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Related: About this forumFact-checking Trump’s garbage truck of lies: His speech accusing HRC of corruption is riddled (HRC)
Fact-checking Trumps garbage truck of lies: His speech accusing Clinton of corruption is riddled with fiction and conspiraciesTrump tried to paint Clinton as dishonest, but instead repeatedly revealed his own aversion to even basic facts
Claim: Hillary Clinton who, as most people know, is a world-class liar
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Fact: As for her statements on issues, Politifact, a Pulitzer prize-winning fact-checking organization, gives Clinton the best truth-telling record of any of the 2016 presidential candidates, Jill Abramson, writing for the Guardian, explained earlier this year. She beats Sanders and Kasich and crushes Cruz and Trump, who has the biggest pants on fire rating and has told whoppers about basic economics that are embarrassing for anyone aiming to be president.
Fact: The biggest liar in this election cycle is Donald Trump, by a long shot. Politifact rates 76% of statements made by Donald Trump to be false, compared to 27% by Hillary Clinton. 19% of Trumps untruths are rated pants on fire lies, compared to only 1% of Clintons statements. Of the 3 Clinton pants on fire statements, two were from the 2008 election cycle. Twenty-seven of 31 of the pants on fire statements from Trump come from this election cycle.
Claim: But here is the bottom line: I started off in Brooklyn, New York, not so long ago, with a small loan and built a business worth over 10 billion dollars.
Fact:
Fact: As for her statements on issues, Politifact, a Pulitzer prize-winning fact-checking organization, gives Clinton the best truth-telling record of any of the 2016 presidential candidates, Jill Abramson, writing for the Guardian, explained earlier this year. She beats Sanders and Kasich and crushes Cruz and Trump, who has the biggest pants on fire rating and has told whoppers about basic economics that are embarrassing for anyone aiming to be president.
Fact: The biggest liar in this election cycle is Donald Trump, by a long shot. Politifact rates 76% of statements made by Donald Trump to be false, compared to 27% by Hillary Clinton. 19% of Trumps untruths are rated pants on fire lies, compared to only 1% of Clintons statements. Of the 3 Clinton pants on fire statements, two were from the 2008 election cycle. Twenty-seven of 31 of the pants on fire statements from Trump come from this election cycle.
Claim: But here is the bottom line: I started off in Brooklyn, New York, not so long ago, with a small loan and built a business worth over 10 billion dollars.
Fact:
Continues to cover many topics from Trump's speech: http://www.salon.com/2016/06/22/fact_checking_trumps_garbage_truck_of_lies_his_speech_accusing_clinton_of_corruption_is_riddled_with_fiction_and_conspiracies/
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Fact-checking Trump’s garbage truck of lies: His speech accusing HRC of corruption is riddled (HRC) (Original Post)
Her Sister
Jun 2016
OP
Maybe Trump has not heard about videos recorded with him lying and it is so easy to fact check.
Thinkingabout
Jun 2016
#2
spooky3
(36,204 posts)1. The whole thing should be required reading!
Thanks, Her!
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)2. Maybe Trump has not heard about videos recorded with him lying and it is so easy to fact check.
radical noodle
(8,582 posts)3. I was surprised and happy to see MSNBC
started fact-checking what he said as soon as his so-called speech was over. That's not something they normally do for political speeches... at least not right away. They pointed out several lies or twisting of the facts.
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)4. That's good to know. Thanks
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)5. Oh that's great that they did that!
DemonGoddess
(5,123 posts)6. The talking heads on MSNBC
have been tearing apart his speech all night! At the same time, they are covering the sit-in.
Pathwalker
(6,602 posts)7. Or, as my son says: 89% of what tRump says are lies. The rest are
just nouns and verbs.
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)8. Here's an itemized list from FactCheck.org
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)10. Great! Thanks for posting list of Trump's lies!
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)9. He lies so much that
I bet that it's tough for fact checkers to keep up with him.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)11. Trump calling ANYONE a liar
is like Dubya accusing someone of being a warmonger.
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)12. or being Dumb.
Cha
(305,406 posts)13. the Biggest Liar is DT. End of story.
Thank you, HS!