WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump has made 8,158 false or misleadingclaims since taking office, according to a media report.
The report came a day after Trump completed two years in office on Sunday.
The president averaged nearly 5.9 false or misleading claims a day in hisfirst year in office. But he hit nearly 16.5 a day in his second year,almost triple the pace, The Washington Post reported.
The paper quoted The Fact Checker’s database — that analyses, categorisesand tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president — for itsreport.
According to the Fact Checker’s database, Trump has made 8,158 “false ormisleading claims” since taking office.
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That includes an astonishing 6000-plus such claims in the president’ssecond year, the paper said.
In the first 100 days, the president made 492 unsupported claims. Hemanaged to top that number just in the first three weeks of 2019.
