Trump lies about Obama (again)

Four Pinocchios –> Trump’s bogus effort to blame Obama for sluggish coronavirus testing https://t.co/CB8hx3W3hu
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) March 6, 2020

FACT CHECK: Pres. Trump is falsely blaming the Obama administration for the slow rollout of U.S. tests for the new coronavirus—ignoring his administration’s own fumbles in responding to the health crisis and mischaracterizing Obama-era policies. https://t.co/gQfUsXAEWM
— ABC News (@ABC) March 7, 2020

Charlie Kirk and Rudy Giuliani received nearly 40,000 combined retweets since yesterday pushing a false claim about Obama and H1N1 in response to the coronavirus (with Giuliani taking the claim from Kirk). The false claim has already been debunked by multiple fact checkers. pic.twitter.com/2YqZ0RCjN8
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) March 10, 2020

Asked why the US has been slow in testing, Trump says "no," the US has done a "very good job" with testing, then repeats a vaguer version of his false claim that something done by the Obama administration slowed things down.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 10, 2020

Trump again falsely blames the Obama administration for the CDC's coronavirus test kit shortage.

The CDC was slow out of the gate because it developed and deployed it own tests, which didn't work. https://t.co/3dlOVHsMe9
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) March 10, 2020

Obama actually declared a national emergency after only 20 cases were detected. Then he poured $ into testing and treatment for Swine flu.

The latest far-right defense of Trump's botched COVID-19 response is a lie about Obama and H1N1 https://t.co/bKKHPu8GZw
— Dr. Robert Fortuna (@psychdr100) March 10, 2020

“Experts on lab testing said they were unaware of any Obama-era rule that would have hindered the administration from authorizing lab-developed tests for the coronavirus in an emergency.“- https://t.co/19lmkk5qbK
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 5, 2020

Trump blames his administration's failure to conduct testing for the coronavirus (less than 500 tests as of last Friday) on OBAMA.

This is not a joke. https://t.co/Qbu9Gc3RsN
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 4, 2020

Trump lied about sending Giuliani to Ukraine

He lied about this during the impeachment. The truth gets out eventually.

Not just “sending” him, but directing Giuliani to investigate a private US citizen in a foreign country instead of relying on US law enforcement & intelligence agencies (who wouldn’t have done his dirty work). https://t.co/CUdaAU2SBt
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) February 14, 2020

I know we're already onto the newest Trump scandal, but this is a really significant confession. https://t.co/Db0EDfUvwL
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) February 14, 2020

Trump lies during the State of the Union address

Here are fact checks and comments:

Fact Checks

A team of our reporters who cover the economy, national security, health care and more will be fact-checking President Trump's claims during the State of the Union address. Follow along here. https://t.co/va51u3a81B
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 5, 2020

fact checking the SOTUhttps://t.co/FokwFdXwAY
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 5, 2020

31 false and misleading claims! –> Fact-checking President Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address https://t.co/vPUwZSyb6H
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) February 5, 2020

This conduct has been normalized which is tragic.

Read this headline below again and consider that this is The President of the United States. https://t.co/bQqPqWtHIl
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) February 5, 2020

Last night @realDonaldTrump came before Congress and the American people and made up a series of lies. That was unbecoming, violated tradition & was offensive.

And right now the Administration is still suing to eliminate coverage for pre-existing conditions.#WednesdayWisdom https://t.co/nXE1sFk2bc
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) February 5, 2020

A pathological liar has a huge rhetorical advantage over rivals who are too timid to call lying by its rightful name
— Brent Staples (@BrentNYT) February 5, 2020

"How do you qualify something as a good speech if it's fed by lies?" —@JoeNBC pic.twitter.com/kSkxnkEHhe
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) February 5, 2020

Why are Trump's nonstop lies to Congress during his SOTU speech being treated as less of a breach of "decorum" than @SpeakerPelosi's ripping up of his speech is?https://t.co/3C4RscHgot
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 5, 2020

Perhaps the biggest lie President Trump told tonight was his claim he'll protect patients with pre-existing conditions.

His admin is in court trying to take those protections away.

The only way he can truly protect people with pre-existing conditions is to drop the lawsuit now.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) February 5, 2020

"drew on falsehoods." They will bend over backwards to not call a lie a lie. This is just embarrassing levels of equivocation https://t.co/F0WDrWYQtu
— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) February 5, 2020

Rick Santorum is saying on CNN right now that Trump isn't lying when he says he wants to protect pre-existing conditions. The other 6 panelists are shaking their heads, rolling their eyes & pushing back. The problem, though, is CNN inviting Santorum on to keep spewing lies on air
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) February 5, 2020

Trump lied less on the economy tonight than he has before. I counted single-digit lies. There were at least 22 in a speech on the economy he gave in November. @YahooFinance documented them: https://t.co/GGVlxkcWJm pic.twitter.com/wOAk8f8SZ7
— Rick Newman (@rickjnewman) February 5, 2020

WATCH: @SteveRattner fact checks Pres. Trump's #SOTU claims on the economy.

"Anyway you slice it – this is at best a continuation of the Obama recovery, and at worst, a slower version of the Obama recovery."https://t.co/IgFm0151VZ
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 6, 2020

Trump lies update 1/20/20

He lies more than ever.

Trump takes advantage of the fact that if the media keeps accusing him of lying, he and his supporters will say they’re biased. The media understates what a liar Trump is in order to appear balanced and fair. It took most of the media years to call him a liar. They used much wimpier terms instead of stating the truth. Nobody will confront Trump and call him a liar to his face. Trump wins on this one.

NEW –> President Trump made 16,241 false or misleading claims in his first three years https://t.co/p5HiSDpSzt
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 20, 2020

In mid-November, I published a list of 45 ways Trump had been dishonest about Ukraine and impeachment.

It’s now 65 ways. Here’s the updated version, with quick fact checks of all 65: https://t.co/Hsxx7N6OBS
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 20, 2020

CNN's @ddale8 and @tarasubramaniam counted 81 false claims from Trump last week. "Trump is now up to 1,636 false claims since July 8, an average of about nine per day…" https://t.co/gJ9bkG1lKw
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 19, 2020

Honoring the LSU national championship football team, Trump falsely claims the USMCA and his preliminary China deal are the two biggest trade deals in history. Ignoring GATT/WTO rounds: the Trans-Pacific Partnership included all three USMCA countries and also nine others.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 17, 2020

"That’s one of the reasons why Trump kind of wants you to watch CNN instead of MSNBC," Lawrence O’Donnell said in a new interview https://t.co/Hc0AW96qVW
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 14, 2020

100% correct!

Fact-check: 5 times President Trump misquoted his allies and critics on impeachment https://t.co/jBtSB6lpOW pic.twitter.com/laZFjtnQSX
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 13, 2020

“If nothing the president says can be trusted, reporting what the president says becomes absurd. You can still do it, but it’s hard to respect what you are doing. If the president doesn’t know anything, the solemnity of the presidency becomes a joke. That’s painful.” https://t.co/bFBKTutCeU
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 12, 2020

Fact check: Trump made 15 false claims during a quiet week in Florida https://t.co/5AYBTVIrDr pic.twitter.com/6KvqCv2MAI
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 11, 2020

Trump is not at 53% approval in any recent poll I can see; he’s at 48% even in the latest Rasmussen daily tracker. (Please let me know if I’m missing a poll.) He’s also still not at 95% with Republicans. Also, 95% with Republicans wouldn’t be a record; GWBush hit 99% post-9/11. pic.twitter.com/vxLDdDMXZm
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 11, 2020

Preliminary report: Trump’s interview with Laura Ingraham last night was extremely dishonest. At least 15 false claims.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 11, 2020

Trump continues to claim that median family income has increased by $10,000 under him. What happened: he took a research firm's estimate of around a $5,000 pre-tax increase, which is much higher than the Census Bureau estimate, and added another $5,000 for nonsensical reasons.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 9, 2020

Stop putting liars on TV

Trump supporters have to lie in order to defend Trump’s lies. The media should not put liars on TV to spread garbage. I am all for a balanced approach as long as both sides tell the truth. Trump wins when the media reports his endless lies.

This was my message to the media going into 2020. Your responsibility is to the truth, not to "giving both sides" when one side is lies. And you cannot expose lies without spreading them. So repeat the facts. https://t.co/4EavbYO1AI
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) December 26, 2019

If cable TV news got serious about patrolling the truth, it could screen guests and panelists. Did Russia interfere with the election? Did Ukraine? If the answers are not yes and no, respectively, the person is not put on the air. https://t.co/hG7RFekFAA
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) December 31, 2019

Trump lies and lies and lies…

I assume what he says is a lie until I see proof that it’s true. He has no credibility and he has destroyed our country’s credibility. Sad!

Here are my picks for Donald Trump's top 12 lies of the year, one for every month.

It was hard to choose. https://t.co/5qyZL1aEc8
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 31, 2019

Now he's just flatly lying about the Iran deal. Everything traces back to these original lies. We're in this situation because of them, and his incoherence flows directly from the demented, pathologically-motivated idiocy at their core. https://t.co/HLHiiYWgru
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 8, 2020

Here's our internal chart of Trump's false claims per day from July 8, when we started counting at CNN, through December 29. He averaged nine per day over that period.

October, when he embarked on a Ukraine-related dishonesty blitz, was by far the worst month — 13 per day. pic.twitter.com/RTvS3xkBSK
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 6, 2020

this is an invented figure. https://t.co/kYwGjyNhOV https://t.co/vcufIliXRq
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 4, 2020

From dishwasher dishonesty to an imaginary war on Christmas: President Trump makes 90 false claims during the final two weeks of 2019 https://t.co/omGEEXz576 pic.twitter.com/HGki8iQKGc
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 4, 2020

Trump said last week that Michelle Obama was part of a last-minute campaign trip to Michigan in 2016. She was not.

This is the second state Trump has falsely claimed Michelle Obama campaigned in. He also likes to say she went to Georgia, along with Oprah, for Stacey Abrams.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 27, 2019

Went on with @JohnAvlon and Alisyn Camerota to run through some (some! a fraction!) of the worst and weirdest Trump lies of the year.

What would you say were the worst and weirdest? Worst defined as some combo of most important, most damaging, most inflammatory. pic.twitter.com/WjC6icxLCP
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 27, 2019

Trump’s endless lies – update 9/18/19

There's no dishonesty off switch for Trump; he lies not only to average citizens but to audiences who know he's making most of this stuff up. He made 25 false claims at his NC rally last week — and, also, 22 in his speech to the House Republican Retreat. https://t.co/zuxdiLieBB
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 18, 2019

Trump made at least 26 false claims at his rally last night.

That’s 26 I can immediately call false without doing additional research, because he’s said them before or because they’re so obvious. https://t.co/0LRrYRx2rX
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 17, 2019

Committee Republicans and Corey Lewandowski have both claimed that Trump was never notified that Russia was interfering with the 2016 election.

This is not true.

Trump received his first intelligence briefing on 17 Aug. 2016. The hacking and theft of Dem emails was covered.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) September 17, 2019

Eric Trump’s Four-Pinocchio claim that the Obamacare website cost more than Trump’s border barrier https://t.co/PBYmcw2YJC
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) September 16, 2019

it runs in the family

>> @ddale8's latest: "Trump criticizes the media for accurately reporting his comments on meeting with Iran"https://t.co/5ffgkiIISQ
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 16, 2019