Fact checkers at the Washington Post have been doing a stellar job in tracking and documenting the lies and misleading statements of unstable moron and pathological liar Donald "Pinocchio" Trump. Today, on the third and hopefully final anniversary of his menacing and dystopian inauguration, the Post announced that Trump's told a phenomenal 16,241 lies and misleading statements in these three years. The beauty of it is that the Post backs up the numbers with references and facts. Of course, none of this matters to his unhinged Red Cap Cult, as long as it's their lies he's telling.
The pace of his lying has increased over time, as the article reports:
"We started this project as part of our coverage of the president’s first 100 days, largely because we could not possibly keep up with the pace and volume of the president’s misstatements. We recorded 492 claims — an average of just under five a day — and readers demanded that we keep it going for the rest of Trump’s presidency.
Little did we know what that would mean.
In 2017, Trump made 1,999 false or misleading claims. In 2018, he added 5,689 more, for a total of 7,688. And in 2019, he made 8,155 suspect claims.
In other words, in a single year, the president doubled the total number of false or misleading claims he had made in the previous two years combined. Put another way: He averaged six such claims a day in 2017, nearly 16 a day in 2018 and more than 22 a day in 2019." (our emphasis)With the 2020 campaign upon us, and the Liar-In-Chief fighting to stay in office (and out of prison), there will be a bumper crop of lies told by him. He's at the bottom of lists by historians as far as his record and character go, but he's number one in lying by a light-year.
