Donald Trump’s Week of Misrepresentations, Exaggerations and Half-Truths POLITICO fact-checked both candidates

Some metrics on Trump’s statements this week:

Number of appearances: 6 speeches; 1 town hall, 7 TV interviews; 0 press availabilities; 37 tweets
Combined length of remarks (speeches, interviews): 4 hours and 43 minutes
Raw number of misstatements, exaggerations, falsehoods: 87

Rate: 1 untruth every 3.25 minutes
The Trump campaign was asked for comment on Saturday on specific misrepresentations identified. This fact-check will be updated if the campaign responds.


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worth of Trump’s factual transgressions.
ECONOMY:
1. “The reason I do manufacture things overseas — I have to do this, there is no choice, because [other countries] have devalued their currency so much that our companies are out of business for the most part.” (Sept. 20, Fox 8 interview)
Manufacturing is diminishing as a share of the economy, but it’s hardly vanishing. The sector constituted 11.8 percent of GDP in the first quarter of 2016. In the first quarter of 2006, it made up 13.1 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

So, how is he going to bring JOBS BACK AGAIN?

Writers of creative or narrative non-fiction often discuss the level, and limits, of creative invention in their works, and justify the approaches they have taken to relating true events. Melanie McGrath, whose book Silvertown, an account of her grandmother’s life, is "written in a novelist's idiom",[9] writes in the follow-up, Hopping, that the known facts of her stories are "the canvas on to which I have embroidered. Some of the facts have slipped through the holes—we no longer know them nor have any means of verifying them—and in these cases I have reimagined scenes or reconstructed events in a way I believe reflects the essence of the scene or the event in the minds and hearts of the people who lived through it. [...] To my mind this literary tinkering does not alter the more profound truth of the story."[10] This concept of fact vs. fiction is elaborated upon in Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola's book entitled "Tell it Slant." They argue that "...memory itself can be called its own bit of creative nonfiction. We continually—often unconsciously—renovate our memories, shaping them into stories that bring coherence to chaos. Memory has been called the ultimate 'mythmaker'..." as even one’s firsthand accounts are unreliable.

Hey Steven, this blog is not talking about a book but we are talking about the FACT CHECK of Donald Trump’s Week of Misrepresentations, Exaggerations and Half-Truths POLITICO fact-checked both candidates.

2. “Excessive regulation costs our economy $2 trillion a year. Can you believe that? Two trillion dollars a year.” (Sept. 21, Toledo, Ohio, rally)
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The $2 trillion estimate comes from a report from the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute. It’s widely quoted, but independent fact-checkers have questioned its methodology. Additionally, the figure excludes any benefits derived from the effect of regulations. The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes that car seat belts, for example, are included as a cost. But the lives/money saved as a result is not used as an offset, even though the federal government has estimated the benefits of regulations outstripped the costs.

Somebody needed to fact check Politico. They are purveyors of "creative non-fiction".

Sorry Steven but the FACTS ARE THE FACTS!!!!