WASHINGTON—Donald Trump made 60 false claims in his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, shattering his old record for false claims in a single speech.

At 2 hours and 2 minutes, Trump’s speech to CPAC was also by far the longest of his presidency. If you’re counting false claims per minute, Star editor Ed Tubb notes, Trump made almost an identical amount to CPAC, 0.49 per minute, as he did in the Pennsylvania rally speech in August at which he set his old record of 36, 0.46 per minute.

But still: man, 60 false claims in a single speech.

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Six of them were on the subject of his crowds. One of those was a lie he told even though hundreds of his supporters could see it was a lie.

When Trump seemed to be a couple minutes from finally reaching his conclusion, journalists including myself and hundreds of conference attendees watched dozens of people walk out of the room...

… after which, Trump said, “And, by the way, I’m watching those doors. Not one person has left, and I’ve been up here a long time…But not one person. So if you hear tomorrow, when they read ‘people left’ — nobody left early. There hasn’t been one person that’s left. But when you read it, you just say ‘fake news.’”

I’m skeptical of grand theories of Trump’s dishonesty; I think he often lies simply because that’s how his brain works. But there’s a school of thought that he tells extremely obvious lies as a demonstration of his power over people — to show that he can deny reality to people who know he is denying reality and still retain their fealty. It seemed like that might be what he was doing at CPAC.

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Trump made 111 false claims in all last week, his ninth-worst week so far.

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Trump is now up to 4,557 false claims for the first 773 days of his presidency, an average of 5.9 per day.

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If Trump is a serial liar, why call this a list of “false claims,” not lies? You can read our detailed explanation here. 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.