Tag: more lies

Fact checking the Fake President usually finds lies

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❝ The map the Trumps tweeted inaccurately displays multiple blue counties won by Hillary Clinton as red counties won by Trump…

❝ As numerous analysts have pointed out when Trump has previously touted county-level maps, such maps provide incomplete information. Specifically, they do not distinguish between a county with millions of residents and a county with a few thousand. Clinton earned about 3 million more votes than Trump even though he won far more counties…

❝ The map on Max Galka’s personal blog appears to have been updated. But the version posted on HuffPost was not — and, now, the currently incorrect version is being shared by the President of the United States as a defense against impeachment.

Not that the schmuck-in-chief can read maps, election returns, or any modern economics text. I wouldn’t trust his directions to the nearest bathroom in the White House.

Chart of the Day: how Trump really did among Black voters

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❝ As part of his touching remarks about Black History Month this morning, President Trump boasted that he “ended up getting substantially more” of the African-American vote than past Republican candidates. Glenn Kessler briefly picks this apart here, but everything is better with a chart. So here’s a chart. It shows the share of the black vote since 1972 for Republicans running against white Democrats.

‘Nuff said.