Trump has made more than 16,000 false or misleading statements since inauguration: Report
President Trump has made more than 16,000 false or misleading statements in the three years since he was inaugurated, according to the Washington Post.
Monday marks exactly three years since Trump assumed the presidency, and the publication's fact-checkers claim that in that time, he has made exactly 16,241 false or misleading claims. The number of inaccurate statements has increased during each year of his time in office.
Trump made 1,999 false or misleading claims during his first year in office, followed by 5,689 the following year. That number increased in 2019 to a total of 8,155, which exceeded his combined total from the previous two years. The president averaged six misleading statements per day in 2017. That average more than doubled to 16 per day the following year and jumped again to 22 a day during the past year.
The president made more false or misleading statements in the months of October and November than any other month during each of the past two years. In 2018, that time period overlapped with the midterm elections. The two days for which the publication counted the most Trump lies were Nov. 3 and 5, the days right before the Democratic Party took control of the House of Representatives.
The increase in the number of Trump's lies or misleading statements recorded during October and November of 2019 coincided with the impeachment efforts regarding allegations that Trump withheld aid to Ukraine in order to pressure the country into investigating 2020 Democratic front-runner Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
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