Trump Now Lying "30 Times A Day" Ahead Of US Midterm Elections
Trying to keep up with Donald Trump's reflex for plucking ideas, events and poll numbers out of thin air and calling it out for what it is is exhausting, but if you've suspected that he's been getting further and further untethered from reality lately then you'd be right.
The Washington Post's fact-checking analysis has showed that Trump lied in public five times a day on average during the first nine months of his presidency, but that's ramped up to 30 times a day in the seven weeks leading up to the mid-term elections and peaked with 83 lies on 22 October alone.
"These are not simply the usual exaggerations of a crowd size and so on," Trump fact-checker David Dale of the Toronto Star told CNN. "He's making stuff up in the last couple weeks in a way that I don't think we've seen from a serial liar, the President, before." That includes notable fabrications like the migrant caravan moving toward the American border with Mexico being full of people from the Middle East (not true, and pretty dog-whistley) and boasting that he'd given the American people the biggest tax cut ever (again, untrue).
The Post's lie-o-meter says that Trump has made a total of 6,420 false or misleading statements in the last 649 days. Keeping up with the sheer amount of falsehoods, half-truths and outright fantasies Trump has spewed out during his pre-election rallies has "consumed the weekends and nights of The Fact Checker staff," the Washington Post wrote in its analysis, which might be exactly the effect Trump and his White House want.
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