The Washington Post Claims Trump Has Made 1,318 False And Misleading Claims Since Taking Office

Remember how mainstream news outlets kept track of all of the “false and misleading claims” Obama made throughout his time in office?

Oh. Wait.

Before I jump into this, I want to make something crystal clear. I’m all for members of the mainstream media doing their jobs. No leader is perfect, and they ALL need to be held accountable. I don’t have a problem with accountability. I do, however, have a problem with the mainstream media’s sudden sense of urgency to “do their job.” Where have the been the last 8-10 years? It’s like they took 2009-2016 off. But then Trump became President, and they suddenly became oh-so dedicated to their industry of truth and honor once again.

We all see right through it, and they know it. They have to know it.

That brings me the Washington Post. The outlet has been busy, counting the number of “false and misleading claims” President Trump has made over the past year. They’re up to 1,318 (as of Oct. 9. They probably have more now).

Wow. That’s a lot of false claims! Just so you know, WaPo considers Trump’s tweets like “Senator Bob Corker ‘begged’ me to endorse him for re-election in Tennessee” “false and misleading.” The WaPo argues that Corker’s team denied those claims. So in reality, they’re simply taking Corker at his word, even though they don’t have any solid proof of who’s telling the truth.

Convenient.

They’re also including stuff like this:

Sometimes Trump just rounds up or exaggerates to earn a damning review. After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, he said: ‘They had 200 mile per hours winds. it just ripped the place apart.’ The maximum sustained were 155 miles, according to the fact-checker site.

I would just note that he didn’t specify “maximum sustained winds.” The major wind gusts reached 195 mph. Just sayin’.

I’m only providing these examples so you can see how WaPo is playing this game.

Others are harder to police. Trump said regarding recovery efforts: ”We did a great job. But we weren’t fairly treated by the media because we did a great job.’ Much of the island remains without power long after the hurricane hit, and locals had begun criticizing the administration’s response.

But does that make his claim untrue? It’s not exactly black and white. But of MSM is all, “FALSE CLAIM.”

And get a load of this one:

The site also rated false a claim Trump made to have invented the term ‘fake news’ itself.

‘The media is really, the word, one of the greatest of all terms I’ve come up with, is ‘fake.’ I guess other people have used it perhaps over the years but I’ve never noticed it,’ Trump said.

But the site found: ‘Fake news appears to have begun seeing general use at the end of the 19th century,’ and digs up uses as far back as 1890.

I think the WaPo knows exactly what Trump was referring to. He started using the term in the most in the modern sense. He didn’t claim to invent the words. In fact, he even says in the quote, “I guess other people have used it perhaps over the years but I’ve never noticed it.”

But bam. That claim is included in WaPo’s big number.

Notice how much of this is petty, insignificant stuff. Imagine if they actually tracked stuff that mattered.

h/t Daily Mail