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Washington Post Fact Checker Inflates Trump Falsehoods
Amber Athey | White House Correspondent
9-12 minutes
The Washington Post’s fact checking team prides itself on compiling all of President Donald Trump’s false and misleading statements in one easy-to-use database.

However, a review of just four days of Trump statements that were fact checked by the Post reveals hundreds of claims that have been erroneously labeled false.

The Daily Caller reviewed the Post’s database of Trump falsehoods from March 28, 2019 to March 31, 2019 and was able to identify a number of Trump claims that should’ve been labeled true or unsubstantiated.

Here are just some of the “false or misleading” claims the Caller identified as being true or unsubstantiated.

Trump Claim 1:

“And we’re right now building a lot of wall on the southern border” (March 29, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “No, Trump’s wall is not yet being built. Congress inserted specific language in its appropriations bill that none of the $1.57 billion appropriated for border protection may be used for prototypes of a concrete wall that Trump observed while in California. The money can be used only for bollard fencing and levee fencing, or for replacement of existing fencing.”

The Facts: Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesman Roger Maier told The Daily Caller News Foundation in March that new wall is being built on the border in places where there were gaps or only small or ineffective non-wall barriers.

“CBP has built and continues to build new border wall along the Southwest border. To date, CBP has built 38 miles of new border wall system in San Diego and Calexico, California, Santa Teresa, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas,” Maier said.



BURNSVILLE, MN – APRIL 15: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a roundtable on the economy and tax reform at Nuss Trucking and Equipment on April 15, 2019 in Burnsville, Minnesota. At the special Tax Day roundtable Trump gave a defense of his 2017 tax cuts. (Photo by Adam Bettcher/Getty Images)

While the money Trump received from Congress limits new construction to “bollard fencing,” the president is also funding the wall through his national emergency declaration and freed up anti-drug funds from the Pentagon.

The Washington Post also takes issue with the fact that the Trump administration has shifted to “bollard fencing” rather than the concrete wall that Trump campaigned on — a semantic difference but not a technical one. Immigration officials told this reporter in January that they requested steel slats because it allows them to see potential threats across the border but still effectively operates as a wall. (RELATED: Immigration Experts Explain What An Effective Border Wall Looks Like)

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 139 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #2:

“[The Russia Investigation] was a hoax. This was a witch hunt. I have absolutely nothing to hide. And I think a lot of things are coming out with respect to the other side.” (March 29, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “President Trump frequently said the special counsel’s investigation was a witch hunt or a hoax. The special counsel revealed significant criminal activity by some of Trump’s campaign advisers and by Russian individuals and entities.”

The Facts: Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump” and matters that may arise from that investigation.

Attorney General Bill Barr said in a letter to Congress that Mueller did not find evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. While it is true that Mueller was able to charge Trump campaign members for crimes, none of the special counsel’s indictments directly related to collusion, the main purpose of the probe.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 115 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #3:

“We have created since my election 5.5 million new jobs. Nobody would have believed that was possible.” (March 28, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “Trump often inflates the number of jobs created under his presidency by counting from Election Day, rather than when he took the oath of office.”

The Facts: Trump specifically says in this quote that he is counting since his election, not since his inauguration, so it is unclear why WaPo included this in their list of false or misleading claims. The Post also does not consider the effect of consumer confidence and market reactions on job growth. U.S. economic confidence surged after Trump’s election in 2016, and positive outlooks on the economy could lead businesses to hire more workers.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 77 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #4:

“We have a chance of killing Obamacare. We almost did it but somebody unfortunately surprised us with thumbs down but we will do it a different way.” (March 28, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “Trump suggests that Sen. John McCain’s vote was the only impediment to passing a repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act. But none of the substantive replacement bills got nearly enough votes, and McCain’s vote was against a ‘skinny’ repeal that was only to lead to talks with the House on a common position, with no guarantee of an agreement that would pass both Houses.”

The Facts: Trump did not say that McCain’s vote was the “only impediment” to “killing Obamacare.” Further, the “skinny” repeal would have eliminated the individual mandate, temporarily eliminated the employer mandate, give states more waivers on Obamacare regulations, and increase contributions to Health Savings Accounts. Those are all key provisions of Obamacare and the bill was expected to destabilize the Obamacare market.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 38 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #5:

“Obamacare is a disaster. We’re going to have a plan that is so much better than Obamacare.” (March 29, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “The Affordable Care Act is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office. It has led to a sharp reduction in the number of people without health insurance and has been broadly accepted by the American public.”

The Facts: The Washington Post did not mention any of the detrimental aspects of Obamacare that would cause the president to label it a “disaster.” For example, millions of people lost their employment-based and private health insurance plans and were forced to pay for coverage they did not need. Obamacare premiums are also more than double what an average private health insurance plan cost in 2013. Whether or not this means Obamacare is a “disaster” is better left to political debate than fact checking.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 74 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #6:

“When you close the border, also you will stop a lot of the drugs from coming in. Because we take in tremendous drugs from Mexico, as you know as well as I do. So you close up the border and you watch the drugs go way down too.” (March 29, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “Most drugs come into the United States across the southern border with Mexico. But a wall would not limit this illegal trade, as much of it travels through legal borders or under tunnels unaffected by any possible physical barrier.”

The Facts: According to a March report by the Washington Examiner, more drugs were seized at unguarded sections of the border than at ports of entry in 2018. Former Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan also recently explained on Fox News that even if the majority of drugs were seized at ports of entry, that doesn’t mean drugs are not a problem between the ports.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 86 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #7:

Trump tweeted, “Working hard, thank you! #MAGA” above an image of a Rasmussen poll that listed his approval rating at 50 percent. (March 28, 2019)

WaPo Rating: “We’re not sure what poll Trump is referring to, as the most recent Rasmussen poll at the time of this tweet had him at 49 percent approval.”

The Facts: Rasmussen’s daily presidential tracking poll listed Trump’s approval rating at 50 percent on March 28, 2019.

The Washington Post also takes issue with Trump citing a Rasmussen poll because it “consistently has a Republican-leaning bias.” Rasmussen says its polls tend to favor Republicans because it surveys “likely voters” rather than registered voters, and Republicans are more likely to vote. Rasmussen also frequently points out that it correctly predicted the popular vote margin in the 2016 election.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 25 times since taking office.

By reviewing just those 7 claims, the Caller was able to identify a total of 554 repeated claims that should not be included in the Washington Post’s 9,451 “false or misleading” claims since Trump took office.

There are many more Trump claims in the March 28 to March 31 timeframe that the Post rated incorrectly, including claims about the unemployment rate, the Steele dossier, aid to Central and South America, and the Mueller investigation.

The Washington Post’s fact checking database is routinely cited by other outlets as an infallible source for tracking Trump’s “lies.” The Los Angeles Times suggested Americans create a March Madness bracket to bet on when Trump tells his “10,000th lie,” while CNN’s Chris Cillizza wrote an entire article debating why Trump is “unfazed” by his numerous lies.

The Caller’s review of the database, however, suggests the Post’s project isn’t as accurate or as useful as the establishment media likes to believe.
 

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Washington Post Fact Checker Inflates Trump Falsehoods
Amber Athey | White House Correspondent
9-12 minutes
The Washington Post’s fact checking team prides itself on compiling all of President Donald Trump’s false and misleading statements in one easy-to-use database.

However, a review of just four days of Trump statements that were fact checked by the Post reveals hundreds of claims that have been erroneously labeled false.

The Daily Caller reviewed the Post’s database of Trump falsehoods from March 28, 2019 to March 31, 2019 and was able to identify a number of Trump claims that should’ve been labeled true or unsubstantiated.

Here are just some of the “false or misleading” claims the Caller identified as being true or unsubstantiated.

Trump Claim 1:

“And we’re right now building a lot of wall on the southern border” (March 29, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “No, Trump’s wall is not yet being built. Congress inserted specific language in its appropriations bill that none of the $1.57 billion appropriated for border protection may be used for prototypes of a concrete wall that Trump observed while in California. The money can be used only for bollard fencing and levee fencing, or for replacement of existing fencing.”

The Facts: Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesman Roger Maier told The Daily Caller News Foundation in March that new wall is being built on the border in places where there were gaps or only small or ineffective non-wall barriers.

“CBP has built and continues to build new border wall along the Southwest border. To date, CBP has built 38 miles of new border wall system in San Diego and Calexico, California, Santa Teresa, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas,” Maier said.



BURNSVILLE, MN – APRIL 15: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a roundtable on the economy and tax reform at Nuss Trucking and Equipment on April 15, 2019 in Burnsville, Minnesota. At the special Tax Day roundtable Trump gave a defense of his 2017 tax cuts. (Photo by Adam Bettcher/Getty Images)

While the money Trump received from Congress limits new construction to “bollard fencing,” the president is also funding the wall through his national emergency declaration and freed up anti-drug funds from the Pentagon.

The Washington Post also takes issue with the fact that the Trump administration has shifted to “bollard fencing” rather than the concrete wall that Trump campaigned on — a semantic difference but not a technical one. Immigration officials told this reporter in January that they requested steel slats because it allows them to see potential threats across the border but still effectively operates as a wall. (RELATED: Immigration Experts Explain What An Effective Border Wall Looks Like)

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 139 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #2:

“[The Russia Investigation] was a hoax. This was a witch hunt. I have absolutely nothing to hide. And I think a lot of things are coming out with respect to the other side.” (March 29, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “President Trump frequently said the special counsel’s investigation was a witch hunt or a hoax. The special counsel revealed significant criminal activity by some of Trump’s campaign advisers and by Russian individuals and entities.”

The Facts: Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump” and matters that may arise from that investigation.

Attorney General Bill Barr said in a letter to Congress that Mueller did not find evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. While it is true that Mueller was able to charge Trump campaign members for crimes, none of the special counsel’s indictments directly related to collusion, the main purpose of the probe.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 115 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #3:

“We have created since my election 5.5 million new jobs. Nobody would have believed that was possible.” (March 28, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “Trump often inflates the number of jobs created under his presidency by counting from Election Day, rather than when he took the oath of office.”

The Facts: Trump specifically says in this quote that he is counting since his election, not since his inauguration, so it is unclear why WaPo included this in their list of false or misleading claims. The Post also does not consider the effect of consumer confidence and market reactions on job growth. U.S. economic confidence surged after Trump’s election in 2016, and positive outlooks on the economy could lead businesses to hire more workers.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 77 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #4:

“We have a chance of killing Obamacare. We almost did it but somebody unfortunately surprised us with thumbs down but we will do it a different way.” (March 28, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “Trump suggests that Sen. John McCain’s vote was the only impediment to passing a repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act. But none of the substantive replacement bills got nearly enough votes, and McCain’s vote was against a ‘skinny’ repeal that was only to lead to talks with the House on a common position, with no guarantee of an agreement that would pass both Houses.”

The Facts: Trump did not say that McCain’s vote was the “only impediment” to “killing Obamacare.” Further, the “skinny” repeal would have eliminated the individual mandate, temporarily eliminated the employer mandate, give states more waivers on Obamacare regulations, and increase contributions to Health Savings Accounts. Those are all key provisions of Obamacare and the bill was expected to destabilize the Obamacare market.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 38 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #5:

“Obamacare is a disaster. We’re going to have a plan that is so much better than Obamacare.” (March 29, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “The Affordable Care Act is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office. It has led to a sharp reduction in the number of people without health insurance and has been broadly accepted by the American public.”

The Facts: The Washington Post did not mention any of the detrimental aspects of Obamacare that would cause the president to label it a “disaster.” For example, millions of people lost their employment-based and private health insurance plans and were forced to pay for coverage they did not need. Obamacare premiums are also more than double what an average private health insurance plan cost in 2013. Whether or not this means Obamacare is a “disaster” is better left to political debate than fact checking.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 74 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #6:

“When you close the border, also you will stop a lot of the drugs from coming in. Because we take in tremendous drugs from Mexico, as you know as well as I do. So you close up the border and you watch the drugs go way down too.” (March 29, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “Most drugs come into the United States across the southern border with Mexico. But a wall would not limit this illegal trade, as much of it travels through legal borders or under tunnels unaffected by any possible physical barrier.”

The Facts: According to a March report by the Washington Examiner, more drugs were seized at unguarded sections of the border than at ports of entry in 2018. Former Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan also recently explained on Fox News that even if the majority of drugs were seized at ports of entry, that doesn’t mean drugs are not a problem between the ports.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 86 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #7:

Trump tweeted, “Working hard, thank you! #MAGA” above an image of a Rasmussen poll that listed his approval rating at 50 percent. (March 28, 2019)

WaPo Rating: “We’re not sure what poll Trump is referring to, as the most recent Rasmussen poll at the time of this tweet had him at 49 percent approval.”

The Facts: Rasmussen’s daily presidential tracking poll listed Trump’s approval rating at 50 percent on March 28, 2019.

The Washington Post also takes issue with Trump citing a Rasmussen poll because it “consistently has a Republican-leaning bias.” Rasmussen says its polls tend to favor Republicans because it surveys “likely voters” rather than registered voters, and Republicans are more likely to vote. Rasmussen also frequently points out that it correctly predicted the popular vote margin in the 2016 election.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 25 times since taking office.

By reviewing just those 7 claims, the Caller was able to identify a total of 554 repeated claims that should not be included in the Washington Post’s 9,451 “false or misleading” claims since Trump took office.

There are many more Trump claims in the March 28 to March 31 timeframe that the Post rated incorrectly, including claims about the unemployment rate, the Steele dossier, aid to Central and South America, and the Mueller investigation.

The Washington Post’s fact checking database is routinely cited by other outlets as an infallible source for tracking Trump’s “lies.” The Los Angeles Times suggested Americans create a March Madness bracket to bet on when Trump tells his “10,000th lie,” while CNN’s Chris Cillizza wrote an entire article debating why Trump is “unfazed” by his numerous lies.

The Caller’s review of the database, however, suggests the Post’s project isn’t as accurate or as useful as the establishment media likes to believe.
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Washington Post Fact Checker Inflates Trump Falsehoods
Amber Athey | White House Correspondent
9-12 minutes
The Washington Post’s fact checking team prides itself on compiling all of President Donald Trump’s false and misleading statements in one easy-to-use database.

However, a review of just four days of Trump statements that were fact checked by the Post reveals hundreds of claims that have been erroneously labeled false.

The Daily Caller reviewed the Post’s database of Trump falsehoods from March 28, 2019 to March 31, 2019 and was able to identify a number of Trump claims that should’ve been labeled true or unsubstantiated.

Here are just some of the “false or misleading” claims the Caller identified as being true or unsubstantiated.

Trump Claim 1:

“And we’re right now building a lot of wall on the southern border” (March 29, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “No, Trump’s wall is not yet being built. Congress inserted specific language in its appropriations bill that none of the $1.57 billion appropriated for border protection may be used for prototypes of a concrete wall that Trump observed while in California. The money can be used only for bollard fencing and levee fencing, or for replacement of existing fencing.”

The Facts: Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesman Roger Maier told The Daily Caller News Foundation in March that new wall is being built on the border in places where there were gaps or only small or ineffective non-wall barriers.

“CBP has built and continues to build new border wall along the Southwest border. To date, CBP has built 38 miles of new border wall system in San Diego and Calexico, California, Santa Teresa, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas,” Maier said.



BURNSVILLE, MN – APRIL 15: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a roundtable on the economy and tax reform at Nuss Trucking and Equipment on April 15, 2019 in Burnsville, Minnesota. At the special Tax Day roundtable Trump gave a defense of his 2017 tax cuts. (Photo by Adam Bettcher/Getty Images)

While the money Trump received from Congress limits new construction to “bollard fencing,” the president is also funding the wall through his national emergency declaration and freed up anti-drug funds from the Pentagon.

The Washington Post also takes issue with the fact that the Trump administration has shifted to “bollard fencing” rather than the concrete wall that Trump campaigned on — a semantic difference but not a technical one. Immigration officials told this reporter in January that they requested steel slats because it allows them to see potential threats across the border but still effectively operates as a wall. (RELATED: Immigration Experts Explain What An Effective Border Wall Looks Like)

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 139 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #2:

“[The Russia Investigation] was a hoax. This was a witch hunt. I have absolutely nothing to hide. And I think a lot of things are coming out with respect to the other side.” (March 29, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “President Trump frequently said the special counsel’s investigation was a witch hunt or a hoax. The special counsel revealed significant criminal activity by some of Trump’s campaign advisers and by Russian individuals and entities.”

The Facts: Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump” and matters that may arise from that investigation.

Attorney General Bill Barr said in a letter to Congress that Mueller did not find evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. While it is true that Mueller was able to charge Trump campaign members for crimes, none of the special counsel’s indictments directly related to collusion, the main purpose of the probe.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 115 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #3:

“We have created since my election 5.5 million new jobs. Nobody would have believed that was possible.” (March 28, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “Trump often inflates the number of jobs created under his presidency by counting from Election Day, rather than when he took the oath of office.”

The Facts: Trump specifically says in this quote that he is counting since his election, not since his inauguration, so it is unclear why WaPo included this in their list of false or misleading claims. The Post also does not consider the effect of consumer confidence and market reactions on job growth. U.S. economic confidence surged after Trump’s election in 2016, and positive outlooks on the economy could lead businesses to hire more workers.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 77 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #4:

“We have a chance of killing Obamacare. We almost did it but somebody unfortunately surprised us with thumbs down but we will do it a different way.” (March 28, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “Trump suggests that Sen. John McCain’s vote was the only impediment to passing a repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act. But none of the substantive replacement bills got nearly enough votes, and McCain’s vote was against a ‘skinny’ repeal that was only to lead to talks with the House on a common position, with no guarantee of an agreement that would pass both Houses.”

The Facts: Trump did not say that McCain’s vote was the “only impediment” to “killing Obamacare.” Further, the “skinny” repeal would have eliminated the individual mandate, temporarily eliminated the employer mandate, give states more waivers on Obamacare regulations, and increase contributions to Health Savings Accounts. Those are all key provisions of Obamacare and the bill was expected to destabilize the Obamacare market.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 38 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #5:

“Obamacare is a disaster. We’re going to have a plan that is so much better than Obamacare.” (March 29, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “The Affordable Care Act is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office. It has led to a sharp reduction in the number of people without health insurance and has been broadly accepted by the American public.”

The Facts: The Washington Post did not mention any of the detrimental aspects of Obamacare that would cause the president to label it a “disaster.” For example, millions of people lost their employment-based and private health insurance plans and were forced to pay for coverage they did not need. Obamacare premiums are also more than double what an average private health insurance plan cost in 2013. Whether or not this means Obamacare is a “disaster” is better left to political debate than fact checking.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 74 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #6:

“When you close the border, also you will stop a lot of the drugs from coming in. Because we take in tremendous drugs from Mexico, as you know as well as I do. So you close up the border and you watch the drugs go way down too.” (March 29, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “Most drugs come into the United States across the southern border with Mexico. But a wall would not limit this illegal trade, as much of it travels through legal borders or under tunnels unaffected by any possible physical barrier.”

The Facts: According to a March report by the Washington Examiner, more drugs were seized at unguarded sections of the border than at ports of entry in 2018. Former Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan also recently explained on Fox News that even if the majority of drugs were seized at ports of entry, that doesn’t mean drugs are not a problem between the ports.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 86 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #7:

Trump tweeted, “Working hard, thank you! #MAGA” above an image of a Rasmussen poll that listed his approval rating at 50 percent. (March 28, 2019)

WaPo Rating: “We’re not sure what poll Trump is referring to, as the most recent Rasmussen poll at the time of this tweet had him at 49 percent approval.”

The Facts: Rasmussen’s daily presidential tracking poll listed Trump’s approval rating at 50 percent on March 28, 2019.

The Washington Post also takes issue with Trump citing a Rasmussen poll because it “consistently has a Republican-leaning bias.” Rasmussen says its polls tend to favor Republicans because it surveys “likely voters” rather than registered voters, and Republicans are more likely to vote. Rasmussen also frequently points out that it correctly predicted the popular vote margin in the 2016 election.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 25 times since taking office.

By reviewing just those 7 claims, the Caller was able to identify a total of 554 repeated claims that should not be included in the Washington Post’s 9,451 “false or misleading” claims since Trump took office.

There are many more Trump claims in the March 28 to March 31 timeframe that the Post rated incorrectly, including claims about the unemployment rate, the Steele dossier, aid to Central and South America, and the Mueller investigation.

The Washington Post’s fact checking database is routinely cited by other outlets as an infallible source for tracking Trump’s “lies.” The Los Angeles Times suggested Americans create a March Madness bracket to bet on when Trump tells his “10,000th lie,” while CNN’s Chris Cillizza wrote an entire article debating why Trump is “unfazed” by his numerous lies.

The Caller’s review of the database, however, suggests the Post’s project isn’t as accurate or as useful as the establishment media likes to believe.
 

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Washington Post Fact Checker Inflates Trump Falsehoods
Amber Athey | White House Correspondent
9-12 minutes
The Washington Post’s fact checking team prides itself on compiling all of President Donald Trump’s false and misleading statements in one easy-to-use database.

However, a review of just four days of Trump statements that were fact checked by the Post reveals hundreds of claims that have been erroneously labeled false.

The Daily Caller reviewed the Post’s database of Trump falsehoods from March 28, 2019 to March 31, 2019 and was able to identify a number of Trump claims that should’ve been labeled true or unsubstantiated.

Here are just some of the “false or misleading” claims the Caller identified as being true or unsubstantiated.

Trump Claim 1:

“And we’re right now building a lot of wall on the southern border” (March 29, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “No, Trump’s wall is not yet being built. Congress inserted specific language in its appropriations bill that none of the $1.57 billion appropriated for border protection may be used for prototypes of a concrete wall that Trump observed while in California. The money can be used only for bollard fencing and levee fencing, or for replacement of existing fencing.”

The Facts: Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesman Roger Maier told The Daily Caller News Foundation in March that new wall is being built on the border in places where there were gaps or only small or ineffective non-wall barriers.

“CBP has built and continues to build new border wall along the Southwest border. To date, CBP has built 38 miles of new border wall system in San Diego and Calexico, California, Santa Teresa, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas,” Maier said.



BURNSVILLE, MN – APRIL 15: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a roundtable on the economy and tax reform at Nuss Trucking and Equipment on April 15, 2019 in Burnsville, Minnesota. At the special Tax Day roundtable Trump gave a defense of his 2017 tax cuts. (Photo by Adam Bettcher/Getty Images)

While the money Trump received from Congress limits new construction to “bollard fencing,” the president is also funding the wall through his national emergency declaration and freed up anti-drug funds from the Pentagon.

The Washington Post also takes issue with the fact that the Trump administration has shifted to “bollard fencing” rather than the concrete wall that Trump campaigned on — a semantic difference but not a technical one. Immigration officials told this reporter in January that they requested steel slats because it allows them to see potential threats across the border but still effectively operates as a wall. (RELATED: Immigration Experts Explain What An Effective Border Wall Looks Like)

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 139 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #2:

“[The Russia Investigation] was a hoax. This was a witch hunt. I have absolutely nothing to hide. And I think a lot of things are coming out with respect to the other side.” (March 29, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “President Trump frequently said the special counsel’s investigation was a witch hunt or a hoax. The special counsel revealed significant criminal activity by some of Trump’s campaign advisers and by Russian individuals and entities.”

The Facts: Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump” and matters that may arise from that investigation.

Attorney General Bill Barr said in a letter to Congress that Mueller did not find evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. While it is true that Mueller was able to charge Trump campaign members for crimes, none of the special counsel’s indictments directly related to collusion, the main purpose of the probe.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 115 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #3:

“We have created since my election 5.5 million new jobs. Nobody would have believed that was possible.” (March 28, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “Trump often inflates the number of jobs created under his presidency by counting from Election Day, rather than when he took the oath of office.”

The Facts: Trump specifically says in this quote that he is counting since his election, not since his inauguration, so it is unclear why WaPo included this in their list of false or misleading claims. The Post also does not consider the effect of consumer confidence and market reactions on job growth. U.S. economic confidence surged after Trump’s election in 2016, and positive outlooks on the economy could lead businesses to hire more workers.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 77 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #4:

“We have a chance of killing Obamacare. We almost did it but somebody unfortunately surprised us with thumbs down but we will do it a different way.” (March 28, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “Trump suggests that Sen. John McCain’s vote was the only impediment to passing a repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act. But none of the substantive replacement bills got nearly enough votes, and McCain’s vote was against a ‘skinny’ repeal that was only to lead to talks with the House on a common position, with no guarantee of an agreement that would pass both Houses.”

The Facts: Trump did not say that McCain’s vote was the “only impediment” to “killing Obamacare.” Further, the “skinny” repeal would have eliminated the individual mandate, temporarily eliminated the employer mandate, give states more waivers on Obamacare regulations, and increase contributions to Health Savings Accounts. Those are all key provisions of Obamacare and the bill was expected to destabilize the Obamacare market.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 38 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #5:

“Obamacare is a disaster. We’re going to have a plan that is so much better than Obamacare.” (March 29, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “The Affordable Care Act is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office. It has led to a sharp reduction in the number of people without health insurance and has been broadly accepted by the American public.”

The Facts: The Washington Post did not mention any of the detrimental aspects of Obamacare that would cause the president to label it a “disaster.” For example, millions of people lost their employment-based and private health insurance plans and were forced to pay for coverage they did not need. Obamacare premiums are also more than double what an average private health insurance plan cost in 2013. Whether or not this means Obamacare is a “disaster” is better left to political debate than fact checking.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 74 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #6:

“When you close the border, also you will stop a lot of the drugs from coming in. Because we take in tremendous drugs from Mexico, as you know as well as I do. So you close up the border and you watch the drugs go way down too.” (March 29, 2019)

WaPo’s Rating: “Most drugs come into the United States across the southern border with Mexico. But a wall would not limit this illegal trade, as much of it travels through legal borders or under tunnels unaffected by any possible physical barrier.”

The Facts: According to a March report by the Washington Examiner, more drugs were seized at unguarded sections of the border than at ports of entry in 2018. Former Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan also recently explained on Fox News that even if the majority of drugs were seized at ports of entry, that doesn’t mean drugs are not a problem between the ports.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 86 times since taking office.

Trump Claim #7:

Trump tweeted, “Working hard, thank you! #MAGA” above an image of a Rasmussen poll that listed his approval rating at 50 percent. (March 28, 2019)

WaPo Rating: “We’re not sure what poll Trump is referring to, as the most recent Rasmussen poll at the time of this tweet had him at 49 percent approval.”

The Facts: Rasmussen’s daily presidential tracking poll listed Trump’s approval rating at 50 percent on March 28, 2019.

The Washington Post also takes issue with Trump citing a Rasmussen poll because it “consistently has a Republican-leaning bias.” Rasmussen says its polls tend to favor Republicans because it surveys “likely voters” rather than registered voters, and Republicans are more likely to vote. Rasmussen also frequently points out that it correctly predicted the popular vote margin in the 2016 election.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has repeated this “false or misleading” claim 25 times since taking office.

By reviewing just those 7 claims, the Caller was able to identify a total of 554 repeated claims that should not be included in the Washington Post’s 9,451 “false or misleading” claims since Trump took office.

There are many more Trump claims in the March 28 to March 31 timeframe that the Post rated incorrectly, including claims about the unemployment rate, the Steele dossier, aid to Central and South America, and the Mueller investigation.

The Washington Post’s fact checking database is routinely cited by other outlets as an infallible source for tracking Trump’s “lies.” The Los Angeles Times suggested Americans create a March Madness bracket to bet on when Trump tells his “10,000th lie,” while CNN’s Chris Cillizza wrote an entire article debating why Trump is “unfazed” by his numerous lies.

The Caller’s review of the database, however, suggests the Post’s project isn’t as accurate or as useful as the establishment media likes to believe.
Much of this is spun on both sides. There's a lot of "depends how you look at it."
 
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"The President's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests. Comey did not end the investigation of Flynn, which ultimately resulted in Flynn's prosecution and conviction for lying to the FBI. McGahn did not tell the Acting Attorney General that the Special Counsel must be removed, but was instead prepared to resign over the President's order. Lewandowski and Dearborn did not deliver the President's message to Sessions that he should confine the Russia investigation to future election meddling only. And McGahn refused to recede from his recollections about events surrounding the President's direction to have the Special Counsel removed, despite the President's multiple demands that he do so. Consistent with that pattern, the evidence we obtained would not support potential obstruction charges against the President's aides and associates beyond those already filed."
 

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"The President's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests. Comey did not end the investigation of Flynn, which ultimately resulted in Flynn's prosecution and conviction for lying to the FBI. McGahn did not tell the Acting Attorney General that the Special Counsel must be removed, but was instead prepared to resign over the President's order. Lewandowski and Dearborn did not deliver the President's message to Sessions that he should confine the Russia investigation to future election meddling only. And McGahn refused to recede from his recollections about events surrounding the President's direction to have the Special Counsel removed, despite the President's multiple demands that he do so. Consistent with that pattern, the evidence we obtained would not support potential obstruction charges against the President's aides and associates beyond those already filed."
Goddamn it! I was hoping for some rage for Trump's Game of Thrones-esq picture lol
 

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7 times the Mueller report caught Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders lying to press
Spicer lied about who made the decision to fire Michael Flynn
As presented in the Mueller report, the decision that National Security Adviser Michael Flynn needed to go — as evidence began to pile up that he’d lied to Trump officials and maybe to the FBI about conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak about sanctions prior to Trump’s inauguration — was made on February 9, 2017 by then-White House Counsel Don McGahn and then-White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. “McGahn and Priebus concluded that Flynn should be terminated,” the report says, “and recommended that course of action to the President.”

It doesn’t tell us how Trump responded, though Trump did have at least one conversation with Flynn on February 12 that did not involve firing him. When Preibus finally ordered Flynn to resign, the president warmly wished him goodbye: “Priebus recalled that the President hugged Flynn, shook his hand, and said, ‘We’ll give you a good recommendation. You’re a good guy. We’ll take care of you.’”

But Sean Spicer, in a press briefing the next day, portrayed the decision as one that Trump himself made — because he no longer trusted Flynn: “a level of trust between the President and General Flynn had eroded to the point where he felt he had to make a change.”

The report makes clear that this was a lie. Flynn called White House adviser Jared Kushner after the press conference, upset about how Spicer had described the situation. Kushner, in the room with the president, reassured Flynn that Trump respected and cared about him — and promised a positive tweet about Flynn later (with Trump’s assent).

Flynn had every reason to be upset. He knew that the account Spicer had given simply wasn’t true. Trump’s continued defenses of Flynn and efforts to be in touch with him strongly suggested what the Mueller report proves: Spicer and others drafted a post-hoc fiction to absolve Trump of any suspicion about his judgment in hiring Flynn.

Sanders (probably) lied about whether Trump asked Comey for his loyalty
Shortly after Flynn was fired, Trump had a one-on-one dinner with then-FBI Director James Comey. Comey, in a memo he wrote immediately after the dinner and before both the special counsel’s investigators and Congress — in other words, under penalty of perjury —said that Trump told him, “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.”

When Comey’s recollection of the dinner became public (in advance of his testimony before a Senate committee in June 2017), Trump denied any such statement, and so did his press team. Sarah Sanders told the New York Times that Trump “would never even suggest the expectation of personal loyalty.”

The Mueller report doesn’t prove that Trump and Sanders were lying about the loyalty request — though it does note that Trump lied about inviting Comey to dinner (Trump claimed Comey asked for the meeting, but the president’s schedule shows he initiated the invitation). But the report makes it clear which account it finds credible: “Comey’s memory of the details of the dinner, including that the President requested loyalty, has remained consistent throughout.”

Furthermore, in a footnote, the report reveals that Trump wasn’t exactly as averse to the idea of asking for loyalty as Sanders portrayed him. It summarizes a private conversation with Sean Spicer: Trump “stated that he had never asked for Comey’s loyalty, but added that if he had asked for loyalty, ‘Who cares?’”

Spicer lied about who decided to fire Comey
In the 24 hours after Comey was abruptly fired as head of the FBI, Spicer and Sanders lied about the circumstances of that firing in four distinct ways.

The first, and most blatant, was Spicer’s initial spin on the firing: that Donald Trump had had no involvement in getting James Comey fired.

Here’s how the Comey firing was planned, according to the Mueller report:

  • On May 5, 2017, Trump decided to fire Comey and dictated a letter of dismissal.
  • Trump kept revising with Stephen Miller over the weekend (though in every draft, he started the letter by mentioning that Comey told him he wasn’t under investigation).
  • On May 8, 2017, Trump met with other senior advisers and presented Comey’s firing as a fait accompli: per the report, Trump “conveyed that the decision had been made and was not up for discussion.”
  • McGahn suggested involving then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and deputy Rod Rosenstein, who were already scheduled for a meeting with Trump later that day.
  • McGahn and other officials told Sessions and Rosenstein about the plan at noon.
  • Trump ordered Rosenstein to draft a memo expressing Rosenstein’s own concerns about Comey — but tried to get the Russia investigation into it.
  • Ultimately, the White House team decided that Trump’s original letter would “[n]ot [see the] light of day,” and that the team provide “no other rationales” for firing Comey beyond what Sessions and Rosenstein wrote.
Here’s what Sean Spicer said about the Comey firing to reporters in the infamous “lurking in the bushes” press conference the night Comey was fired:

  • “It was all [Rosenstein]. No one from the White House. It was a DOJ decision.”
Sanders lied about when Trump decided to fire James Comey
By the morning of May 10, the White House had abandoned the lie that Trump hadn’t made the decision to fire Comey. But they weren’t yet willing to jettison the post-hoc justification for Comey’s firing that Sessions and Rosenstein provided. In a press conference that day, Sarah Sanders said on multiple occasions that Trump didn’t make his final decision until after receiving Rosenstein’s memo the day before laying out the case against Comey — which focused on Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton investigation in 2016 and didn’t mention the Russia investigation.

It was obvious at the time that Sanders wasn’t telling the truth. One reporter pointed out that Rosenstein’s memo said that Comey had been too harsh on Clinton, while Trump had said Clinton should have been treated more harshly. (Sanders tried to claim that Trump had a different position as a candidate than he did as a president.)

But the Mueller report is pretty definitive that the decision to fire Comey was made before Sessions and Rosenstein were ever informed. It cites five different officials who describe Trump as being certain Comey should be fired as of the meeting on the morning of May 8; White House adviser Stephen Miller told investigators that Trump started the meeting with, “I’m going to read you a letter. Don’t talk me out of this. I’ve made my decision.”

Sanders lied about Sessions and Rosenstein’s involvement in the Comey firing
Buttressing Sanders’s lie about the Comey firing was a lie about why Sessions and Rosenstein had been involved in the process: “They had come to him to express their concerns,” she told the press the next day.

That’s simply not true. Sessions and Rosenstein had both had concerns with Comey, but the report makes it perfectly clear that their involvement in the process was initiated by the White House on Monday morning. “McGahn said previously scheduled meetings with Sessions and Rosenstein that day would be an opportunity to find out what they thought about firing Comey,” the report notes. After McGahn and other advisers held that meeting, they scheduled an Oval Office meeting for Sessions and Rosenstein to discuss Comey with Trump.

What’s especially important to note is that by the time Sanders gave this press conference, Sessions and Rosenstein had already told the White House that they felt they were being used. Sessions told McGahn’s office on Tuesday night that “Rosenstein was upset that his memorandum was being portrayed as the reason for Comey’s termination,” the report says, while Rosenstein told Trump himself that “if the press asked him, he would tell the truth that Comey’s firing was not his idea.” But Sanders went out the next day and portrayed them as advisers who’d brought independent concerns to Trump before Trump made his final decision.

Sanders lied about “countless” FBI agents losing faith in Comey
Of all the lies, this is the one that Sanders herself admitted was a lie to Mueller: the claim, expressed both in the May 10 press conference and in other interviews, that she had heard from “countless” members of the FBI who did not support Comey and were glad he was fired.

This too was a suspicious claim at the time, since contemporaneous reporting portrayed the FBI as being in mourning over Comey’s ouster. But the Mueller report discloses that Sanders didn’t have any backing for the claim at all:

Sanders told this Office that her reference to hearing from “countless members of the FBI” was a “slip of the tongue.” She also recalled that her statement in a separate press interview that rank-and-file FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey was a comment she made ”in the heat of the moment” that was not founded on anything.

Of course, these too appear to be lies — or at least flimsy excuses. Sanders is saying that a statement she made several times just during the May 10 presser was a “slip of the tongue,” and that its use again in a different interview was “in the heat of the moment.” Sanders’s statements to the special counsel’s investigators portray her as someone with too little self-control to be an effective messenger; the much more likely answer is that she was simply lying, and knew it, and kept doing it.

Sanders lied about Trump dictating the statement about the Trump Tower meeting
In July 2017, the Trump administration was contacted by the New York Times about a meeting that Trump campaign officials including Donald Trump Jr. had had with Kremlin-connected lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in the summer of 2016.

Trump worked on a statement with adviser Hope Hicks, in which he worked to portray the meeting as entirely about US adoption law. He knew at the time this wasn’t true; he knew about the email exchange that had preceded the meeting, in which Trump Jr had expressed excitement over the idea of getting dirt on Clinton.

A few days later, though, the emails themselves were public (posted by Trump Jr. on Twitter) and the press was reporting that Trump had worked on the initial statement — a statement which now appeared to be an attempt at misdirection. Here was Sanders’s response:

“After consulting with the President on the issue,” the report says, “White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told the media that the President ‘certainly didn’t dictate’ the statement, but that ‘he weighed in, offered suggestions like any father would do.’“

Trump had, of course, dictated a statement. And his lawyers ultimately admitted as much in a “private communication” to Mueller’s team, saying that “the President dictated a short but accurate response to the New York Times article on behalf of his son, Donald Trump, Jr.”

That isn’t quite true, either — Trump’s suggested statement would not have been accurate, and it was additions by Trump Jr. and Hicks that made it only deeply misleading. But that, too, proves something: that there were people in Trump’s orbit who were capable of mitigating the president’s temptation to lie all the time. Those people just weren’t the ones in charge of talking to the press.
 

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Day 1 - totally exonerated!

Day 2 - total bullshit!
 
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