Trump's assault on the truth

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Washington Post Fact Checker & Author Glenn Kessler joins Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." All Presidents lie. This is something we are all aware of. However, President Trump takes it to another level. He is just under twenty thousand false statements so far as President of the United States. From 5 or 6 a day in his first year to as many as 22 a day currently. What will the lasting effects of this behavior be? How much damage to the institution has been done? And does Joe Biden, the person in the best position to defeat Trump, also make false statements?

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgoth, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.3	And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.
0:09.9	And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,
0:14.1	tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.
0:20.0	All presidents lie. Save for a few rabid partisans. It's a truism that most Americans,
0:25.6	and certainly almost all historians would agree with.
0:29.0	But without doubt, President Donald Trump has taken matters to a new level.
0:32.7	Uddering at latest count, 19,127 false statements as president,
0:38.4	according to Glenn Kessler, the chief fact checker for the Washington Post,
0:42.6	causing him to conclude that he is the most mandatious president in U.S. history.
0:48.3	We'll talk to Kessler on how he reached that conclusion,
0:51.2	and what it means for American democracy on this episode of SkullDuggery.
1:02.4	Because people have got to know whether or not they're presidents of Trump,
1:05.4	well, I'm not a corrupt. I told the American people I did not trade arms for hospitals.
1:09.7	My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence
1:14.6	tell me it is not. I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
1:19.9	There will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.
1:34.1	I'm Michael Isikov, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News.
1:37.4	And I'm Dan Clyde, Minister of Chief of Yahoo News.
1:39.9	You know, I think it's fair to say that if any journalist in Washington has been busier
1:46.8	in the Trump era, it's Glenn Kessler. I mean, he's got more material to work with.
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