Peter Baker: ‘There’s So Much Inaccuracy Coming out of the White House’ It ‘Muddies the Water’

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BAKER: "You’re right. Presidents have put their own people, their own allies, their own advisers in a bad position on multiple occasions, many different administrations over the years. What’s -- what's different here is we see a president who is willing to say things that are flatly untrue as the fact checkers have documented repeatedly over the last year in such numbers, in such, you know, routine that it goes beyond what we’ve seen in previous administrations, I think. You know, 'The Washington Post' fact checker Glenn Kessler tallied it all up and determined the first year in office the president had said 2,000 things that weren’t true, which is a pretty striking number. And it’s not just on the big things, it’s on so many small things. Just yesterday he tweeted out that his support among African-Americans, his approval rating among African-Americans had doubled, which, of course, is not the case as our own fact checker Linda Qiu documents in the paper this morning. So there’s so much, you know, inaccuracy coming out of the White House at times it muddies the water and it gives a lot of viewers back home I think reasons to question what they’re seeing."