Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President's Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies
Written by The Washington Post Fact Checker Staff and Glenn Kessler
Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd
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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
In perilous times, facts, expertise, and truth are indispensable. President Trump’s flagrant disregard for the truth and his self-aggrandizing exaggerations, specious misstatements, and bald-faced lies have been rigorously documented and debunked since the first day of his presidency by The Washington Post’s Fact Checker staff.
Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth is based on the only comprehensive compilation and analysis of the more than 16,000 fallacious statements that Trump has uttered since the day of his inauguration. He has repeated many of his most outrageous claims dozens or even hundreds of times as he has sought to bend reality to his political fantasy and personal whim.
Drawing on Trump’s tweets, press conferences, political rallies, and TV appearances, The Washington Post identifies his most frequently used misstatements, biggest whoppers, and most dangerous deceptions. This book unpacks his errant statements about the economy, immigration, the impeachment hearings, foreign policy, and, of critical concern now, the coronavirus crisis as it unfolded.
Fascinating, startling, and even grimly funny, Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth by The Washington Post is the essential, authoritative record of Trump’s shocking disregard for facts.
The Washington Post Fact Checker Staff
The Washington Post created “The Fact Checker” column in 2007 and it has held Democrats, Republicans, and advocacy groups accountable for their claims by awarding “Pinocchios” for false or misleading statements. Glenn Kessler has been editor and chief writer of “The Fact Checker” since 2011 and has worked at The Washington Post since 1998. Salvador Rizzo is a reporter for “The Fact Checker” and Meg Kelly is a video editor and reporter for “The Fact Checker.” The team in 2019 earned an honorable mention in the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Complete garbage. Not a single solitary fact by the author however plenty of opinion and manipulation.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How do you deal with some one that doesn't live in reality? how do you make sense of some one that has no sense? not even common sense? Someone that lies and lies and lies and lies, and when facing his lies, chooses to lie about it some more? Do you ignore them? And when they don’t allow that? How to deal with a pathological liar? I mean forget everything, forget political events, political colors, don’t even bother with the topic. It doesn’t matter! This guy lies about everything! From his father birthplace to his own nationality, anything, and everything! You don’t need to check anything this guy says. Sure, some will be truth, but that like saying that a coin has two faces, that’s irrelevant! This guy attitude through truth is inexistent! He is moved by in personal interest, and he doesn’t give a dam about anyone and anything. Forget about it!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love it when Trump supporters are still crying those salty tears
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Documented distinction between true and false claims Don’t just accept w/o checking statements
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5"Fact checkers" for an asswipe rag wrote this. All you need to know.