Politico: Trump averaged 1 falsehood every 3 minutes & 15 seconds over nearly 5 hours of remarks

Trump’s mishandling of facts and propensity for exaggeration so greatly exceed Clinton’s as to make the comparison almost ludicrous.

Politico has an article up detailing Donald Trump’s lying prowess. Politico lists 87 misstatements, exaggerations, falsehoods they documented at the link below.

It’s quite a list. You can share which Trump lie is the biggest whopper of them all in comments, but there sure are plenty of scrolling to get to the end of the list. :-D

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After he lied on Sept. 16 that he was not the person responsible for the birtherism campaign to delegitimize Barack Obama’s presidency, POLITICO chose to spend a week fact-checking Trump. 

The conclusion is inescapable: Trump’s mishandling of facts and propensity for exaggeration so greatly exceed Clinton’s as to make the comparison almost ludicrous.

Though few statements match the audacity of his statement about his role in questioning Obama’s citizenship, Trump has built a cottage industry around stretching the truth. According to POLITICO’s five-day analysis, Trump averaged about one falsehood every three minutes and 15 seconds over nearly five hours of remarks.

In raw numbers, that’s 87 erroneous statements in five days.

Some metrics on Trump’s statements this week:

• Number of appearances: six speeches, one town hall, seven TV interviews, zero press availabilities, 37 tweets
• Combined length of remarks (speeches, interviews): four hours, 43 minutes
• Raw number of misstatements, exaggerations, falsehoods: 87
• Rate: One untruth every 3.25 minutes