Even more Trump nonsense this week as disinformation spews at the White House

After trying to orchestrate a reality-TV moment with grieving parents, more craziness in the White House. Daniel Dale has counted all of last week’s lies.

The translator's face is all of us. https://t.co/HLVWV7juPr

— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) October 16, 2019

Trump just claimed that America’s relationship with Italy goes back “thousands of years.”

Trump made 129 false claims last week, the most in the three months I’ve been counting at CNN with @tarasubramaniam — 24 about his Ukraine call, 24 about the military, one about needing ID for groceries.

This took a painfully long time please read/share: https://t.co/AFShP9M14H

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 16, 2019

Washington (CNN)

New record: Trump made 129 false claims last week, the most since CNN started counting in July

President Donald Trump averaged 18 false claims per day last week, subjecting his rally crowds, social conservatives, reporters and Twitter followers to an unceasing barrage of dishonesty.

Trump’s 129 false claims obliterated his previous record for the 14 weeks we’ve been counting at CNN, 90, and nearly doubled his total from the week before last, 66.

It was not a record for Trump’s presidency. He made 240 false claims during a rally-filled week before the 2018 midterms, which we counted at the Toronto Star.

Both of the last two weeks have featured frequent deception about his dealings with Ukraine and the related whistleblower complaint. This past week, Trump made 28 false claims related to the whistleblower and 24 about his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. His single most frequent false claim over these two weeks — 11 times last week and nine times the week before — was that the whistleblower’s highly accurate account of the call was highly inaccurate.

Trump also made 24 false claims last week about the military, turning to dishonesty to sell his controversial decision to remove US troops from northern Syria in advance of a Turkish offensive.

Trump’s high total was, in part, a product of how much he spoke. Among other events, he held two campaign rallies (making 34 total false claims), delivered a speech to the Values Voter Summit of social conservatives (24 false claims), and did a Fox News interview (10 false claims).

Trump’s most frequent false claim last week was the same as the week before: he said 11 times that the very accurate whistleblower was very inaccurate.

It was hard to pick a most egregious one this week. There were so many candidates. https://t.co/AFShP9M14H

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 16, 2019

Watching MSNBC cover Italian President Sergio Mattarella’s visit to White House and the bewilderment on his translator’s face as she translates Trumpese to English then to Italian. pic.twitter.com/TV4iXfP75c

— James M. Reeves (@jimnassau) October 16, 2019

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#trumppresser
David Correia, the man pictured on left below, was nabbed at JFK airport.
The man on the right remains at large. pic.twitter.com/moQ4dVOY9A

— Eric Seele (@eric_seele) October 16, 2019

Documents show stark differences in how Trump’s businesses reported some expenses, profits and occupancy figures for two NYC buildings — making them appear more profitable to a lender and less profitable to officials who set the buildings’ property tax.https://t.co/GOzgsLCfQv

— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) October 16, 2019