It was called a tidal wave of tall tales, false claims, and revisionist history. That is certainly what we saw. Did 25 separate claims of false or misleading state that fact check as false and misleading statement the president made. And that was probably just scratching the surface. Weve rotating old book and what we called his assault on truth. Up to ourly lived expectations in his reputation, say thingswho will that are often not based in any reality. Jonathan glenn, that reminds me , listening to the president s speech, im wondering for you as , did you hear anything new that needed to be fact checked . we fact to mend also the democrats on a daily basis. We were pretty well prepared. Cash bail,ne about he was criticizing biden for supporting a policy that governor Chris Christie of new jersey has implemented. That popped up in the past week, but we were prepared because we had seen he started to say that. Otherwise, it is a litany of his golden oldies, the greatest economy in the
Latest night, im going to start with you. Give us an overview of your fact check of last night. Glenn were running out of superlatives during the Republican Convention. One night we called it the tsunami of untruths. For trump we called it a tidal wave of tall tales false claims and revisionist history. Thats certainly what we saw. We did 25 separate claims of false or misleading statements that fact checked false or misleading statements the president made and that was probably just scratching the surface. Did 25 separate claims of false or misleading state that fact check we wrote book on his false statements and hes lived up to his reputation as someone that will say things not based in any reality. We have heard to our mind listening to the president s speech, theres a lot of things ive heard before. Im wondering for you as a factchecker, did you hear anything new that needed to be fact checked . Jonathan glenn, that reminds me , listening to the president s speech, im wondering fo
It was called a tidal wave of tall tales, false claims, and revisionist history. That is certainly what we saw. Did 25 separate claims of false or misleading state that fact check as false and misleading statement the president made. And that was probably just scratching the surface. Weve rotating old book and what we called his assault on truth. Up to ourly lived expectations in his reputation, say thingswho will that are often not based in any reality. Jonathan glenn, that reminds me , listening to the president s speech, im wondering for you as , did you hear anything new that needed to be fact checked . we fact to mend also the democrats on a daily basis. We were pretty well prepared. Cash bail,ne about he was criticizing biden for supporting a policy that governor Chris Christie of new jersey has implemented. That popped up in the past week, but we were prepared because we had seen he started to say that. Otherwise, it is a litany of his golden oldies, the greatest economy in the
Ofwe were running out superlatives. Tales, false claims and revisionist history. Thats certainly what we saw. We did 25 separate claims of false or misleading statements that the president made. That was just scratching the surface. We wrote a whole book on trump and his assault on truth and his propensity to say false or misleading things. He certainly lived up to our expectations and his reputation as someone who will say things that are not based on any reality. I can go through a few if you are interested. That reminds me. We have heard, to my mind, that there are a lot of things i have heard before. That are often not based in any reality. Jonathan glenn, that reminds me , listening to the president s speech, im wondering for you as , did you hear anything new that needed to be fact checked . we fact to mend also the democrats on a daily basis. We were pretty well prepared. Cash bail,ne about he was criticizing biden for supporting a policy that governor Chris Christie of new jers
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