Speaking to members of the military during his surprise trip overseas this week, President Trump spoke about the raises they received. As The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker and Paul Sonne reported, the pay raise Trump authorized this year amounted to 2.6 percent, not 10 percent. [In 700 days, President Trump has made 7,546 false or misleading claims]It is a falsehood Trump has repeated before. “We just got you a big pay raise. The 2.6 percent pay raise authorized for 2019 is the largest in the past nine years.

Source: Washington Post December 27, 2018 17:13 UTC