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Undated: ... when researchers refer to lying, they don't include the mindless pleasantries or polite equivocations we offer each other in passing, such as "I'm fine, thanks" or "No trouble at all." An "official" lie actually misleads, deliberately conveying a false impression. So complimenting a friend's awful haircut or telling a creditor that the check is in the mail both qualify ...
Although we're socialized from the time we can speak to believe that it's always better to tell the truth, in reality society often encourages and even rewards deception ... anyone under enough pressure, or given enough incentive, will lie ... the people least likely to lie are those who score high on psychological scales of responsibility.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199705/the-truth-about-lying
Trump Lies:
The falsehoods, mischaracterizations, and outright lies have become so common as to be a kind of avalanche, burying the body politic in misinformation. The intent is to blur, or erase, the line between fact and fiction, so that anything can be "true" if enough of the president's supporters will believe it. The question is whether we can weather the storm long enough to correct the record.
January 10, 2018
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a15049822/trump-2000-lie/
Undated (ongoing): All False statements involving Donald Trump
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/false/
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Spring: UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES, IF ANY, SHOULD LIES BE MADE CRIMINAL?
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7396&context=jclc
-- 2016 --
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December 26: Trump swears his administration will only 'buy American and hire American'
What he didn't explain in his Instagram vow, however, is why his businesses haven't yet followed those rules that he claims to be so "simple." In the last 15 years, Trump's businesses have hired "at least 1,256 foreign guest workers," CNN reported. Since Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015, his companies have requested "at least 190 foreign visa workers."
Most recently, it was reported that the Trump Winery vineyard is looking to hire six foreign workers to start just days after Trump is sworn in as president. Trump also reportedly got approval from the U.S. Labor Department in October to hire 64 foreign workers to fill temporary jobs over the winter at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.
http://theweek.com/speedreads/669936/trump-swears-administration-only-buy-american-hire-american
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January-February: Trump’s Lies vs. Your Brain ... Unfortunately, it’s no contest. Here’s what psychology tells us about life under a leader totally indifferent to the truth.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/donald-trump-lies-liar-effect-brain-214658
February 26: Trump understands the power of using a tweet or claim "to divert attention, " and journalists can and should outsmart such tactics by giving as little airtime as possible to any false claims ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/26/us/trump-prof-fact-check-cnntv/index.html
February 26: How to effectively fact-check Donald Trump
An American academic said Sunday that though fact-checking President Donald Trump is essential, the media currently are getting it all wrong.
From the crowd size at his inauguration to national murder rates, journalists have tended to simply counter Trump's claims by first repeating them -- then reporting that they are false. But that's not enough ... The central tenet of his theory when it comes to fact-checking Trump ... is that "if you just negate what he's saying, you're going to just strengthen him."
In short, "the very fact of repeating a falsehood in proclaiming it as incorrect can actually have the opposite effect in terms of informing the public," the professor said.
http://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/politics/how-to-effectively-factcheck-donald-trump/663222026
April 18: ... various right wing web sites ... reported a claim that Malcolm Nance, a retired Navy intelligence officer, veteran counterterrorism expert and current MSNBC commentator, called for the Islamic State, or ISIS, to bomb property belonging to President Donald Trump.
[In fact,] Nance’s tweet was a “threat assessment” based on the fact that both President Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are particularly resented by ISIS, and that both have recently been in the news together, making a location that both bears Trump’s name and is situated in Erdoğan’s country vulnerable. On 18 April 2017, the news media widely reported that President Trump had called to congratulate Erdoğan on a referendum election that granted him expanded powers. In June 2016, the Turkish president called for Trump’s name to be removed from a building owned by a Turkish conglomerate, because of the then-candidate’s derogatory comments about Muslims while on the campaign trail.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/04/22/counterterrorism-isis-trump/
May 19: In 365 days, President Trump has made 2,140 false or misleading claims ... The Fact Checker’s ongoing database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump since assuming office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?utm_term=.ae7e935bed33
July 24: Sunday [discussion] between CNN "Reliable Sources" anchor Brian Stelter and counselor to President Donald Trump Kellyanne Conway:
STELTER: "The scandals are about the President's lies. About voter fraud, about wiretapping, his repeated lies about those issues. That's the scandal."
CONWAY: "[Donald Trump] doesn't think he's lying about those issues, and you know it."
The truth is determined by its adherence to known facts, not by whether or not you think you are telling it.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/kellyanne-conway-trump/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
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July 27: The 25 Worst Lies From Donald Trump’s First 200 Days
https://www.vogue.com/article/donald-trump-lies-200-days
October 9: [Fact Checker] In 263 days, President Trump has made 1,318 false and misleading claims
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.c4a883ef01f0
October 11: ... what Trump said ... about US taxes ... It's pretty simple: "We're the highest taxed nation in the world."
That's not true -- as fact-checkers have said repeatedly. There's no way of crunching the numbers where the US is any higher than the 17th highest-taxed country in the world.
... (The US has the third highest corporate income tax rate in the world behind the UAE and Puerto Rico.) ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/11/politics/sarah-sanders-trump-taxes/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
October 11: [When it comes to the U.S. being the highest taxed in the world] the President is not telling the truth. And given that this claim has been fact-checked to death, there's no way he thinks he is telling the truth. But he just keeps saying it anyway [likely to please his base] ... Truth and facts are not negotiable.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/11/politics/sarah-sanders-trump-taxes/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
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December 14: President Donald Trump has told nearly six times more lies in the first 10 months of his presidency than former President Barack Obama did in his entire 8-year term, according to data collected and published Thursday in the New York Times.
The “Trump’s Lies vs. Obama’s” piece, featured in the opinion section of the publication, was a sequel of sorts to a list the NYT published over the summer titled “Trump’s Lies.” After the initial article’s publication, supporters pushed back against the newspaper with one common response: “if you made a similar list for previous presidents, it would be just as bad.”
And so newspaper set out to compare Trump and his predecessor.
The NYT says it applied the same standard to both presidents and counted “only demonstrably and substantially false statements.” It didn’t count repeated mentions of the same falsehood.
http://fortune.com/2017/12/14/trump-lies-new-york-times/
December 15: Donald Trump, Lying, and Eroding Social Trust
Are presidential lies pushing us toward a low-trust society?
Americans' trust in their national government hovers around historic lows according to a Pew Research Center poll this month. The poll reports that "only 18 percent of Americans today say they can trust the government in Washington to do what is right 'just about always' (3 percent) or 'most of the time' (15 percent)." This is down from a post–September 11 high of 60 percent in 2001. In modern polling, public trust in the federal government was at its zenith at 77 percent, in 1964.
http://reason.com/blog/2017/12/15/trump-lying-and-eroding-social-trust
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Undated: President Trump’s torrent of misleading statements and flat-out lies has an army of journalists working 24/7 to set the record straight.
https://www.nrdc.org/trump-lies
January 4: Donald Trump Lies About Everything, Including Steve Bannon
It is absurd for the president to claim that “Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-lies-about-everything-including-steve-bannon/
January 10: President Trump has made more than 2,000 false or misleading claims over 355 days
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/01/10/president-trump-has-made-more-than-2000-false-or-misleading-claims-over-355-days/?utm_term=.f5c3becfb552
January 25: One day after Donald J. Trump offered to testify under oath for the special counsel, Robert Mueller, a newly discovered video of Trump lying under oath has sent shock waves through Washington.
In the video, which experts believe was recorded approximately one year ago, Trump places his left hand on a Bible and raises his right hand before uttering a stream of falsehoods.
“The video shows him lying in front of what appears to be a substantial number of witnesses, including his wife and a Supreme Court Justice,” Davis Logsdon, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, said. “It does raise questions about what, exactly, testifying under oath means to him.”
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/video-emerges-of-trump-lying-under-oath
January 27: Could lying about trying to fire Mueller put Trump in even more hot water?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/27/could-lying-about-attempting-to-fire-mueller-put-trump-in-even-more-hot-water/?utm_term=.3129f995dd12
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January 28: It takes a White House village to enable President Trump's serial lying
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-trump-lie-mueller-20180128-story.html
January 30: Reps. Maxine Waters and John Lewis Are Boycotting Trump's State of the Union Speech
"Why would I take my time to go and sit and listen to a liar?"
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/maxine-waters-john-lewis-boycotting-trump-state-of-the-union-speech
January 31: The political theater of the State of the Union is predictable. A President enters a joint session of Congress to loud applause. He touts his accomplishments, puts forward an agenda for the coming year, tells dramatic stories to illustrate policy positions and affirms the greatness of America. During the spectacle, the side of the President’s party repeatedly offers a standing ovation. The other sits with grim faces and folded arms. Pundits try to make sense of it. Substance gets lost.
What happens when a large swath of the audience for the State of the Union no longer believes the theater? When the constant lies of politicians, especially the lies of the President, have poisoned the body politic?
http://time.com/5127598/trumps-state-of-the-union-told-a-great-american-lie/
February 1: Trump's Lies Pave the Way for War
There’s a likely ending to all this military bluster and buildup, and it’s one that goes boom.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2018-02-01/national-security-lies-in-donald-trumps-state-of-the-union-address
February 1: President Trump has told a lot of brazen lies in his first year in office, but few are as easily exposed as the one he told Thursday morning about the TV ratings for his first State of the Union address.
TV-ratings information is public, and Trump’s tweet was quickly fact checked. Unsurprisingly, it’s false. Fewer people watched Trump’s first SOTU than the initial addresses of Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton. Obama’s first SOTU in 2010 had just over 48 million viewers, while Bush’s, in 2002, had nearly 52 million. Clinton’s 1993 address just edged out Trump’s with 45.8 million viewers.
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[Regardless of the "why" of Trump's lying,] what we know now is that this President is saying things that aren't true at a remarkably fast pace. According to stats kept by The Washington Post's Fact Checker, Trump said more than 2,000 things that were either totally false or broadly misleading before he had even spent a full year in office.]
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/trump-is-lying-about-his-state-of-the-union-ratings.html
February 1: Trump ends Twitter silence with blatant lie, gets corrected by Fox News ... Even Trump's favorite network acknowledges his SOTU audience was not the largest ever.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-ends-twitter-silence-with-blatant-lie-gets-corrected-by-fox-news-3f9c8c4f4738/
February 6: Trump’s Lawyers Seem to Think He’s Incapable of Not Lying
Late last month, President Trump declared that he’s not only willing to answer questions from Robert Mueller, he’s eager to sit down with the special counsel. “I would love to do it, and I would like to do it as soon as possible,” Trump said, adding, “I would do it under oath, absolutely.”
White House attorney Ty Cobb quickly intervened, saying Trump meant that he was ready to meet with Mueller’s investigators, but would be “guided by the advice of his personal counsel.”
Now the New York Times reports that Trump’s legal team has reached an unsurprising decision: They don’t want him talking to Mueller, especially not under oath. The worst-case scenario is that Trump’s attorneys think he’s guilty of some Russia-related crime. But the Times suggests there’s a somewhat less damning explanation: They think the president of the United States is innocent, but incapable of telling the truth. “His lawyers are concerned that the president, who has a history of making false statements and contradicting himself, could be charged with lying to investigators,” the paper reports.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/trumps-lawyers-seem-to-think-hes-incapable-of-not-lying.html
February 8: Donald Trump Lied About How Much Money He Paid for Melania’s Engagement Ring
For a 2005 story about his wedding with Melania Knauss, Donald Trump told the New York Times that Graff Diamonds gave him a $1 million discount on her $1.5 million, 15-carat engagement ring because “only a fool” would pay “a million dollars more for a diamond.” Well, color Trump a fool, because based on new reporting from Forbes, the president blatantly lied about the discount.
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Three sources confirmed to Forbes that Trump was — shockingly! — being dishonest, including Graff Diamonds chairman Laurence Graff. The billionaire said that Trump was “a pleasure to do business with,” but that he was given “no favors” when purchasing the ring. Another Graff authority, CEO Nicholas Paine, said, “We don’t sell items for publicity value.” A third unnamed source was able to speak to the urgency of the purchase, claiming that Trump “paid for [the ring] in full, and he paid immediately.”
Given that Trump dropped another $3 million last year on a 25-carat ring for Melania, what kind of fool does that make him now?
https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/donald-trump-has-been-lying-about-melanias-engagement-ring.html
February 9: This administration has such respect for women. Why, one could even argue that President Trump himself is largely responsible for the #MeToo movement.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/02/09/shocking-that-this-white-house-would-defend-abuser/lfptGsUfFjktnsLhtOyZTO/story.html
February 18: The Top 10 Lies In The Trump Budget
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2018/02/18/the-top-10-lies-in-the-trump-budget/#7ea7e8845fd8
February 19: Trump spent the weekend tweeting about Russia. He lied, a lot.
Here are the three biggest whoppers from a very long list.
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/2/19/17027906/trump-russia-social-media-indictment-lies
February 20: Donald Trump Lies: Electoral College Victory Exaggerated
“One of the biggest Electoral College victories in history,” Trump says. In fact, there have been few smaller margins—only twelve winners took in a smaller share, while 45 winners enjoyed larger margins. Never mind the smashing 49-state victories of Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, Donald Trump (at 57 percent of the electoral votes) came in well behind such mediocrities as James Polk (62 percent) and Bill Clinton (69 percent, then 70 percent). Trump came in well behind Barack Obama, though he did best Rutherford B. Hayes.
https://www.nationalreview.com/blog/corner/donald-trump-lies-electoral-college-victory-exaggerated/
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March 1: Omarosa Says Hope Hicks' White Lies For Trump Included the Size of His Inauguration Crowd
http://people.com/politics/omarosa-trump-hope-hicks-inauguration-crowd-size/
March 2: How President Trump Lies About Guns
We paired with PolitiFact to do some fact-checking.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/president-trump-lies-about-guns
March 17: If you wanted to tell the story of an entire Presidency in a single tweet, you could try the one that President Trump posted after Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the F.B.I., on Friday night.
On Twitter: Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!
@realDonaldTrump
... Every sentence violates norms established by Presidents of both parties. Every sentence displays the pettiness and the vindictiveness of a man unsuited to the job he holds.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trump-and-the-craven-firing-of-andrew-mccabe
March 9: Megyn Kelly Reveals Putin Will Call President Trump Out on a Lie in 'Combative' New TV Special
Kelly, who interviewed the Russian president in Moscow last week, tells PEOPLE he “directly contradicts Donald Trump on something that Trump has been telling us for a while and it is as plain as the nose on your face.”
Though Kelly declined to go into detail on Trump’s reported falsehood, she adds, “It’s very clear that Trump lied and Vladimir Putin puts the lie to Trump’s claim.”
http://people.com/politics/megyn-kelly-putin-interview-president-trump-lie/
March 11: Trump Says His Approval Rate Is Near 50 Percent. It Is Not. ... On Sunday, President Trump made some ludicrous comments on Twitter. In other news, the sun rose in the east.
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Ranking the president’s Sunday tweets in terms of importance, his claim that the New York Times was lying about his efforts to hire a new lawyer to defend against Robert Mueller’s special investigation — which the paper vigorously denied — took the cake.
But in terms of sheer absurdity, it was a toss-up between Trump’s claim that Republicans are 5-0 in congressional races since he became president (which conveniently ignores a certain Alabama Senate race and a California congressional seat) and his contention that the lying media is ignoring how popular he actually is.
... multiple websites track Trump’s aggregate approval rating day by day, and none of them have registered anywhere near 50 percent approval since … ever. FiveThirtyEight has him at 40.7 percent — well under President Obama’s 49.1 percent rating at the same juncture in his presidency — while RealClearPolitics has him at 40.9 percent. These ratings are actually on the high side of Trump’s persistently low ratings, which have usually hovered in the high 30s since last summer.
The president has been deeply unpopular for a long time. But Trump lies so much to inflate his wealth, importance, and popularity that it’s sometimes hard to remember just how disliked he really is.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/trump-says-his-approval-rate-is-near-50-it-is-not.html
April 13: Trumps lies corrode democracy.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/04/13/trumps-lies-corrode-democracy/
May 1: President Trump has made 3,001 false or misleading claims so far ... That’s an average of nearly 6.5 claims a day.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
May 14: Michael Bloomberg Slams ‘Epidemic’ Of Political Lies As Danger To Democracy
http://www.johnlothiannews.com/2018/05/michael-bloomberg-slams-epidemic-of-political-lies-as-danger-to-democracy/
May 20: Donald Trump said 11 false things in just 5 tweets Sunday morning
Between 9:04 am and 9:37 am, Trump sent 5 tweets -- all around the same basic theme: He is being unfairly persecuted by special counsel Robert Mueller even as Mueller and the broader FBI overlook crimes by Democrats.
The tweets are riddled with misinformation and, in some cases, outright falsehoods. Taken together, Trump said 11 things that aren't true. Here's the breakdown -- tweet by tweet.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/20/politics/donald-trump-sunday-tweets/index.html
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May 24: Jake Tapper Shreds Donald Trump With A Long List Of His Conspiracy Theories
“I could go on, but this is just an hour show.”
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Lead,” Tapper dissected Trump’s latest unsubstantiated “SPYGATE” claim that the FBI conducted surveillance on his 2016 election campaign for “political purposes.”
As “we await the investigation into the matter,” said Tapper, it’s “worth remembering that while we’re sticking to the facts and telling you just what we know, President Trump apparently has no constraints since he simply makes stuff up.”
“He frequently lies and has a long and well-documented career engaging in conspiracy theories about all manner of subjects with no concrete evidence ever provided,” Tapper added.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jake-tapper-donald-trump-conspiracy-theories_us_5b06598de4b05f0fc8448d0c
June 5: Jake Tapper Brutally Fact Checks Trump’s Lies About The Philadelphia Eagles
,,, the president said in a Twitter post the White House would no longer honor the team since Eagles players kneeling during the National Anthem was disrespectful to the country.
“In point of fact, not once during the regular or post-season did any members of the Philadelphia Eagles kneel during the National Anthem,” Tapper said. “Not once!”
Trump also tweeted that “Staying in the Locker Room for the playing of our National Anthem is as disrespectful to our country as kneeling. Sorry!” Again, Tapper set him straight.
“Yeah, that was the Pittsburgh Steelers who stayed in the locker room during the anthem, Mr. President. Not the Philadelphia Eagles,” Tapper said, referring to one of the early games in the 2017 season.
“Again, the suggestion that it was the Eagles that did that ― false, deceptive, a lie,” he said.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jake-tapper-brutally-fact-checks-trumps-lies-about-the-super-bowl-champs_us_5b16fe15e4b0734a99386f25
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June 18: The president of the United States told a blatant lie about Germany on Monday, claiming that the nation’s crime rate — which is at its lowest level in 25 years — has gone “way up” since Europe granted asylum to hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the wars in Syria and Iraq.
The lie, posted on Twitter by Donald Trump, was an attempt to justify the exceedingly cruel measures he ordered to deter unauthorized immigration, including the arrest of asylum-seekers at the southern border and the removal of their children for detention in cages.
It was widely debunked and criticized by Germans ...
https://theintercept.com/2018/06/18/donald-trump-angela-merkel-germany-refugees-immigration/
June 18: The Trump Administration Is Lying About Its Family-Separation Policy
The policy is real. And Democrats aren’t to blame—Donald Trump is.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/trump-administration-family-separation-policy-border
June 25: With help from Fox News, Trump pushes brazen lie about his family separation policy
But it’s simply not the case that Trump’s policy is the same as Obama’s.
It is true that family separations happened during Obama. As former homeland security secretary Jeh Johnson recently explained to NPR, “I can’t say that it never happened. There may have been some exigent situation, some emergency… There may have been some doubt about whether the adult accompanying the child was in fact the parent of the child.”
But ... separations did not happen “as a matter of policy or practice. It’s not something that I could ask our Border Patrol or our immigration enforcement personnel to do.”
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-fox-news-brazen-lie-immigration-family-separation-policy-b0aa1d66051d/
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July 3: Reporter to Sarah Sanders: Why did Trump lie?
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders defends President Donald Trump's contradicting tweets on the immigration bill, placing blame for its failure on Democrats.
http://www.wktv.com/content/national/487196771.html
July 5: President Trump made waves at his Montana rally Thursday night while challenging Senator Elizabeth Warren's claims of a Native American heritage.
"I shouldn't tell you because I like to not give away secrets," Trump said. "But let's say I'm debating Pocahontas. I promise you I'll do this: I will take, you know those little kits they sell on television... learn your heritage!"
"A guy says he was born in Scotland, turns out h was born in Puerto Rico, that's okay, that's good, you know. A guy ways he was born in Germany, he was born someplace else."
"And in the middle of the debate, when she proclaims that she is of Indian heritage because her mother said she has high cheek bones, that is her only evidence, her mother said we have high cheek bones," Trump continued.
"We will take that little kit -- but we have to do it gently. Because we're in the #MeToo generation, we have to do it gently," the president trolled. "And we will very genlty take that kit, and slowly toss it, hoping it doesn't injure her arm, and we will say: I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you're an Indian."
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/05/trump_offers_1_million_for_pocahontas_elizabeth_warren_to_take_dna_test.html
July 27: The 25 Worst Lies From Donald Trump’s First 200 Days
https://www.vogue.com/article/donald-trump-lies-200-days
July 30: Donald Trump didn't tell the whole truth about the Russia investigation 7 times in 1 tweet
"There is No Collusion," wrote the President of the United States. "The Robert Mueller Rigged Witch Hunt, headed now by 17 (increased from 13, including an Obama White House lawyer) Angry Democrats, was started by a fraudulent Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC. Therefore, the Witch Hunt is an illegal Scam!"
That tweet totals 47 words (and 277 characters -- sliding just under Twitter's 280-character limit). And despite its relative brevity, there are at least seven examples of exaggerations, mischaracterizations and outright falsehoods contained in it. That's one for every seven words!
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/30/politics/donald-trump-tweets-mueller-russia/index.html
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August 27: To hear President Donald Trump tell it on Monday, the United States is abandoning the NAFTA free trade deal between the US, Canada and Mexico in favor of a bilateral agreement between the US and Mexico. And possibly a second bilateral deal with Canada.
But none of that is happening.
There is no formal free trade deal between the US and Mexico, only an agreement between the two countries on how to resolve key issues in their trade relationship as part of the NAFTA talks. The US trade representative's office officially described the agreement as "a preliminary agreement in principle ... to update the 24-year-old NAFTA with modern provisions representing a 21st century."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/27/politics/trump-nafta-deal/index.html
September 7: In the battle for control of Congress, President Donald Trump's weapon of choice is fear.
At a rally for Republican Senate nominee Matt Rosendale in Billings, Montana, on Thursday night, the president warned his faithful that Democrats would raise their taxes, take their guns, block his wall, abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, open U.S. borders, end Social Security and cut Medicare.
He's also warned supporters this summer that the outcome in November could spell trouble for freedom of speech and religion and the First Amendment — and that if the GOP loses, violence could follow.
The overwhelming majority of the claims are patently false, but with two months to go — and analysts in both parties convinced that there’s a nonremote chance Republicans could lose at least the House — Trump is in desperation mode.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/fear-loathing-trump-campaign-trail-n907521
September 9: A government photographer told investigators that he intentionally cropped photos of President Donald Trump's inauguration to remove empty space and make the audience look larger, according to newly released documents.
Trump claimed footage of the event did not jibe with the number of people he saw from the stage. His then-press secretary, Sean Spicer, gathered reporters the following evening and claimed, "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration -- period."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/07/politics/trump-inauguration-photos/index.html
September 11: 2 new polls show sharp drops in Trump's approval, honesty, intelligence ratings
Americans are happy with the economy, according to two polls released Monday. With President Trump? Not so much.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/795233/2-new-polls-show-sharp-drops-trumps-approval-honesty-intelligence-ratings
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September 13: Trump lied about Puerto Rico's death toll after Hurricane Maria. But island officials enabled that behavior.
The local government clearly felt it had to cozy up to the president for funds to rebuild. This is the inevitable result.
President Trump is finally feeling the pressure for never formally acknowledging the fact — yes, despite his tweets, the fact — that the number of people who died as a result of Hurricane Maria and its aftereffects was never just the 16 lives, a number about which he so proudly bragged about last October in San Juan.
But his tweets on Thursday morning essentially rejecting the local government’s official death count of 2,975 lives and blaming Democrats, with no evidence, for inflating the numbers are the most insulting and shameful comments about Puerto Ricans since Maria destroyed the island last September.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-lied-about-puerto-rico-s-death-toll-after-ncna909296
October 15: At a July 5 rally in Montana, President Trump went on a lengthy rant about one of his favorite targets: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and her claim to Native American ancestry.
“I’m going to get one of those little [DNA testing] kits and in the middle of the debate, when she proclaims she’s of Indian heritage...," Trump said. “And we will say, ‘I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you’re an Indian.' "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/15/trump-dared-elizabeth-warren-take-dna-test-prove-her-native-american-ancestry-now-what/?utm_term=.a3c7701985b1
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October 15: President Donald Trump claims he "didn't say" that he would pay $1 million to Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren for taking DNA test to review her Native American heritage, after she released the results of one on Monday morning.
"Who cares?" Trump said when asked about the DNA test. When pressed on the once-promised $1 million payment, Trump responded: "I didn't say that. You better read it again."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/15/politics/donald-trump-elizabeth-warren-dna-1-million/index.html
October 22: Some Presidential Lies Are Impeachable Offenses
Will Trump’s statements on Russia come back to haunt him?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/some-presidential-lies-are-impeachable-offenses/573421/
November 1: Trump: 'When I can, I tell the truth'
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/01/politics/donald-trump-truth/index.html
December 13: George Conway: Why take Trump's word over prosecutors' if he 'lies about virtually everything'
“Given that Trump has repeatedly lied about the Daniels and McDougal payments—and given that he lies about virtually everything else, to the point that his own former personal lawyer described him as a “f****ing liar”—why should we take his word over that of federal prosecutors?” Conway tweeted.
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December 14: Michael Cohen On Trump In TV Interview: 'The Man Doesn't Tell The Truth'
Michael Cohen, President Trump's onetime lawyer and fixer, says his former boss knew it was wrong to order hush-money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to two women who allege they had affairs with Trump --but he directed Cohen to do it anyway to help his election chances.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/14/676672787/cohen-on-trump-the-man-doesn-t-tell-the-truth
Undated: All False statements involving Donald Trump
https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/false/
Undated: We are not holding our breath that President Trump will start backing up his administration’s environmental agenda with scientific facts. But we are holding him accountable for what he says.
President Trump’s torrent of misleading statements and flat-out lies has an army of journalists working 24/7 to set the record straight. To help those who focus, as we do, on climate, energy, and other environmental issues, NRDC will call out Trump whenever he distorts the facts about such matters. Here, we offer our inaugural edition of Trump Lies. We expect to update it regularly.
https://www.nrdc.org/trump-lies
December 17: Rudy Giuliani's truly remarkable answer on Donald Trump's lying
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani spent his Sunday "defending" Donald Trump and "advocating" for the President's innocence as it relates to the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
He did an extremely poor job of it -- creating any number of problematic storylines for the President, including an acknowledgment that Trump's team had conversations with Russians about a business venture in Moscow far longer into the 2016 election than had been previously known.
Let's start with the fact that Giuliani is admitting that Trump lied.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/17/politics/donald-trump-rudy-giuliani-robert-mueller/
December 18: Fox News Contributor: Lying To FBI Is Like ‘Pulling Off Mattress Tags’
By contrast, the judge sentencing Michael Flynn for lying about his contact with Russians said he “sold [his] country out.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/matt-schlapp-fox-news-michael-flynn_us_5c192a07e4b02d2cae8dc9b2
-- 2019 --
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January 1: Former presidents deny praising Trump's wall
Living former presidents have denied President Donald Trump's claim that they had commended him for his commitment to build a wall along the nation's southern border. CNN's
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/01/08/erin-burnett-monologue-donald-trump-former-president-border-wall-ebof-vpx.cnn
May 24: Fact-checking Trump, Sanders' claims that House Dems getting nothing done
While defending President Donald Trump's decision to stop work on infrastructure legislation until House investigations into his administration stop, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday morning argued on CNN that House Democrats have not accomplished anything legislatively.
Both Sanders' claim and Trump's are misleading. While the Democratic-controlled House is pursuing 11 investigations relating to the President, House Democrats have also passed 235 pieces of legislation since January, including several major bills. Of those, only a handful have been taken up by the Republican-held Senate.
According to Congress.gov, the House has passed 235 pieces of legislation during the current session of Congress. That includes big items on the Democratic agenda as well as smaller bipartisan bills that get passed in any Congress, like the naming of post offices.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/sarah-sanders-trump-house-democrats-do-nothing-fact-check/index.html
-- 2020 --
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