12-31-2020, 10:35 AM
Trump versus the truth: The most outrageous falsehoods of his presidency (nbcnews.com)
Quote:President Donald Trump spent his first days in office pushing false claims about the size of his inauguration crowd."
He has spent the final weeks of his term blitzing the American people with falsehoods and far-fetched conspiracies as part of a failed attempt to overturn the election he lost — cementing his legacy as what fact checkers and presidential historians say is the most mendacious White House occupant ever.
“I have never seen a president in American history who has lied so continuously and so outrageously as Donald Trump, period,” presidential historian Michael Beschloss said in an interview. “Dwight Eisenhower used to say one of the most important tools a president of the United States has is that people believe what he says.