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<p class="gmail-p1" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It's difficult to keep track of all of Donald Trump's lies but The New York Times figured if they could do it for just one week that might be a good representational sample of the total number of lies told in the entire campaign. They didn't include "untruths that appeared to be mere hyperbole or humor, or delivered purely for effect, or what could generously be called rounding errors", they were only interested in statements that concerned important things and were contradicted by facts and were objectively false. They found 31 whoppers. Keep in mind this list only includes the lies Trump made between September 15 and September 21, that means every 3.6 waking hours Trump tells a major lie to a cheering audience who love him because he's a straight shooter who tells it like it is. Go figure.</p>
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<p class="gmail-p3" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Tall Tales About Himself</p>
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<p class="gmail-p5" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mr. Trump’s version of reality allows for few, if any, flaws in himself. As he tells it, the polls are always looking up, his policy solutions are painless and simple and his judgment regarding politics and people has been consistent — and flawless. The most consistent falsehood he tells about himself may be that he opposed the war in Iraq from the start, when the evidence shows otherwise.</p>
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<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">1</span><b>He said a supportive crowd chanted, “Let him speak!” when a black pastor in Flint, Mich., asked Mr. Trump not to give a political speech in the church.</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 15.</p>
<p class="gmail-p9"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There were </span>no such chants.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">2</span><b>“I was against going into the war in Iraq.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SPEECH IN FLORIDA, SEPT. 19.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This is not getting any truer with repetition. He never publicly expressed opposition to the war before it began, and he made </font>supportive remarks<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> to Howard Stern.</font></p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">3</span><b>He said any supportive comments he made about the Iraq war came “long before” the war began.</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He</font> expressed support<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> for the war in September 2002, when Congress was debating whether to authorize military action.</font></p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">4</span><b>He said he had publicly opposed the Iraq war in an Esquire interview “pretty quickly after the war started.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The </font>Esquire interview <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">appeared in the August 2004 edition, 17 months after the war began.</font></p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">5</span><b>Before the Iraq invasion, he said, he had told the Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto something “pretty close” to: “Don’t go in, and don’t make the mistake of going in.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Not remotely close. He told Mr. Cavuto that President George W. Bus</font>h had to take decisive action.<span class="gmail-s1" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">6</span><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">He said that when Howard Stern asked him about Iraq in 2002, it was “the first time the word Iraq was ever mentioned to me.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mr. Trump expressed alarm about Saddam Hussein and the situation in Iraq in 2000 i</font>n his own book.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">7</span><b>“You see what’s happening with my poll numbers with African-Americans. They’re going, like, high.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SPEECH IN NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20; MADE SAME CLAIM IN OHIO, SEPT. 21.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Polls show him winning virtually no support from African-Americans.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">8</span><b>“Almost, it seems, everybody agrees” with his position on immigration.</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">REMARKS IN TEXAS, SEPT. 17.</p>
Most Americans oppose his signature positions on immigration.
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">9</span><b>He has made “a lot of progress” with Hispanic and black voters, and “you see that in the polls.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FRED DICKER RADIO SHOW, SEPT. 15.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">No major poll has shown him making up significant ground with black or Hispanic voters.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">10</span><b>He was “never a fan” of Colin Powell.</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In his book “The America We Deserve,” </font>he named Mr. Powell as among the “best and brightest”in American society.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">11</span><b>Mr. Trump said that after The Times published an article scrutinizing his relationships with women, “All the women came out and said they think Donald Trump is terrific.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Only</font> one woman who was quoted in the article <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">came to his defense after its publication.</font></p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">12</span><b>“Unlike other people” who only raise money for themselves during presidential campaigns, he also raises money for the Republican Party.</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 15.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Every presidential nominee</font> forms a joint fund-raising agreement <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">to share money with his or her national party.</font></p>
<p class="gmail-p11" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Unfounded Claims About<br>
Critics and the News Media</p>
<p class="gmail-p12" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It’s not just Mrs. Clinton whom Mr. Trump belittles and tars with inaccurate information. He also distorted the facts about his Republican critics, including President George Bush and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio. And he claimed that Lester Holt, the NBC anchor moderating the first presidential debate, is a Democrat — but Mr. Holt is a registered Republican.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">13</span><b>In the primaries, Mr. Kasich “won one and, by the way, didn’t win it by much — that was Ohio.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 19.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mr. Kasich</font> crushed him in Ohio<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">, winning by 11 percentage points.</font></p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">14</span><b>Lester Holt, the NBC anchor and debate moderator, “is a Democrat.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 19.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mr. Holt is a registered Republican, New York City records show.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">15</span><b>The presidential debate moderators “are all Democrats.” “It’s a very unfair system.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 19.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Only one, Chris Wallace of Fox News, is a registered Democrat.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">16</span><b>He said it “hasn’t been reported” that Mrs. Clinton called some Trump supporters “deplorable.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SPEECH IN NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It would be difficult to find a news organization that didn’t </font>report her remark.</p>
<p class="gmail-p11" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Inaccurate Claims About Clinton</p>
<p class="gmail-p12" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mr. Trump regularly dissembles about his opponent, attributing ideas to Mrs. Clinton that she has not endorsed, or accusing her of complicity in events in which she had no involvement.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">17</span><b>“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">REMARKS IN WASHINGTON, SEPT. 16.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mrs. Clinton and her campaign </font>never publicly questioned President Obama’s birthplace;<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mr. Trump made it his signature cause for five years.</font></p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">18</span><b>Mrs. Clinton had “the power and the duty” to stop the release of unauthorized immigrants whose home countries would not accept their deportation after they were released from prison.</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">NUMEROUS SPEECHES, INCLUDING IN COLORADO, SEPT. 17, AND FLORIDA, SEPT. 19.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The secretary of state does not have the power to detain convicted criminals after they have served their sentences, and has little power to make foreign countries accept deportees.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">19</span><b>Mrs. Clinton has not criticized jihadists and foreign governments that oppress and kill women, gay people and non-Muslims. “Has Hillary Clinton ever called people who support these practices deplorable and irredeemable? No.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SPEECH IN FLORIDA, SEPT. 19.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">She has denounced jihadists and foreign countries on the same grounds, if not necessarily using the same words.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">20</span><b>“Do people notice Hillary is copying my airplane rallies — she puts the plane behind her like I have been doing from the beginning.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8">TWITTER,<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> SEPT. 20.</font></p>
<p class="gmail-p10" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">He did not invent the tarmac rally or the campaign-plane backdrop.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">21</span><b>Mrs. Clinton destroyed 13 smartphones with a hammer while she was secretary of state.</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SPEECHES IN FLORIDA, SEPT. 15 AND SEPT. 19.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">An aide</font> told the F.B.I. of only two occasions i<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">n which phones were destroyed with a hammer.</font></p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">22</span><b>He said Mrs. Clinton is calling for “total amnesty in the first 100 days,” including “a virtual end to immigration enforcement” and for unauthorized immigrants to receive Social Security and Medicare.</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SPEECH IN COLORADO, SEPT. 17.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">She has not proposed this.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">23</span><b>Mrs. Clinton is “effectively proposing to abolish the borders around the country.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">NUMEROUS SPEECHES, INCLUDING IN TEXAS, SEPT. 17.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">She is not even proposing to cut funding for the Border Patrol.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">24</span><b>“Hillary Clinton’s plan would bring in 620,000 refugees in her first term alone,” and would cost $400 billion.</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">NUMEROUS SPEECHES, INCLUDING IN NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">She endorsed</font> admitting 65,000 Syrian refugees <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">this year, on top of other admissions. Mr. Trump is falsely claiming that she wants to do this every year and is estimating the cost accordingly.</font></p>
<p class="gmail-p11" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Stump Speech Falsehoods</p>
<p class="gmail-p12" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Some warped or inaccurate claims have become regular features of Mr. Trump’s stump speech. He routinely overstates the scale and nature of the country’s economic distress and the threats to its national security, and exaggerates the potential for overnight improvements if he were elected.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">25</span><b>“Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape that they’ve ever been in before — ever, ever, ever.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SPEECH IN NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">No measurement supports this characterization of black America.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">26</span><b>Fifty-eight percent of black youth are not working.</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">NUMEROUS SPEECHES, INCLUDING IN FLORIDA, SEPT. 16, AND COLORADO, SEPT. 17.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This misleading statistic counts high school students as out of work. Black youth unemployment actually was</font> 20.6 percent in July.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">27</span><b>Many dangerous refugees are being welcomed by the Obama administration. “Hundreds of thousands of people are being approved to pour into the country. We have no idea who they are.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">NEW HAMPSHIRE SPEECH, SEPT. 15.</p>
<p class="gmail-p9"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Obama administration has admitted</span> more than 10,000 Syrian refugees, using an extensive screening process.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">28</span><b>“We have cities that are far more dangerous than Afghanistan.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">NUMEROUS SPEECHES, INCLUDING IN FLORIDA, SEPT. 16; COLORADO, SEPT. 17; NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20; OHIO, SEPT. 21; AND A FOX NEWS INTERVIEW ON SEPT. 21.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">No American city resembles a war zone, though crime has risen lately in some, like Chicago. Urban violence has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/08/us/us-murder-rates.html"><span class="gmail-s3">fallen precipitously over the past 25 years</span></a>.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">29</span><b>Ford plans to cut American jobs by relocating small-car production to Mexico, and may move all production outside the United States.</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FOX NEWS INTERVIEW AND NEW HAMPSHIRE SPEECH, SEPT. 15.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mark Fields, Ford’s chief executive, said it </font>was not cutting American jobs.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">30</span><b>“We have a trade deficit this year with China of approximately $500 billion.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">NORTH CAROLINA SPEECH, SEPT. 20.</p>
<p class="gmail-p9"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">He has made this claim repeatedly, but the</span> trade deficit with China is significantly smaller.</p>
<p class="gmail-p11" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Esoteric Embellishments</p>
<p class="gmail-p12" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mr. Trump often dissembles on subjects of passing interest, like the news of the day or the parochial concerns of his local audiences. But his larger pattern of behavior still holds: These misstatements, too, accentuate the grievances of his supporters, and cast his own ideas in a more favorable light.</p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1">31</span><b>Senator Bernie Sanders fell victim to “a rigged system with the superdelegates.”</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SPEECHES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, SEPT. 15, AND NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20.</p>
<p class="gmail-p10"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mr. Sanders did not lose the Democratic nomination because of superdelegates. Mrs. Clinton </font>beat him in pledged delegates, too.</p>
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