WASHINGTON–Donald Trump stood before a gathering of Ohio Republicans and warned the party faithful that the national motto, “In God We Trust,” was under threat.

“Did you see some court ruled against it the other day?” Trump asked.

No court had ruled against “In God We Trust” the other day. Nor the other month. There have been no recent rulings against the use of the phrase, groups on both sides of the issue told the Star.

In the same speech, the U.S. president boasted about praise he has received from a Democratic state legislator in New York, Dov Hikind, over his deportation of a Nazi labor camp guard.

“He’s a very strong Democrat, probably never uttered the word Republican in his life,” Trump said. He continued: “And I’ll tell you, he would never vote for a Republican.”

Hikind endorsed Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 election, Republican John McCain in the 2008 election, and Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 election. He said he wrote in Republican Paul Ryan for president in the 2016 election.

Trump alleged a bit earlier in the speech that anyone who enters New York gets sued by the state governor, Democrat Andrew Cuomo.

“You know, you go into that state, you get sued; that’s why people don’t want to move in,” he said. He added: “But if you go to New York, you get sued, and people are afraid to go to New York.”

He did not say what he meant. More detail wouldn’t have helped. He was obviously making this up, too.

Trump’s barrage of lies to members of his party were only some of the highly inaccurate statements he made last week. He made 67 false claims in all, the fifth-highest number for any week of his presidency.

Trump made 20 false claims in the speech to the Ohio Republicans. He did even worse at his campaign rally in Charleston, West Virginia, with 24 false claims. And he added 13 false claims in his interview with Fox and Friends, during which he insisted, wrongly, that the crimes to which his former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty are not actually crimes at all.

And he caused an international incident with a false claim he made on Twitter. Trump said his administration would investigate “the large scale killing of farmers” in South Africa. No such mass slaughter is occurring. There were 47 murders on South African farms in the 2017-2018 tracking year, a 19-year low.

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Trump is now up to 2,436 false claims for the first 584 days of his presidency, an average of 4.2 per day.

If Trump is a serial liar, why call this a list of “false claims,” not lies? Click here for our detailed explanation. The short answer is that we can’t be sure that each and every one was intentional. In some cases, he may have been confused or ignorant. What we know, objectively, is that he was not telling the truth.

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