Fact Checker Analysis
President Trump has made 4,229 false or misleading claims in 558 days
By Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly
August 1 at 3:00 AM
Because of summer vacation schedules, we had fallen a month behind in updating The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.It turns out that’s when the president decided to turn on the spigots of false and misleading claims. As of day 558, he’s made 4,229
Trumpian claims — an increase of 978 in just two months.
That’s an overall average of nearly 7.6 claims a day.
more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/08/01/president-trump-has-made-4229-false-or-misleading-claims-in-558-days/?utm_term=.a5f2d341873a