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“Donald Trump had his second-most-dishonest week as president last week, capping an extended run of egregious lying,” the Toronto Star reports. “Trump had four campaign rallies and a press conference, giving himself ample time to say inaccurate things. He made 129 false claims in all, just shy of his one-week record of 133, which he set in August.”
“I said to one of my friends, a very wealthy friend, I said, ‘You know, I’ll bet you it cost me $2 or 3 billion and it’s worth every penny of it. I don’t need the money and it’s worth every penny because I’m doing so much for the country.”
— President Trump, quoted by USA Today, saying he’s lost “billions” since becoming president.
76%
Washington Post: “We’re doing something new today: Analyzing every factual claim from President Trump’s campaign rally in Montana on July 5. … According to our analysis, the truth took a beating in Montana. From a grand total of 98 factual statements we identified, 76 percent were false, misleading or unsupported by evidence. … Here’s a breakdown: 45 false or mostly false statements, 25 misleading statements and four unsupported claims. We also counted 24 accurate or mostly accurate statements. False or mostly false statements alone accounted for 46 percent of all claims.”
14.3/day
“Until this month, President Trump had not made more than 60 false claims in any single week of his presidency. He has now made 100 false claims in each of the last two weeks,” the Toronto Star reports. “After shattering his old record by uttering an astonishing 103 false claims two weeks ago, an average of 14.7 per cent, Trump delivered precisely 100 false claims last week, an average of 14.3 per day.”
“I don’t believe them at all. I believe him. Jim Jordan is one of the most outstanding people I’ve met since I’ve been in Washington. I believe him 100 percent.”
— President Trump, quoted by CNN, on the allegations that Jordan didn’t report sexual abuse while he was a coach for the Ohio State University wrestling team.
10,000
The Washington Post‘s Glenn Kessler tells Poynter that at President Trump’s current pace of making false statements — 6.5 a day, more than 200 a month — he could hit 10,000 by the end of his term. “What sets Trump apart from his predecessors? Two things, says Kessler, who has kept an eye on presidents since Bill Clinton. One, Trump doesn’t seem to have or use the staff to base a statement, even if stretched, on fact. Two, he doesn’t seem to care if he is caught in a misstatement — he just repeats it; in one case, more than 70 times.”
13%
A new SurveyMonkey poll finds just 13% of Americans said they would consider President Trump to be honest and trustworthy.
54% to 35%
A new Quinnipiac poll finds more Americans believe former FBI Director James Comey than President Trump, 54% to 35%. Believing President Trump more than Comey are Republicans 76% to 13%, white men 47% to 39% and white voters with no college degree, 47% to 40%. Every other party, gender, education, age and racial group backs Comey. Also interesting: Voters say Trump should not fire special counsel Robert Mueller by a 74% to 13% margin, including 59% to 25% among Republicans.
1st
“Federal agents ignored President Trump’s pledge to protect from deportation undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children by sending a young man back to his native Mexico, the first such documented case,” USA Today reports.
50%
President Trump and his Senate allies “are now presenting their goal for immigration reform as increasing the number of high-skilled immigrants allowed into the United States,” The Atlantic reports. “But by trumpeting high-skilled immigration, Trump, Cotton, and Perdue are also obscuring the most significant impact of their proposal: a 50 percent cut in legal immigration.”
