Busted: Donald Trump’s Politifact File of 167 Documented Lies
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~57 Pants on Fire! statements by Donald Trump
Says that at a campaign rally President Barack Obama “spent so much time screaming at a protester, and frankly it was a disgrace.”
Says Hillary Clinton “wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it. Think of it. That’s what could happen. You triple the size of our country in one week.”
“Wikileaks also shows how John Podesta rigged the polls by oversampling Democrats, a voter suppression technique.”
When Hillary Clinton “ran the State Department, $6 billion was missing. How do you miss $6 billion? You ran the State Department, $6 billion was either stolen — they don’t know.”
“It’s possible that non-citizen voters were responsible for Obama’s 2008 victory in North Carolina.”
“Of course, there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day.”
“We don’t have any” chess grandmasters in the United States.
Says he won the second debate with Hillary Clinton “in a landslide” in “every poll.”
Says a tweet he sent out “wasn’t saying, ‘check out a sex tape.’ It was just ‘take a look at” the background of Alicia Machado.
“Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they’ve ever been in before. Ever. Ever. Ever.”
“I finished” the controversy about where President Barack Obama was born.
“My opponent has no child care plan.”
Says Hillary Clinton has “not answered a single question” about her immigration plan.
The number of illegal immigrants “could be 3 million. It could be 30 million.”
“Inner-city crime is reaching record levels.”
Says the U.S. election system is “rigged.”
Says Barack Obama “founded ISIS. I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.”
“Hillary Clinton says she wants to, ‘raise taxes on the middle class.’ ”
“I’m beating (Kelly Ayotte) in the polls by a lot.”
“We have a fire marshal that said, ‘Oh we can’t allow more people’ … And the reason they won’t let them in is because they don’t know what the hell they’re doing.”
“We have a fire marshal that said, 'Oh we can’t allow more people’ … And the reason they won’t let them in is because they don’t know what the hell they’re doing.”
On gift taking, “Bob McDonnell took a fraction of what (Tim) Kaine took.”
Says Ted Cruz “never denied” his father was photographed with Lee Harvey Oswald.
“We don’t know anything about Hillary in terms of religion. Now, she’s been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there’s no — there’s nothing out there.”
Says Hillary Clinton “has even deleted this record of total support (for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) from her book.”
“For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America.”
“The Obama administration was actively supporting Al Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorist group that became the Islamic State.”
“Crime is rising.”
“I wanted to keep it private, because I don’t think it’s anybody’s business if I want to send money to the vets.”
It “is Hillary Clinton’s agenda” to “release the violent criminals from jail. She wants them all released.”
“Look, we are at war with these people and they don’t wear uniforms. … This is a war against people that are vicious, violent people, that we have no idea who they are, where they come from. We are allowing tens of thousands of them into our country now.”
Says Ted Cruz’s father “was with Lee Harvey Oswald” before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
“Frankly, (Hillary Clinton) doesn’t do very well with women.”
The 2016 federal omnibus spending bill “funds illegal immigrants coming in and through your border, right through Phoenix.”
Says that when Michelle Fields “found out that there was a security camera, and that they had her on tape, all of a sudden that story changed.”
“Out of 67 counties (in Florida), I won 66, which is unprecedented. It’s never happened before.”
“I don’t know anything about David Duke.”
Says Ted Cruz “said I was in favor in Libya. I never discussed that subject.”
Says that in the Philippines more than a century ago, Gen. John Pershing “took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pigs’ blood,” and shot 49 Muslim rebels. “The 50th person, he said, ‘You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened.’ And for 25 years, there wasn’t a problem.”
“Don’t believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment. The number’s probably 28, 29, as high as 35. In fact, I even heard recently 42 percent.”
A Trump television ad shows Mexicans swarming over “our southern border.”
President Barack Obama “wants to take in 250,000 (people) from Syria.”
Says crime statistics show blacks kill 81 percent of white homicide victims.
“I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering” as the World Trade Center collapsed.
The federal government is sending refugees to states with governors who are “Republicans, not to the Democrats.”
The Trans-Pacific Partnership “was designed for China to come in, as they always do, through the back door and totally take advantage of everyone.”
“I never said that” Marco Rubio was Mark Zuckerberg’s personal senator.
Says Bernie Sanders is going to “tax you people at 90 percent.”
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~110 False statements by Donald Trump
“I have tremendous support from women.”
The media “never show crowds.”
“Twitter, Google and Facebook are burying the FBI criminal investigation of Clinton. Very dishonest media!”
Says Ohio’s I-X Center “used to be a great plant,” but “thousands of people of worked here, and they left” when their jobs were moved overseas.
“14 percent of noncitizens are registered to vote.”
The stories from women saying he groped or forced himself on them “largely have been debunked.”
Says Hillary Clinton is “wrong” to say he mocked a disabled reporter.
Says Hillary Clinton was “let off the hook” for her email scandal while Gen. David Petraeus had his life “destroyed for doing far, far less.”
“I’ve gotten to see the commercials that they did on you. And I’ve gotten to see some of the most vicious commercials I’ve ever seen of Michelle Obama talking about you, Hillary.”
Says Sidney Blumenthal wrote that the Benghazi attack was “almost certainly preventable. Clinton was in charge of the State Department, and it failed to protect U.S. personnel and an American consulate in Libya.”
Says after Hillary Clinton helped a man accused of raping a 12-year-old, “she’s seen laughing on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped.”
Says Hillary Clinton “wants to go to a single-payer plan” for health care
Says he has “a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required.”
“In her campaign for president, Hillary Clinton has received $100 million in contributions from Wall Street and hedge funds.”
Says to Hillary Clinton, “You heard what I said about (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal), and all of a sudden you were against it.”
“NATO is opening up a major terror division. … I’m sure I’m not going to get credit for it, but that was largely because of what I was saying and my criticism of NATO.”
Says “Hillary Clinton’s plan would bring in 620,000 refugees in her first term, alone, with no effective way to screen or vet them. Her plan would cost $400 billion in terms of lifetime welfare and entitlement costs.”
Says Hillary Clinton’s energy agenda “will cost the U.S. economy over $5 trillion”
Says top Clinton advisers “were pressing” birther movement stories “very hard.”
“I did not support the war in Iraq … The record shows that I’m right.”
“You will learn more about Donald Trump by going down to the Federal Elections” to see the financial disclosure form than by looking at tax returns.
“I never said” that Muslims would be subject to profiling under his policies.
“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy.”
“Our veterans, in many cases, are being treated worse than illegal immigrants.”
“I was totally against the war in Iraq.”
“I released the most extensive financial review of anybody in the history of politics. … You don’t learn much in a tax return.”
“Hillary Clinton wants to shut down family farms” using “radical regulation,” by raising business tax “rates as high as nearly 50 percent” and by taxing “family farms again at death by as much as 45 percent.”
As governor, Tim Kaine “oversaw a huge increase in illegal immigration, a tremendous increase.”
Says Hillary Clinton “wants to raise taxes on African-American owned businesses to as much as nearly 50 percent more than they’re paying now.”
Says Hillary Clinton is “proposing to print instant work permits for millions of illegal immigrants to come in and take everybody’s jobs, including low-income African-Americans.”
“I had previously said that NATO was obsolete because it failed to deal adequately with terrorism. Since my comments, they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats.”
“The Obama-Clinton war on coal has cost Michigan over 50,000 jobs.”
Says he saw videotape “of the people taking the money off the plane” to pay ransom to Iran for hostages.
“Youth unemployment is through the roof.”
“An analysis showed that Bernie Sanders would have won the Democratic nomination if it were not for the Super Delegates.”
Says Hillary Clinton “wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment.”
“Hillary Clinton invented ISIS with her stupid policies. She is responsible for ISIS.”
Says as GOP was picking a convention city, “I recommended Ohio.”
“Just look at what the FBI director said about her (Hillary Clinton) — her misconduct is a disgrace and embarrassment to our country.”
“As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton laundered money to Bill Clinton through Laureate Education, while Bill Clinton was an honorary chairman of the group.”
Says Hillary Clinton “filibustered legislation to reform” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Says Hillary Clinton’s immigration platform would “create totally open borders.”
The Benghazi victims were “left helpless to die as Hillary Clinton soundly slept in her bed.”
“Because of Obamacare, you have so many part-time jobs.”
“I was among the earliest to criticize the rush to war (in Iraq), and yes, even before the war ever started.”
Even among “second and third generation” Muslims in the United States, “there’s no real assimilation.”
There is “no system to vet” refugees from the Middle East.
We’ve broken “by millions” the all-time record for votes in a GOP presidential primary election.
“There are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world. You go to places like Oakland. Or Ferguson. The crime numbers are worse. Seriously.”
Says Hillary Clinton “wants to abolish the Second Amendment.”
“You have to be a citizen to vote,” but with same-day voter registration, “you have places where people just walk in and vote.”
“We’re the highest taxed nation in the world.”
“In the history of Republican primaries, I’ve gotten the most votes in the history of the Republican party.”
“ISIS is making millions of dollars a week selling Libyan oil.”
“I was totally against the war in Iraq, saying for many years that it would destabilize the Middle East.”
Says professional football coach Rex Ryan “won championships in New York. The AFC, I think, twice.”
The Colorado caucus system for selecting Republican delegates is “rigged.”
Says Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio “had it set so that the winner takes everything, because they wanted to make sure that I didn’t get anything” in the Florida primary.
“My numbers are better right now than Ronald Reagan’s numbers were with Jimmy Carter.”
Says Ted Cruz distributed the ad showing a nude Melania Trump on a rug.
Wisconsin’s “effective” unemployment rate is 20 percent.
“When those restrictions expire (in the Iran nuclear deal), Iran will have an industrial-size military nuclear capability ready to go.”
The Trump Winery near Charlottesville, Va. is the “largest winery on the East Coast.”
Under the Iran nuclear deal, “we give them $150 billion, we get nothing.”
Says the man who rushed the stage at him in Dayton, Ohio, “had chatter about ISIS, or with ISIS” in his social media posts.
“GDP was zero essentially for the last two quarters.”
Common Core is “education through Washington D.C.”
The wives of the 9/11 hijackers “knew exactly what was happening” and went back to Saudi Arabia two days before the attacks to watch their husbands on television flying the planes.
Says Mahatma Gandhi once said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Says “the New York Times can write a story that they know is false” yet “they can’t basically be sued.”
“We (Trump University) have an ‘A’ from the Better Business Bureau.”
When Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate, “that was the end” of Romney’s chances to win.
“If it weren’t for me … (illegal immigration) wouldn’t even be a big subject.”
On the Iraq war, “I said it loud and clear, 'You’ll destabilize the Middle East.’ ”
“Right now we’re the highest taxed country in the world.”
“I never once asked that (Megyn Kelly) be removed” as a debate moderator.
Says Mexico can afford to build a wall because the country’s trade deficit with America is billions of dollars.
Among Syrian refugees and migrants coming into Europe, “there look like very few women. Very few children.”
The five Guantanamo detainees swapped for Bowe Bergdahl are “back on the battlefield.”
Canadian-born Ted Cruz “has had a double passport.”
The 9/11 terrorists’ friends, family, girlfriends in the United States “were sent back for the most part to Saudi Arabia. They knew what was going on. They went home, and they wanted to watch their boyfriends on television.”
Says his plan would cut taxes without increasing the deficit.
Says Ohio Gov. John Kasich “got lucky with a thing called fracking,” which “is why Ohio is doing well.”
“Sixty-one percent of our bridges are in trouble.”
Says CIA Director George Tenet told the Bush administration that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack “was coming. So they did have advanced notice.”
“We have the highest tax rate anywhere in the world.”
Among Syrian refugees, “there aren’t that many women, there aren’t that many children.”
“The birther movement was started by Hillary Clinton in 2008. She was all in!”
Says Mexico doesn’t have birthright citizenship, and Americans are the “only ones” to have it.
Under the Iran deal: “If Israel attacks Iran … we’re supposed to be on Iran’s side.”
“We have 93 million people out of work. They look for jobs, they give up, and all of a sudden, statistically, they’re considered employed.”
“We’re the most highly taxed nation in the world.”
“Some of the things that (Megyn Kelly) said, I didn’t say.”
Illegal immigration “wasn’t a subject that was on anybody’s mind until I brought it up at my announcement.”
Under President Barack Obama, income levels and unemployment numbers “are worse now than just about ever” for African-Americans.
The five Guantanamo detainees swapped for Bowe Bergdahl “are right now back on the battlefield.”
Says John McCain “has done nothing to help the vets.”
“If you’re from Syria and you’re a Christian, you cannot come into this country” as a refugee.
Says Florida had five sanctuary cities while Jeb Bush was governor.
“The $5 billion website for Obamacare … never worked. Still doesn’t work.”
Says his book, The Art of the Deal, is “the No. 1 selling business book of all time.”
Public support for abortion “is actually going down a little bit,” polls show.
“Even our nuclear arsenal doesn’t work. It came out recently they have equipment that is 30 years old. They don’t know if it worked.”
“Our real unemployment is anywhere from 18 to 20 percent. Don’t believe the 5.6. Don’t believe it.”
The Islamic State “just built a hotel in Syria.”
“ObamaCare enrollment lie: Obama counts an enrollee as a web user putting a plan in ‘their online shopping carts.’”
President Obama has spent over $2 million in legal fees defending lawsuits about his birth certificate.
“Libya supplies the oil for China. We get no oil from Libya.”
Says President Obama’s “grandmother in Kenya said he was born in Kenya and she was there and witnessed the birth.”
South Korea doesn’t pay the United States for U.S. troops that protect their country.
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