1.Why would society care if dishonesty, lying, and corruption were the ‘coin of the realm’? Would you care if folks cheated in that poker game, or if the business lied about the car they were selling you, or pharmaceutical companies fibbed on what was in the product, or whether they knew it was dangerous?
Would you care?
Well, demonstrably, you don’t care, not if you vote for Democrats.
This is hilarious. Trump can't open his mouth without a lie coming out and his team has racked up 137 illegal actions and 7 guilty pleas (not sure of the exact numbers). Trump was elected by people who knew he was a liar (ask Ted Cruz' grandfather, the man who killed JFK). If you're looking for people who don't care about the truth, check the nearest mirror.
'Lie'????
Did you, a noted liar claim the other side lies???
Be advised.....there has never been a more prodigious liar in the presidency than the Muslim President who just left office. You cannot find anything near what Obama did.....
.....let's prove it together.
1.”
"We can't drill our way out of this problem." Any time he talks about energy, he trots out that phrase. Whatever the problem, increasing domestic oil supply is never the solution. In 2012, when running for re-election, the president declared: "Even if we drilled every square inch of this country right now, we're going to be relying on other countries for oil."
The Daily Bulletin - December 8, 2014 | RealClearEnergy
“Sorry, Mr. President: Turns Out We Can Drill Our Way to Lower Gas Prices” Sorry, Mr. President: Turns Out We Can Drill Our Way to Lower Gas Prices - American Energy Alliance
Could his lies about drilling have anything to do with this???
“Obama's OMB ignores document subpoena; Upton/Stearns House panel says Monday morning or else…The subpoena is for thousands of documents requested months ago by the committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations concerning OMB's evaluation
of a Department of Energy economic stimulus program loan guarantee worth $535 million for Solyndra, Inc.,…”
http://www.sfexaminer.com/blogs/bel...ocument-subpoena-uptonstearns-house-panel-say
2.
Obama…a supporter of infanticide…which is why he lies to support Planned Parenthood.
“.
...on abortion, Obama is an extremist. He has opposed the Supreme Court decision that finally upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act against that form of infanticide. Most startlingly, for a professed humanist, Obama – in the Illinois Senate – also
voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
I have reported on several of those cases when, before the abortion was completed,
an alive infant was suddenly in the room. It was disposed of as a horrified nurse who was not necessarily pro-life followed the doctors’ orders to
put the baby in a pail or otherwise get rid of the child.” Infanticide candidate for president
…who has stated that he didn’t want his daughters ‘
punished’ with a baby…..told this lie:
You’ve got issues like Planned Parenthood, where that organization provides millions of women cervical-cancer screenings, mammograms, all kinds of basic health care.”— President Obama during an interview on “The Tonight Show,” Oct. 24, 2012
“
The president has suggested time and again that Planned Parenthood directly provides mammograms, but the organization only offers referrals and helps women find financial resources for the exams. This suggests
an intentional attempt to mislead voters…”
Obama’s ‘Tonight Show’ remark: Planned Parenthood provides mammograms
3. Get this lie:
“’more black men languish in prison in America than attend college.” Obama
"the most frequently quoted statistic about black men in the United States."
4. Lies, damn lies….and Obama lies:
Obama: Doctors Choose Amputation Because Surgeons Get Paid More Than Physicians
Obama: Doctors Choose Amputation Because Surgeons Get Paid More Than Physicians
….and….
5. Obama’s claim that Keystone XL oil ‘bypasses the U.S.’ earns Four Pinocchioshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/03/02/obamas-claim-that-keystone-xl-oil-bypasses-the-u-s-earns-four-pinocchios/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8c2ed3f65ed8
….and….
6. After accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, Obama bombed more countries than any President since WWII
“U.S. Bombed Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia in 2016”
The U.S. dropped an average of 3 bombs per hour last year
His whole presidency was a lie by the Left.....and suckers bought it like it was on sale.
7. Is this a lie, of just the sort of thing Liberals do?
The Peace Prize for a man who had a kill list in the Oval Office:
“The Disposition Matrix, informally known as a kill list, is a database of information for tracking, capturing, rendering, or killing suspected enemies of the United States.[1] Developed by the Obama administration beginning in 2010, the "Disposition Matrix" goes beyond existing kill lists and is intended to become a permanent fixture of U.S. policy.[1] The process determining criteria for killing is not public and was heavily shaped by National Counterterrorism Director and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John O. Brennan.[2]
8. “Team Obama: Sorry, America, the ‘new normal’ may be here to stay
The good times may be over for good. In a speech to the Economic Club of New York yesterday, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the US GDP growth rate, adjusted for inflation, is now projected to run a little above 2% a year.”
Team Obama: Sorry, America, the 'new normal' may be here to stay - AEI
Then, along came Trump….
“U.S. households are back to their free spending ways, with the strength of May’s retail sales figures implying that second-quarter real consumption growth (and GDP growth for that matter) will now be more than 4% annualized.
9. “Obama’s whopper of a claim on tax cuts
“We said working folks deserved a break, so within one month of me taking office, we signed into law the biggest middle-class tax cut in history, putting more money into your pockets.”
— President Obama, Sept. 5, 2011
10. 10. “Obama’s claim that ‘90 percent’ of the current deficit is due to Bush policies
…he can’t blithely suggest that 90 percent of the current deficit “is as a consequence” of his predecessor’s policies — and not his own.
It is astonishing to see the president repeat this faulty claim once again, as if it were an established fact.”
Obama’s claim that ‘90 percent’ of the current deficit is due to Bush policies
"It is astonishing to see the[Democrat Obama] repeat this faulty claim once again, as if it were an established fact.”
And they're still lying!!!
11. Obama called ISIS the JV and then said he didn’t call them the JV…
“Obama said he “wasn’t specifically referring” to ISIS when he made the junior varsity reference during an interview with The New Yorker in January. But the magazine article and a transcript of the interview — which Washington Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler obtained and wrote about earlier this month — shows that Obama was referring to ISIS when he said “if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.”
Obama Fumbles 'JV Team' Question - FactCheck.org
WaPo calls him a liar……again.
12. Here he goes again:
“Obama in 2015: ‘Assad Gave Up His Chemical Weapons…Those Have Been Eliminated’”
Really???
Then explain this:
“The April 4 attack in Khan Sheikhun, which cost the lives of more than 80 people ….
Defense Secretary James Mattis said Monday the firing of 59 cruise missiles from two U.S. Navy destroyers in the Mediterranean was intended to “show the United States will not passively stand by while [President Bashar] Assad murders innocent people with chemical weapons, which are prohibited by international law and which were declared destroyed.” Obama in 2015: ‘Assad Gave Up His Chemical Weapons…Those Have Been Eliminated’
13. President Obama: “So let’s start with this fact: For more than a thousand years, people have been drawn to Islam’s message of peace. And the very word itself, ‘Islam,’ comes from ‘salam’ — peace.”
Why did Obama say this? Even Muslim websites acknowledge that “Islam” means “submission” [to Allah], that it comes from the Arabic root “aslama” meaning submission, and that “Islam” is in the command form of that verb.
14. Obama Saying 'Islam has been Woven into the Fabric of our Country Since its Founding'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZIXlIU9vEQ
15. The unemployment rate announced three days after his election was 6.5%....not particularly terrible. But it was the only economic news, and had Obama insisting we were suffering "the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression." http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/10/08/usa-politics-debate-economy-idUSN0749084220081008
16. The Kick-Back to Donors Plan….I mean the Stimulus…
In Barack Obama’s speech to the joint session of Congress, the President emphasized that his new jobs plan had four specific qualities that made it easy to pass this bill immediately, as Obama chanted repeatedly during his speech. His plan would be fully funded, it would not add to the deficit, it would create jobs immediately, and it was chock-full of bipartisan ideas. The Associated Press fact-checked these claims, and found them all false.
17. Obama lied and misled the American people in his description of his relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers as casual and arm's-length:” just a guy in my neighborhood.” His spokesman even claimed he ony knew him because his kids went to school with Ayers’ kids. Now it is clear that the relationship was close, and the evidence is that Ayers actually wrote Obama’s ‘autobiography.’
18. Report: Released Criminal Aliens Committed Nearly 10 Times More Crimes Than Obama Admin. Told Congress
Report: Released Criminal Aliens Committed Nearly 10 Times More Crimes Than Obama Admin. Told Congress | Breitbart
19. Do you recall this Obama response at one of the debates: “I think America's greatest moral failure in my lifetime has been that we still don't abide by that basic precept in Matthew that whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.”
Perhaps this is the biggest hypocrisy and the greatest look into his character: “The average American household gives about two percent of adjusted gross income,” …Obama…less than 1%
And he wouldn’t help the ‘least of his own brothers’ out of poverty:
"Barack Obama's half brother, George Onyango Obama, was found living in a 6 by 10 foot slum hut in Huruma estate just outside of Nairobi. According to reports George Obama survives on $12 a year in the slums of Kenya."
Barack's Half Brother: George Obama's Hut Is In The Slums Of Kenya
20. “Obama: 'I Didn't Have Scandals.' So What Are All These?
Former president Barack Obama might not have experienced the fallout from a scandal, but that's very different from never having been involved in one.” Obama: 'I Didn't Have Scandals.' So What Are All These? | RealClearPolitics
21. Not only do the Leftists like Obama lie to their base with no compunctions….but they laugh at how gullible their voters are:
Charlie Rose and President’s Speechwriters Laugh About ObamaCare Lie ‘If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.’
22. The lies often serve the purpose of appealing to particular constituencies…..here, to Jewish voters:
"The Nazi death camp that Barack Obama's great-uncle helped liberate
MAY 27, 2008 | 4:21 PM
Barack Obama, at a Memorial Day event in Las Cruces, N.M., credited his great-uncle, Charlie Payne, as being among the U.S. troops who liberated the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz.
The trouble with that bit of history -- as the Republican National Committee pointed out today -- is that the Soviet Red Army was the military force that liberated the World War II death camp."
The Nazi death camp that Barack Obama's great-uncle helped liberate
23. The lies are often revealed in the actions of the Democrats. While thumping their collective chests about how they feel for black Americans….their actions reveal something altogether different:
Obama's US Civil Rights Commission, 2010 Report:
"The United States Commission on Civil Rights (Commission) is pleased to transmit this report, The Impact of Illegal Immigration on the Wages and Employment Opportunities of Black Workers. A panel of experts briefed members of the Commission on April 4, 2008 regarding the evidence for economic loss and job opportunity costs to black workers attributable to illegal immigration. The panelists also described non-economic factors contributing to the depression of black wages and employment rates.
Illegal immigration to the United States in recent decades has tended to depress both wages and employment rates for low-skilled American citizens, a disproportionate number of whom are black men."
http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/IllegImmig_10-14-10_430pm.pdf
24. Here is Democrat apparatchik George Stephanopoulos ‘correcting’ Obama’s mention of his Muslim faith…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMUgNg7aD8M
His actions throughout his presidency make this an admission more than a gaffe.
The big question about Hussein Obama was always was he Sunni or Shia…and with the Iran deal, we got answer.
25. "My expectation is that if you want to be president, you have to work for everyone, not just for some," Obama said in a taping of the "Late Show" with David Letterman... …the job of the President is to “represent all people.” “If you want to be President, You have to work for everybody, not just for some." https://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/09/obama-as-president-you-represent-everyone-most-people-dont-think-theyre-victims-135939
“According to the experts who contributed to the Brookings Institution report, Barack Obama numbers among the most polarizing presidents in American history.” https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/most-polarizing-presidents-including-donald-trump.html/?a=viewall
“A Gallup poll released Wednesday shows that former President Obama's approval ratings are easily the most polarized in modern American history, with Democrats rating him highly and Republicans rating him poorly.
"Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama averaged 83% job approval among Democrats and 13% among Republicans," reports Gallup. "That 70-percentage-point party gap in job approval ratings easily eclipses the prior high — 61 points for George W. Bush.
"All other presidents had party gaps of 55 points or less." http://thehill.com/homenews/media/316024-gallup-obama-approval-ratings-most-polarized-in-us-history
The Democrats wanted to put Hussein Obama on Mt. Rushmore....but they don't have enough room for two more faces.
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26. Remember Edward Snowden? Obama responded to Snowden’s stunning revelations of the National Security Agency’s vacuuming up millions of Americans’ personal data by going on the Jay Leno Show and proclaiming: “There is no spying on Americans.”
http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/365393-how-quickly-ny-times-forgets-obamas-lies-and-frauds
27. “OBAMA SAYS MANUFACTURING JOBS AREN’T COMING BACK – THEN TRUMP SETS RECORD OF JOBS IN ONE MONTH”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-EWG6gYlhQ
28. “Obama In Paris: Mass Shootings Don’t Happen In Other Countries…. The only problem with his answer was that he was standing in Paris, where a mass shooting conducted by Islamic State terrorists had just taken place, killing over 100 people.”
Obama In Paris: Mass Shootings Don’t Happen In Other Countries | Breitbart
“'Children's bodies are everywhere': NINETEEN people are killed in Crimean school massacre after student walks into canteen and opens fire –“ Crimea shooting: NINETEEN people are killed in school massacre | Daily Mail Online
29. “22 Times President Obama Said He Couldn’t Ignore or Create His Own Immigration Law” https://www.speaker.gov/general/22-...dn-t-ignore-or-create-his-own-immigration-law
“How the Obama Administration Bypassed Congress to Grant De Facto Amnesty to Young Illegal Aliens” How the Obama Administration Bypassed Congress to Grant De Facto Amnesty to Young Illegals
30. “OBAMA APPEARS WITH, ENDORSES NEVADA CANDIDATE JUST DAYS AFTER EX-WIFE LEVELS ABUSE ALLEGATIONS
· Former President Barack Obama and Nevada Democratic senatorial candidate Jacky Rosen — who tweeted “Believe women” in September — and other Nevada Democrats did not respond when asked to comment on the allegations after they endorsed Sisolak.”
Obama Appears With, Endorses Nevada Candidate Just Days After Ex-Wife Levels Abuse Allegations
31. “Obama, who campaigned on a promise to protect government whistle-blowers, made greater use of the Espionage Act to prosecute leakers and menace journalists than all other presidents combined.
Obama’s Justice Department accessed the personal email of a Fox News reporter and surveilled the reporter’s parents and colleagues. They seized the home, work and mobile phone records of journalists at the Associated Press.
White House officials subverted the press in a number of ways while touting themselves as the most transparent in history.”
Trump Wages War on the Press, but Was Obama Much Better to Reporters? (Guest Column)
32. “In 2017, in Obama’s last days, The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board echoed the criticism from Downie and Risen and called Obama’s administration “the least transparent and the most antagonistic toward the media since the Nixon administration.” In a
nuanced analysis of his eight years, we wrote, “So much for Obama’s promise to lead ‘the most transparent administration in history.’”
Before Trump, Obama was an 'enemy of press freedom'
33."Uh Oh: New Texts Suggest Obama WH, CIA, FBI, And Harry Reid Colluded At Outset Of Russia Probe
There are new texts allegedly showing that the Obama White House, the CIA, the FBI, and top Democrats colluded at the outset of the Russia probe.
...coordination between former President Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, then-Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, and CIA Director John Brennan —which they say would “contradict” the Obama administration’s public stance about its hand in the process."
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/03/28/uh-oh-new-texts-suggest-obama-wh-cia-fbi-and-harry-reid-colluded-at-outset-of-n2465737
34. Posted on
3/27/2008, 1:36:25 PM
A year ago, Barack Obama addressed a group in Selma, AL commemorating the 1965 voting rights march. He credited the event with giving his parents the idea that they could have a child. The result was him--Barack Obama, Child of Destiny. The only problem is he was born in 1961.
"What happened in Selma, Alabama and Birmingham also stirred the conscience of the nation...This young man named Barack Obama...came over to this country. He met this woman...(who) had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided...it might...be possible for us to get together and have a child. There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama... So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama.
I'm here because somebody marched."
http://www.barackobama.com/2007/03/04/selma_voting_rights_march_comm.php
Obama credits Selma march for his existence
Except that Hussein was born in 1961.
35.
1. Referring to illegal aliens, she begins :"I call them citizens because they contribute to the country."
Of course, that is not what makes one a citizen...is it.
2. The young lady continues as if with the voice of the illegal...'If I vote, will immigration know where I live, will they come for my family..."
Now, if she were speaking of a legal citizen....there would be no reason to suggest anyone 'would come for them.'
Do you deny anything above?
Are claiming that 'immigration' would 'come for ' legal citizens who voted???
3. Obama answers the 'illegal citizen voting and fearful of immigration.'
'Not true,' he says....assuring the illegal voter that 'immigration will not know where you live, or come for you.'
4.He goes on to make this bald faced lie: "When you vote you are a citizen yourself"
Henceforth, the terms 'lie' and 'liar' must be permanently reserved for, and applied to, Hussein Obama.
I win again, huh?
Your 'what about'-isms don't excuse Trump. I never accepted 'but he hit me first' as an excuse from my kids for doing the hitting a sibling. Would you?
Since you are such a fan of the old cut and paste:
Trump’s Lies vs. Obama’s
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DAVID LEONHARDT, IAN PRASAD PHILBRICK and
STUART A. THOMPSON DEC. 14, 2017
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After we published
a list of President Trump’s lies this summer, we heard a common response from his supporters. They said, in effect:
Yes, but if you made a similar list for previous presidents, it would be just as bad.
We’ve set out to make that list. Here, you will find our attempt at a comprehensive catalog of the falsehoods that Barack Obama told while he was president. (We also discuss George W. Bush below, although the lack of real-time fact-checking during his presidency made a comprehensive list impossible.)
We applied the same conservative standard to Obama and Trump, counting only demonstrably and substantially false statements. The result: Trump is unlike any other modern president. He seems virtually indifferent to reality, often saying whatever helps him make the case he’s trying to make.
In his first 10 months in office, he has told 103 separate untruths, many of them repeatedly. Obama told 18 over his entire eight-year tenure. That’s an average of about two a year for Obama and about 124 a year for Trump.
Each dot represents one blatant falsehood (repeats are excluded)
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Separately, we have updated our
earlier list of Trump's lies, which also includes repeated falsehoods. This article counts only distinct falsehoods for both Trump and Obama.
If we had used a less strict standard, Trump would look even worse by comparison. He makes misleading statements and mild exaggerations – about economic statistics, his political opponents and many other subjects – far more often than Obama. We left out any statement that could be plausibly defended even if many people would disagree with the president's interpretation. We also left out modest quantitative errors, such as Trump's frequent imprecision with numbers.
We have used the word “lies” again here, as we did in our original piece. If anything, though, the word is unfair to Obama and Bush. When they became aware that they had been saying something untrue, they stopped doing it. Obama didn’t continue to claim that all Americans would be able to keep their existing health insurance under Obamacare, for example, and Bush changed the way he spoke about Iraq’s weapons capability.
Trump is different. When he is caught lying, he will often try to discredit people telling the truth, be they judges, scientists, F.B.I. or C.I.A. officials, journalists or members of Congress. Trump is trying to make truth irrelevant. It is extremely damaging to democracy, and it’s not an accident. It’s core to his political strategy.
As for Obama: His falsehoods tended to be attempts to make his own policies look better or to overstate a problem he was trying to solve. In a few cases, they seemed to be careless exaggerations he avoided repeating.
Over all, Obama rarely told demonstrable untruths as president. And he appears to have become more careful over time. We counted six straight-up falsehoods in his first year in office. Across his entire second four-year term, we counted the same number, six, only one of which came in his final year in office.
In all, we found 18 different bald untruths from Obama during his presidency. Trump told his 18th separate untruth in his third full week in office, and his list keeps growing.
In fact, Trump tells falsehoods about Obama and his administration more often than Obama told falsehoods about all subjects. Since his inauguration, Trump has told 10 separate untruths about Obama, including false allegations of wiretapping and false descriptions of Obamacare. We counted only two falsehoods Obama told about Bush.
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President Trump
First 10 months
Jan. 21, 2017.“I wasn't a fan of Iraq. I didn't want to go into Iraq.”
(He was for an invasion before he was against it.)
Jan. 21, 2017.“A reporter for Time magazine — and I have been on their cover 14 or 15 times. I think we have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine.”
(Trump was on the cover 11 times and Nixon appeared 55 times.)
Jan. 23, 2017.“Between 3 million and 5 million illegal votes caused me to lose the popular vote.”
(There's no evidence of illegal voting.)
Jan. 25, 2017.“Now, the audience was the biggest ever. But this crowd was massive. Look how far back it goes. This crowd was massive.”
(Official aerial photos show Obama's 2009 inauguration was much more heavily attended.)
Jan. 25, 2017.“Take a look at the Pew reports (which show voter fraud.)”
(The report never mentioned voter fraud.)
Jan. 25, 2017.“You had millions of people that now aren't insured anymore.”
(The real number is less than 1 million, according to the Urban Institute.)
Jan. 25, 2017.“So, look, when President Obama was there two weeks ago making a speech, very nice speech. Two people were shot and killed during his speech. You can't have that.”
(There were no gun homicide victims in Chicago that day.)
Jan. 26, 2017.“We've taken in tens of thousands of people. We know nothing about them. They can say they vet them. They didn't vet them. They have no papers. How can you vet somebody when you don't know anything about them and you have no papers? How do you vet them? You can't.”
(Vetting lasts up to two years.)
Jan. 26, 2017.“I cut off hundreds of millions of dollars off one particular plane, hundreds of millions of dollars in a short period of time. It wasn't like I spent, like, weeks, hours, less than hours, and many, many hundreds of millions of dollars. And the plane's going to be better.”
(Most of the cuts were already planned.)
Jan. 28, 2017.“The coverage about me in the @nytimes and the @washingtonpost has been so false and angry that the Times actually apologized to its dwindling subscribers and readers.”
(It never apologized.)
Jan. 29, 2017.“The Cuban-Americans, I got 84 percent of that vote.”
(There is no support for this.)
Jan. 30, 2017.“Only 109 people out of 325,000 were detained and held for questioning. Big problems at airports were caused by Delta computer outage.”
(At least 746 people were detained and processed, and the Delta outage happened two days later.)
Feb. 3, 2017.“Professional anarchists, thugs and paid protesters are proving the point of the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
(There is no evidence of paid protesters.)
Feb. 6, 2017.“It's gotten to a point where it is not even being reported. And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it.”
(Terrorism has been reported on, often in detail.)
Feb. 6, 2017.“And the previous administration allowed it to happen because we shouldn't have been in Iraq, but we shouldn't have gotten out the way we got out. It created a vacuum, ISIS was formed.”
(The group’s origins date to 2004.)
Feb. 7, 2017.“And yet the murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years, right? Did you know that? Forty-seven years.”
(It was higher in the 1980s and '90s.)
Feb. 9, 2017.“Chris Cuomo, in his interview with Sen. Blumenthal, never asked him about his long-term lie about his brave ‘service’ in Vietnam. FAKE NEWS!”
(It was part of Cuomo's first question.)
Feb. 9, 2017.“Sen. Richard Blumenthal...now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him?”
(The Gorsuch comments were later corroborated.)
Feb. 10, 2017.“I don’t know about it. I haven’t seen it. What report is that?”
(Trump knew about Flynn's actions for weeks.)
Feb. 12, 2017.“Just leaving Florida. Big crowds of enthusiastic supporters lining the road that the FAKE NEWS media refuses to mention. Very dishonest!”
(The media did cover it.)
Feb. 16, 2017.“We got 306 because people came out and voted like they've never seen before so that's the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan.”
(George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all won bigger margins in the Electoral College.)
Feb. 16, 2017.“Walmart announced it will create 10,000 jobs in the United States just this year because of our various plans and initiatives.”
(The jobs are a result of its investment plans announced in October 2016.)
Feb. 16, 2017.“When WikiLeaks, which I had nothing to do with, comes out and happens to give, they’re not giving classified information.”
(Not always. They have released classified information in the past.)
Feb. 16, 2017.“We had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban. But we had a bad court. Got a bad decision.”
(The rollout was chaotic.)
Feb. 16, 2017.“They’re giving stuff — what was said at an office about Hillary cheating on the debates. Which, by the way, nobody mentions. Nobody mentions that Hillary received the questions to the debates.”
(It was widely covered.)
Feb. 18, 2017.“You look at what's happening in Germany, you look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this?”
(Trump implied there was a terror attack in Sweden, but there was no such attack.)
Feb. 24, 2017.“By the way, you folks are in here — this place is packed, there are lines that go back six blocks.”
(There was no evidence of long lines.)
Feb. 24, 2017.“ICE came and endorsed me.”
(Only its union did.)
Feb. 24, 2017.“Obamacare covers very few people — and remember, deduct from the number all of the people that had great health care that they loved that was taken away from them — it was taken away from them.”
(Obamacare increased coverage by a net of about 20 million.)
Feb. 27, 2017.“Since Obamacare went into effect, nearly half of the insurers are stopped and have stopped from participating in the Obamacare exchanges.”
(Many fewer pulled out.)
Feb. 28, 2017.“The E.P.A.’s regulators were putting people out of jobs by the hundreds of thousands.”
(There's no evidence that the Waters of the United States rule caused severe job losses.)
Feb. 28, 2017.“We have begun to drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a five-year ban on lobbying by executive branch officials.”
(They can't lobby their former agency but can still become lobbyists.)
March 3, 2017.“It is so pathetic that the Dems have still not approved my full Cabinet.”
(Paperwork for the last two candidates was still not submitted to the Senate.)
March 4, 2017.“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
(There's no evidence of a wiretap.)
March 7, 2017.“122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision!”
(113 of them were released by President George W. Bush.)
March 17, 2017.“I was in Tennessee — I was just telling the folks — and half of the state has no insurance company, and the other half is going to lose the insurance company.”
(There's at least one insurer in every Tennessee county.)
March 22, 2017.“I make the statement, everyone goes crazy. The next day they have a massive riot, and death, and problems.”
(Riots in Sweden broke out two days later and there were no deaths.)
March 22, 2017.“NATO, obsolete, because it doesn’t cover terrorism. They fixed that.”
(It has fought terrorism since the 1980s.)
March 31, 2017.“We have a lot of plants going up now in Michigan that were never going to be there if I — if I didn’t win this election, those plants would never even think about going back. They were gone.”
(These investments were already planned.)
April 11, 2017.“I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late. I had already beaten all the senators and all the governors, and I didn’t know Steve.”
(He knew Steve Bannon since 2011.)
April 12, 2017.“You can't do it faster, because they're obstructing. They're obstructionists. So I have people — hundreds of people that we're trying to get through. I mean you have — you see the backlog. We can't get them through.”
(At this point, he had not nominated anyone for hundreds of positions.)
April 12, 2017.“The New York Times said the word wiretapped in the headline of the first edition. Then they took it out of there fast when they realized.”
(There were separate headlines for print and web, but neither were altered.)
April 12, 2017.“Mosul was supposed to last for a week and now they’ve been fighting it for many months and so many more people died.”
(The campaign was expected to take months.)
April 16, 2017.“Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!”
(There's no evidence of paid protesters.)
April 18, 2017.“The fake media goes, ‘Donald Trump changed his stance on China.’ I haven’t changed my stance.”
(He did.)
April 21, 2017.“When WikiLeaks came out ... never heard of WikiLeaks, never heard of it.”
(He criticized it as early as 2010.)
April 27, 2017.“I want to help our miners while the Democrats are blocking their healthcare.”
(The bill to extend health benefits for certain coal miners was introduced by a Democrat and was co-sponsored by mostly Democrats.)
April 28, 2017.“The trade deficit with Mexico is close to $70 billion, even with Canada it’s $17 billion trade deficit with Canada.”
(The U.S. had an $8.1 billion trade surplus, not deficit, with Canada in 2016.)
April 28, 2017.“She's running against someone who's going to raise your taxes to the sky, destroy your health care, and he's for open borders — lots of crime.”
(Those are not Jon Ossoff's positions.)
April 29, 2017.“As you know, I've been a big critic of China, and I've been talking about currency manipulation for a long time. But I have to tell you that during the election, number one, they stopped.”
(China stopped years ago.)
April 29, 2017.“We're also getting NATO countries to finally step up and contribute their fair share. They've begun to increase their contributions by billions of dollars, but we are not going to be satisfied until everyone pays what they owe.”
(The deal was struck in 2014.)
May 1, 2017.“Well, we are protecting pre-existing conditions. And it'll be every good — bit as good on pre-existing conditions as Obamacare.”
(The bill weakens protections for people with pre-existing conditions.)
May 4, 2017.“Nobody cares about my tax return except for the reporters.”
(Polls show most Americans do care.)
May 5, 2017.“We pay the highest taxes anywhere in the world.”
(We're not.)
May 8, 2017.“But when I did his show, which by the way was very highly rated. It was high — highest rating. The highest rating he’s ever had.”
(Colbert's Late Show debut had nearly two million more viewers.)
May 8, 2017.“Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows — there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion w/ Russia and Trump.”
(Clapper only said he wasn't aware of an investigation.)
May 12, 2017.“Again, the story that there was collusion between the Russians & Trump campaign was fabricated by Dems as an excuse for losing the election.”
(The F.B.I. was investigating before the election.)
May 26, 2017.“Just arrived in Italy for the G7. Trip has been very successful. We made and saved the USA many billions of dollars and millions of jobs.”
(He's referencing an arms deal that's not enacted and other apparent deals that weren't announced on the trip.)
June 1, 2017.“China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants. So, we can’t build the plants, but they can, according to this agreement. India will be allowed to double its coal production by 2020.”
(The agreement doesn’t allow or disallow building coal plants.)
June 4, 2017.“At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’”
(The mayor was specifically talking about the enlarged police presence on the streets.)
June 5, 2017.“The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.”
(Trump signed this version of the travel ban, not the Justice Department.)
June 21, 2017.“They all say it's 'nonbinding.' Like hell it's nonbinding.”
(The Paris climate agreement is nonbinding — and Trump said so in his speech announcing the withdrawal.)
June 21, 2017.“You have a gang called MS-13. ... We are moving them out of the country by the thousands, by the thousands.”
(The real number of gang members deported is smaller.)
June 21, 2017.“Your insurance companies have all fled the state of Iowa.”
(They haven't)
June 21, 2017.“If [farmers] have a puddle in the middle of their field ... it's considered a lake and you can't touch it. ... We got rid of that one, too, O.K.?”
(The Obama environmental rule to limit pollution in the country’s waters explicitly excludes puddles.)
June 21, 2017.“Gary Cohn just paid $200 million in tax in order to take this job, by the way.”
Cohn sold Goldman Sachs stock worth $220 million.)
June 21, 2017.“We’re 5 and 0.”
(Republicans have won four special elections this year, while a Democrat won one.)
June 21, 2017.“Last week a brand-new coal mine just opened in the state of Pennsylvania, first time in decades, decades.”
(Another coal mine opened in 2014.)
June 22, 2017.“Former Homeland Security Advisor Jeh Johnson is latest top intelligence official to state there was no grand scheme between Trump & Russia”
(Johnson, who had a different title, didn't say that.)
June 23, 2017.“Ratings way down!”
(CNN's ratings were at a five-year high at the time.)
June 28, 2017.“Democrats purposely misstated Medicaid under new Senate bill — actually goes up.”
(Senate bill would have cut the program deeply.)
July 17, 2017.“We’ve signed more bills — and I’m talking about through the legislature — than any president, ever.”
(Clinton, Carter, Truman, and F.D.R. had signed more at the same point.)
July 19, 2017.“But the F.B.I. person really reports directly to the president of the United States, which is interesting.”
(He reports directly to the attorney general.)
July 19, 2017.“She did the uranium deal, which is a horrible thing, while she was secretary of state, and got a lot of money.”
(There's no evidence Hillary Clinton was actively involved or benefited from the deal.)
July 24, 2017.“It looks like about 45,000 people. You set a record today.”
(Many fewer than 45,000 were there, and the attendance was not a record.)
July 25, 2017.“We have nearly doubled the number of veterans given approvals to see the doctor of their choice.”
(The increase was 26 percent.)
July 25, 2017.“Since I took office we have cut illegal immigration on our southern border by record numbers. 78 percent.”
(The decline began before Trump's inauguration.)
July 28, 2017.“The previous administration enacted an open-door policy to illegal migrants from Central America. 'Welcome in. Come in, please, please.'”
(Obama deported millions.)
July 28, 2017.“We have trade deficits with almost every country because we had a lot of really bad negotiators making deals with other countries.”
(The U.S. has a trade surplus with more than 100 countries.)
July 31, 2017.“2.6 is a number that nobody thought they’d see for a long period of time.”
(Many experts predicted economic growth at least this high.)
July 31, 2017.“And even the President of Mexico called me – they said their southern border, very few people are coming because they know they’re not going to get through our border, which is the ultimate compliment.”
(Mexico's president says he didn't call Trump.)
Aug. 3, 2017.“The Russia story is a total fabrication.”
(It's not.)
Aug. 15, 2017.“We want products made in the country. Now, I have to tell you, some of the folks that will leave, they're leaving out of embarrassment because they make their products outside.”
(People resigned from Trump's business councils over his Charlottesville comments.)
Aug. 22, 2017.“As everybody here remembers, this was the scene of my first rally speech, right?”
(Trump's first rally was in New Hampshire.)
Aug. 22, 2017.“We have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently.”
(The U.S. isn't projected to become a net energy exporter until 2026.)
Aug. 22, 2017.“Look back there, the live red lights. They're turning those suckers off fast out there. They're turning those lights off fast. Like CNN.”
(CNN didn't turn off its cameras.)
Sept. 14, 2017.“Also with the fact that I know in the case of FEMA and the case of Coast Guard, the job you've done in saving people, saving lives. As an example, in Harvey in Texas, we talked – over 16,000 lives.”
(The real number is smaller.)
Sept. 14, 2017.“And in Florida you got hit with the strongest winds ever recorded.”
(They weren't the strongest ever recorded.)
Sept. 22, 2017.“So he started off here, he was in third or fourth, he went to third, second, and now it's like almost pretty even.”
(Strange consistently polled first or second in the Alabama Republican primary.)
Sept. 27, 2017.“I’m doing the right thing, and it’s not good for me.”
(All available evidence suggests he would benefit.)
Sept. 27, 2017.“To protect millions of small businesses and the American farmer, we are finally ending the crushing, the horrible, the unfair estate tax.”
(The real number of small businesses and farmers is vastly smaller.)
Oct. 6, 2017.“They also just said that there has been absolutely no collusion. They just said that. Yesterday. Two days ago. Senate. There has been no collusion.”
(The Senate didn't say that.)
Oct. 10, 2017.“The Failing @nytimes set Liddle' Bob Corker up by recording his conversation. Was made to sound a fool, and that's what I am dealing with!”
(Corker asked the Times reporter to record the call; his aides recorded it too.)
Oct. 11, 2017.“We have missiles that can knock out a missile in the air. Ninety seven per cent of the time. If you send two of them, it's going to get knocked out.”
(The effectiveness rate is about 60 percent.)
Oct. 16, 2017.“I hear that Ireland is going to be reducing their corporate rates down to 8 percent from 12.”
(Ireland has no plans to cut its tax rate.)
Oct. 16, 2017.“If you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls.”
(They did call families of soldiers killed in action.)
Oct. 16, 2017.“All I can say is it’s totally fake news. It’s just fake. It’s fake. It’s made-up stuff, and it’s disgraceful, what happens, but that happens in the world of politics.”
(Trump himself has bragged about groping women.)
Oct. 18, 2017.“Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof).”
(The wife confirmed Representative Frederica Wilson's account.)
Oct. 18, 2017.“Nobody has ever heard of a five hitting land.”
(Category 5 storms have hit land before.)
Oct. 24, 2017.“Under our plan, more than 30 million Americans who own small businesses will get a 40 per cent cut to their top marginal tax rate.”
(The real number is estimated to be less than 1 million.)
Oct. 27, 2017.“Wacky & totally unhinged Tom Steyer, who has been fighting me and my Make America Great Again agenda from beginning, never wins elections!”
(Steyer has financially supported many winning candidates.)
Nov. 7, 2017.“When you look at the city with the strongest gun laws in our nation, it's Chicago.”
(Several other cities, including New York and Los Angeles, have stronger gun laws.)
Nov. 11, 2017.“I'd rather have him – you know, work with him on the Ukraine than standing and arguing about whether or not – because that whole thing was set up by the Democrats.”
(There is no evidence that Democrats "set up" Russian interference in the election.)
President Obama
First Year
Feb. 24, 2009.“We import more oil today than ever before.”
(Oil imports peaked in 2005.)
Mar. 10, 2009.“Our high school dropout rate has tripled in the past thirty years.”
(It had actually declined by a third.)
June 1, 2009.“If you actually took the number of Muslims [sic] Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
(Almost 60 other countries were home to more Muslims.)
June 11, 2009.“No matter how we reform health care, I intend to keep this promise: If you like your doctor, you'll be able to keep your doctor; if you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan.”
(Some people had to switch plans as a result of the Affordable Care Act)
Sept. 9, 2009.“One man from Illinois lost his coverage in the middle of chemotherapy because his insurer found that he hadn't reported gallstones that he didn't even know about. They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it.”
(Delayed treatment didn't cause his death.)
Dec. 3, 2009.“I mentioned that I was in Asia on this trip, thinking about the economy. When I sat down for a round of interviews, not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy.”
(Several journalists did ask.)
Second Year
April 21, 2010.“The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.”
(It wasn't.)
Sept. 20, 2010.“Keep in mind the previous administration had been helping them, giving billions of dollars and just asking nothing in return.”
(The Bush administration imposed multiple conditions on auto companies.)
Third Year
May 10, 2011.“Doubled our exports.”
(Exports increased by less than half.)
Jun. 29, 2011.“What I have done – and this is unprecedented, by the way, no administration has done this before – is I’ve said to each agency, 'Don't just look at current regulations – or don't just look at future regulations, regulations that we’re proposing. Let’s go backwards and look at regulations that are already on the books, and if they don't make sense, let’s get rid of them.'”
(Several previous administrations did.)
Fourth Year
Feb. 17, 2012.“American manufacturers are hiring for the first time since 1990.”
(Manufacturing employment grew at times during the 1990s.)
Sept. 20, 2012.“I think it’s important for us to understand that the Fast and Furious program was a field-initiated program begun under the previous administration.”
(The program began under Obama.)
Fifth Year
March 1, 2013.“The janitor, the security guards, they just got a pay cut and they've got to figure out how to manage that.”
(Their pay wasn't cut.)
Sept. 4, 2013.“First of all, I didn’t set a red line; the world set a red line.”
(He did set a red line.)
Sixth Year
Mar. 11, 2014.“Most young Americans right now, they’re not covered.”
(Most were.)
May 7, 2014.“Since 2007, [Republicans] have filibustered about 500 pieces of legislation that would help the middle class.”
(The real number was closer to 50.)
Sept. 7, 2014.“I wasn’t specifically referring to ISIL”
(He was.)
Eighth Year
June 29, 2016.“I mean, the steel industry is producing as much steel in the United States as it ever was.”
(Steel production peaked in 1973.)
Postscript: George W. Bush
As we mentioned above, it was not possible to create a similar list for George W. Bush, because the various fact-checking groups – whose work we used heavily here – were not operating continuously when he became president, in 2001.
But several sources did try to evaluate some of his claims at the time. Their work suggests that Bush sometimes told falsehoods but was fundamentally different from Trump. Bush instead seems to be somewhere on the pre-Trump presidential spectrum.
In 2001, for example, Bush said significantly more stem-cell lines existed than actually did. Most infamously, Bush and his advisers justified the Iraq War by talking about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, which did not exist. But as costly as these claims were, Bush evidently believed them at the time. And for the most part, once his statements became demonstrably false, he stopped making them.
