Fact-checking President-elect Trumps news conference

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Fact-checking President-elect Trump’s news conference

By Glenn Kessler

@GlennKesslerWP

January 11 at 2:53 PM

President-elect Trump finally held a news conference, but as is typical, he often made claims that have been repeatedly debunked or discredited. Here’s a guide to 15 of his more notable statements, in the order in which he made them.

“It’s very familiar territory, news conferences, because we used to give them on an almost daily basis.”

Trump is exaggerating. During the primaries, he was a near-constant presence on television because he frequently called into interview shows. But he generally only held news conferences after primary contests were held. He last held a news conference on July 27.

“You saw yesterday Fiat Chrysler; big, big factory going to be built in this country as opposed to another country. Ford just announced that they stopped plans for a billion-dollar plant in Mexico and they’re going to be moving into Michigan and expanding, very substantially, an existing plant.”

Trump claims credit for these announcements, but that’s wrong.

Okay, that's enough.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. This afternoon NPR was ripping him a new asshole-- pretty much everything he said was bullshit...

if not an outright lie.

And threatening to throw out the CNN guy? Veiled threats to other reporters (and satirists?)-- very scary.

As Mark Twain is reputed to have said-- "I don't argue with anyone who buys ink by the barrel."

These days, it's bits, bytes, and pixels. He can't tweet his way out of everything.