Watch: @BrianStelter dissects Trump's "favorite coronavirus lie," which is that "the rise in cases is all due to the rise in testing." He shows links between right-wing rhetoric and the president's testing obsession pic.twitter.com/li5szRjyWQ
— Reliable Sources (@ReliableSources) July 20, 2020
During a meandering and occasionally hostile interview with Fox News, President Trump made a very bold claim: that the US has the lowest mortality rate from Covid-19 anywhere in the world.
— CNN (@CNN) July 20, 2020
But his claim is not true — not even close. https://t.co/bmp6I7aAPf
Trump said on his NC "tele-rally" that Gov. Cooper told him they could have only 10 people in the arena at the RNC.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 20, 2020
Cooper spokes says Cooper never said that. Says Cooper asked for a plan to keep people safe, Trump demanded a guarantee of no requirements for distancing or masks.
Trump’s incessant dishonesty during interviews, rallies and other events is often convered in passing or not at all. Today, WaPo and the NYT treated it as the main story: pic.twitter.com/NgeJgsfdkc
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 20, 2020
Trump told his Wisconsin "tele-rally" that, in Iraq, "We're down to only 2,000 soldiers." It's about 5,000.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 19, 2020
President Donald Trump is clinging to the false notion that the coronavirus will just “disappear.” That's the finding of an #APFactCheck. https://t.co/xZaR0n9Xay
— AP Fact Check (@APFactCheck) July 19, 2020
On @FoxNewsSunday, @realDonaldTrump claimed, “I got soldiers the biggest pay raises in the history of our military.” This false – by a mile. As I document in my book, he has frequently made false statements about military pay. There were bigger raises under both Bush and Obama. pic.twitter.com/Mo64eXsT8K
— jonkarl (@jonkarl) July 19, 2020
Last interview thought: the most irritating thing about how Trump's lying has mostly gone unchallenged by even non-sycophant interviewers is that he tells the same lies over and over. He is uncommonly easy to prepare for. And yet.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 19, 2020
Trump told his Michigan "tele-rally" tonight that he was named Michigan's Man of the Year 10 years ago, though he has very obviously never been named Michigan's Man of the Year.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 19, 2020
Chris Wallace calls @realDonaldTrump on a blatant lie that Trump keeps repeating re @JoeBiden.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) July 18, 2020
Will it stop the @POTUS from repeating it again?
Not a chance.
He believes if you tell a lie often enough people will believe it. https://t.co/bF0BZX9j6U
Trump is on a lying spree about Biden. Video fact check of some of the most egregious recent nonsense: pic.twitter.com/Kt1euXIqtI
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 18, 2020
Where Trump made the most false claims from early June to early July:
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 18, 2020
– 22 at Tulsa rally
– 22 at Hannity "town hall" in Wisconsin
– 14 in WSJ interview
– 14 in speech to Turning Point in Phoenix
– 12 in interview with Hannityhttps://t.co/i2MqVf2Vhf
Trump, a serial liar about the past: "In every age, there have always been those who seek to lie about the past in order to gain power in the present."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 4, 2020
Trump: "We signed a bill. You play with our monuments, or our statues, you go to jail for 10 years."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 2, 2020
He did not sign a bill. That penalty is in a 2003 law. Trump issued an executive order that referred explicitly to the existing law.
Trump lies that Biden is saying he can't do the debates because of COVID. Biden, unlike Trump, has committed to the three official Commission debates, and he has repeatedly said he's eager to debate Trump even if it has to be via Zoom or another online tool.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 26, 2020
"They're delinquent with respect to their dues," Trump says of NATO members that don't meet NATO's 2%-of-GDP-on defense target, though that target is for countries' own spending, not dues to NATO, and though being short doesn't create debts on which anyone could be delinquent.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 24, 2020
I'm trying to check a Trump claim that they deterred a planned protest of "20- to 25,000 people" against a DC statue of Abraham Lincoln and a kneeling former slave (https://t.co/Q4lIFaYrez).
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 20, 2020
If anyone has anything to tell me other than "he's making this up," please let me know. pic.twitter.com/52sIZ7G46Z
Sad! 