As of August 5, President Donald Trump had made 12,019 uncertain claims, according to the Post's invoice . Since that was his 928 day in office, Trump falsifies reality data an average of 13 times per day. It is an extraordinary figure. More than by the ability to fabular, by verbal bulimia. Trump lies less than speaks. And the media correspond to him: of the six columns highlighted yesterday on the Post Four website they carried the word Trump in the title. In December the newspaper did a survey to find out how much people believed the president. The results were encouraging ... as you look !: 7 out of 10 didn't believe him. In the case of Republicans, 6 out of 10. There must be millions who do not believe and vote for him .
Both the falsifying exuberance and the relative indifference of the public would advise a - difficult - comparative study that I have no news of what has been done. First, on the frequency of their public interventions with respect to that of other presidents; and secondly about the number of lies. It would be of interest to project the apparatus of checking the Post on the mandates of Nixon or Clinton , to give two intentional examples.
The scrutiny would put many American politicians in trouble. And not just Americans, of course. A year ago I followed with certain discipline the debate that brought Pedro Sánchez to the Government. Although without greater methodological rigor, I looked at those phrases of the president that seemed false or at least misleading. I suspect that a verification in the manner of the Post would have left his speech in leathers. Suffice it to recall, if only from a qualitative point of view, the role played by this round, unambiguous and shameless lie: "The Pp has been condemned for corruption" in Sánchez's political success. A nuclear lie that continues to repeat with its usual impatience, the last time in its failed parliamentary investiture.
The pressure of the media and the conversion of the lie into the sign of identity of his presidency has not robbed Trump. His average of daily lies goes up to 20 , if counted since April. It may be that the implicit and undesirable recognition of having lied is supposed to stop lying: as if suddenly the fish knew what water is.
The demand for a democracy where the truth is told follows the thorough work of the Post . But Donald Trump's overwhelming lack of demise must not cover up to what extent such a requirement is a novelty .
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