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It's True: Trump Is Lying More, and He's Doing It on Purpose by Susan Glaser

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"In his 1st year as President, Trump made 2,140 false claims, according to  WaPo. In just the last 6 months-- 4,229 lies. In June & July, he averaged 16 false claims a day. But, at the rally in Great Falls, Montana, seventy-six%  of the 98 factual assertions he made were “false, misleading or unsupported by evidence.” History books will likely declare the last few months a turning point in the Trump Presidency, an   Glenn Kessler’s laborious work gives us metrics that confirm what is becoming more and more apparent: the recent wave of misstatements is both a reflection of Trump’s increasingly unbound Presidency and a signal attribute of it."

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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