Trump’s false statements

This was before the State of the Union address

He's back! After a couple of quiet weeks, Trump made 86 false claims last week:

– 20 in New York Times interview
– 19 at Buy American order signing
– 15 in CBS interview
– 12 at meeting on trafficking
– 7 in Daily Caller interviewhttps://t.co/Cp3br9t6Yw
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 6, 2019

Trump lies about human trafficking

Do human trafficking and sex trafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border mostly happen at ports of entry, or in remote areas of the frontier? Read what President Donald Trump said in the #SOTU and learn the facts about border trafficking in an #APFactCheck: https://t.co/w5yJXAjjBj
— AP Fact Check (@APFactCheck) February 6, 2019

There is human trafficking that occurs, of course. What Trump and DHS haven't done is linked it to the border.

Here are where human-trafficking suspects were in 2015, the most recent year for which there are data.https://t.co/E8sQaH3QVn pic.twitter.com/fvjnUCq4Ja
— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 6, 2019

State of the Union fact checks

More lies

A lot of fact checks were done after the speech which means Trump was able to lie without being contradicted in real time. To be fair, Trump lies so much, it would be hard for the media to keep up.

CBS offered a brief "reality check" of SOTU, but didn't address Trump's most egregious misstatements. Have you seen other fact-checking on air? pic.twitter.com/LYMTfRYm6z
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 6, 2019

President Trump's State of the Union address contained numerous claims that were false or misleading. See how his remarks stacked up against the facts. https://t.co/vdVMsI38xn
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 6, 2019

Just the facts. https://t.co/ZuxIEytQx7
— Slate (@Slate) February 6, 2019

Dozens of CNNers are contributing to this detailed fact-check of the #SOTU https://t.co/n37U31wB33
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 6, 2019

Here’s where to get the facts on Trump’s #SOTU speech. Follow this account and the #APFactCheck page for live updates. https://t.co/vBNWZxOVCh
— AP Fact Check (@APFactCheck) February 6, 2019

Fact check: President Trump claims "countless Americans" were murdered by undocumented immigrants. CNN's @jimsciutto tells us what the data show: https://t.co/7fce27AU1I #SOTU pic.twitter.com/gh2UYX5rGp
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) February 6, 2019

Trump doesn’t talk about the people killed in mass shootings.

And now @MSNBC is queuing up a fact-check, though it's now pretty late in the game. I'd much prefer this stuff before all the blather. CNN now doing a second check too.
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) February 6, 2019

We fact-checked 27 claims during President Trump's State of the Union address https://t.co/udgs4JeJiB
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 6, 2019

Trump is up to 8,459 false statements

UPDATED count in the Trump claims datebase: 8,459 false or misleading claims through Feb. 3. January 2019 is the third biggest month with 736 claims. https://t.co/rZaAOI0gjd
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) February 4, 2019

Trump lies about the trade deficit with China for the 100th time

MILESTONE: Trump just lied about the trade deficit with China for the 100th time as president. "We lost $500 billion a year with China for many years," he says, and there has never once been a $500 billion trade deficit with China, and one day I will not tweet about this.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 1, 2019

Trump’s lies about the intel chiefs

They said it – there’s video. The ‘fake news” didn’t misinterpret it. Trump’s a non-stop liar and a danger to the security of our country and the world. This is one of his worst lies. Sad!

The President has never lied to your face in worse fashion than he did today when he spun this b.s. about what his Intel chiefs said to him… pic.twitter.com/RjtYrzut3G
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) February 1, 2019

"Fears mounting today that a major policy collision between the intel community and its top client, the president, may be imminent…Trump may be increasing our risk of war… by refusing to accept the assessment of top national security officials." – @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/VqhWoKfvAT
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) January 31, 2019

Dear @realDonaldTrump: Do you know how congressional hearings work? The Senate testimony was live. There is videotape.

The media didn't testify; the Intel Chiefs did. We all saw and heard the same testimony.

Many people are saying that they worry about your grasp of reality. https://t.co/CtMi57KSXK
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 31, 2019

Many people say that @realDonaldTrump likes visuals. Below is a memo my office sent @POTUS in light of Trump's statements contradicting our Intel Chiefs. https://t.co/Trap4IZEgs
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 31, 2019

Wild exchange in Oval just now: Trump said he spoke to intel chiefs about reports that their assessments of Iran, NK differed from his own, and intel called it "fake news." Told their comments were at a public hearing, POTUS said, "We're here to talk right now about China." pic.twitter.com/SKZDlpi90h
— Michael C. Bender (@MichaelCBender) January 31, 2019

"Their lips actually moved and words and sounds came out of their mouths and it was recorded by cameras…those cameras showed the pictures on television and we saw them."
As Trump claims intel. chiefs were misquoted, @AndersonCooper is #KeepingThemHonest. https://t.co/JJqicgtaj6 pic.twitter.com/OzOPuX8yHz
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) February 1, 2019

.@realDonaldTrump just claimed his intel chiefs support everything he says. Is it now their responsibility to tell the public that he is delusional–or just lying? https://t.co/82MiG2VrtO
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) January 31, 2019

Trump’s claim of voter fraud in Texas is just another Trump lie

History tells us to be wary of these numbers. https://t.co/HUnG3BMUUE
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) January 31, 2019

This is starting to look like a screwup as big as Texas: “They sent out a list and called us and said it was a mistake,” Van Wolfe said. “All those people have proven citizenship.” https://t.co/DlqtyS951K via @wacotrib
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) January 31, 2019

1/ On Friday, Texas loudly announced that counties should check on the citizenship of 95,000 registered voters.

McLennan County got a list of 366 registered voters to check.

Turns out everyone on that list is a citizen. #txlege https://t.co/3H8eMICMHI via @wacotrib
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) January 31, 2019

On Friday, Texas announced that counties should check on the citizenship of 95,000 registered voters.

And then Texas quietly told counties that many don't belong on that list.

One county's list had zero non-citizens. New @TwitterMoments. #txlege https://t.co/ZO2vUEh5Wy
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) January 31, 2019

Claims of voter fraud keep surfacing and keep getting debunked. “Citizenship status changes, and the fact is when that when you do this kind of large-scale database matching you’re going to confuse people,” says the Brennan Center's @myrna_perez_. https://t.co/TMBPOVoBb1
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) February 1, 2019

Trump, Jr’s calls with blocked numbers

It turns out that Trump, Jr.’s calls to a blocked number were to family friends and not to Trump. That still leaves lots of questions:

Did Trump know about the meeting? He says he didn’t but he lies all the time. If he got the calls, this would have proven he knew but it still doesn’t put him in the clear.
Why did they lie about the meeting? Trump prepared a false statement saying it was about adoptions.
If the calls were to business associates, why didn’t Trump, Jr. just provide that information?

NEWS: Senate investigators have obtained information that shows Donald Trump Jr.'s calls with a blocked number surrounding the Trump Tower meeting were NOT with his father, but with two business associates. W/ @PamelaBrownCNN @mkraju https://t.co/IGZFmZnNPS
— Jeremy Herb (@jeremyherb) January 31, 2019

Trump Jr.'s calls ahead of 2016 Trump Tower meeting weren’t with his father

"[This] new information doesn't change the fundamental concern about what the President knew. It just means he wasn't those blocked numbers — not that he didn't know about the meeting." – @ChrisCuomo pic.twitter.com/52wgF7bW1Q
— Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) February 1, 2019

.@DonaldJTrumpJr on the speculation the blocked numbers had belonged to his father: “After a year of hearing about this one ad nauseam, yet another left-wing narrative officially bites the dust.” https://t.co/Fh6Z3BWeqU
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 1, 2019

He could have just told us who he called.

Didn’t say it exonerated Trump. Just said it undermined the case because there had been widespread suspicion that Don Jr had called the old man prior to meeting. https://t.co/5OLRgNicN3
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) February 1, 2019

“I believe that there are serious questions about Donald Trump Jr.’s appearance before our committee … I’m suggesting there are serious questions. He needs to come back before the committee. He ought to be subpoenaed,” says Dem @SenBlumenthal of the Senate Judiciary Committee. pic.twitter.com/e1p3jppEtZ
— The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) January 31, 2019

As investigators learn Trump Jr.'s blocked calls weren't w/ his father, Rep @GerryConnolly notes theirs is a relationship where "son really wants to make daddy happy," adding it "stretches credulity to believe he never told" his dad about the 2016 meeting.https://t.co/VnqsQ77xjX pic.twitter.com/2OAn3H96sk
— OutFrontCNN (@OutFrontCNN) February 1, 2019

The fact that Trump Jr’s phone calls to blocked numbers around the time he set up the Trump Tower meeting weren’t with his Dad is not proof the two didn’t discuss the meeting in some other setting. https://t.co/EqviGVLHzF
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) February 1, 2019

Per CNN and ABC: Don Jr.'s blocked phone calls before Russia meeting weren't to Trump. These are the calls Adam Schiff considered suspicious and planned to probe. https://t.co/8JwPYUZmuw
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) February 1, 2019

Who are you going to believe?

Trump is like the old Marx Brothers line:

I saw someone on Twitter refer to this – it’s like Trump saying are you going to believe him or the testimony that was on TV? The line from Duck Soup is usually attributed to Groucho but it’s Chico dressed up as Groucho.

Trump is such a liar!

Trump lies when he says the wall is being built now

Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee are wasting their time. Democrats, despite all of the evidence, proof and Caravans coming, are not going to give money to build the DESPERATELY needed WALL. I’ve got you covered. Wall is already being built, I don’t expect much help!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 31, 2019

Claims about The Wall have gotten harder to fact-check in the last month. Both sides have shifted in what they consider “wall,” taking cues from Trump’s shifts. https://t.co/VEmjenjUKZ
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 31, 2019

President Trump keeps saying, "The wall is getting built."

Fact check: This is false. No construction has begun on the wall President Trump promised. The president said he would be going to a "ground breaking" for the wall around the time of SOTU and that hasn't happened.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) January 31, 2019

Trump on border $ standoff w/Pelosi: “we’re building the wall right now. a lot of people don’t know that”
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) January 31, 2019

Trump spins out a long tale about how he built a wall on the border in CA, and "as soon as it was finished," Democrats decided they were against building walls. Only problem is, the fence along the CA border was built decades ago.
— David Lauter (@DavidLauter) January 31, 2019

Fact check: President Trump tweeted Thursday morning that his border wall is under construction. It's not. https://t.co/jEXwsxzHfB
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 31, 2019

Donald Trump just got on TV and said the wall is being built right now because he's a liar who can't stop but telling lies.
— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) January 31, 2019