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“”American fact-checkers have never encountered a politician who shares Trump\u2019s disregard for factual accuracy.””<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“” “It’s been an astounding eight years in American politics,” said Jennifer Mercieca, a Texas A&M University communication professor and a historian of American political rhetoric. “He\u2019s built his entire political identity on the fact that he doesn’t owe anyone the truth about anything.” “”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“”Of the tweets we checked, about 79% rated Mostly False or lower. So far, on his Truth Social platform, we have not yet rated a claim higher than Mostly False.””<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2024\/feb\/01\/what-politifact-learned-in-1000-fact-checks-of-don\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Quotes: “”American fact-checkers have never encountered a politician who shares Trump\u2019s disregard for factual accuracy.”” “” “It’s been an astounding eight years in American politics,” said Jennifer Mercieca, a Texas A&M University communication professor and a historian of American political rhetoric. “He\u2019s built his entire political identity on the fact that he doesn’t owe anyone <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,722,163,1010,348],"tags":[3250,398,3251],"class_list":["post-19708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-agencies","category-newsmedia","category-politics","category-president","category-websites","tag-fact-check","tag-trump","tag-truth-o-meter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19709,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708\/revisions\/19709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}