10,000 untruths: Donald Trump utters landmark ‘falsehood’

The president has averaged 23 untruths a day over the past seven months - and his rate is increasing

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Donald Trump has made over 10,000 false or misleading statements since becoming president, the Washington Post’s fact-checker-in-chief has estimated.

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