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To Absorb or Not To Absorb?

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to The Atlantic's Editor-in-Chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, about The Atlantic's coverage of President Trump and what stories to keep an eye on about the president's administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.2

Tomorrow they will say, Donald Trump,

0:07.9

rinse and waves at the press.

0:09.5

I'm not ranting anything in there.

0:10.5

I'm just telling you, you're dishonest people.

0:12.7

And that you call us fake news and put us down like children.

0:16.9

President Trump, if you're watching, you're the president.

0:19.3

You legitimately won the presidency.

0:21.1

I'll get to work and stop whining about it.

0:23.1

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man who told 133 lies in his first 34

0:35.9

days in office.

0:37.2

Yep, it's Donald Trump.

0:39.4

I'm Jacob Lysberg.

0:41.3

I'm sorry, did I say lies?

0:43.1

I meant false and misleading claims.

0:46.4

Trump has been making them at a rate of just under four per day since he was inaugurated.

0:51.8

What's according to an analysis in the Washington Post today?

0:55.1

And what were those claims about?

0:57.5

Well, the most frequent topic was immigration at 24 and counting.

1:02.5

That's stuff like 3 million illegal immigrants voted in the election.

1:07.5

Other topics that frequently seem to mislead Donald Trump are his own biographical record

1:12.8

at 18 claims and jobs, 17 claims.

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