Executive in Cheeto lies very very much. Sad!


https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/us...l?referer=


Here is an assessment of some of the claims Mr. Trump made.


Mr. Trump criticized the news media for distorting his criticism.


“They did not explain that I called the fake news the enemy of the people. They dropped off the word fake.”


False. Mr. Trump tweeted on Feb. 17, “The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!”


All of the news organizations Mr. Trump named actually quoted the tweet in its entirety or specified the outlets he called “fake.”


Mr. Trump mocked election polls for being wrong.


“Look at CBS, look at ABC, also, look at NBC, take a look at some of these polls. They’re so bad, so inaccurate and what that does is it creates a false narrative.”


This is misleading. Mr. Trump, who trailed Hillary Clinton in major national polls leading up to the election, ended up winning the Electoral College. But most of the polls Mr. Trump referred to actually reflected the popular vote total within the margin of error.

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