Donald Trump's Lies

Donald Trump's Lies (103) - The first ten months.

Jan. 21, 2017.“I wasn't a fan of Iraq. I didn't want to go into Iraq.”
(He was for an invasion before he was against it.)

Jan. 21, 2017.“A reporter for Time magazine — and I have been on their
cover 14 or 15 times. I think we have the all-time record in the
history of Time magazine.” (Trump was on the cover 11 times and Nixon
appeared 55 times.)

Jan. 23, 2017.“Between 3 million and 5 million illegal votes caused me
to lose the popular vote.” (There's no evidence of illegal voting.)

Jan. 25, 2017.“Now, the audience was the biggest ever. But this crowd
was massive. Look how far back it goes. This crowd was massive.”
(Official aerial photos show Obama's 2009 inauguration was much more
heavily attended.)

Jan. 25, 2017.“Take a look at the Pew reports (which show voter
fraud.)” (The report never mentioned voter fraud.)

Jan. 25, 2017.“You had millions of people that now aren't insured
anymore.” (The real number is less than 1 million, according to the
Urban Institute.)

Jan. 25, 2017.“So, look, when President Obama was there two weeks ago
making a speech, very nice speech. Two people were shot and killed
during his speech. You can't have that.” (There were no gun homicide
victims in Chicago that day.)

Jan. 26, 2017.“We've taken in tens of thousands of people. We know
nothing about them. They can say they vet them. They didn't vet them.
They have no papers. How can you vet somebody when you don't know
anything about them and you have no papers? How do you vet them? You
can't.” (Vetting lasts up to two years.)

Jan. 26, 2017.“I cut off hundreds of millions of dollars off one
particular plane, hundreds of millions of dollars in a short period of
time. It wasn't like I spent, like, weeks, hours, less than hours, and
many, many hundreds of millions of dollars. And the plane's going to
be better.” (Most of the cuts were already planned.)

Jan. 28, 2017.“The coverage about me in the @nytimes and the
@washingtonpost has been so false and angry that the Times actually
apologized to its dwindling subscribers and readers.” (It never
apologized.)

Jan. 29, 2017.“The Cuban-Americans, I got 84 percent of that vote.”
(There is no support for this.)

Jan. 30, 2017.“Only 109 people out of 325,000 were detained and held
for questioning. Big problems at airports were caused by Delta
computer outage.” (At least 746 people were detained and processed, and the
Delta outage happened two days later.)

Feb. 3, 2017.“Professional anarchists, thugs and paid protesters are
proving the point of the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA
GREAT AGAIN!” (There is no evidence of paid protesters.)

Feb. 6, 2017.“It's gotten to a point where it is not even being
reported. And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't
want to report it.” (Terrorism has been reported on, often in detail.)

Feb. 6, 2017.“And the previous administration allowed it to happen
because we shouldn't have been in Iraq, but we shouldn't have gotten
out the way we got out. It created a vacuum, ISIS was formed.” (The
group’s origins date to 2004.)

Feb. 7, 2017.“And yet the murder rate in our country is the highest
it’s been in 47 years, right? Did you know that? Forty-seven years.”
(It was higher in the 1980s and '90s.)

Feb. 9, 2017.“Chris Cuomo, in his interview with Sen. Blumenthal,
never asked him about his long-term lie about his brave ‘service’ in
Vietnam. FAKE NEWS!” (It was part of Cuomo's first question.)

Feb. 9, 2017.“Sen. Richard Blumenthal...now misrepresents what Judge
Gorsuch told him?” (The Gorsuch comments were later corroborated.)

Feb. 10, 2017.“I don’t know about it. I haven’t seen it. What report
is that?” (Trump knew about Flynn's actions for weeks.)

Feb. 12, 2017.“Just leaving Florida. Big crowds of enthusiastic
supporters lining the road that the FAKE NEWS media refuses to
mention.
Very dishonest!” (The media did cover it.)

Feb. 16, 2017.“We got 306 because people came out and voted like
they've never seen before so that's the way it goes. I guess it was
the biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan.” (George H.W. Bush,
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all won bigger margins in the Electoral
College.)

Feb. 16, 2017.“Walmart announced it will create 10,000 jobs in the
United States just this year because of our various plans and
initiatives.” (The jobs are a result of its investment plans announced
in October 2016.)

Feb. 16, 2017.“When WikiLeaks, which I had nothing to do with, comes
out and happens to give, they’re not giving classified information.”
(Not always. They have released classified information in the past.)

Feb. 16, 2017.“We had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban. But we
had a bad court. Got a bad decision.” (The rollout was chaotic.)

Feb. 16, 2017.“They’re giving stuff — what was said at an office about
Hillary cheating on the debates. Which, by the way, nobody mentions.
Nobody mentions that Hillary received the questions to the debates.”
(It was widely covered.)

Feb. 18, 2017.“You look at what's happening in Germany, you look at
what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe
this?” (Trump implied there was a terror attack in Sweden, but there was no
such attack.)

Feb. 24, 2017.“By the way, you folks are in here — this place is
packed, there are lines that go back six blocks.” (There was no
evidence of long lines.)

Feb. 24, 2017.“ICE came and endorsed me.” (Only its union did.)

Feb. 24, 2017.“Obamacare covers very few people — and remember, deduct
from the number all of the people that had great health care that they
loved that was taken away from them — it was taken away from them.”
(Obamacare increased coverage by a net of about 20 million.)

Feb. 27, 2017.“Since Obamacare went into effect, nearly half of the
insurers are stopped and have stopped from participating in the
Obamacare exchanges.” (Many fewer pulled out.)

Feb. 28, 2017.“The E.P.A.’s regulators were putting people out of jobs
by the hundreds of thousands.” (There's no evidence that the Waters of
the United States rule caused severe job losses.)

Feb. 28, 2017.“We have begun to drain the swamp of government
corruption by imposing a five-year ban on lobbying by executive branch
officials.” (They can't lobby their former agency but can still become
lobbyists.)

March 3, 2017.“It is so pathetic that the Dems have still not approved
my full Cabinet.” (Paperwork for the last two candidates was still not
submitted to the Senate.)

March 4, 2017.“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires
tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is
McCarthyism!” (There's no evidence of a wiretap.)

March 7, 2017.“122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama
Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just
another terrible decision!” (113 of them were released by President
George W. Bush.)

March 17, 2017.“I was in Tennessee — I was just telling the folks —
and half of the state has no insurance company, and the other half is
going to lose the insurance company.” (There's at least one insurer in every
Tennessee county.)

March 22, 2017.“I make the statement, everyone goes crazy. The next
day they have a massive riot, and death, and problems.” (Riots in Sweden
broke out two days later and there were no deaths.)

March 22, 2017.“NATO, obsolete, because it doesn’t cover terrorism.
They fixed that.” (It has fought terrorism since the 1980s.)

March 31, 2017.“We have a lot of plants going up now in Michigan that
were never going to be there if I — if I didn’t win this election,
those plants would never even think about going back. They were gone.”
(These investments were already planned.)

April 11, 2017.“I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not
involved in my campaign until very late. I had already beaten all the
senators and all the governors, and I didn’t know Steve.” (He knew
Steve Bannon since 2011.)

April 12, 2017.“You can't do it faster, because they're obstructing.
They're obstructionists. So I have people — hundreds of people that
we're trying to get through. I mean you have — you see the backlog. We
can't get them through.” (At this point, he had not nominated anyone
for hundreds of positions.)

April 12, 2017.“The New York Times said the word wiretapped in the
headline of the first edition. Then they took it out of there fast
when they realized.” (There were separate headlines for print and web, but
neither were altered.)

April 12, 2017.“Mosul was supposed to last for a week and now they’ve
been fighting it for many months and so many more people died.” (The
campaign was expected to take months.)

April 16, 2017.“Someone should look into who paid for the small
organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!” (There's no
evidence of paid protesters.)

April 18, 2017.“The fake media goes, ‘Donald Trump changed his stance
on China.’ I haven’t changed my stance.” (He did.)

April 21, 2017.“When WikiLeaks came out ... never heard of WikiLeaks,
never heard of it.” (He criticized it as early as 2010.)

April 27, 2017.“I want to help our miners while the Democrats are
blocking their healthcare.” (The bill to extend health benefits for
certain coal miners was introduced by a Democrat and was co-sponsored
by mostly Democrats.)

April 28, 2017.“The trade deficit with Mexico is close to $70 billion,
even with Canada it’s $17 billion trade deficit with Canada.” (The
U.S. had an $8.1 billion trade surplus, not deficit, with Canada in 2016.)

April 28, 2017.“She's running against someone who's going to raise
your taxes to the sky, destroy your health care, and he's for open borders
— lots of crime.” (Those are not Jon Ossoff's positions.)

April 29, 2017.“As you know, I've been a big critic of China, and I've
been talking about currency manipulation for a long time. But I have
to tell you that during the election, number one, they stopped.” (China
stopped years ago.)

April 29, 2017.“We're also getting NATO countries to finally step up
and contribute their fair share. They've begun to increase their
contributions by billions of dollars, but we are not going to be
satisfied until everyone pays what they owe.” (The deal was struck in
2014.)

May 1, 2017.“Well, we are protecting pre-existing conditions. And
it'll be every good — bit as good on pre-existing conditions as Obamacare.”
(The bill weakens protections for people with pre-existing
conditions.)

May 4, 2017.“Nobody cares about my tax return except for the
reporters.” (Polls show most Americans do care.)

May 5, 2017.“We pay the highest taxes anywhere in the world.” (We're
not.)

May 8, 2017.“But when I did his show, which by the way was very highly
rated. It was high — highest rating. The highest rating he’s ever
had.” (Colbert's Late Show debut had nearly two million more viewers.)

May 8, 2017.“Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the
fake media already knows — there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion w/
Russia and Trump.” (Clapper only said he wasn't aware of an
investigation.)

May 12, 2017.“Again, the story that there was collusion between the
Russians & Trump campaign was fabricated by Dems as an excuse for
losing the election.” (The F.B.I. was investigating before the
election.)

May 26, 2017.“Just arrived in Italy for the G7. Trip has been very
successful. We made and saved the USA many billions of dollars and
millions of jobs.” (He's referencing an arms deal that's not enacted
and other apparent deals that weren't announced on the trip.)

June 1, 2017.“China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional
coal plants. So, we can’t build the plants, but they can, according to
this agreement. India will be allowed to double its coal production by
2020.” (The agreement doesn’t allow or disallow building coal plants.)

June 4, 2017.“At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and
Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’” (The mayor was
specifically talking about the enlarged police presence on the
streets.)

June 5, 2017.“The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original
Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they
submitted to S.C.” (Trump signed this version of the travel ban, not
the Justice Department.)

June 21, 2017.“They all say it's 'nonbinding.' Like hell it's
nonbinding.” (The Paris climate agreement is nonbinding — and Trump
said so in his speech announcing the withdrawal.)

June 21, 2017.“You have a gang called MS-13. ... We are moving them
out of the country by the thousands, by the thousands.” (The real number
of gang members deported is smaller.)

June 21, 2017.“Your insurance companies have all fled the state of
Iowa.” (They haven't)

June 21, 2017.“If [farmers] have a puddle in the middle of their field
... it's considered a lake and you can't touch it. ... We got rid of
that one, too, O.K.?” (The Obama environmental rule to limit pollution
in the country’s waters explicitly excludes puddles.)

June 21, 2017.“Gary Cohn just paid $200 million in tax in order to
take this job, by the way.” Cohn sold Goldman Sachs stock worth $220
million.)

June 21, 2017.“We’re 5 and 0.” (Republicans have won four special
elections this year, while a Democrat won one.)

June 21, 2017.“Last week a brand-new coal mine just opened in the
state of Pennsylvania, first time in decades, decades.” (Another coal mine
opened in 2014.)

June 22, 2017.“Former Homeland Security Advisor Jeh Johnson is latest
top intelligence official to state there was no grand scheme between
Trump & Russia” (Johnson, who had a different title, didn't say that.)

June 23, 2017.“Ratings way down!” (CNN's ratings were at a five-year
high at the time.)

June 28, 2017.“Democrats purposely misstated Medicaid under new Senate
bill — actually goes up.” (Senate bill would have cut the program
deeply.)

July 17, 2017.“We’ve signed more bills — and I’m talking about through
the legislature — than any president, ever.” (Clinton, Carter, Truman,
and F.D.R. had signed more at the same point.)

July 19, 2017.“But the F.B.I. person really reports directly to the
president of the United States, which is interesting.” (He reports
directly to the attorney general.)

July 19, 2017.“She did the uranium deal, which is a horrible thing,
while she was secretary of state, and got a lot of money.” (There's no
evidence Hillary Clinton was actively involved or benefited from the
deal.)

July 24, 2017.“It looks like about 45,000 people. You set a record
today.” (Many fewer than 45,000 were there, and the attendance was not
a record.)

July 25, 2017.“We have nearly doubled the number of veterans given
approvals to see the doctor of their choice.” (The increase was 26
percent.)

July 25, 2017.“Since I took office we have cut illegal immigration on
our southern border by record numbers. 78 percent.” (The decline began
before Trump's inauguration.)

July 28, 2017.“The previous administration enacted an open-door policy
to illegal migrants from Central America. 'Welcome in. Come in,
please, please.'” (Obama deported millions.)

July 28, 2017.“We have trade deficits with almost every country
because we had a lot of really bad negotiators making deals with other
countries.” (The U.S. has a trade surplus with more than 100
countries.)

July 31, 2017.“2.6 is a number that nobody thought they’d see for a
long period of time.” (Many experts predicted economic growth at least
this high.)

July 31, 2017.“And even the President of Mexico called me – they said
their southern border, very few people are coming because they know
they’re not going to get through our border, which is the ultimate
compliment.” (Mexico's president says he didn't call Trump.)

Aug. 3, 2017.“The Russia story is a total fabrication.” (It's not.)

Aug. 15, 2017.“We want products made in the country. Now, I have to
tell you, some of the folks that will leave, they're leaving out of
embarrassment because they make their products outside.” (People
resigned from Trump's business councils over his Charlottesville
comments.)

Aug. 22, 2017.“As everybody here remembers, this was the scene of my
first rally speech, right?” (Trump's first rally was in New
Hampshire.)

Aug. 22, 2017.“We have become an energy exporter for the first time
ever just recently.” (The U.S. isn't projected to become a net energy
exporter until 2026.)

Aug. 22, 2017.“Look back there, the live red lights. They're turning
those suckers off fast out there. They're turning those lights off
fast. Like CNN.” (CNN didn't turn off its cameras.)

Sept. 14, 2017.“Also with the fact that I know in the case of FEMA and
the case of Coast Guard, the job you've done in saving people, saving
lives. As an example, in Harvey in Texas, we talked – over 16,000
lives.” (The real number is smaller.)

Sept. 14, 2017.“And in Florida you got hit with the strongest winds
ever recorded.” (They weren't the strongest ever recorded.)

Sept. 22, 2017.“So he started off here, he was in third or fourth, he
went to third, second, and now it's like almost pretty even.” (Strange
consistently polled first or second in the Alabama Republican
primary.)

Sept. 27, 2017.“I’m doing the right thing, and it’s not good for me.”
(All available evidence suggests he would benefit.)

Sept. 27, 2017.“To protect millions of small businesses and the
American farmer, we are finally ending the crushing, the horrible, the
unfair estate tax.” (The real number of small businesses and farmers
is vastly smaller.)

Oct. 6, 2017.“They also just said that there has been absolutely no
collusion. They just said that. Yesterday. Two days ago. Senate. There
has been no collusion.” (The Senate didn't say that.)

Oct. 10, 2017.“The Failing @nytimes set Liddle' Bob Corker up by
recording his conversation. Was made to sound a fool, and that's what
I am dealing with!” (Corker asked the Times reporter to record the call;
his aides recorded it too.)

Oct. 11, 2017.“We have missiles that can knock out a missile in the
air. Ninety seven per cent of the time. If you send two of them, it's
going to get knocked out.” (The effectiveness rate is about 60
percent.)

Oct. 16, 2017.“I hear that Ireland is going to be reducing their
corporate rates down to 8 percent from 12.” (Ireland has no plans to
cut its tax rate.)

Oct. 16, 2017.“If you look at President Obama and other presidents,
most of them didn’t make calls.” (They did call families of soldiers
killed in action.)

Oct. 16, 2017.“All I can say is it’s totally fake news. It’s just
fake. It’s fake. It’s made-up stuff, and it’s disgraceful, what happens, but
that happens in the world of politics.” (Trump himself has bragged
about groping women.)

Oct. 18, 2017.“Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said
to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof).” (The
wife confirmed Representative Frederica Wilson's account.)

Oct. 18, 2017.“Nobody has ever heard of a five hitting land.”
(Category 5 storms have hit land before.)

Oct. 24, 2017.“Under our plan, more than 30 million Americans who own
small businesses will get a 40 per cent cut to their top marginal tax
rate.” (The real number is estimated to be less than 1 million.)

Oct. 27, 2017.“Wacky & totally unhinged Tom Steyer, who has been
fighting me and my Make America Great Again agenda from beginning,
never wins elections!” (Steyer has financially supported many winning
candidates.)

Nov. 7, 2017.“When you look at the city with the strongest gun laws in
our nation, it's Chicago.” (Several other cities, including New York
and Los Angeles, have stronger gun laws.)

Nov. 11, 2017.“I'd rather have him – you know, work with him on the
Ukraine than standing and arguing about whether or not – because that
whole thing was set up by the Democrats.” (There is no evidence that
Democrats "set up" Russian interference in the election.)

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"MORONS ARE GOVERNING AMERICA" (MAGA) ;-)

[I'm not sure of the source for this information, but I THINK it is taken from an article in the NY Times]