Trump lies update 8/4/20

Endless

The president made at least 20 false claims in today's Fox & Friends interview. https://t.co/XVagiiNS9q
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 5, 2020

Trump made at least 19 false claims in his HBO interview with Jonathan Swan. (This is a preliminary count, will likely rise.) My fact check here: https://t.co/K1YcszCQ6p
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 4, 2020

Fact check: Another Trump briefing, more Trump falsehoods on coronavirus and mail-in voting https://t.co/cdBJjyKDCi pic.twitter.com/RAZX6Fpgso
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 4, 2020

Trump cited the slow count of mail votes in NY primaries as evidence of voter fraud, saying there were "fraudulent ballots, I guess." There has been no evidence of voter fraud, much less widespread fraud; rather, administrative and planning problems. https://t.co/aGRNyYsBva pic.twitter.com/QlXNJMB2Yf
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 3, 2020

Donald, thanks for lying about Morning Joe’s ratings. It gives me the chance to congratulate the entire MJ team for some of our highest ratings in history. Regarding Fox and Friends, Friday’s prelims show that both MJ & F&F had 1.3 million viewers per hour. So that’s a lie, too. https://t.co/d8sXPERhRY
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 3, 2020

That’s not true as your top health officials have conceded many times, but either way how do you explain that with less than 5% of the world’s population the US has per official numbers more than 20% of the world’s COVID-19 deaths? https://t.co/iK14vb3tf3
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 31, 2020

America is not only losing the public-health battle but also our grasp on the truth. And yes, we should be terrified by that. … My column https://t.co/gOmJPEtgXN
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) July 30, 2020

As Covid toll rises, US leaders still spreading misinformation | Analysis https://t.co/MD7G7rlLe1 pic.twitter.com/GpPrVtqA7w
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 30, 2020

Trump’s smallest falsehoods reveal some of his biggest problems.

The fact that he keeps saying the 1918 flu pandemic happened in 1917 shows us that his staff isn’t able to correct him on even the tiniest of details. They can’t tell him the emperor has no clothes about ANYTHING. https://t.co/G8XtwOsQ26
— Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) August 4, 2020

Trump lies about throwing out the first pitch

It appears that he made it up because he was jealous of Fauci. Trump lies about everything.

So, it turns out that Trump LIED about being invited to throw out the opening pitch at the Yankees game. What a pathetic, jealous, insecure loser! https://t.co/elvLvR1spH
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) July 28, 2020

President Trump’s announcement last week that he’d be throwing the opening pitch at a Yankees game on Aug. 15 shocked his own staffers and the New York team—because it hadn’t actually been scheduled https://t.co/MT8EzaTlb5
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 28, 2020

TRUMP said the @Yankees invited him to throw out the 1st pitch on Aug. 15.

But he had not actually been invited to do so by the Yankees.

The team & the WH staff were surprised by the announcement, report @katierogers & @noahweiland.

Trump later canceledhttps://t.co/oEvs5nB4WQ
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) July 27, 2020

The latest Trump lies (7/20/20)

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.

But his claim is not true — not even close. https://t.co/bmp6I7aAPf
— CNN (@CNN) July 20, 2020

Trump said on his NC "tele-rally" that Gov. Cooper told him they could have only 10 people in the arena at the RNC.

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.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 20, 2020

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

He’s lying. Say it!

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

He’s told this lie over and over.

Chris Wallace calls @realDonaldTrump on a blatant lie that Trump keeps repeating re @JoeBiden.
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
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) July 18, 2020

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:

– 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
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 18, 2020

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."

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.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 2, 2020

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).

If anyone has anything to tell me other than "he's making this up," please let me know. pic.twitter.com/52sIZ7G46Z
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 20, 2020

Only 30% trust what Trump is saying about the coronavirus

from the first article linked to below:

“New polling from Quinnipiac University found that only 30% of America’s registered voters say they trust the information that President Trump is providing about the coronavirus….Conversely, 67% of registered voters do not trust Trump’s Covid-19 claims. “

Since people don’t trust Trump, the media should give much less coverage to his lies and more to scientists . Trump says very little worth listening to. It’s just lies and racism.

New poll reaffirms that most Americans don't trust President Trump, but they do trust Dr. Fauci | Analysis https://t.co/0TnpbBzhso pic.twitter.com/HwkGUZxLQQ
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 16, 2020

There are signs President Trump's base is leaving him on the coronavirus | Analysis https://t.co/5RC2rPj5vh pic.twitter.com/hbQJ5ZTQTr
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 17, 2020

Republicans already think Fauci's doing a worse job with the pandemic than Trump, making the doctor a useful scapegoat. https://t.co/262SijWNKM pic.twitter.com/B13CXBEHag
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 16, 2020

Or course, Republicans trust Trump over Fauci

Americans’ views of Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic have deteriorated significantly — 38 percent approve, 60 percent disapprove, and 52 percent “strongly” disapprove, per new WaPo-ABC poll https://t.co/SP7ACuTOCr
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) July 17, 2020

Trump lies about Obama and golf

Trump has gone golfing much more than Obama did. Liar!

Not even close to true that Obama played more golf than Trump.

As of late May, Trump had spent all or part of 248 days at a golf course, per @markknoller data; Obama had played 98 rounds at the same point of his presidency. https://t.co/UqtdTb03JT pic.twitter.com/QZAUvaQ5oT
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2020

For what it’s worth, Trump has played far, far more golf than Obama had at the same point in his first term.

The main reason anyone cares is that Trump repeatedly attacked Obama for playing so much golf.
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 12, 2020

Trump is golfing today. He attacked Obama for golfing when there were just two Ebola cases in the US —among the many other times. A round up: pic.twitter.com/yGpbN7qLWs https://t.co/ehoxafD88j
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) June 27, 2020

Trump tried to deflect criticism by doing more Obama-bashing: “Barack was always playing golf.”

Trump — who’d promised he‘d work too hard as president to golf — has spent way more time at golf clubs than Obama had at the same point. Some numbers:https://t.co/JWy1FAqFva
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 25, 2020

Remember when Trump used to criticize President Obama for golfing?

So far his golf trips have cost taxpayers more than $134,000,000 — 335 years of presidential salary.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) May 24, 2020

It's not just that Trump went golfing today, it's that at the height of a pandemic, he's at his other job: making promotional appearances at his struggling business empire. https://t.co/ANxplTv2qH
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) May 23, 2020

A pathological narcissist acts only in what he believes to be his own interests, so he’s incapable of perceiving any conflict at all. https://t.co/g45x7Q0xZs
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 10, 2020

According to @TrumpGolfCount, as of this weekend, Trump has played golf 258 times.

It has cost the American taxpayer $136,000,000.00
— Jill Wine-Banks (@JillWineBanks) July 12, 2020

Trump lies about coronavirus mortality

Fauci on Trump’s 99% harmless claim: “I’m trying to figure out where the president got that number. What I think happened is that someone told him that the general mortality is about 1%. And he interpreted, therefore, that 99% is not a problem, when that’s obviously not the case” https://t.co/JMy9LeLOPC
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) July 10, 2020

Fact-checking President Trump's claims that US coronavirus death rate is the lowest worldwide https://t.co/BgxRXpNTdZ pic.twitter.com/kFgNn6Xo4b
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 7, 2020

As it turns out, I did report on this claim about mortality, less than two hours ago.

It is false. https://t.co/S54vz1EcPl https://t.co/UhJdw5XuE7
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 7, 2020

This lie is as brazen as any Trump has told. The US is nowhere near to "the lowest Mortality Rate in the World." https://t.co/zBo2qZTr6D https://t.co/gUvJKlbAyV
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 7, 2020

Per @JohnsHopkins, the U.S. does not have the lowest mortality rate in the world.

Not even close, in fact. pic.twitter.com/cTeX3TwD5Q
— Jordan Ray (@JordanLRay) July 6, 2020

CNN's Brianna Keilar: Why's Trump saying US has lowest COVID mortality rate when it doesn't?

Ken Cuccinelli: We're below Italy and Germany

Keilar: [reads off 13 countries we trail]

Cuccinelli: We're testing a bunch

Keilar: But these are death rates

Cuccinelli: I understand pic.twitter.com/LIIQTsPq9D
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) July 7, 2020

Dear @realDonaldTrump: Stop making stuff up. The case fatality rate for #COVIDー19 based on current data is approximately 4.3% in the US.

Many hospitals now have no ICU beds available, including 56 hospitals in Florida.

Please stop downplaying the virus. https://t.co/DTgTMLeCyt https://t.co/v9IX3obJMY
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 8, 2020

Trump lies when he says the coronavirus is 99% harmless

Trump, with no apparent basis, on coronavirus cases: "99% of which are totally harmless."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 4, 2020

Not that you needed more proof of the malicious ignorance of Trump’s “99% harmless” assessment, but here’s more proof https://t.co/nnzujDPfs2
— David Frum (@davidfrum) July 5, 2020

Trump lied in his July 4th address with the intention of misleading people about the coronavirus saying it's "harmless" in "99 percent of the cases." Reality: US has 2,811,447 cases of virus and 129,403 deaths, about 4.6 percent mortality.
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) July 5, 2020

President Trump uses his July 4th address to put forward a dangerously misleading claim | Analysis https://t.co/EcGH518ko2 pic.twitter.com/6kVZNGiO0O
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 5, 2020

Dr. Hahn threw away all credibility today. He had the opportunity to guide Americans & instead ignored science in order to not contradict a reckless claim made by the President. Americans will die because of behavior like this. @SteveFDA https://t.co/F7yKUUcl4P
— Eric Stangel (@EricStangel) July 5, 2020

“Outside from [comorbidities], the risks are extremely low” — Mark Meadows defends Trump’s false claim about 99 percent of Covid cases being harmless pic.twitter.com/levl8eKdxR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 6, 2020

His staff supports his lie. The death rate is currently over 4%

Trump claimed 99% of Covid cases are "totally harmless." McEnany says he meant 99% of Americans who get the virus won't *die.*

Ridiculous, even if you grant the spin. We know that lots of survivors have severe immediate problems and sometimes prolonged problems.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 6, 2020

Asked about Trump downplaying coronavirus after saying “99 percent” of covid cases are “totally harmless,” McEnany said: “The president isn’t downplaying the severity of the virus.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 6, 2020

McEnany confirms that Trump's claim that 99% of coronavirus infections are "totally harmless" is only about deaths — which does him far less good as an argument than he seems to think. https://t.co/MDg1l0mkvV
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 6, 2020

For the record: @PressSec is now saying when President Trump says 99 percent of COVID cases are "totally harmless" he means that in most cases you don't die.
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) July 6, 2020

Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto refuted President Trump’s false claim that 99 percent of America’s confirmed coronavirus cases were “totally harmless,” tallying off a number of statistics to inform Fox viewers about how dangerous the virus is https://t.co/HsLksOeSq9
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 6, 2020

Trump lies about the lobster industry

NBC Fact check: Trump says Obama 'destroyed' Maine's lobster industry. His own trade war is to blame. https://t.co/1MWz0KmHkV
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 29, 2020

Nope. The value of lobster landings increased under Obama and then took a sharp dip as soon as Trump took office. Thanks for the trade war. https://t.co/hGtXAhjHKJ

Signed, An Actual Maine Lobster Boat Captain https://t.co/LEvqp8j9mh
— Genevieve McDonald (@Genevieve_Maine) June 25, 2020

Two seconds here to look at how something tweeted by the president (or more likely someone in his team) might seem random, but isn’t. Exhibit A: 🦞 https://t.co/tfbxvaT9JW
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 25, 2020

Trump lies and lies

Lobster was a top Maine export, including to China. In response to Trump’s trade war, China put a 25% tariff on US lobster. Beijing also cut its tariff on lobster bought from Canada, Maine’s fierce rival.

Canada’s lobster exports to China nearly doubled. https://t.co/L2YKnmIJfR
— Chad P. Bown (@ChadBown) June 5, 2020

Trump’s ridiculous claim that Obama committed treason

New #FactChecker –> Michael Flynn, Barack Obama and Trump’s claims of ‘treason’ https://t.co/p1e6E5FVZv
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) June 26, 2020

In response to plummeting poll numbers due in part to his divisive handling of racial unrest, Trump tries out a new message: his wildly popular African-American predecessor committed treason. https://t.co/bCKqCE5GUa
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) June 23, 2020

Tonight in accusations of treason: https://t.co/7skJqHdUWJ
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 23, 2020

In @DavidBrodyCBN interview, President Trump, without evidence, accuses President Obama of “treason” and says he’s looking forward to seeing what the Justice Department pursues in the coming months. pic.twitter.com/AKo9chdgPI
— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 22, 2020

Trump’s disgraceful attack on voting by mail

He’s already saying the election is rigged. I don’t expect him to accept the results. This is very dangerous. I don’t expect gutless Republicans to challenge him but I am sure they know he is lying. Barr is backing him up. There is very little fraud with voting by mail.

The legitimacy of our electoral system is under attack by the President of the United States.

Our research on why fact-checks of these baseless claims may not be enough: https://t.co/IRkCs9uPeO

Our report on how to protect the legitimacy of the election: https://t.co/KkCkMGyU9q https://t.co/zgHG2SKA31
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) June 22, 2020

If you think that a foreign power could simply mail in millions of ballots to influence the election, I regret to inform you that our voting system is a bit more complex than when you voted for class president in fifth grade. https://t.co/nYkaBYi4V8
— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 22, 2020

AG Barr was interviewed this morning and said some dangerously ignorant things about vote by mail.

The truth:
-Mail ballots are secret. No one know who you voted for.
-States code ballots to prevent counterfeits.
-Sigs are on the outer envelop to verify the right voter voted. pic.twitter.com/k6a6G0d2fJ
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) June 21, 2020

Good morning Mr. President — co-author of “How to Rig an Election” here. This is a lie. Saying it in all capital letters doesn’t make it any less of a lie. https://t.co/RBDtEvMOdr
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) June 22, 2020

This is just not true. State and local election officials have said it is virtually impossible for foreign govts to pull this off. Experts say fraud via mail-in ballot is rare. https://t.co/d8be7S6L6X
— Ellen Nakashima (@nakashimae) June 22, 2020

So Bill Barr is on Fox now claiming that mail-in voting will bring fraud. Good grief. What a hack Barr has turned out to be. He just keeps going lower and lower for Trump.
— Robert E Kelly (@Robert_E_Kelly) June 22, 2020

Trump's laying the groundwork for an election challenge. Barr's corrupt enough to help him do it. That's why the House must impeach Barr. Even if the Senate won't convict it puts down a historical marker that this is not OK and creates a factual record exposing Barr's corruption. https://t.co/tj5bU7gyrr
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 22, 2020

Why Trump is already sowing doubts about November's vote | Analysis by CNN's @JohnJHarwood https://t.co/wFnDb0mstg pic.twitter.com/zw5qVBINjA
— CNN (@CNN) June 21, 2020

Just a reminder that if you see unsubstantiated claims that mail voting is "rigged" or that ballots are being printed in foreign countries, that info is FALSE. There is zero evidence to support it, and states have many protections in place to prevent rigging of mail ballots.
— David Becker (@beckerdavidj) June 22, 2020

Me: “ARE YOU CONCERNED THAT THE PRESIDENT & THE AG ARE CREATING A CASE TO CHALLENGE THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION IF THEY WERE TO LOSE?”
@NYGovCuomo: “YES, I BELIEVE THIS IS A SETUP… AND THEY’RE GOING TO LOSE THE ELECTION AND I THINK THEY’RE GOING TO CLAIM FRAUD https://t.co/S5pyMFIVXW
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) June 22, 2020

In addition to the general lie about mail voting being rife with fraud, the claim about wartime voting makes no sense.

Soldiers voted by mail in large numbers — in the low millions — during WWII. A substantial number of soldiers also voted by mail during the Civil War. pic.twitter.com/0Edfzmifo1
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 22, 2020

3.2 million military personnel voted during World War II in the 1944 presidential election from overseas.

They voted …. by mail. https://t.co/zZg1p92WVi
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) June 22, 2020

THREAD. The “mail voter fraud” narrative is about more than a fear of increased turnout among Dems. It’s also about facilitating foreign interference, including Russia tampering with voter registrations and actual votes, and distracting the public from that effort. Here’s why: pic.twitter.com/jHqBENvkPQ
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) June 22, 2020

Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has voted by mail 11 times in 10 years https://t.co/wS3nbazBJr
— Maureen Ogle (@maureenogle) June 22, 2020