CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC. et al v. TRUMP et al

Filing 3

LARGE ADDITIONAL ATTACHMENT(S) re 2 MOTION for Temporary Restraining Order filed by CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC., ABILIO JAMES ACOSTA. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 7, # 2 Exhibit 8, # 3 Exhibit 9, # 4 Exhibit 10, # 5 Exhibit 11, # 6 Exhibit 12, # 7 Exhibit 13, # 8 Exhibit 14, # 9 Exhibit 15, # 10 Exhibit 16, # 11 Exhibit 17, # 12 Exhibit 18, # 13 Exhibit 19, # 14 Exhibit 20, # 15 Exhibit 21, # 16 Exhibit 22, # 17 Exhibit 23, # 18 Exhibit 24, # 19 Exhibit 25, # 20 Exhibit 26, # 21 Exhibit 27, # 22 Exhibit 28, # 23 Exhibit 29, # 24 Exhibit 30, # 25 Exhibit 31, # 26 Exhibit 32, # 27 Exhibit 33, # 28 Exhibit 34, # 29 Exhibit 35, # 30 Exhibit 36, # 31 Exhibit 37, # 32 Exhibit 38, # 33 Exhibit 39, # 34 Exhibit 40, # 35 Exhibit 41, # 36 Exhibit 42, # 37 Exhibit 43, # 38 Exhibit 44, # 39 Exhibit 45, # 40 Exhibit 46, # 41 Exhibit 47, # 42 Exhibit 48, # 43 Exhibit 49, # 44 Exhibit 50, # 45 Exhibit 51, # 46 Exhibit 52, # 47 Exhibit 53, # 48 Exhibit 54)(jf)

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11/12/2018

President Trump has made 6,420 false or misleading claims over 649 days - The Washington Post

The Washington Post
Fact Checker Analysis

President Trump has made 6,420 false or misleading claims
over 649 days
By Glenn Kessler ,
Salvador Rizzo and
Meg Kelly
November 2

If President Trump’s torrent of words has seemed overwhelming of late, there’s a good reason for that.
In the first nine months of his presidency, Trump made 1,318 false or misleading claims, an average of
five a day. But in the seven weeks leading up the midterm elections, the president made 1,419 false or
misleading claims — an average of 30 a day.
Combined with the rest of his presidency, that adds up to a total of 6,420 claims through Oct. 30, the
649th day of his term in office, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and
tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.
The flood of presidential misinformation has picked up dramatically as the president has barnstormed
across the country, holding rallies with his supporters. Each of those rallies usually yields 35 to 45
suspect claims. But the president often has tacked on interviews with local media (in which he repeats
the same false statements) and gaggles with the White House press corps before and after his trips.
So that adds up to 84 claims on Oct. 1, when he held a rally in Johnson City, Tenn.; 83 claims on Oct. 22,
when he held a rally in Houston; and 78 claims on Oct. 19, when he held a rally in Mesa, Ariz.
Put another way: September was the second-biggest month of the Trump presidency, with 599 false and
misleading claims. But that paled next to October, with almost double: 1,104 claims, not counting Oct.
31.
The burden of keeping track of this verbiage has consumed the weekends and nights of The Fact Checker
staff. We originally had planned to include Oct. 31 in this update, but the prospect of wading through 20
tweets and the nearly 10,000 words Trump spoke that day was too daunting for our deadline.
The president’s proclivity to twist data and fabricate stories is on full display at his rallies. He has his
greatest hits: 120 times he had falsely said he passed the biggest tax cut in history, 80 times he has
asserted that the U.S. economy today is the best in history and 74 times he has falsely said his border
wall is already being built. (Congress has allocated only $1.6 billion for fencing, but Trump also
frequently mentioned additional funding that has not yet been appropriated.)
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President Trump has made 6,420 false or misleading claims over 649 days - The Washington Post

But there are many curious moments, too, suggesting the president is walled off from contradictory
information.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump emphatically denied he had imposed many tariffs. “I
mean, other than some tariffs on steel — which is actually small, what do we have? . . . Where do we have
tariffs? We don’t have tariffs anywhere,” he insisted. The newspaper responded by printing a list of $305
billion tariffs on many types of U.S. imports.
Nearly 25 times, he has claimed that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was No. 1 in his class at
Yale University or at Yale Law School. The law school does not rank, and Kavanaugh graduated cum
laude from the college — the third level, below summa cum laude and magna cum laude. At the time,
Yale granted honors rather liberally, so nearly 50 percent of the class graduated with honors, with half of
those cum laude.
This is one of those facts that can be easily checked with a Google search, yet the president persists with
his falsehood.
Similarly, Trump attacked Richard Cordray, a Democrat running for governor in Ohio, for having spent
$250 million on renovating the building for the agency he once ran, the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau. That was almost double the actual cost. Oddly, Trump added that after Cordray spent “$50
million on some elevators, it turned out they didn’t work.”
Trump lives in expensive housing, but that’s a fantasy. The most expensive elevator ever is the 1,070foot-high Bailong Elevator, set in a Chinese mountain range. It cost $20 million.
Thirteen times, Trump invented whole-cloth stories about Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), the lead
plaintiff in a steadily advancing lawsuit that could open up the Trump Organization’s books to
lawmakers. Trump falsely claimed Blumenthal said he was a war hero and fought in Vietnam’s Da Nang
province. “We call him ‘Da Nang Richard.’ ‘Da Nang’ — that’s his nickname,” Trump said. Blumenthal
described his military record in misleading or false terms on a few occasions before he was elected to the
Senate in 2010, but he never said he fought in the theater. Trump also said Blumenthal dropped out of
the Senate race (no), barely won anyway (no) and was crying when he apologized (no).
“It’s like liberating, like a war, like there’s a foreign invasion. And they occupy your country. And then
you get them out through whatever. And they call it liberation,” Trump declared in Mosinee, Wis., on
Oct. 24. Some audience members began yelling, “Get the hell out.”
This dystopian vision of a violent gang overrunning cities and towns across the United States is divorced
from reality. MS-13 operates in a few areas such as Los Angeles, Long Island and the Washington region.
It’s a gross exaggeration to say that towns are being liberated from MS-13, as if they had been captured.

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President Trump has made 6,420 false or misleading claims over 649 days - The Washington Post

Most striking, the tone of Trump’s attacks on Democrats escalated the closer the election approached.
The president always had slammed Democrats, but his rhetoric became sharper and increasingly
inaccurate in recent weeks.
“They want to erase our gains and plunge our country into a nightmare of gridlock, poverty, chaos and,
frankly, crime, because that’s what comes with it,” he said on Oct. 4. “The Democrat Party is radical
socialism, Venezuela and open borders. It’s now called, to me — you’ve never heard this before, the Party
of Crime. It’s a Party of Crime, it’s what it is. And to pay for their socialism, which is going to destroy our
country.”
On Oct. 18, in Missoula, Mont., Trump falsely said no one even challenges his description of the
Democrats as the party of crime. “Democrats have become the party of crime. It’s true. Who would
believe you could say that and nobody even challenges it. Nobody’s ever challenged it,” he said.
But then he had an unusual moment of doubt. “Maybe they have. Who knows? I have to always say that,
because then they’ll say they did actually challenge it, and they’ll put like — then they’ll say he gets a
Pinocchio. So maybe they did challenge it, but not very much."
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