The first time we've used the word 'lie'
The Fact Checker had never used the word “lie” to describe a statement from a politician. But there’s a first time for everything, and we’re breaking the emergency glass for President Trump.
The president had made a staggering 4,229 false or misleading claims since taking office to the end of July, according to our database. In many of those cases, it’s not possible to tell whether Trump was intentionally fibbing or simply careless or wrong.
But Michael Cohen’s guilty plea in Manhattan federal court this week provides indisputable evidence that Trump lied when the story about his payoffs broke in November 2016, that he lied in April 2018 when reporters asked him about the Daniels payment, that he tweeted a lie in May about having reimbursed Cohen through a monthly retainer (he was actually repaid through falsely documented payments from the Trump Organization), and that he was still not telling the truth in a Fox News interview in which he reacted to the guilty plea.
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