05_never_again
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It's a measure of how often WaPo disagrees, but it also is a measure of simply how many times they choose to "fact check" any given statement from Trump relative to any given statement from Obama. This thing is only useful if you run every single statement someone makes, on an ongoing basis, through the fact checker. Otherwise, you're just picking statements you want to fact check, and on that basis you can make any politician seem like Honest Abe or a pathological liar.This entire article is joke, as is this lie tracker.
It’s more like a count of how many times the WaPo disagrees with Trump’s opinion or when the WaPo takes exemption to Trump’s hyperbole.
For example, according to the OP's link Trump said in a speech that Henry Ford invented the assembly line. It really was Ransom Eli Olds. That gets tallied as a "lie" by the fact checker, even though it 1) could have just been a mistake and 2) the lie/error is of absolutely no consequence. I guarantee, guarantee, that if Obama made that identical statement, it doesn't get "fact checked" and even if it did, they'd mark it up to a mistake, which it in all likelihood was (why the need to lie about that anyway)? Was it a "lie" when Obama said he'd visited 57 states?