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Donald Trump, Milo Yiannopoulos, Standing Rock: Your Wednesday Briefing New York Times A fuller picture of President Trump's immigration plan is emerging after documents released on Tuesday showed a more aggressive approach to enforcing immigration laws. The policies will make it easier and quicker to deport those in the country ...

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Donald Trump has been president for all or part of 33 days. He has averaged four falsehoods or misleading statements a day(!) in that time. There hasn't been a single day of Trump's presidency in which he has said nothing false or misleading.

That data, which comes from a terrific new project from The Post's Fact Checkerthat seeks to document Trump's statements in the first 100 days of his presidency, is stunning. This chart, in particular, stood out to me:

On Trump's first day in office, he made seven (or more!) misleading claims. That was one of four days in which he has made seven-plusfalse or misleading claims; that's roughly 12 percent of all the days hehas spent in the White House. In fact, there are more days (18) when Trump has made four or more misleading/false claims than days (15) when he has made one or two.

On Inauguration Day, President Trump's address painted a bleak portrait of the nation. The Post's Fact Checker looked at five of his claims. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)

What this Fact Checker project affirms is that Trump has changed nothing in his approach to the truth since being elected president. During the course of the campaign,nearly two-thirds of hisclaims that The Post's fact-checking team looked into were rated Four Pinocchios meaning that they were found to be totally and completely false. By comparison, 14 percent of Clinton's fact-checked statements received four Pinocchios.

Theres never been a presidential candidate like Donald Trump someone so cavalier about the facts and so unwilling to ever admit error, even in the face of overwhelming evidence, WaPo lead fact-checker Glenn Kessler wrote during the heart of the 2016 campaign.

Substitute presidential candidate for president and Kessler's statement holds just as true for Trump's first month in office. All politicians stretch the truth to suit their political and policy purposes. None do so as often and as unapologetically as Trump has during his first 30-plus days in office.

Will that affect Trump's political future? Perhaps less than you might think. In a Fox News poll conducted earlier this month, 45 percent of people said they trust his administration more than the media to tell the truth to the public while 42 percent said they trust the media more. That distrust of the media coupled with Trump's aggressive efforts to discredit the press make stats like those above irrelevant to many of his supporters.

Of course, when facts and truth become matters of debate, no one really wins.

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Donald Trump's streak of falsehoods now stands at 33 days - Washington Post

President Donald Trump with his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, who is Jewish, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., Jan. 31.

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When do we get to say out loud that the Trump Administration has a very serious problem with Jews, Judaism, and all things Jewish and that it has now risen to the level that even saying the word Jew has become problematic?

Dahlia Lithwick writes about the courts and the law for Slate, and hosts the podcast Amicus.

The White Houses statement on the JCC threats read in full:

Its worth noting that terrorism and vandalism have absolutely nothing to do with individual freedom and that threatening to kill small babies and elderly people is an affront to human safety and dignity, not just freedom. The White House statement, you also might have noticed, did not contain the words Jewish, Jewish Community Center, or terrorism or anti-Semitism. This has become something of a tradition for the Trump administration, which failed to mention the existence of Jewish victims in a message issued on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Last week, Trump fielded a question about the rise in anti-Semitic incidents during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by making another rambling reference to his Electoral College victory and his Jewish daughter and by dismissing the question as unfair. And on Thursday, in the strangest performance to date, Trump told a Jewish reporter to sit down and accused him of lying when he was asked a softball question about the rise of anti-Jewish hate.

On Tuesday morning, responding to increasing pressure to say the words aloud, Trump called anti-Semitism horrible and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil. In a Facebook post, the executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect called this a pathetic asterisk of condescension after weeks in which he and his staff have committed grotesque acts and omissions reflecting anti-Semitism, yet day after day have refused to apologize and correct the record.

Indeed, to be grateful that Trump finally said the bare minimum at the latest possible moment he could say it is to miss what was most horrifying about his assorted romps with anti-Semitism. You may have missed it amid the distraction of Trumps insult to a Jewish reporter, but in the same press conference, SiriusXMs Jared Rizzi circled back to the hate crimes question. Ill follow up on my colleagues question about anti-Semitism, Rizzi said. Its not about your personality or your beliefs. Were talking about a rise in anti-Semitism around the country. Some of it by supporters in your name. What can you do to deter that?

Trumps reply: Some of it is written by our opponents. You do know that? Do you understand that? You dont think anybody would do a thing like that? In case he wasnt being sufficiently clear, he added, Some of the signs youll see are not put up by the people that love or live Donald Trump. Theyre put up by the other side, and you think its like playing it straight? No. But you have some of those signs, and some of that anger is caused by the other side. Theyll do signs, and theyll do drawings that are inappropriate. It wont be my people. It will be the people on the other side to anger people like you.

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Allison Kaplan Sommer, commenting at Haaretz, explained over the weekend that thisand not the insults directed to a Jewish reporterwas the real story about Trump and anti-Jewish hate speech: Trumps words echoed the theory that the threats to Jewish community centers and other anti-Semitic incidents have been contrived to support the premise that Trumps presidency is ushering in greater racism. These false flag claims are rampant among anti-Semites and have been pushed by David Duke himself. I wonder who could be placing all those calls? Duke tweeted recently, referencing the threats to Jewish community centers. Seems theyd be able to track that down rather easily ... such a dramatic photo.

So please dont be too grateful that President Trump has finally said that anti-Semitism is horrible. Its more notable and more telling that he has also given voice and cover to the vile argument that these attacks and threats are not really happening to Jews or, worse, that Jews are doing this to their own communities in an effort to delegitimize Trump. The real question we should be asking Donald Trump today isnt whether he deplores episodes of racial hatred. It should be whether he even believes they are happening or whether he truly thinks they are staged by his enemies to malign him.

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Since 2012, Sweden has been letting ordinary citizens take overthe official @sweden Twitter account, one week at a time, with next to no oversight. Its been risky move intended to help the countrypromote itself, unfiltered, as a travel destination, with each citizen serving as a kind of de facto tourism ambassador.

There have been some verynotable tweetersalong the waythe latest being 22-year-oldMax Karlsson, whos been usingthe account this week to critiquePresident Trump for his comments about Sweden over the weekend.

In case you missed it, Trump, at a rally in Florida on Saturday, said, You look at whats happening last night in Sweden. They took in large numbers. Theyre having problems like they never thought possible.Confusion followed as #lastnightinsweden began trending, with many noting that no specific newsworthy event had occurred in the Scandinavian nation on Friday night.

"As I've said before, we do face challengesbut not the ones Donald Trump believes in."

-Max Karlsson

Trump later saidhe was referring to a segment on Tucker Carlsons Fox News show in which filmmaker and anti-immigration activistAmi Horowitz made allegations about rising crime tied to Swedens refugee settlement policies and referenced alleged no go zones in areas with larger Muslim populations. Research by theSwedish National Council for Crime Prevention shows that violent crime hasbeen in general decline since the 90s, and two of the police officers interviewed by Horowitz for footage thataired during theFox segment later said hemischaracterized their statements, calling him a madman.

Hundreds of social media users began to mockTrump and his supporters with tags like #JeSuisIKEA. And @Sweden joined in, withKarlsson, a 22-year-oldSwedish Union of Tenants negotiation officer, spending much of his week on the account bashing Trump.

AdFreak spoke with Karlsson about the events of the past few days.

AdFreak: How does the @sweden accountwork, exactly? Max Karlsson: You nominate a Swedish Twitter user to Curators of Sweden.Then, if youre chosen by the Swedish Institute, you get a week to tweet freely about any subject, as long as youre within the law and not promoting a product or your business.

Wheredid you hear about Trumps claims, and how did you react? I got ahold of the account Monday morning, but Ive been preparing for about two weeks now. All of the preparation was scrapped, or at least put on hold, when Trump made his remarks, and I started drafting a strategy to be informative but still relevant.I heard about Trumps claims right after he made them, from Swedish journalists on Twitter. The collective response was a huge, Wait what did he just say?

Youve written a lot of tweets debunking Trumps broader allegations. Could you give some context to help Americans understand the arguments about immigration and crime? Were currently having a heated debate about fake news, combined with an increased threat from the Swedish extreme right. The larger political parties are all closing in on more populist policy decisions, and its been quite the ride following the progression from just a few years back. Weve grown much harder in our immigration policies, but a lot of Swedes still maintain a pretty high self-regard based on how it used to be. My week running @sweden is not only targeted toward reaching American Trump votersI want to converse with theSwedes, too.

You mentioned some specific right-wing politicalgroups. Could you elaborate?The Swedish far right has moved several positions forward, with normalization in a lot of the press and amongvoters. These figures, like Fjordman or Ingrid Carlqvist, are relatively invisible in an international context but well-known and generally despised over here. Some publications are maintaining a Snopes-like attitude and keeping their arguments fact-based. I think thats really valuable.

Various outlets are reporting thatriots did occur inthe predominately immigrant neighborhood of Rinkeby on Monday, and some Trump supportershave argued thatthis incident validates his claims. How would you respond?The thing is, it doesnt prove Trump right unless you argue on the premise that these 30 young menin one isolated area with apopulation of 12,000are rioting based on the color of their skin, and that alone. Lets assume they all have citizenship, because most of the youth in that area are born in Sweden to immigrant parents. What makes them immigrant rioters and not Swedish? Does anybody really want a debate about whether or not violence is more inherent in immigrants? Is it passed on through DNA? Thats just how close we are to arguing like its the happy 30s again.

So you think supporters are making a disingenuousargument. A sane discussion on crime is absolutely fitting. Butto be able to further that discussion into policy or action, it has to involve all relevant elements like socioeconomic factors, setting, history and the incident itselfabout which we still know very little. As Ive said before, we do face challengesbut not the ones Donald Trump believes in. Also, they are saying [the rioters were] Muslim, but they mean different race, totally ignoring whether theyre practicing or secular. There are no facts or science supporting this claim, and I hate seeing it in the frontlines of arguments they frequently bring up.

Now that youve had this experience in public, do you plan to become more politically active? This might just be a brief moment for me to express myself on a larger platform, but I havent thought about what to do after this week. Im taking it one day at a time!

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Kevin O'Leary: Canada's Donald Trump? BBC News An outspoken businessman who found fame on American reality TV is betting the wave of populist sentiment will help him upend Canada's political establishment. Kevin O'Leary is one of 14 candidates vying for the leadership of Canada's Conservative Party ... and more »

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