I nice graph of the truthfulness of Trump vs Clinton. You find the spreadsheet used to generate these images on my website. The numbers are taken from a June 29, 2015 politifact.com article ( The truth (so far) behind the 2016 campaign ).
It’s actually almost disturbing seeing these numbers. Trump’s true or mostly true statements only come to 9%… That’s 10/11 statements that are half-truths or worse. Clinton is just over half true or mostly true. That’s not really so good for Clinton.. a C- .. On the other hand, Trump would get an F- … It looks better, in this case, if you rate it on a curve.
|
Trump
|
% |
truesum |
liesum |
|
Clinton |
% |
truesum |
liesum |
true |
4 |
2.5% |
2.5% |
100.0% |
|
16 |
13.3% |
13.3% |
100.0% |
mostly true |
10 |
6.3% |
8.9% |
97.5% |
|
48 |
40.0% |
53.3% |
86.7% |
half true |
21 |
13.3% |
22.2% |
91.1% |
|
24 |
20.0% |
73.3% |
46.7% |
mostly false |
28 |
17.7% |
39.9% |
77.8% |
|
16 |
13.3% |
86.7% |
26.7% |
false |
65 |
41.1% |
81.0% |
60.1% |
|
15 |
12.5% |
99.2% |
13.3% |
pants on fire |
30 |
19.0% |
100.0% |
19.0% |
|
1 |
0.8% |
100.0% |
0.8% |