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Trump: I'm Truthful To A Fault
Donald Trump says he is a truthful man. “Maybe truthful to a fault,” he boasted last week at a North Carolina rally where one of his supporters sucker punched a protester.
But truthful he is not.
With the foul mouthed GOP front-runner scooping up delegates in a march toward the Republican nomination, POLITICO subjected a week’s worth of his words to our magazine’s fact-checking process.
We chronicled 4.6 hours of stump speeches and press conferences, from a rally in Concord, N.C., on Monday to a rally on Friday in St. Louis.
The result: more than five dozen statements deemed mischaracterizations, exaggerations, or simply false – the kind of stuff that would have been stripped from one of our stories, or made the whole thing worthy of the spike. It equates to roughly one misstatement every five minutes on average.
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Example:
Donald Trump tweeted a now-debunked video showing that the protester who jumped a barrier at a recent rally was an ISIS supporter. Chuck Todd asked Trump on Meet the Press about the fake video, to which Trump replied, “I don’t know, all I know is what’s on the internet.”
Trump had stated earlier that he believed the protester to be involved in a terrorist organization. His tweet attempted to further that narrative.
“This was a guy that was looking to do harm,” Mr. Trump said in Kansas City, Missouri yesterday. “It was probably ISIS or ISIS-related, can you believe it?”
But when confronted by Chuck Todd with the fact that he had tweeted a fake video, Trump basically admitted that as long as it’s on the internet, he feels absolutely no obligation to fact-check what he tweets to his 6.87 million followers.
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“So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. OK? Just knock the hell– I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees, I promise. I promise.”
George Stephanopoulos."By paying those (legal) fees, wouldn't you be rewarding and encouraging violence?"
"No, no I didn't say that. I haven't looked at it yet, and nobody's asked me to pay for fees, and somebody asked me a question and I haven't even seen it, so I never said I was going to pay for fees," the foul mouthed Republican front-runner said, at first denying what he has said both during a campaign rally and on Sunday during an interview.
At a rally in February, Trump told his supporters about protesters: "Knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. OK? Just knock the hell -- I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise."
And in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" this Sunday, Trump said he had directed his staff to "look into" paying the legal fees of a supporter who sucker punched a protester at a rally last Wednesday in North Carolina.
"I've actually instructed my people to look into it, yes," Trump replied when asked about paying the fees.
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I will not kneel before Zod.
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Donald Trump claimed that he owns the largest winery on the East Coast.
No, he doesn't.If you check Trump Winery's website, it claims only to be "Virginia's largest vineyard" (and is run by his son Eric).
There's a big difference between having Virginia's largest vineyard and the largest vineyard on the East Coast.
From an interview with British reporter Selina Scott (NB: This was 20 years ago. Obviously not much has changed.)
"His (Trump's) ability to blag people into believing he was a commercial genius was most vividly illustrated in a helicopter ride we took over New York.
Pointing to the Empire State Building, he told me he owned it. ‘What all of it?’ I asked. ‘Yes, 100 per cent,’ he replied.
Later, forgetting he had told me he wholly owned the building, he said he only owned 50 per cent of it which he then considerably reduced.
It was the same story with the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City.‘It’s wholly owned by me,’ he said. ‘
Are you sure?’ I asked. ‘Well maybe 80 per cent,’ he demurred. ‘Are you quite sure?’ I pressed. He replied: ‘Well it’s actually 50 per cent…’
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And yet he expects us to believe him when he says he's "generously endowed"?
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Trump Airline
"Well, I sold the airline, and I actually made a great deal, complicated and in really terrible times. The economy was horrible and I made a phenomenal deal," said Trump, referring to the Trump Shuttle.
NBC News recently looked back at the venture, and summarized Trump's ownership this way:
"Back in 1989, Trump pounced at the chance to buy the troubled Eastern Air Lines shuttle service for $365 million. He put the Trump name on the planes, dressed them up inside — and waited for business to boom. It didn't.
But the business took on too much debt and eventually defaulted. It was sold to USAir."
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Trump Vodka
Trump, who is a teetotaler, also used to sell Trump Vodka, although that venture has been discontinued.
A review described the vodka's taste this way:
"Vodka from The Donald. Nosings reveal dry, earthy scents of grain, paraffin, kid leather, jasmine, flowers, moss and soot. Palate entry displays far better than average grain focus and viscosity; at midpalate, the taste profile turns off-dry, intensely breakfast cereal-like and biscuity. Finishes oily/creamy and snack cracker-like."
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Trump Steaks
Starting in 2007, Trump Steaks were featured in the Sharper Image catalogue, on QVC and sold online.
However, the meat sales were so anemic, the product soon disappeared.
Sharper Image’s Jerry Levin: “We literally sold almost no steaks,” adding, “If we sold $50,000 of steaks grand total, I’d be surprised.”
QVC’s website still contains a listing for hamburgers carrying the Trump brand. However, the product is not available for ordering and the most recent review of the product is from 2008.
What about the steaks on display at the press conference?
As pointed out by several outlets, they appear to be from Bush Brothers.
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Trump Magazine
The failed Trump World magazine referred to by some as “wealth porn” launched in 2007 and was available quarterly until 2009.
Despite the fact Donald Trump tossed a copy of the magazine to people in the crowd at his press conference ,the magazine is not currently available on newsstands.
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Trump Water
TIME posted a pic of the label that shows the water is from a company in Connecticut that sells bottled water "with your own private label".
Trump Water is actually bottled by this company.
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Wow the man is a fraud and his "fans" do not care.
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As long as Trump says what they want to hear it's all good in their simple minds. It makes them feel validated in their own racist bigoted beliefs.
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DollyLongstaff wrote:
And yet he expects us to believe him when he says he's "generously endowed"?
Lol. Trump is 
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