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by iconjack 1226 days ago
Spot-checking works best if we remotely agreed on a random number, but here's one a just looked in on.

Trump claim: “Every week, 300 of our citizens are killed by heroin alone, 90% of which floods across from our southern border.”

WaPo's own "factcheck", ironically, confirms what he said was true.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/live-updates/tr...

Most of the entries in the database are things like "we have the greatest economy in history" and other such vague puffery. And if Trump repeats it 100 times, it counts as 100 lies.