Fact Checkers Prove That 91% of the Things Donald Trump Says Are False

[KamaAina]

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/03/31/ninety-one-percent-donald-trump-false.html

Politicians running for president are graded by Politfact and the order runs in the way you would expect it to if you find yourself annoyed when Donald Trump is speaking. Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, is at the bottom of the list with a sad 9% of true or mostly true statements. Just 9% of the things Donald Trump says are mostly related to the truth.

Trump lies so much that in 2015, Politifact awarded him the Lie of the Year for numerous statements he made, because the team couldn’t pick the most egregious lie. Out of 77 statements checked, 76 of them were found to be mostly false to false to pants on fire lies.

The Trump truth chart via Politifact:

What does it mean that the man who tells the most lies is the most popular with the Republican base? This is a question I would be asking myself if I were a Republican strategist. The answer is not simple, in spite of the escalating finger pointing on the right. But I would direct them toward their propensity for denial, lack of accountability, and refusal to take responsibility for their own policies.

Yes, this is a month old, but I ask you, has he told the truth since then?

[CompanyFirstSergeant]

1. Yes...

...that Jeb! Bush is boring.

[spanone]

2. K&R...

[Fresh_Start]

3. They want truthiness, not truth

someone to confirm their world view..and tell them they are special and everyone else is wrong

[joeybee12]

4. I don't believe that for one minute

That is way too low.

[Turbineguy]

5. That's why he's so popular among republicans.

They love fairy tales.

[silvershadow]

6. Well that sure makes the rounding up easy. nt

[mythology]

7. I'm suspicious of those other 9%

Were they misstatements where Trump accidentally told the truth?

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. He lies so easily

[Major Nikon]

9. 91% of statistics are bullshit anyway

Who needs facts when you have demagoguery?

[pampango]

12. If you KNOW what is TRUE - science, history and facts are the tools of LOSERS! Say what you want to

say. Do what you want to do.

When it does not work out, find some scapegoat to blame (Jews, Mexicans, Muslims, Chinese) then double-down on what you said and did that failed.

[Scurrilous]

10. K & R

[Takket]

11. he doesn't say the truth OR lie. He never makes statements that can be judged by such criteria

[AgadorSparticus]

13. Is it really that low? I would have figured it being higher. 😆

[Bluenorthwest]

14. But very few Americans care if politicians say things thare are not true. Basically they say

whatever they want and if it bothers some people they tweet an 'correction of the misspeaking' and that absolves them of any and all bigotry, ignorance of full tilt mendacity. That's how the game is played.

[harrose]

15. I REFUSE to believe that.

9% of what he says is true? Baloney.