop hard drive that Hunter Biden allegedly left at a Delaware computer repair store and never picked back up.
But amazingly the New York Post was not the first outlet pitched the story.
Fox News had first dibs.
And Fox News passed claiming the origins of the story were supposedly “sketchy.”
The Daily Caller reports:
Guiliani first allegedly approached Fox News regarding the laptop after he was given a copy from the shop owner, Mediaite reported Monday. The network would reportedly not run with the story unless the legitimacy of the emails and sourcing could be examined, Mediaite added.
“But according to two sources familiar with the matter, the lack of authentication of Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop, combined with established concerns about Giuliani as a reliable source and his desire for unvetted publication, led the network’s news division to pass,” Mediaite wrote.
Fox News fell for the fake news lie about the emails being the product of a Russian disinformation campaign.
But after Chris Wallace’s biased performance as debate moderator, some critics wonder if Fox News is hedging its bet that Joe Biden may win the election and Fox wants to move left as a result.
That possibility worries many Americans because Fox News is the only TV network – broadcast or cable – that doesn’t kowtow to the Democrat Party agenda.
If Fox moves Left because Biden wins the election, then there will be no TV channel providing hard-hitting and skeptical coverage of a potential Biden administration.
Renewed Right will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
The story is that Hunter Biden lives in Los Angeles. Allegedly he flew from Los Angeles to New York City, then took a train toDelaware so he could give his laptop computer to a legally blind computer repair guy. Then forgot to pick it up. Make sense?
Bravo, Mr. Rizzo! Outstanding!!!!
Here is why the media has failed:
A man who constantly lies should always be assumed to be a liar, whether he is sitting in jail, or packs groceries, or runs a school, or practices medicine, or is the president of the United States.
To give a known con man the benefit of the doubt over and over again, as the NYT and various other so-called “mainstream” media does, is not journalism anymore.
It is simply propaganda.
If a boy cries wolf 22,000 times in a row, the NYT reporter who is proud of herself (see Maggie Haberman) would report that 22,001 time that the boy says it that there might be a wolf coming and no one knows whether it is true or not.
If Trump said it was 12:01am every single minute of every single day, the NYT White House reporters like Maggie Haberman would write 1439 stories about how President Trump says it is 12:01 am and “partisan democrats” accuse him of not telling the truth. And then Maggie Haberman would write the 1440th story, about how at 12:01am President Trump correctly said that it was 12:01 am and proved to his critics that he is honest and has integrity.
^^^and this is because reporters like Maggie Haberman are absolutely certain that it would be a terrible breach of her journalistic ethics to report in the first 1439 stories that President Trump is lying when he says it is 12:01 because it is – factually – 3:15pm.
Maggie Haberman does not understand that the breach of journalistic ethics came in the 1439 stories she wrote in which she was much to cowardly to inform her readers that it was – factually, undeniably – 3:15pm when President Trump told the country it was 12:01.
Trump is the demagogue that cried wolf one too many times. This is one reason why the unverifiable laptop tale has not gained traction. It is a neat and tidy implausible story that fell from the sky at the 11th hour in a very significant election just like Hillary’s emails. Fooled us once shame on us, but the media and people are tired of Trump’s dirty games that cause chaos and misdirection.
It has been 4 years and NYT published a column today in which one of their privileged white men who gets a regular column there demanded that the NYT cover the story.
Instead of refusing to print such nonsense, the vaunted paper of record gave the story legitimacy by allowing one of their columnist to print blatant lies to push the false narrative that Biden is corrupt. One week before the election.
It gets worse.
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/10/trump-predicts-biden-will-be-assassinated
I don’t care how many lies he tells as long as he’s out of there next year. Let’s see if Amy Coney Island can cheat her way to thwarting democracy.
But the lies are why he stays in power. Because instead of discrediting President Trump, the media amplifies his lies and only counters them with “partisan democrats say Trump isn’t telling the truth”.
When the far right media gives the lies absolute credibility and the mainstream and so-called liberal media say that those lies may or may not be true, and who knows?, people are very likely to believe them.
If the far right media gives the lies absolute credibility and we had a media that practiced journalism, “the other side” would be that a president who constantly lies is telling yet another lie.
Then people are not likely to believe them.
I don’t think it’s the lies so much as the wink and nod toward racism, bigotry and xenophobia. Once people see that’s acceptable, the lies don’t matter. They’re just the price of indulgence, and if they have to go along with them, that’s just fine.
Trump’s term hasn’t ended and the November 3rd “Election” hasn’t occurred yet. ☹️
Trump is in a race to tell more lies than the number of deaths from COVID-19. He cannot stand the thought that the virus has a larger number than he does.
That is funny, Lloyd: I heard someone on CNN or MSNBC say exactly the same thing, & maybe it was Mary Trump! (Happily, she is currently a very popular news guest.)
Yes, Covid gets more press than it45 (it whined at a rally, “Covid, covid, covid! That’s all they want you to hear about is covid!”)
This is just like Jan Brady of The Brady Bunch, whining about how everyone always makes such a fuss over sister Marcia:
“Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!”
it is like a 12-year-old girl…except that one of his “friends” (truly, he was identified as a friend) said that it likes to think of itself as “still a 5-year-old.” !!!!! (This, on PBS Frontline yesterday night.)
retiredbutmissthekids: I read that Mary Trump, in her book, said that Trump is still like he was when he was 3 years old..never learns. [Don’t remember the whole quote.]
However, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said on Fox News that Mr. Trump “reads so much that it causes me to have to read many times well into the night to catch up with him”.
What are Joe Biden and Kamala Harris doing? I don’t see much publicity about them here. ☹️
Biden is in Georgia today while Harris is in Nevada. Obama is in Orlando today.
Eddie,
Why would you come here to get “publicity about them” (Joe and Kamala)?
They have been out there working hard so that our country doesn’t lose another 250,000 Americans and millions more don’t lose their healthcare and right to marry who they love.
NYC, this blog supports Joe and Kamala, so I felt there would be news about them here. 😐
retiredteacher, thanks. 😁
Eddie,
Are you voting for Biden and Kamala?
I just wondered if you were a real person. Studies have shown that right wing trolls never say they are voting for the democrats. If you are voting for Biden/Harris, that’s great! I’m glad you understand how important it is. And when Biden/Harris take office, with the strong support of real Americans (like I assume you are) who care about honesty and integrity, their education policies will be covered carefully, just like Obama’s were.
Are you voting for Biden/Harris? I am!
NYC Parent, I already answered your questions before. 😁
Not everyone is a right wing troll. 😁
Yes, I’m a real person. 😁
Eddie, this blog is not CNN or some other news service. If you want to know what’s happening in the news, turn on your TV or read a daily newspaper. The blog is primarily interested in covering education.
dianeravitch, I know that. 😐
I ask, because I rarely see Joe and Kamala here, especially their education views. 😐
We won’t learn their education views until someone is appointed Secretary of Education. We will judge them by their deeds.
They should be judged by the content of their Secretaries.
Not by the color of their language.
Seriously? Have you heard of Google Headlines? Yahoo News? If you found your way to this comments forum, I expect you can find your way to those news aggregators.
Google Headlyin’s
Google heads are lyin’
Lyin’ like a rug
Really no denyin’
Lyin’s not a bug
!!!!!!
Google Has Turned the Page
Larry Page
Has turned the page
“Don’t be Evil”
Now is feeble
“Don’t be so-so”
Now his motto
Sadly, but
poetically, yes, SomeDAM.
Yes seriously. I can ask a question here. 🙂
How do you know Trump his lying?
When Twitter thumbs are moving
You know that Donald’s lying
It’s really not improving
But Twitter’s just denying
Axios:
The Vanderbilt analysis compares Tennessee hospitals based on how many of their patients come from counties with mask requirements.
In hospitals where at least 75% of patients are subject to a local mask requirement, COVID hospitalizations are at about the same level now as they were July 1.
In hospitals where fewer than 25% of patients are subject to a local mask mandate, however, hospitalizations are more than 200% higher than their July 1 levels.
From Factcheck.org:
In Pennsylvania Rallies, Trump Distorts Voting Issues
In the swing state of Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump repeatedly rattled off false and misleading claims about ballots and voting in arguing to his supporters “the only way we can lose, in my opinion, is massive fraud.”
On Oct. 26, Trump spoke in Allentown, Martinsburg and Lititz, Pennsylvania. Trump narrowly won the state in 2016, and its 20 electoral votes were crucial for his victory…
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/in-pennsylvania-rallies-trump-distorts-voting-issues/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug
FactChuck
Donald chucks his “facts”
Like woodchuck chucks his wood
Like woodsman chops with ax
Like every chipper should
Like pecker pecks his stump
Like beever chips his tree
The “facts” of Donald Trump
Are everywhere to see
To carolmalaysia, up there at 6:26 AM: Yes, I read Mary’s book as well, & read that.
Actually, Anderson Cooper did a great ramble (I think it’s about 5 minutes & sure you can catch it online somewhere) about “object permanence,” which an infant develops (by age 2, I believe), & which it45 shows no signs of ever having developed. (A.C. just welcomed an infant &, so, like a devoted parent, he had been devouring books on raising children, & found this. It was perfect timing–I was an Early Childhood Educator & preschool administrator, & had known about o.p. from my educational background, but couldn’t quite put my finger on the term, & didn’t have time to look it up.)
&–for those who haven’t–do read Mary Trump’s book!
The Republican Party Is An Organized Gang of Sociopaths
Oct. 28, 2020 4:40 pm
By Thom Hartmann
Trump doesn’t care how many people in Omaha were stranded for hours in the freezing cold, over 3 miles from the nearest road or parking lot, after he’s left his rally, putting some in the hospital. And he clearly doesn’t care how many people die of Covid.
One of the defining characteristics of a sociopath is that they view themselves as the only “real” humans on the planet, and everybody else is basically a prop in the amazing story of their lives.
Other people, they think, don’t feel emotions or pain or anything else with the intensity that they do. They believe they’re the only ones who matter, because they’re the only ones who truly exist.
The Republican Party, starting in 1980, has brought that sociopathic worldview to politics, and made it a cornerstone of policy as well as a criteria for elective office.
Reagan didn’t care how many people were harmed or died because of his “government is the cause of your problems” or “starve the beast” policies.
George W. Bush didn’t care how many Americans or other human beings may die because of his lies about Iraq and WMD: if it helped him politically, it was all good.
But Trump and the GOP’s sociopathy isn’t limited to using supporters as props and letting the people he thinks of as suckers suffer from hypothermia.
The Republican-controlled EPA just authorized five years of a deadly pesticide being poured onto our food, so giant corporations and their shareholders could enjoy more profits.
The Republican-controlled Interior department is destroying our national parks and selling off public land to GOP-donor mining and drilling companies.
The Republican-controlled Agriculture department is cutting people off food stamps during the Trump Depression, while the Republican-controlled Department of Housing and Urban Development is trying to throw poor people out into the cold during a pandemic.
The Republican-controlled Justice Department is openly giving a pass to criminal Republican operatives, supporters and donors, while prosecuting critics of their racist, police-state tactics.
The Republican controlled CDC and FDA are cutting corners for big Pharma to help Trump win the election, while putting the lives of millions of Americans at risk.
The Republican-directed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is promoting privatized so-called “Medicare Advantage” plans that often wipe out seniors who get sick, while they devastate Medicare itself and will make it difficult to pass Medicare for All legislation.
Republican-dominated media organizations and radio and TV stations daily traffic in easily-disproven lies and are constantly trying to gin up racial hatred, all to benefit the oligarch class.
Republican-aligned billionaires financed a multi-million-dollar campaign to put rightwing judges on the Supreme Court, and those judges are preparing to repeat their 2000 scam of handing the White House to a man who lost the popular vote and only seized the Electoral College through voter suppression.
There is not a single elected Republican with any consequential profile in America who acknowledges the dangers of climate change and the straightforward solution of ending our dependence on fossil fuels, simply because fossil fuel billionaires own them all.
Republicans celebrate the Citizens United Supreme Court decision because it nakedly allows billionaires and giant corporations to own politicians and political parties.
Republicans embrace white racist gangs that pretend they’re “militias” because they’ll intimidate people of color who tend to vote Democratic.
Sociopathy cannot be “cured”; it can only be controlled. Sociopaths need to be identified, isolated from society, and restrained in ways that limit the damage they can do to others.
This is a central tenant of psychotherapy, and America must apply it to politics as well, before these Republican sociopaths totally destroy our nation and gut democracy around the world.
-Thom
As many as 30% of Iowa’s voters may not have their polling place open. What are they supposed to do?
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NPR:
Polling Places Are Closing Due To COVID-19. It Could Tip Races In 1 Swing State
As many as 30% of Iowa voters could be affected by polling place closures, according to a new analysis by NPR, the Center for Public Integrity and Stateline.