Anatomy of a Trump rally: 68% of claims are false, misleading or lack evidence

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/12/anatomy-trump-rally-percent-claims-are-false-misleading-or-lacking-evidence/?utm_term=.f23fc0c1c1e7

More than two-thirds of every factual claim made by President Trump at two of his rallies turns out to be false, misleading or unsupported by evidence.

In July, The Fact Checker examined every factual claim made by the president at a rally in Montana. He returned to Montana on Sept. 9, and we decided once again to put every
statement of material fact to the truth test to see whether the July rally was an outlier.

In July, 76 percent of his 98 statements were false, misleading or unsupported by the evidence. Last week the tally, out of 88 statements, was 68 percent. The average percentage for
the two rallies was 72 percent.

Trump may have done slightly better, fact-wise, at the more recent rally because he spoke more about bills he had signed and actions he had taken. But he veered off course with his
tendency to unnecessarily hype good economic data with assertions that it was the best in U.S. history.

We didn’t double-count statements when the president repeated himself, or else the number of false claims would be higher. We avoided trivialities or opinions. (Two comments he
made on Sept. 9 about Democratic candidates in other states might be fairly viewed as opinions, so they were not included.)

Here’s a breakdown for the Sept. 9 rally: 36 false statements, 22 misleading statements and two unsupported claims. We also counted 28 accurate or mostly accurate statements.

All told, on Sept. 9, only 32 percent of his statements could be considered accurate or mostly accurate. At both events, at least 40 percent of his claims were false or mostly false.
Small wonder then that the president is on the cusp of surpassing 5,000 false or misleading claims since the start of his presidency, according to The Fact Checker’s database.

The article has analysis of all 88 statements.

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Remember how George Washington's personal myth involves him cutting down a cherry tree and then admitting to his father that he did it, showing how he was honest above all?

America has fallen so far.

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Of the three presidents considered the best, Washington and Lincoln are known for almost legendary honesty, and Roosevelt pioneered using radio in political relations to be in inspiration to people left destitute
because of the Great Depression.

Then you have a narcissistic idiot who lies every other sentence and speaks like Trump

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The saddest thing is that at this point, instead of "lies every other sentence" you can factually honestly say "tells the truth every THIRD sentence"