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Lyin' Trump: a weekly fact-check

The Guardian turns a spotlight on Donald Trump’s most outrageous claims and falsehoods

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    How does Donald Trump lie? A fact checker's final guide

    As the presidential campaign has gathered speed, the Guardian has gathered together the lies the Republican candidate has told. What have we learned?
  • Donald Trump Campaigns In Toledo, OH Ahead Of Presidential Election<br>TOLEDO, OH - OCTOBER 27: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a campaign event at the SeaGate Convention Centre on October 27, 2016 in Toledo, Ohio. The presidential general election is November 8. (Photo by J.D. Pooley/Getty Images)

    The lies Trump told this week: from Mosul 'disaster' to leaked Clinton emails

    The businessman’s thoughts on the battle to liberate Mosul suggest a dearth of military knowledge, while he fudged who said what in Clinton’s hacked emails
  • Donald Trump Campaigns In Colorado Ahead Of Final Presidential Debate<br>GRAND JUNCTION, CO - OCTOBER 18: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally at the Grand Junction Regional Airport on October 18, 2016 in Grand Junction Colorado. Trump is on his way to Las Vegas for the third and final presidential debate against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images

    The lies Trump told this week: voter fraud and the 'rigged' election

    The Republican presidential nominee used a Pew study and news reports to talk about how the election is ‘rigged’ against him, but he omitted a lot of context
  • Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump looks out at the audience at a campaign rally in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., October 13, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar

    The lies Trump told this week: from murder rates to climate change

    The Republican nominee claimed to be an environmentalist and a crime expert all in the same week, but the numbers didn’t add up
  • Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada, U.S., October 5, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo

    The lies Trump told this week: taxes, bankruptcy and the great 'depression'

    Presidential nominee wrong, again. Recession of 1990-91 does not compare in severity of the 2008 financial crisis and bankruptcy is common business practice
  • US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the NH Sportsplex in Bedford, New Hampshire, on September 29, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / Jewel SAMADJEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images

    The lies Trump told this week: from post-debate polls to losing US jobs

    The Republican nominee did some creative math when talking about how ‘great’ he did in polls after the debate and used his private plane to talk about jobs
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    The lies Trump told this week: drugs are a 'big factor' in North Carolina protests

    From touting the successes of stop and frisk in New York to the state of African American communities across the US, here’s a fact check of Trump’s statements
  • Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Speaks At The Economic Club Of New York<br>NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 15: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a lunch hosted by the Economic Club of New York on September 15, 2016 in New York City. According to a report by Oxford Economics, if Trump is elected to the White House growth in the US would be about 5 per cent lower than would otherwise be expected by 2021. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images,)

    The lies Trump told this week: from 'deplorables' to his interrupted speech

    GOP nominee described pastor who interrupted his Flint, Michigan, speech as a ‘nervous mess’ and defended how his supporters feel about minorities
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    The lies Trump told this week: from military spending to his tax returns

    Trump’s claims over donation to Florida attorney general contradicted by her spokesman while the Republican distances himself from Obama birther theories
  • Donald Trump Addresses The 98th American Legion National Convention In Cincinnati<br>U.S. Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the 98th American Legion national convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 1, 2016. PHOTOGRAPH BY UPI / Barcroft Images London-T:+44 207 033 1031 E:hello@barcroftmedia.com - New York-T:+1 212 796 2458 E:hello@barcroftusa.com - New Delhi-T:+91 11 4053 2429 E:hello@barcroftindia.com www.barcroftimages.com

    The lies Trump told this week: who's paying for the wall to immigration costs

    A meeting this week with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto only led to more confusion about the Republican nominee’s immigration plans
  • Donald Trump<br>Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

    The lies Trump told this week: from immigration to the safety of inner cities

    GOP nominee softened his stance on the signature issue of his campaign and talked African American unemployment while trying to court the non-white vote
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    The lies Trump told this week: from opposing the Iraq war to San Bernardino

    Trump shares more false memories from the Iraq war and Middle Eastern politics and welcomes Nato’s ‘new’ terrorism division – which has existed since 2004
  • Donald Trump<br>Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the BB&amp;T Center, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    The lies Trump told this week: from Obama and Isis to support for vets

    Claims that Obama ‘founded’ the terrorist group and that ‘nobody’s done more for vets’ than Donald were among the Republican’s most muddled ideas
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    The lies Trump told this week: from the NFL and debates to an Iran 'scandal'

    Misattribution of a monetary exchange with Iran and a fictitious letter from the NFL were among the most egregious claims by the Republican nominee – with one from Clinton too
  • Donald Trump<br>Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Thursday, July 28, 2016, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    The lies Trump told this week: a Russian love-in and conspiracy theories

    The Democratic convention didn’t stop Donald Trump from weighing in on everything from Putin to the JFK assassination. So what was true?
  • Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump points at the gathered media during his walk through at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, U.S., July 21, 2016.  REUTERS/Rick Wilking     TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    The lies Trump told this week: a special Republican convention edition

    It was Trump’s big week in Cleveland, where he was officially named the party nominee, but still found time to skirt the truth on Indiana, Putin and more
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    The lies Trump told this week: from police deaths to Clinton's emails

    The presumptive Republican nominee has offered misleading statements on officer fatalities, violent crime, and Obama’s handling of veterans affairs
  • Donald Trump

    The lies Trump told this week: from Saddam to the concept of losing a war

    In the latest of a continuing series, the Guardian looks at some of the tallest tales the presumptive Republican nominee has told over the past seven days
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    The lies Trump told this week: from US trade policies to his own campaign

    Donald Trump’s latest tweak to proposed Muslim ban, disavowal of Republican leader he once praised and more exaggerations, contradictions and half-truths
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    The lies Trump told this week: from his tax plan to the Iraq war

    In the first of a regular series, the Guardian turns a spotlight on Donald Trump’s most outrageous claims and falsehoods
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