President Donald Trump’s habit of spreading misinformation is worsening, eroding his already minimal relationship with facts, according to a new Washington Post analysis. The newspaper’s Fact Checker database shows Trump’s record of false or misleading claims has topped 9,000 since Inauguration Day. This year’s average of almost 22 per day surpasses his 16.5-per-day average in 2018, and dwarfs his first-year record of nearly six per day. But Trump’s record had been deteriorating even before that fusillade of falsehoods. The president’s most repeated unfounded claim, used more than 200 times, is his “Witch Hunt” bashing of the Mueller probe.

Source: Huffington Post March 05, 2019 13:07 UTC