Donald Trump Made 61 Statements in His Joint Session Speech. 51 Were False
United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday delivered his first address to Congress, and event fact checkers were watching like hawks.
Given the 45th President’s well-documented and open attitude to proliferating myths and false statements, the stage was set for a night of disproving the President.
Politifact listed a number of points of inaccuracy and contention – largely criticising the president for not providing context to remarks or for taking credit for pre-existing policy points.
The Center for American Progress claimed that he made 51 incorrect statements, crowdsourcing factcheckers in a Google doc:
We did the math…
Trump told a whopping 51 lies in his 61-minuted #Jointsession address.
(Full GoogleDoc is coming!) pic.twitter.com/ApEJb0dPVF
— CAP Action (@CAPAction) March 1, 2017
The full document (which cannot be edited), a copy of which is embedded below, can be accessed here.
(h/t Independent.uk)