Donald Trump's top 10 most misleading claims

Donald Trump's top 10 most misleading claims
By Linda Qiu on Thursday, October 27th, 2016 at 11:55 a.m.

Donald Trump’s "truthful hyperbole" fueled his rise to the top of the Republican ticket — and a surge of interest in fact-checking.

PolitiFact has been documenting Trump’s statements since 2011, when he was toying with a 2012 White House bid. Since then, we’ve fact-checked more than 300 Trump claims. About 71 percent of them rated Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire. About 14 percent of his statements are Half True, while 4 percent rated True.

Trump’s inaccuracies are diverse. They include conspiracy theories, attacks on critics and opponents, misleading statistics and exaggerations of his own personal record. Here are Trump’s top false statements.

"Of course, there is large-scale voter fraud happening on and before election day."
Pants on Fire! Actual instances of voter fraud — such as voter impersonation, ballot stuffing, and bought votes — are extremely rare, often unintentional and not on a scale large enough to affect a national election.

An investigative reporting project found less than 200 alleged cases of voter impersonation from 2000 to 2011. Many of these never led to charges, while other were acquitted or dismissed. A Loyola Law School study found an even smaller number: 31 credible incidents out of more than 1 billion votes cast from 2000 to 2014.

Put it in another way: More people are struck by lightning or attacked by sharks than are accused of voter fraud.

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