Recently I ran across an article by David Markowitz at Forbes on May 5, 2020 titled Trump is lying more than ever: Just look at the data. He said that the President has averaged 23.8 lies per day since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in the U.S. That’s an astonishing level of fraud – it is roughly one lie an hour of every day. Mr. Markowitz noted that most people tell one or two lies per day on average rather than 24.
An amazing one from his news conference yesterday was that:
“….a city like
Portland, where the entire city is ablaze all the time and a mayor says, ‘We
don’t want any help from the federal government.’ ”
Today Daniel
Dale at CNN Politics has an article titled Fact check: ‘WE ARE NOT ABLAZE,’ Portland
fire department says after Trump falsely claims ‘entire city’ is on fire. In
less than five minutes you could find that is false. Just view Portland Bureau
of Transportation (PBOT) traffic cameras to see what really is going on in the
North, East, NE, NW, SE, and SW.
How many lies has
he told just since he has been in office as President? An article by Rebecca
Klar at The Hill on January 20, 2020 is titled Fact-checker counts 16K false,
misleading claims by Trump in three years. That’s lower, just 14.6 lies per
day. Another article by Lauren Aratani at The Guardian on July 13, 2020 is
titled ‘Tsunami of untruths’: Trump has made 20,000 false or misleading claims
-report. And Wikipedia has a page titled Veracity of statements by Donald Trump.
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