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   >>> BTR1701 wrote:   
      
   Believe everything Trump tells you like a good little gullible right wing   
   moron.   He's going to die behind bars anyway.   The followers of Trump   
   are imbeciles who don't deserve American citizenship.   
      
   Final tally of lies: Analysts say Trump told 30,000 mistruths – that’s 21   
   a day – during presidency   
      
   Donald Trump made more than 30,000 false or misleading statements during   
   his four years as president of the United States, analysis suggests.   
      
   The astounding figure, which roughly equates to 21 false statements per   
   day (or 20.94 to be precise) of his tenure at the White House, comes after   
   a tumultuous post election period in which he spent weeks falsely alleging   
   that the 2020 election was “stolen”, in remarks that spurred on his   
   supporters to storm the US Capitol on 6 January.   
      
   According to analysis by the Washington Post, Mr Trump made 30,573 false   
   or misleading claims between his first day in office, on 20 January 2017,   
   and his final day on Wednesday, when Joe Biden was sworn in as the   
   country’s next president.   
      
   Among the Republican’s most repeated untruths was that his administration   
   “built the greatest economy in the history of the world”. That phrase,   
   according to the Posts’s analysis, was used at least 493 times.   
   Rightists believe every word out of Trump's festering gob.   
      
      
   Another favourite – and his second most repeated falsehood – was the   
   former president’s claim that tax cuts introduced by his administration   
   were the biggest on record.   
      
   That phrase, the analysis showed, was repeated 296 times, and as recently   
   as his final day in office, when he made a farewell speech from Joint Base   
   Andrews hours before Mr Biden was sworn in.   
      
   “We also got tax cuts, the largest tax cut and reform in the history of   
   our country, by far,” Mr Trump told those who had turned up to see him off   
   for the last time.   
      
   Mr Trump’s tax cut, which came in at the equivalent of 0.9 per cent, was 2   
   per cent lower than the tax cut introduced by the Reagan administration in   
   the 1980s, according to the Post.   
      
   Mr Trump went on to make a number of other falsehoods in his farewell   
   speech on the tarmac outside Washington DC, which included claims wife   
   Melania Trump – who CNN said was the most unpopular outgoing first lady in   
   American history – was “so so popular with the people, so popular”.   
      
   He also claimed that his administration had overseen “such good job   
   numbers” that were “absolutely incredible”.   
      
   However, unemployment has almost doubled while he has been president, with   
   6.7 per cent of Americans currently without work. That number reached 14   
   per cent in April last year – the highest since the Great Depression.   
      
   And in December, the American economy lost more jobs than at any point   
   since April – at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic last Spring.   
      
   Unemployment, in fact, has been featured at least 644 times in Mr Trump’s   
   mistruths, with the former president in December having tried to suggest   
   that "We have slashed the unemployment rate from 14.7 per cent all the way   
   down to 6.7 per cent. And a lot of people thought that the 14.7 per cent   
   could be 32 per cent, or 40 per cent, or 45 per cent.”   
      
   According to the Post’s fact-checkers, however, economic forecasts   
   predicted highs of 20 per cent unemployment – nowhere near the 45 per cent   
   suggested by Mr Trump.   
      
   Mr Trump also claimed for one last time on Wednesday that he “rebuilt the   
   United States military,” although recent military spending budgets – when   
   adjusted for inflation – are lower than the biggest annual budget ever   
   seen, which under former president Barack Obama in 2010.   
      
   October 2020 was the worst month for Mr Trump’s misleading claims,   
   according to the Post’s fact-checkers, who counted 3,917 untruths in the   
   month before the presidential election. The second worst month was   
   September 2020, also shortly before the election, when 2,239 false   
   statements were counted.   
      
   His worst day in office for saying things that weren’t true, however, came   
   on 2 November, just one day before Americans voted him out of office, when   
   he was said to have uttered 503 false or misleading remarks.   
      
      
      
   https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-   
   lies-false-presidency-b1790285.html   
      
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