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Arkansas Granny

(31,515 posts)
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:59 AM Jan 2017

President Trumps first seven days of false claims, inaccurate statements and exaggerations

Regular readers know that candidate Donald Trump had difficulty with facts. He earned an astonishing 59 Four-Pinocchio ratings over the course of the campaign.

Now that Trump is president, he continues to make misleading statements, based on incomplete information, inaccurate statistics or flights of fancy. Here’s an accounting of his public statements in the first seven days as president, not counting his error-plagued inauguration speech (which had eight problematic claims). If we wrote a full fact check, we noted the number of Pinocchios the statement received.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/27/president-trumps-first-seven-days-of-false-claims-inaccurate-statements-and-exaggerations/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.df205ed3d608


The article goes on to list 23 false claims, inaccurate statements and exaggerations from this week alone. DT is a pathological liar.
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President Trumps first seven days of false claims, inaccurate statements and exaggerations (Original Post) Arkansas Granny Jan 2017 OP
K&R ismnotwasm Jan 2017 #1
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