Two years after taking the oath of office, President Trump has made 8,158 false or misleading claims, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president. Put another way: The president averaged nearly 5.9 false or misleading claims a day in his first year in office. In October, as he was barnstorming the country in advance of the midterm elections, he made more than 1,200 false or misleading claims. Not surprisingly, the biggest source of misleading claims is immigration, with a tally that has grown with the addition of 300 immigration claims in the past three weeks, for a total of 1,433. Visit our website of Bottomless Pinocchios for highly misleading or false claims that the president has made so often that they have become a form of disinformation.

Source: Washington Post January 21, 2019 08:01 UTC