Week by week, Donald Trump’s gargantuan dishonesty is growing. He’s gone from being the LeBron of lying to a one-man Hall of Fame, setting records in June only to break them in July:
- Before last week, Trump’s record for lies and false claims in a single week was 103, set in June. Last week, he soared past 103 all the way to 132.
- Before last month, Trump’s record was 268 lies and other false claims in June. In July, he bumped that up to 280.
No subject is too big or too small for Trump to lie about:
Among the whoppers: he claimed that Americans need photo identification to “buy groceries” or to “buy anything” (obviously not), that car plants are opening in Pennsylvania (none are), that Justice Neil Gorsuch was number one in his class at Harvard Law School (Gorsuch wasn’t close), that the European Union refused to talk trade with Barack Obama (the EU engaged in three years of trade negotiations with Obama), that he is surrounding the U.S. with missile defence systems (U.S-based interceptor missiles are located only in California and Alaska) ...
How many lies can one person tell in a week? Don’t bet on 132 being Trump’s ceiling. And those are just his public lies—it’s impossible how many more he told in private settings.