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This summer, after my colleagues and I published our attempt at the definitive list of President Trump’s lies, I went on Jacob Weisberg’s podcast to talk about it. Jacob asked about the reaction from readers, and I mentioned a common one from Trump supporters:

They didn’t doubt that he sometimes bent the truth. But they thought he was no worse than other recent presidents, and they challenged The Times to do the same exercise for a president other than Trump.

Today, we’re publishing the results of that challenge. We analyzed every statement of President Barack Obama’s that had been challenged by fact-checkers (the same methodology we’d used for Trump) and applied the same standard. We were looking for demonstrably untrue statements, defensible under no reasonable interpretation of the facts.

In Obama’s case, his demonstrably untrue statements include his infamous lines about a “red line” for Syria and about Americans being able to keep their health insurance if they liked it. They also include lesser-known statements on the high-school dropout rate, American exports and the size of the country’s Muslim population.