Over the course of 2019, President Trump has more than doubled the number of false or misleading claims that he made the two previous years, the Washington Post reported Monday.
When it comes to telling the truth, it has not been a banner year for the president of the United States.
The paper, which has kept a running count of Trump’s untruths and mischaracterizations of facts, found that Trump “made nearly 1,999 false or misleading claims” in 2017 and another 5,689 in 2018. The main reason for the precipitous increase in the president’s falsehoods, according to the Post, is the scrutiny that a whistleblower complaint brought to Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. A transcript of that call confirmed the whistleblower’s account that Trump had requested that Zelensky investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter as well as a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine had interfered in the 2016 U.S.
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