Day 1,130: Trump tells a bizarre lie and his favorite lie in lie-filled Sunday
Donald Trump is a liar who can’t stop lying. According to the Washington Post, Trump has lied over 16,000 times since his inauguration. And he’s gotten more brazen over time.
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 said more than the total number of false or misleading claims he had made in the previous two years. 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.
Since Sunday is a day that ends in “y,” Trump told more lies.
He told his favorite recent lie.
Trump has never had a 95% approval rating in the GOP, according to Gallup. That’s true as more moderates leave the party or don’t identify themselves as Republicans to pollsters, leaving it as a far-right fringe-fest. Yet, Trump keeps telling the lie, using the exact same 95% figure over and over again. He’s told the whopper, on average, more than once a week over the past six months. Nonsensically, he keeps calling it a “record,” which it wouldn’t be if Trump had previously attained it, as he claims.
He also told a bizarre lie, even by his standards.
Trump is accusing Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) of leaking classified information that Russia is, yet again, trying to assist Trump in getting elected. There’s no evidence that Schiff has leaked anything, but he’s one of Trump’s favorite bogeymen.
The tweet is an especially strange lie because Trump is accusing Schiff of leaking “made up information,” which is fundamentally impossible. Someone can leak real classified information or they can lie, but they can’t leak made-up information.
Trump remains incredibly sensitive that Russia helped get him elected in 2016. (As much as he denies their assistance, at least eight U.S. intelligence groups confirmed Moscow’s meddling.) The idea that he would need help in 2020 clearly agitates him.
For more lies, Trump’s Twitter account is still banging out dozens of tweets a day.
1,130 days in, 332 to go
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