Trump’s imprecise, opinionated comments dubbed ‘lies’ by New York Times

Published December 14, 2017 8:14pm ET



The New York Times opinion section on Thursday published an extensive list of what it called “demonstrably and substantially false statements” by President Trump, but many of the examples fell into categories of opinion, imprecision and perhaps mistaken claims.

The study, produced by liberal columnist David Leonhardt, assistant opinion page editor Ian Philbrick and opinion page graphics director Stuart Thompson, claimed to find 103 Trump “lies” during his first 10 months in office and contrasted them to the scant 18 that former President Barack Obama supposedly told in his two full terms.

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