Die New York Times hat die Lügen von Donald Trump aufgelistet
Der Spiegel:
Er sei gegen den Einsatz der US-Armee im Irak gewesen, bei keiner Inauguration sei die
Menschenmenge grösser gewesen als bei seiner, Millionen illegal
abgegebener Wahlzettel hätten ihn bei der Präsidentenwahl die
tatsächliche Stimmenmehrheit gekostet - schon kurz nach seiner
Amtsübernahme behauptete er in seinen Tweets nachweisbar die
Unwahrheit. In den ersten zehn Monaten seines Präsidentendaseins
summierte sich das auf 103 Lügen, wie die "New York Times" (NYT)
auflistet.
Zum ersten Mal hatte die Zeitung die Lügen bereits im Sommer
gesammelt, nun gibt es eine Neuauflage: Weil es oft hiess, die Zahl
würde bei anderen US-Präsidenten vermutlich ebenso hoch
ausfallen, untersuchten die NYT-Faktenchecker auch die Aussagen seines
Vorgängers Barack Obama auf deren Wahrheitsgehalt.
Das Ergebnis: Trump: 103 Lügen, Obama: 18.
Noch deutlicher wird die Kluft zwischen dem Republikaner und dem
Demokraten, wenn man bedenkt, dass bei Obama die gesamte Amtszeit
untersucht wurde - bei Trump stammen die Lügen aus nicht einmal
einem Jahr Amtszeit. Wären noch Aussagen dazu genommen worden,
die nicht ausdrücklich falsch, aber immerhin missverständlich
oder irreführend waren, hätte es für Trump noch viel
schlechter ausgesehen, schreibt die NYT. Zudem habe Obama - genau wie
sein Vorgänger George W. Bush - zumindest aufgehört, eine
Lüge zu wiederholen, wenn diese entlarvt wurde. Trump hingegen
greife dann die Menschen an, die ihn der Lüge bezichtigten.
Eine Auswahl der trumpschen Unwahrheiten laut NYT: Der Präsident
twitterte am 21. Januar 2017: "Ein Reporter des Time-Magazins - ich
war 14 oder 15 Mal auf dem Cover. Ich glaube, wir haben den absoluten
Rekord in der Geschichte des Time-Magazins." Tatsächlich war Trump
insgesamt elf Mal auf dem Cover, Richard Nixon hingegen 55 Mal. Vier Tage
später schrieb er: "Schau, als Präsident Obama vor zwei Wochen
da [Chicago, Anm. d. Red.] war, hat er eine Rede gehalten, eine sehr
nette Rede. Zwei Menschen wurden erschossen, während er seine Rede
gehalten hat. Das darf nicht passieren." Tatsächlich wurde in Chicago
an diesem Tag niemand erschossen. (Die komplette Liste finden Sie hier.)
Obama log der NYT-Liste zufolge vor allem, wenn es um die Errungenschaften
seiner Regierung ging. Am 24. Februar 2009 behauptete er: "Wir importieren
heute mehr Öl als je zuvor." Tatsächlich gab es die meisten
Ölimporte im Jahr 2005. "Amerikanische Hersteller schaffen zum
ersten Mal seit 1990 wieder Jobs", sagte Obama am 17. Februar 2012. Doch
in den Neunzigerjahren gab es bereits neue Arbeitsstellen in dem Sektor.
Ein anderer Artikel im Spiegel.
NYT:
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Die Bevölkerung hat mehr und
mnehr Misstrauen. Antworten auf die
Frage: "Halten Sie Donalt Trump für
vertrauenswürdig?
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Ein Kalender mit Tagen, an denen
der Präsident gelogen hat.
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JAN. 21 "I wasn't a fan of Iraq. I didn't want to go into Iraq." (He
was for an invasion before he was against it.) JAN. 21 "A reporter for
Time magazine - and I have been on their cover 14 or 15 times. I think
we have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine." (Trump was
on the cover 11 times and Nixon appeared 55 times.) JAN. 23 "Between 3
million and 5 million illegal votes caused me to lose the popular vote."
(There's no evidence of illegal voting.) JAN. 25 "Now, the audience was
the biggest ever. But this crowd was massive. Look how far back it goes.
This crowd was massive." (Official aerial photos show Obama's 2009
inauguration was much more heavily attended.) JAN. 25 "Take a look at
the Pew reports (which show voter fraud.)" (The report never mentioned
voter fraud.) JAN. 25 "You had millions of people that now aren't
insured anymore." (The real number is less than 1 million, according
to the Urban Institute.) JAN. 25 "So, look, when President Obama was
there two weeks ago making a speech, very nice speech. Two people were
shot and killed during his speech. You can't have that." (There were no
gun homicide victims in Chicago that day.) JAN. 26 "We've taken in tens
of thousands of people. We know nothing about them. They can say they
vet them. They didn't vet them. They have no papers. How can you vet
somebody when you don't know anything about them and you have no papers?
How do you vet them? You can't." (Vetting lasts up to two years.) JAN.
26 "I cut off hundreds of millions of dollars off one particular plane,
hundreds of millions of dollars in a short period of time. It wasn't
like I spent, like, weeks, hours, less than hours, and many, many
hundreds of millions of dollars. And the plane's going to be better."
(Most of the cuts were already planned.) JAN. 28 "The coverage about me
in the and the has been so false and angry that
the Times actually apologized to its dwindling subscribers and readers."
(It never apologized.) JAN. 29 "The Cuban-Americans, I got 84 percent
of that vote." (There is no support for this.) JAN. 30 "Only 109 people
out of 325,000 were detained and held for questioning. Big problems at
airports were caused by Delta computer outage." (At least 746 people were
detained and processed, and the Delta outage happened two days later.)
FEB. 3 "Professional anarchists, thugs and paid protesters are proving
the point of the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT
AGAIN!" (There is no evidence of paid protesters.) FEB. 4 "After
being forced to apologize for its bad and inaccurate coverage of me
after winning the election, the FAKE NEWS is still lost!" (It
never apologized.) FEB. 5 "We had 109 people out of hundreds of
thousands of travelers and all we did was vet those people very, very
carefully." (About 60,000 people were affected.) FEB. 6 "I have already
saved more than million when I got involved in the negotiation
on the F-35." (Much of the price drop was projected before Trump took
office.) FEB. 6 "It's gotten to a point where it is not even being
reported. And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want
to report it." (Terrorism has been reported on, often in detail.) FEB.
6 "The failing was forced to apologize to its subscribers for
the poor reporting it did on my election win. Now they are worse!" (It
didn't apologize.) FEB. 6 "And the previous administration allowed it
to happen because we shouldn't have been in Iraq, but we shouldn't have
gotten out the way we got out. It created a vacuum, ISIS was formed."
(The group's origins date to 2004.) FEB. 7 "And yet the murder rate
in our country is the highest it's been in 47 years, right? Did you
know that? Forty-seven years." (It was higher in the 1980s and '90s.)
FEB. 7 "I saved more than million. I got involved in negotiation on
a fighter jet, the F-35." (The Defense Department projected this price
drop before Trump took office.) FEB. 9 "Chris Cuomo, in his interview
with Sen. Blumenthal, never asked him about his long-term lie about his
brave `service' in Vietnam. FAKE NEWS!" (It was part of Cuomo's first
question.) FEB. 9 "Sen. Richard Blumenthal now misrepresents what Judge
Gorsuch told him?" (The Gorsuch comments were later corroborated.) FEB.
10 "I don't know about it. I haven't seen it. What report is that?"
(Trump knew about Flynn's actions for weeks.) FEB. 12 "Just leaving
Florida. Big crowds of enthusiastic supporters lining the road that
the FAKE NEWS media refuses to mention. Very dishonest!" (The media did
cover it.) FEB. 16 "We got 306 because people came out and voted like
they've never seen before so that's the way it goes. I guess it was the
biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan." (George H.W. Bush,
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all won bigger margins in the Electoral
College.) FEB. 16 "That's the other thing that was wrong with the travel
ban. You had Delta with a massive problem with their computer system
at the airports." (Delta's problems happened two days later.) FEB. 16
"Walmart announced it will create 10,000 jobs in the United States just
this year because of our various plans and initiatives." (The jobs
are a result of its investment plans announced in Oct. 2016.) FEB. 16
"When WikiLeaks, which I had nothing to do with, comes out and happens
to give, they're not giving classified information." (Not always. They
have released classified information in the past.) FEB. 16 "We had a
very smooth rollout of the travel ban. But we had a bad court. Got a bad
decision." (The rollout was chaotic.) FEB. 16 "They're giving stuff -
what was said at an office about Hillary cheating on the debates. Which,
by the way, nobody mentions. Nobody mentions that Hillary received
the questions to the debates." (It was widely covered.) FEB. 18 "And
there was no way to vet those people. There was no documentation. There
was no nothing." (Refugees receive multiple background checks, taking
up to two years.) FEB. 18 "You look at what's happening in Germany,
you look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would
believe this?" (Trump implied there was a terror attack in Sweden,
but there was no such attack.) FEB. 24 "By the way, you folks are
in here - this place is packed, there are lines that go back six
blocks." (There was no evidence of long lines.) FEB. 24 "ICE came and
endorsed me." (Only its union did.) FEB. 24 "Obamacare covers very few
people - and remember, deduct from the number all of the people that had
great health care that they loved that was taken away from them - it was
taken away from them." (Obamacare increased coverage by a net of about
20 million.) FEB. 27 "Since Obamacare went into effect, nearly half
of the insurers are stopped and have stopped from participating in the
Obamacare exchanges." (Many fewer pulled out.) FEB. 27 "On one plane,
on a small order of one plane, I saved million. And I would say
I devoted about, if I added it up, all those calls, probably about an
hour. So I think that might be my highest and best use." (Much of the
price cut was already projected.) FEB. 28 "And now, based on our very
strong and frank discussions, they are beginning to do just that." (NATO
countries agreed to meet defense spending requirements in 2014.) FEB.
28 "The E.P.A.'s regulators were putting people out of jobs by the
hundreds of thousands." (There's no evidence that the Waters of the
United States rule caused severe job losses.) FEB. 28 "We have begun to
drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a five-year ban on
lobbying by executive branch officials." (They can't lobby their former
agency but can still become lobbyists.) MARCH 3 "It is so pathetic
that the Dems have still not approved my full Cabinet." (Paperwork
for the last two candidates was still not submitted to the Senate.)
MARCH 4 "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my `wires tapped' in
Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!"
(There's no evidence of a wiretap.) MARCH 4 "How low has President Obama
gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. This is
Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!" (There's no evidence of a wiretap.)
MARCH 7 "122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration
from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible
decision!" (113 of them were released by President George W. Bush.)
MARCH 13 "I saved a lot of money on those jets, didn't I? Did I do a
good job? More than million on them." (Much of the cost cuts were
planned before Trump.) MARCH 13 "First of all, it covers very few
people." (About 20 million people gained insurance under Obamacare.)
MARCH 15 "On the airplanes, I saved million. Probably took me a
half an hour if you added up all of the times." (Much of the cost cuts
were planned before Trump.) MARCH 17 "I was in Tennessee - I was just
telling the folks - and half of the state has no insurance company,
and the other half is going to lose the insurance company." (There's at
least one insurer in every Tennessee county.) MARCH 20 "With just one
negotiation on one set of airplanes, I saved the taxpayers of our country
over million." (Much of the cost cuts were planned before Trump.)
MARCH 21 "To save taxpayer dollars, I've already begun negotiating
better contracts for the federal government - saving over million
on just one set of airplanes of which there are many sets." (Much of the
cost cuts were planned before Trump.) MARCH 22 "I make the statement,
everyone goes crazy. The next day they have a massive riot, and death,
and problems." (Riots in Sweden broke out two days later and there
were no deaths.) MARCH 22 "NATO, obsolete, because it doesn't cover
terrorism. They fixed that." (It has fought terrorism since the 1980s.)
MARCH 22 "Well, now, if you take a look at the votes, when I say that,
I mean mostly they register wrong - in other words, for the votes,
they register incorrectly and/or illegally. And they then vote. You
have tremendous numbers of people." (There's no evidence of widespread
voter fraud.) MARCH 29 "Remember when the failing apologized
to its subscribers, right after the election, because their coverage was
so wrong. Now worse!" (It didn't apologize.) MARCH 31 "We have a lot of
plants going up now in Michigan that were never going to be there if I -
if I didn't win this election, those plants would never even think about
going back. They were gone." (These investments were already planned.)
APRIL 2 "And I was totally opposed to the war in the Middle East which
I think finally has been proven, people tried very hard to say I wasn't
but you've seen that it is now improving." (He was for an invasion
before he was against it.) APRIL 2 "Now, my last tweet - you know,
the one that you are talking about, perhaps - was the one about being,
in quotes, wiretapped, meaning surveilled. Guess what, it is turning out
to be true." (There is still no evidence.) APRIL 5 "You have many states
coming up where they're going to have no insurance company. O.K.? It's
already happened in Tennessee. It's happening in Kentucky. Tennessee
only has half coverage. Half the state is gone. They left." (Every
marketplace region in Tennessee had at least one insurer.) APRIL 6
"If you look at the kind of cost-cutting we've been able to achieve with
the military and at the same time ordering vast amounts of equipment -
saved hundreds of millions of dollars on airplanes, and really billions,
because if you take that out over a period of years it's many billions
of dollars - I think we've had a tremendous success." (Much of the
price cuts were already projected.) APRIL 11 "I like Steve, but you
have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late. I
had already beaten all the senators and all the governors, and I didn't
know Steve." (He knew Steve Bannon since 2011.) APRIL 12 "You can't
do it faster, because they're obstructing. They're obstructionists. So
I have people - hundreds of people that we're trying to get through. I
mean you have - you see the backlog. We can't get them through." (At this
point, he had not nominated anyone for hundreds of positions.) APRIL 12
"The New York Times said the word wiretapped in the headline of the first
edition. Then they took it out of there fast when they realized." (There
were separate headlines for print and web, but neither were altered.)
APRIL 12 "The secretary general and I had a productive discussion about
what more NATO can do in the fight against terrorism. I complained
about that a long time ago and they made a change, and now they do
fight terrorism." (NATO has been engaged in counterterrorism efforts
since the 1980s.) APRIL 12 "Mosul was supposed to last for a week and
now they've been fighting it for many months and so many more people
died." (The campaign was expected to take months.) APRIL 16 "Someone
should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The
election is over!" (There's no evidence of paid protesters.) APRIL 18
"The fake media goes, `Donald Trump changed his stance on China.' I
haven't changed my stance." (He did.) APRIL 21 "On 90 planes I saved
million. It's actually a little bit more than that, but it's
million." (Much of the price cuts were already projected.) APRIL 21 "When
WikiLeaks came out ... never heard of WikiLeaks, never heard of it." (He
criticized it as early as 2010.) APRIL 27 "I want to help our miners
while the Democrats are blocking their healthcare." (The bill to extend
health benefits for certain coal miners was introduced by a Democrat and
was co-sponsored by mostly Democrats.) APRIL 28 "The trade deficit with
Mexico is close to billion, even with Canada it's billion trade
deficit with Canada." (The U.S. had an .1 billion trade surplus, not
deficit, with Canada in 2016.) APRIL 28 "She's running against someone
who's going to raise your taxes to the sky, destroy your health care,
and he's for open borders - lots of crime." (Those are not Jon Ossoff's
positions.) APRIL 28 "The F-35 fighter jet program - it was way over
budget. I've saved million plus, just by getting involved in the
negotiation." (Much of the price cuts were planned before Trump.) APRIL
29 "As you know, I've been a big critic of China, and I've been talking
about currency manipulation for a long time. But I have to tell you that
during the election, number one, they stopped." (China stopped years ago.)
APRIL 29 "I've already saved more than million on a simple order of
F-35 planes. I got involved in the negotiation." (Much of the price cuts
were planned before Trump.) APRIL 29 "We're also getting NATO countries
to finally step up and contribute their fair share. They've begun to
increase their contributions by billions of dollars, but we are not
going to be satisfied until everyone pays what they owe." (The deal was
struck in 2014.) APRIL 29 "When they talk about currency manipulation,
and I did say I would call China, if they were, a currency manipulator,
early in my tenure. And then I get there. Number one, they - as soon
as I got elected, they stopped." (China stopped in 2014.) APRIL 29 "I
was negotiating to reduce the price of the big fighter jet contract, the
F-35, which was totally out of control. I will save billions and billions
and billions of dollars." (Most of the cuts were planned before Trump.)
APRIL 29 "I think our side's been proven very strongly. And everybody's
talking about it." (There's still no evidence Trump's phones were tapped.)
MAY 1 "Well, we are protecting pre-existing conditions. And it'll be
every good - bit as good on pre-existing conditions as Obamacare." (The
bill weakens protections for people with pre-existing conditions.) MAY 1
"The F-35 fighter jet - I saved - I got involved in the negotiation.
It's 2,500 jets. I negotiated for 90 planes, lot 10. I got million
off the price." (Much of the price cuts were planned before Trump.) MAY 1
"First of all, since I started running, they haven't increased their -
you know, they have not manipulated their currency. I think that was out
of respect to me and the campaign." (China stopped years ago.) MAY 2
"I love buying those planes at a reduced price. I have been really - I
have cut billions - I have to tell you this, and they can check, right,
Martha? I have cut billions and billions of dollars off plane contracts
sitting here." (Much of the cost cuts were planned before Trump.) MAY 4
"Number two, they're actually not a currency [manipulator]. You know,
since I've been talking about currency manipulation with respect to
them and other countries, they stopped." (China stopped years ago.)
MAY 4 "We're the highest-taxed nation in the world." (We're not.) MAY 4
"Nobody cares about my tax return except for the reporters." (Polls show
most Americans do care.) MAY 8 "You know we've gotten billions of dollars
more in NATO than we're getting. All because of me." (The deal was struck
in 2014.) MAY 8 "But when I did his show, which by the way was very
highly rated. It was high - highest rating. The highest rating he's ever
had." (Colbert's Late Show debut had nearly two million more viewers.)
MAY 8 "Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake
media already knows - there is `no evidence' of collusion w/ Russia
and Trump." (Clapper only said he wasn't aware of an investigation.)
MAY 12 "Again, the story that there was collusion between the Russians
& Trump campaign was fabricated by Dems as an excuse for losing the
election." (The F.B.I. was investigating before the election.) MAY 12
"When James Clapper himself, and virtually everyone else with knowledge of
the witch hunt, says there is no collusion, when does it end?" (Clapper
said he wouldn't have been told of an investigation into collusion.)
MAY 13 "I'm cutting the price of airplanes with Lockheed." (The cost
cuts were planned before he became president.) MAY 26 "Just arrived in
Italy for the G7. Trip has been very successful. We made and saved the
USA many billions of dollars and millions of jobs." (He's referencing
an arms deal that's not enacted and other apparent deals that weren't
announced on the trip.) JUNE 1 "China will be allowed to build hundreds
of additional coal plants. So, we can't build the plants, but they can,
according to this agreement. India will be allowed to double its coal
production by 2020." (The agreement doesn't allow or disallow building
coal plants.) JUNE 1 "I've just returned from a trip overseas where we
concluded nearly billion of military and economic development for
the United States, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs." (Trump's
figures are inflated and premature.) JUNE 4 "At least 7 dead and 48
wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is `no reason
to be alarmed!'" (The mayor was specifically talking about the enlarged
police presence on the streets.) JUNE 5 "The Justice Dept. should have
stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically
correct version they submitted to S.C." (Trump signed this version of
the travel ban, not the Justice Department.) JUNE 20 "Well, the Special
Elections are over and those that want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN are
5 and O!" (Republicans have won four special elections this year, while
a Democrat won one.) JUNE 21 "They all say it's 'nonbinding.' Like hell
it's nonbinding." (The Paris climate agreement is nonbinding - and Trump
said so in his speech announcing the withdrawal.) JUNE 21 "Right now,
we are one of the highest-taxed nations in the world." (We're not.)
JUNE 21 "You have a gang called MS-13. ... We are moving them out of
the country by the thousands, by the thousands." (The real number of
gang members deported is smaller.) JUNE 21 "Your insurance companies
have all fled the state of Iowa." (They haven't.) JUNE 21 "If [farmers]
have a puddle in the middle of their field ... it's considered a lake and
you can't touch it. ... We got rid of that one, too, O.K.?" (The Obama
environmental rule to limit pollution in the country's waters explicitly
excludes puddles.) JUNE 21 "Gary Cohn just paid million in tax
in order to take this job, by the way." (Cohn sold Goldman Sachs stock
worth million.) JUNE 21 "We're 5 and 0." (Republicans have won four
special elections this year, while a Democrat won one.) JUNE 21 "Last
week a brand-new coal mine just opened in the state of Pennsylvania,
first time in decades, decades." (Another coal mine opened in 2014.)
JUNE 22 "Former Homeland Security Advisor Jeh Johnson is latest top
intelligence official to state there was no grand scheme between Trump &
Russia." (Johnson, who had a different title, didn't say that.) JUNE 23
"We are 5 and 0 ... in these special elections." (Republicans have won
four special elections this year, while a Democrat won one.) JUNE 27
"Ratings way down!" (CNN's ratings were at a five-year high at the time.)
JUNE 28 "Democrats purposely misstated Medicaid under new Senate bill -
actually goes up." (Senate bill would have cut the program deeply.)
JUNE 29 "General Kelly and his whole group - they've gotten rid of
6,000 so far." (The real number of MS-13 gang members who have been
deported is smaller.) JULY 6 "As a result of this insistence, billions
of dollars more have begun to pour into NATO." (NATO countries agreed
to meet defense spending requirements in 2014.) JULY 17 "We've signed
more bills - and I'm talking about through the legislature - than any
president, ever." (Clinton, Carter, Truman, and F.D.R. had signed
more at the same point.) JULY 19 "Um, the Russian investigation -
it's not an investigation, it's not on me - you know, they're looking
at a lot of things." (It is.) JULY 19 "I heard that Harry Truman was
first, and then we beat him. These are approved by Congress. These are
not just executive orders." (Presidents Clinton, Carter, Truman, and
F.D.R. each had signed more legislation than Trump at the same point in
their terms.) JULY 19 "But the F.B.I. person really reports directly to
the president of the United States, which is interesting." (He reports
directly to the attorney general.) JULY 19 "She did the uranium
deal, which is a horrible thing, while she was secretary of state,
and got a lot of money." (There's no evidence Hillary Clinton was
actively involved or benefited from the deal.) JULY 24 "It looks like
about 45,000 people. You set a record today." (Many fewer than 45,000
were there, and the attendance was not a record.) JULY 25 "We have
the highest taxes anywhere in the world, and this will really bring
them down to one of the lowest." (Tax rates in the United States are
below average, overall and for an industrialized country.) JULY 25
"We're the highest-taxed nation in the world" (We're not.) JULY 25
"We have nearly doubled the number of veterans given approvals to see
the doctor of their choice." (The increase was 26 percent.) JULY 25
"Since I took office we have cut illegal immigration on our southern
border by record numbers. 78 percent." (The decline began before Trump's
inauguration.) JULY 28 "The previous administration enacted an open-door
policy to illegal migrants from Central America. "Welcome in. Come in,
please, please." (Obama deported millions.) JULY 28 "We have trade
deficits with almost every country because we had a lot of really bad
negotiators making deals with other countries." (The U.S. has a trade
surplus with more than 100 countries.) JULY 31 "2.6 is a number that
nobody thought they'd see for a long period of time." (Many experts
predicted economic growth at least this high.) JULY 31 "And even the
President of Mexico called me - they said their southern border, very
few people are coming because they know they're not going to get through
our border, which is the ultimate compliment." (Mexico's president says
he didn't call Trump.) AUG. 1 "And I think to me, maybe the biggest
is that GDP for the quarter just released at 2.6 percent. So that's so
much higher than anticipated." (It wasn't.) AUG. 3 "Economic growth
has surged to 2.6% nationwide. You have to understand what that means.
Nobody thought that number was going to happen." (Many experts predicted
that.) AUG. 3 "The Russia story is a total fabrication." (It's not.)
AUG. 3 "Or let them look at the uranium she sold that is now in the
hands of very angry Russians." (There's no evidence Hillary Clinton was
actively involved in the sale.) AUG. 15 "We want products made in the
country. Now, I have to tell you, some of the folks that will leave,
they're leaving out of embarrassment because they make their products
outside." (People resigned from Trump's business councils over his
Charlottesville comments.) AUG. 22 "Remember, everybody said you won't
bring it up to 1 percent. You won't bring it up to 1.2 percent." (Many
experts predicted economic growth at least this high.) AUG. 22 "I mean
truly dishonest people in the media and the fake media, they make up
stories. They have no sources in many cases. They say 'a source says' -
there is no such thing." (The media does not make up sources.) AUG. 22
"As everybody here remembers, this was the scene of my first rally
speech, right?" (Trump's first rally was in New Hampshire) AUG. 22 "We
have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently."
(The U.S. isn't projected to become a net energy exporter until 2026.)
AUG. 22 "Look back there, the live red lights. They're turning those
suckers off fast out there. They're turning those lights off fast. Like
CNN." (CNN didn't turn off its cameras.) SEPT. 6 "The taxes are crazy -
the highest-taxed nation in the world." (We're not.) SEPT. 6 "We are
the highest taxed nation in the world - that will change." (We're not.)
SEPT. 8 "Our incredible U.S. Coast Guard saved more than 15,000 lives
last week with Harvey." (The real number is 11,022.) SEPT. 14 "Also with
the fact that I know in the case of FEMA and the case of Coast Guard,
the job you've done in saving people, saving lives. As an example,
in Harvey in Texas, we talked - over 16,000 lives." (The real number
is smaller.) SEPT. 14 "And in Florida you got hit with the strongest
winds ever recorded." (They weren't the strongest ever recorded.)
SEPT. 22 "We've been dealing with ICE, we've been dealing with the
Border Patrol. They both endorsed me." (Neither agency endorsed him;
only their unions did.) SEPT. 22 "So he started off here, he was in
third or fourth, he went to third, second, and now it's like almost
pretty even." (Strange consistently polled first or second in the
Alabama Republican primary.) SEPT. 29 "With the F-35 fighter plane -
me, myself - I've saved hundreds of millions of dollars in negotiating."
(The cost cuts were planned before he became president.) SEPT. 27
"I'm doing the right thing, and it's not good for me." (All available
evidence suggests he would benefit.) SEPT. 27 "To protect millions
of small businesses and the American farmer, we are finally ending
the crushing, the horrible, the unfair estate tax." (The real number
of small businesses and farmers is vastly smaller.) SEPT. 27 "No, I
don't benefit. I don't benefit. In fact, very very strongly, as you see,
I think there's very little benefit for people of wealth." (The tax plan
would personally benefit Trump and other wealthy individuals.) SEPT. 27
"Facebook was always anti-Trump.The Networks were always anti-Trump
hence,Fake News, (apologized) & were anti-Trump." (The
Times did not apologize for its Trump coverage.) SEPT. 28 "I mean
right now, we're the highest-taxed nation in the world." (We're not.)
OCT. 3 "But the Coast Guard itself saved in Texas 16,000 lives, and
they went right through that hurricane." (The real number is smaller.)
OCT. 3 "But that's an expensive plane that you can't see. And as you
probably heard, we cut the price very substantially - something that
other administrations would never have done, that I can tell you." (The
cost cuts were planned before he became president.) OCT. 6 "I was
able to reduce the price of the Lockheed by billions of dollars." (The
cost cuts were planned before he became president.) OCT. 6 "We're the
highest-taxed developed nation in the world, probably the highest-taxed
nation in the world." (We're not.) OCT. 6 "They also just said that
there has been absolutely no collusion. They just said that. Yesterday.
Two days ago. Senate. There has been no collusion." (The Senate didn't
say that.) OCT. 6 "This tax cut and tax reform is going very well, and
it's going to be a tremendous boost for our country, including the fact
that we're the highest-taxed nation in the world." (We're not.) OCT. 7
"We're the highest-taxed nation in the world." (We're not.) OCT. 7
"The Coast Guard, in Texas, and all over, but with the job they did in
Texas, I saw, they saved 16,000 lives." (The real number is smaller.)
OCT. 7 "Obama should have never gotten out the way he got out. That's how
ISIS formed." (The group's origins date to 2004.) OCT. 10 "The Failing
set Liddle' Bob Corker up by recording his conversation. Was
made to sound a fool, and that's what I am dealing with!" (Corker asked
the Times reporter to record the call; his aides recorded it too.) OCT.
10 "We're the highest-taxed nation in the world." (We're not.) OCT. 11
"We have missiles that can knock out a missile in the air. Ninety seven
per cent of the time. If you send two of them, it's going to get knocked
out." (The effectivess rate is about 60 percent.) OCT. 16 "We're the
highest-taxed country in the world." (We're not.) OCT. 16 "I hear that
Ireland is going to be reducing their cooperate rates down to 8 percent
from 12." (Ireland has no plans to cut its tax rate.) OCT. 16 "If you
look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make
calls." (They did call families of soldiers killed in action.) OCT. 16
"All I can say is it's totally fake news, just fake. It's fake. It's
made-up stuff, and it's disgraceful what happens, but that happens in
the world of politics." (Trump himself has bragged about groping women.)
OCT. 17 "We're the highest taxed nation in the world." (We're not.)
OCT. 17 "Right now, we are the highest-taxed nation anywhere in the
world. You can even say developed or undeveloped." (We're not.) OCT. 17
"As far as I'm concerned, I think we're really essentially the highest.
But if you'd like to add the developed nation, you can say that, too."
(Taxes in the U.S. are lower than in most developed countries.) OCT. 17
"We're the highest-taxed nation in the world. We are taxed beyond
belief." (We're not.) OCT. 17 "Well, we're the highest-taxed nation in
the world." (We're not.) OCT. 17 "I wish President Obama didn't get out
the way he got out. Because that left a vacuum and ISIS was formed."
(The group's origins date to 2004.) OCT. 18 "Democrat Congresswoman
totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died
in action (and I have proof)." (The wife confirmed Representative
Frederica Wilson's account.) OCT. 18 "The Coast Guard in Texas saved
16,000 lives." (The real number was smaller.) OCT. 18 "Nobody has ever
heard of a five hitting land." (Category 5 storms have hit land before.)
OCT. 24 "Under our plan, more than 30 million Americans who own small
businesses will get a 40 per cent cut to their top marginal tax rate."
(The real number is estimated to be less than 1 million.) OCT. 25 "We
have trade deficits with almost everybody." (We have trade surpluses with
more than 100 countries.) OCT. 27 "Wacky & totally unhinged Tom Steyer,
who has been fighting me and my Make America Great Again agenda from
beginning, never wins elections!" (Steyer has financially supported
many winning candidates.) NOV. 1 "Again, we're the highest-taxed
nation, just about, in the world." (We're not.) NOV. 7 "When you look
at the city with the strongest gun laws in our nation, it's Chicago."
(Several other cities, including New York and Los Angeles, have stronger
gun laws.) NOV. 11 "I'd rather have him - you know, work with him on
the Ukraine than standing and arguing about whether or not - because
that whole thing was set up by the Democrats." (There is no evidence
that Democrats "set up" Russian interference in the election.)