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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5994894" data-attributes="member: 54375">&quot;The New York Times fact-checked Trump’s 63-minute jabbering at a recent Las Vegas campaign stop and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/21/us/politics/trump-harris-2024-election-speech.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OE4._Wl_.hXxEaMSlx9yM&amp;smid=url-share" target="_blank">found</a> 64 false, inaccurate or misleading remarks — one a minute. That mendacity wasn’t even a record. A contender for the distinction would be Trump’s 64-minute August news conference at Mar-a-Lago that was more monologue than Q&amp;A: He racked up at least 162 lies, misstatements and vast exaggerations by NPR’s <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-s1-5070566/trump-news-conference" target="_blank">count</a> — about 2.5 a minute.&quot;And of course there’s the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/" target="_blank">final tally</a> on his presidency from the Washington Post’s Fact Checker, dispenser of those ignominious Pinocchios: a total 30,573 lies and misleading statements and tweets. That’s nearly 20 a day, starting on Day 1 with Trump’s lies about the size of his inauguration crowd.&quot;jackie Calmes</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 5994894, member: 54375"] "The New York Times fact-checked Trump’s 63-minute jabbering at a recent Las Vegas campaign stop and [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/21/us/politics/trump-harris-2024-election-speech.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OE4._Wl_.hXxEaMSlx9yM&smid=url-share'][U]found[/U][/URL] 64 false, inaccurate or misleading remarks — one a minute. That mendacity wasn’t even a record. A contender for the distinction would be Trump’s 64-minute August news conference at Mar-a-Lago that was more monologue than Q&A: He racked up at least 162 lies, misstatements and vast exaggerations by NPR’s [URL='https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-s1-5070566/trump-news-conference'][U]count[/U][/URL] — about 2.5 a minute." And of course there’s the [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/'][U]final tally[/U][/URL] on his presidency from the Washington Post’s Fact Checker, dispenser of those ignominious Pinocchios: a total 30,573 lies and misleading statements and tweets. That’s nearly 20 a day, starting on Day 1 with Trump’s lies about the size of his inauguration crowd." jackie Calmes [/QUOTE]

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