WP “Trump 30,000 false claims in 4 years…half focused on the last year”

It was reported that the former US President Donald Trump made more than 30,000 false or exaggerated statements during his tenure. About half of them were found to have been concentrated in the last year of the presidential election.

On the 24th (local time), the Washington Post (WP) reported that after four years of pact-checking his claims and converting them into a database, this result came out. To this end, the FactChecker team analyzed over 25,000 Trump’s tweets over the past four years and analyzed the 5 million words he had spoken through public speaking.

The Washington Post fact checker team analyzed that former President Donald Trump made more than 30,000 false claims during his tenure. [AP=연합뉴스]

WP analyzed that “according to the database, the number of false and exaggerated remarks tended to increase rapidly over time.”

According to this, Trump made an average of 6 cases per day in the first year of his inauguration as president, 16 cases in the second year, 22 cases in the third year, and 39 cases of’problem claims’ in the last year. It took 27 months (2 years and 3 months) to exceed 10,000 cases, but 14 months (1 year and 2 months) to reach 20,000 cases. In less than 5 months after that, it surpassed 30,000 again.

Trump’s argument has emerged on a variety of themes in conjunction with political events. Just before the 2018 midterm elections, immigration-related content surged.

A bus with a Honduras immigrant girl is being checked at the border of Guatemala and Honduras. [AP=연합뉴스]

Trump said in October 2018 that there are unknown Middle Eastern people and criminals in the’caravan’, which refers to a procession from Central American countries to the United States. There was no clear evidence. When the reporters asked the grounds, they only replied, “If you go to the caravan, you will be able to find the gang gang MS-13 and people in the Middle East.

US President Donald Trump is signing a comprehensive tax cut policy in the presidential office. [로이터=연합뉴스]

In trade, diplomacy, and economy, they often exaggerated their achievements without grounds. WP analyzed that “Trump had the characteristic of constantly repeating the same claim even when it turned out to be false.”

For example, Trump has made nearly 300 remarks that he has passed the largest tax cut in history. “The tax cut I am doing will be greater than that of President Ronald Reagan in 1981,” he promised, the largest amount in American history. However, when the lid was opened, Trump’s tax cut was the eighth largest in the past 100 years.

There were more than 2,500 remarks related to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19). The representative thing is, “The corona pandemic will disappear like a miracle after the presidential election.” According to Johns Hopkins University in the U.S., on the 24th (local time), the cumulative corona 19 confirmed cases in the U.S. surpassed 25 million, making it the world’s number one.

The funeral of a man who died of COVID-19 is taking place at the Continental Funeral House in Los Angeles, California.[AFP=연합뉴스]

US presidential historian Michael Besclos said, “As a result of Trump’s constant lying as president, more Americans are more skeptical about the facts than ever before.”

Reporter Seo Yujin [email protected]