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Fri Jan 20, 2017, 09:47 AM Jan 2017

82 (*eighty two*!1) lies from DRUMPF, counted only during the transition

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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/trumps-transition-of-untruths-exaggerations-and-flat-out-falsehoods-214664?lo=ap_b1
[font size=5]Trump’s Transition of [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Untruths[/FONT], [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Exaggerations[/FONT] and [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Flat-out Falsehoods[/FONT][/font]
After a campaign that was largely indifferent to factual accuracy, Trump stayed the course while preparing to be president.

.... POLITICO tabulated Trump’s untruths through a review of his public remarks, interviews and 346 tweets made since winning the election. Those statements were compared to publicly available information from objective sources, including data from some of the same federal agencies that will soon be part of Trump’s own administration. Statements made by Trump that are in public dispute were not included in the count unless they were directly contradicted by available evidence. Statements made multiple times were included in the count but not listed separately. Politico cut off its count at 5 p.m. Thursday.

Trump’s transition team did not reply to a request for comment.

Here are [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]82[/FONT] of Trump’s transgressions against the truth since his election win. ....

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