WASHINGTON—Donald Trump followed his deluge of debate dishonesty with yet more lies.

The day after saying 34 false things at the first presidential debate, Tuesday Sept. 27, he did an interview on Fox News and spoke at a rally in Florida. He said eight false things and one misleading thing.

1. Falsely said, “You look at African-American youth with unemployment rates in the 50s.” (The unemployment rate for African-American youth is 26 per cent.)

2. Falsely said, “I was against going into Iraq. And it’s so well-documented.” (Trump supported the invasion. There is no documentation showing he opposed it.)

3. Falsely said Boeing is going to manufacture 757s like his in China: “See that plane? That plane was built in America. Now that same company is going to start building these planes in China. I don’t like it.” (The 757 is no longer being manufactured. While Boeing is opening a China plant to install interiors and paint exteriors on 737s, the vast majority of its manufacturing is remaining in the U.S.)

4. Falsely said, “Almost every single poll had us winning the debate against Crooked Hillary Clinton. Big league. Big league.” (The only “polls” that had him winning were unscientific online polls anyone could click. In legitimate polls, such as the ones conducted by CNN and Public Policy Polling, he lost.)

5. Falsely said of the Drudge Report online debate poll: “I got almost 90 per cent of the vote.” (This is an exaggeration. Trump got 82 per cent in Drudge’s unscientific poll.)

6. Falsely claimed to have won a CBS post-debate poll. (“We did not conduct a post-debate poll,” CBS White House correspondent Major Garrett wrote on Twitter.)

7. Falsely took credit for NATO creating a new intelligence position dealing with terrorism: “If I don’t say that, believe me, NATO is not opening up a terror operation.” (NATO and independent experts say Trump had nothing to do with the creation of the position. And contrary to Trump’s suggestion, NATO has had a “terror operation” for years.)

8. Falsely said Clinton “put her public office up for sale.” (While reports show that Clinton Foundation donors sought access to her as secretary of state, there is no evidence she sold favours or tried to.)

9. Misleadingly said, “I see what’s happening in the polls — I guess you see I’m tied in Minnesota.” (Of the last 20 Minnesota polls, only one has showed Trump tied with Clinton — and it was commissioned by Breitbart, the pro-Trump website. Clinton leads by two points or more, and as many as 13, in every other poll.)

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