President Trump made 19,127 false or misleading claims in 1,226 days
下麵是穀歌翻譯：（最後是英文原文）
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格倫·凱斯勒
薩爾瓦多·裏佐（Salvador Rizzo）和
梅格·凱利
2020年6月1日，美國東部時間上午3:00
特朗普總統在當前任期屆滿之前是否會超過20,000個虛假或誤導性索賠，這不再是一個問題。相反，我們不得不問：他會超過25,000嗎？
根據事實檢查人員的數據庫進行分析，分類和跟蹤的數據，截至5月29日，即他就職第1,226天，特朗普提出了19,127項虛假或誤導性索賠。在他擔任總統期間，每天差不多有16項索償要求。今年到目前為止，他平均每天要提出22項索賠，與他在2019年設定的速度類似。
在他目前的任期中還有235天的時間，這將使他僅剩25,000。但是，我們還發現，十月份是事實的危險月份，尤其是當選舉臨近時。在2018年10月，總統提出了1,205項要求，在2019年10月提出了1,159項要求。每天要進行40次索賠。
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當然，這在很大程度上取決於總統是否能夠為其最忠實的支持者恢複舉行競選集會。在這樣的集會上，總統會仔細查看一係列誇大或虛假的聲明，這些聲明很容易超過一次集會的60條陳述。由於冠狀病毒大流行已經或多或少地使美國關閉，總統一直無法舉行此類大規模活動。他嚐試取代白宮的每日新聞發布會，並偶爾接受一位友好的主持人的采訪，但這並不是完全一樣的。
冠狀病毒大流行催生了特朗普虛假的全新流派。在短短幾個月內，該類別已經達到了800項要求，基於最小和脆弱的證據，他倡導羥氯喹作為可能的治療方法，已經達到了無底Pinocchio狀態。
三隻或四隻木偶奇遇記聲稱至少需要重複20次才能獲得無底Pinocchio，現在有39個條目。
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事實重擊者數據庫記錄了450多個實例，其中他至少重複了3次重複相同的聲明，這證明了特朗普對重複虛假聲明的偏愛。
特朗普最重複的說法（334次）是，今天的美國經濟是曆史上最好的。他於2018年6月開始提出這一主張，並迅速成為他的最愛之一。他被迫適應艱難的經濟時代，這樣做使它變得更加夢幻。過去他曾經說這是美國曆史上最好的經濟，但現在他經常回想起自己已經實現了“世界曆史上最好的經濟”。
不。總統曾經吹噓過經濟狀況，但是當他為曆史書籍戲耍時遇到了麻煩。從幾乎任何重要的角度來看，冠狀病毒發生前的經濟表現都比德懷特·D·艾森豪威爾總統，林登·B·約翰遜總統或比爾·克林頓總統或尤利西斯·S·格蘭特總統的表現差。此外，經濟已經開始受到特朗普貿易戰造成的不利影響，而製造業顯然處於衰退之中。
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特朗普的第二大重複要求（261次）是他的邊界牆正在修建中。國會拒絕為他設想的混凝土屏障提供資金，因此該項目演變為用鋼柱式圍欄代替較小，較舊的屏障。 （隻有三英裏的障礙物在以前沒有障礙物的土地上。）《華盛頓郵報》報道說，盡管特朗普聲稱不可能越過，但走私分子卻輕易地越過了護柱圍欄。盡管如此，該項目已經轉移了數十億美元的軍事和禁毒資金，成為美國曆史上最大的基礎設施項目之一，奪取了私人土地，切斷了野生動物走廊並破壞了美國原住民文化遺址。
特朗普錯誤地說了206次他通過了曆史上最大的減稅措施。甚至在還沒有製定減稅措施之前，他就承諾這將是美國曆史上最大的減稅措施，比1981年總統裏根（Ronald Reagan）的減稅幅度還要大。這個水平。然而，即使減稅最終被設計成相當於國內生產總值（GDP）的0.9％，特朗普仍然堅持這一虛構，成為100年來第八大減稅措施。在總統集會上，這仍然是萬能掌聲。
由圖形記者萊斯利·夏皮羅（Leslie Shapiro）創建的屢獲殊榮的數據庫網站，擁有一個非常快速的搜索引擎，可以快速找到總統發表的可疑言論。我們鼓勵讀者對其進行詳細研究。
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讀者可能還會對我們的新書感興趣，這本新書將於6月2日由Scribner出版：“唐納德·特朗普及其對真理的攻擊：總統的虛假，誤導性主張和坦率的謊言。”我們利用數據庫來匯編有關特朗普最常使用的虛假陳述，最大的騙子和
With 235 days to go in his current term, that would leave him just short of 25,000. But we have also found that October is a dangerous month for the truth, especially if an election is nearing. In October 2018, the president tallied 1,205 claims and in October 2019, 1,159 claims. That’s a pace of 40 claims a day.
Much depends, of course, on whether the president is able to return to holding campaign rallies for his most loyal supporters. At such rallies, the president runs through a list of exaggerated or false claims that easily tops 60 statements a rally. Since the coronavirus pandemic has more or less shut down the United States, the president has been unable to hold such mass events. He tried substituting a daily news conference at the White House, with the occasional interview with a friendly host, but it’s not quite the same thing.
The coronavirus pandemic has spawned a whole new genre of Trump’s falsehoods. The category in just a few months has reached 800 claims, with his advocacy for hydroxychloroquine as a possible cure, based on minimal and flimsy evidence, already reaching Bottomless Pinocchio status.
It takes at least 20 repeats of a Three- or Four-Pinocchio claim to merit a Bottomless Pinocchio, and there are now 39 entries.
Trump’s penchant for repeating false claims is demonstrated by the fact that the Fact Checker database has recorded more than 450 instances in which he has repeated a variation of the same claim at least three times.
Trump’s most repeated claim — 334 times — is that the U.S. economy today is the best in history. He began making this claim in June 2018, and it quickly became one of his favorites. He’s been forced to adapt for the tough economic times, and doing so has made it even more fantastic. Whereas he used to say it was the best economy in U.S. history, he now often recalls he had achieved “the best economy in the history of the world.”
Nope. The president once could brag about the state of the economy, but he ran into trouble when he made a play for the history books. By just about any important measure, the pre-coronavirus economy was not doing as well as it did under Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson or Bill Clinton — or Ulysses S. Grant. Moreover, the economy already was beginning to hit the head winds caused by Trump’s trade wars, with the manufacturing sector in an apparent recession.
Trump’s second-most repeated claim — 261 times — is that his border wall is being built. Congress balked at funding the concrete barrier he envisioned, so the project evolved into the replacement of smaller, older barriers with steel bollard fencing. (Only three miles of the barrier is on land that previously did not have a barrier.) The Washington Post has reported the bollard fencing is easily breached, with smugglers sawing through it, despite Trump’s claims it is impossible to get past. Nevertheless, the project has diverted billions in military and counternarcotics funding to become one of the largest infrastructure projects in U.S. history, seizing private land, cutting off wildlife corridors and disrupting Native American cultural sites.
Trump has falsely said 206 times that he passed the biggest tax cut in history. Even before his tax cut was crafted, he promised it would be the biggest in U.S. history — bigger than President Ronald Reagan’s in 1981. Reagan’s tax cut amounted to 2.9 percent of the gross domestic product, and none of the proposals under consideration came close to that level. Yet Trump persisted in this fiction even when the tax cut was eventually crafted to be the equivalent of 0.9 percent of gross domestic product, making it the eighth-largest tax cut in 100 years. This continues to be an all-purpose applause line at the president’s rallies.
The award-winning database website, created by graphics reporter Leslie Shapiro, has an extremely fast search engine that will quickly locate suspect statements the president has made. We encourage readers to explore it in detail.
Readers may also be interested in our new book, which will be published June 2 by Scribner: “Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President’s Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies.” We drew on the database to compile a guide to Trump’s most frequently used misstatements, biggest whoppers, and most dangerous deceptions. We examine in detail about how Trump misleads about himself and his foes, the economy, immigration, the Ukraine controversy, foreign policy, the coronavirus crisis and many other issues.
Note: The Fact Checker welcomes academic research of the Trump claims database. Recent examples include work done by Erasmus University of Rotterdam, University College London and the University of California at Santa Barbara. You can request our data files with an explanation of your research plans by contacting us at factchecker@washpost.com.
