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Undated: We all know how important it is that we Americans can trust our government. Therefore, whenever a ... claim is made that appears to have even a smidgeon of truth to it, as intelligent Americans we must examine that claim thoroughly to get at the facts. On the other side of that coin, you know that "alternative facts" from our government officials are simply not acceptable ... ever.
-- 2015 --
November 24: When Donald J. Trump bought a fixer-upper golf club on Lowes Island ... for $13 million in 2009 ... Mr. Trump ... upgraded its place in history.
Between the 14th hole and the 15th tee of one of the club’s two courses, Mr. Trump installed a flagpole on a stone pedestal overlooking the Potomac, to which he affixed a plaque purportedly designating “The River of Blood.”
Like many of Mr. Trump’s claims, the inscription was evidently not fact-checked.
“The River of Blood?” ... “Nope, not there.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/us/politics/in-renovation-of-golf-club-donald-trump-also-dressed-up-history.html?_r=2
-- 2017 --
February 3: Kellyanne Conway Bowling Green Massacre
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/feb/03/kellyanne-conway/fact-checking-kellyanne-conways-bowling-green-mass/
March 23: Read President Trump's Interview With TIME on Truth and Falsehoods
http://time.com/4710456/donald-trump-time-interview-truth-falsehood/
March 29: How schools are teaching kids to separate fact from fiction
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/29/health/school-kids-fight-fake-news-trnd/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool
April 6: Rep. Elijah E. Cummings is disputing President Donald Trump's characterization of a conversation they had at the White House last month -- arguing he never said Trump would "go down as one of the great presidents."
Trump's mention of Cummings, the most recent example in a series of similar exchanges, came during an interview with The New York Times. Trump raised Cummings, a Baltimore Democrat, during a conversation about Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch.
"Elijah Cummings was in my office and he said, 'You will go down as one of the great presidents in the history of our country,'" Trump said, according to a transcript of the Times interview. "And then he went out and I watched him on television yesterday and I said, 'Was that the same man?'"
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/blog/bal-cummings-denies-telling-trump-he-d-go-down-as-one-of-the-great-presidents-20170406-story.html
April 12: Trump said, "I had previously said that NATO was obsolete because it failed to deal adequately with terrorism. Since my comments, they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats.". ... Trump strongly implies that NATO acted because of his concerns. ... But experts agree that nothing of the sort happened. NATO involvement in counter-terrorism issued its first formal declaration on terrorism in 1980, and it became a significant issue for the alliance on Sept. 11, 2001, said Lisa Sawyer Samp, a senior fellow in the international security program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/aug/16/donald-trump/donald-trump-mischaracterizes-nato-change-and-his-/
April 12: Donald Trump just keeps saying things that aren't true ... And winning the White House didn't change Trump's tendencies to exaggerate or mislead.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/12/politics/donald-trump-sean-spicer-truth/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
May 1: [Trump, when questionend about the false talk from the White House of Obama wiretapping]: I don't stand by anything. I just-- you can take it the way you want. I think our side's been proven very strongly. And everybody's talking about it. And frankly it should be discussed. I think that is a very big surveillance of our citizens. I think it's a very big topic. And it's a topic that should be number one. And we should find out what the hell is going on.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-trump-oval-office-interview-cbs-this-morning-full-transcript/
May 1: "...had Andrew Jackson been a little later you wouldn't have had the Civil War," Mr. Trump said in an interview with journalist Salena Zito on SiriusXM's "Main Street Meets the Beltway," which was released Monday. "He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War – he said 'there's no reason for this.'" ... Andrew Jackson died in 1845. It seems unlikely that he was "really angry that he saw what was happening in regard to the Civil War" since the war didn't start until 1861.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-suggests-civil-war-could-have-been-avoided/
May 1: Trump's question [about the civil war] as to "Why could that one not have been worked out?" suggests that he isn't very familiar with the literature of the Civil War and the whole, um, slavery thing.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/donald-trump-andrew-jackson-wiretapping/index.html
Note: As of May 2017, no additional Trump "alternative fact" comments have been added, since they have become so commonplace. Instead, you may find the detail you're searching for under a different but related topic or by searching online.
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