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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

#Lyin'Trump makes "... one falsehood every 169 words ... or 1.16 falsehoods every minute ..." Geez, we don't want him in the presidency!

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COMMENTS: 
*  What's the job of a salesman, if it isn't to talk you up and talk you up and talk you up and talk you up, till you eventually buy whatever they're selling? If this guy doesn't lie, he can't speak, basically, he's trying to control the narrative, once he loses control of that he has nothing...
*  It would have been so much easier to just say how many times Trump told the truth. Like this......  In his last speech, Donald Trump told the truth three..... well, possibly two, err, we know for a fact Donald told us the trurh at least once when he told us his name. But we are going to have to fact check that to be certain........
    *  The rump told the truth when he said he is a unifier. He has single-handedly unified all the hateful, fearful, racist, xenophobic, nativist people in America. They have waited a long time for someone to lift their rock so they could slither from underneath it.
*  Here it is, folks. Is this really the guy you want, a guy who can't tell the truth because he doesn't know what the truth is??
*  So you're saying Donald doesn't know he's lying?
*   Yes, he's fact-checked—after he says what he says and the audience is no longer paying attention.  The only solution is to not cover him live.
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Donald Trump Made Up Stuff 71 Times In An Hour

And that’s counting the commercial breaks.

By Dana Liebelson, Jennifer Bendery, and Sam Stein, May 31, 2016

Critics of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign often complain about the way the media has reported on his candidacy. It is not just the incessant coverage that riles them. It’s the perceived lack of fact-checking.

Trump is known for making outlandish and dubious claims with little connection to the truth. The press corps, these critics argue, allows him to float along in a perpetual state of unreality.

The truth is, Trump is routinely fact-checked. It’s just that he makes so many statements in such a rapid and continuous fashion that it becomes virtually impossible to keep up.

On Wednesday, The Huffington Post assigned five and a half reporters to look into a roughly 12,000-word transcript of Trump’s town hall event on CNN the night before. It took us hours, but in all, we found 71 separate instances in which Trump made a claim that was inaccurate, misleading or deeply questionable. That’s basically one falsehood every 169 words (counting the words uttered by moderator Anderson Cooper), or 1.16 falsehoods every minute (the town hall lasted an hour, including commercial breaks).

Below are our findings:

[Major snippage: 71 claims (lies) and rebuttals]

The Trump campaign did not respond to HuffPost’s request to discuss this list.
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