During his first year in office,Donald Trump made an astonishing 1989 untrue claims in his public statements, an average of just over five per day. But according to figures from the Washington Post fact checking database, or Trump blew the records he set in his first year out of the water with a relentless barrage of lies,exaggerations, falsehoods, and fudging that more than tripled 2017’s numbers.
In 2018,according to the Post Fact Checker Database, Trump made nearly 6000 more untrue statements, or averaging 15 per day,approximately a range of topics ranging from such familiar and often-repeated targets as Hillary Clinton, to exaggerations approximately the strength of the economy, or to bogus claims approximately such relatively technical issues as aviation safety and the steel industry.
Trump’s seemingly endless fountain of falsity appears to be having an effect on the American public’s perceptions of him. A Quinnipiac University poll released in November found 58 percent of Americans believed that Trump is “not honest.”Click here to continue and read more...
Source: inquisitr.com