We hope it doesn’t come as a surprise to hear that when Donald Trump opens his mouth, lies fly out faster than the monkeys in The Wizard of Oz. During the period between his inauguration and April 27, 2019, the man spewed a whopping 10,111 falsehoods in 828 days. Considering the fact that the pace and frequency of the lies massively accelerated after day 600, such that he told nearly 23 lies a day in the seven-month period beginning last October, it’s fully possible he could break into the six-figure range once May and June are accounted for. Entire fact-checking industries have been built around Trump’s penchant for basically never telling the truth. Which is all to say: It was downright refreshing that in the first two-hour Democratic debate on Wednesday, basically everyone told the truth!

According to CNN fact-checkers, only a few statements verged into the not-entirely-right category. While Ohio Representative Tim Ryan claimed that “the top 1 percent control 90% of the wealth,” the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has said that “the share of wealth held by the top 1 percent rose from just under 30% in 1989 to nearly 39% in 2016,” while the Federal Reserve put it at 38.6%, and a 2017 study by NYU economist Edward Wolff noted that the top 1 percent owns 40% of the wealth in the U.S. (The situation is, of course, still outrageous, with recent analysis of Federal Reserve data showing that the 1 percent has gotten $21 trillion richer since 1989 while the bottom 50% has gotten $900 billion poorer.) Elsewhere, Senator Amy Klobuchar’s statement that 25% of people who’ve won a Nobel Prize on behalf of the U.S. are immigrants? The only reason it’s not 100% accurate is because it understates the situation in some categories; per a report from the National Foundation for American Policy, 39% of Nobel Prizes won for the United States in chemistry, medicine, and physics were awarded to immigrants.

But Senator Elizabeth Warren’s statement that the insurance industry “sucked $23 billion in profits out of the health care system” last year? True! Senator Cory Booker’s assertion that gun violence has dropped in places where a license is required to buy and own a firearm? True! Beto O’Rourke’s claim that roughly “2.3 million of our fellow Americans [are] behind bars”? True! Warren’s charge that “there’s a $23 trillion market coming for green products”? Starts with a “T” and ends with a “rue”!

Meanwhile, in the past day Trump has told at least half a dozen lies. Get the man on a debate stage and he’ll probably break a world record.

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