Fact checkers: Trump averaged 15 false claims a day in 2018
President Donald Trump’s year of lies, false statements and misleading claims started with a series of morning tweets.Over a couple of hours Jan. 2, Trump made false claims about three of his favorite targets – Iran, The New York Times and Hillary Clinton. He also took credit for the “best and safest year on record” for commercial aviation, even though there had been no commercial plane crashes in the United States since 2009 and, in any case, the president has little to do with […]