Donald Trump reached a major milestone according to the Washington Post by telling his two-thousandth lie since taking office. Telling two thousand lies is an unprecedented achievement in Presidential history, so tonight we look back at his many prevarications with a new mini-documentary that shows us how we got to this remarkable moment in misrepresentation.
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From inauguration crowd size to the mischaracterization of the Russia investigation, take a look back on some of Donald Trump’s biggest falsehoods to the American people.
The New York Times Sunday published an extraordinary definitive list of the more than 100 lies Donald Trump has told as president. Lawrence O'Donnell talks to Stuart Thompson, who worked on the piece.
In early August, the president crossed a new benchmark — over 1,000 false or misleading claims. According to The Fact Checker's calculation, he now averages 4.9 claims per day.
President Trump's rage at the Russia investigation often manifests in insult-laden attacks, especially aimed at former FBI director James B. Comey.
Former first lady Barbara Bush has braved the New Hampshire snow and hit the campaign trail for her son Jeb Bush.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush and his mother, former First Lady Barbara Bush, spoke with "CBS This Morning" anchor Norah O'Donnell about the current GOP race.
Former FBI Director James Comey wrote in his book that President Donald Trump discussed looking into one of the most infamous allegations in a dossier of claims about Trump and Russia.
In an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Comey said Trump wanted him to investigate Steele dossier "to prove that it didn't happen."
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper tells CNN's Don Lemon he has "every confidence" former FBI Director James Comey's account of events are accurate.
Rep. Denny Heck (D-WA) says President Donald Trump should consider resigning because it's "becoming not a question if there was a crime, but how many."
Former FBI Director Jim Comey's memoir contains several bombshell allegations, including that Trump was fixated on proving the Steele Dossier allegations wrong. The Washington Post's Philip Rucker joins The Beat to break the story.
There's a long history of presidential untruths. Here's why Donald Trump is 'in a class by himself'
White House scholars and other students of government agree there has never been a president like Donald Trump, whose volume of falsehoods, misstatements and serial exaggerations — on matters large and wincingly small — place him "in a class by himself," as Texas A&M's George Edwards put it.
"He is by far the most mendacious president in American history," said Edwards, a political scientist who edits the scholarly journal Presidential Studies Quarterly. (His assessment takes in the whole of Trump's hyperbolic history, as the former real estate developer and reality TV personality has only been in office since Jan. 20, 2017.)
Edwards then amended his assertion.
"I say 'mendacious,' which implies that he's knowingly lying. That may be unfair," Edwards said. "He tells more untruths than any president in American history."
The caveat underscores the fraught use of the L-word, requiring, as it does, the certainty that someone is consciously presenting something as true that they know to be false. While there may be plenty of circumstantial evidence to suggest a person is lying, short of crawling inside their head it is difficult to say with absolutely certainty.
When Trump incessantly talks of rampant voter fraud, boasts about the size of his inaugural audience or claims to have seen thousands of people on rooftops in New Jersey celebrating the Sept. 11 attacks, all are demonstrably false. "But who can say if he actually believes it," asked Lewis, "or whether he's gotten the information from some less-than-reliable news site?"
Trump, by contrast, has steadfastly refused to back down, much less apologize, for his copious misstatements. Rather, he typically repeats his claims, often more strenuously, and lashes out at those who point out contrary evidence.
"There's a degree of shamelessness I've never seen before," said Lewis, the American University professor, echoing a consensus among other presidential scholars. "There's not a whole lot of contrition there."
Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump’s lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office. Updated: The president is still lying, so we've added to this list, taking it through Nov. 11, and provided links to the facts in each case.
They don’t care that Donald Trump lies; they love him because his lies soothe them. His lies appease them. His lies make them feel justified and righteous. His lies make them feel good about who they are. The voters are the children who do not want to be grown ups and the grown ups in the party have indulged them and fed them candy to keep from having to parent, and now they are stuck with a monster of a child.
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Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015 Lie of the Year. Born and raised in New York City, Trump is married to Melania Trump, a former model from Slovenia. Trump has five children and eight grandchildren. Three of his children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric, serve as executive vice presidents of the Trump Organization.
Donald Trump's lies have just hit a milestone, according to the tally the Washington Post has been keeping since he took office.
WASHINGTON — If there was any chance that President Trump and James B. Comey could avoid all-out war, it will end Sunday night. That is when ABC News will broadcast an hourlong interview with Mr. Comey, the president’s fired F.B.I. director, as he seeks to publicize his searing tell-all memoir, “A Higher Loyalty.” Clips aired by the network show Mr. Comey questioning Mr. Trump’s character as he says that Mr. Trump repeatedly pressed him to conduct an investigation to refute a salacious allegation that he had cavorted with prostitutes in Moscow.
In the book, which is scheduled to be formally released on Tuesday, Mr. Comey goes just as far, dropping any pretense of comity with the president he briefly served. He calls Mr. Trump unethical and says he is a serial liar who could be vulnerable to blackmail by the Russian government. He compares the president to a mafia boss and says his tenure has been like a forest fire that is incinerating the country’s important norms and traditions.
“Donald Trump’s presidency threatens much of what is good in this nation,” Mr. Comey writes in the book.
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