Tornado Alley (PROG)

[DrHarleyboy]

The lies again add up, I'll stick with facts or fantasy.

The Pinocchio Test
The figures in this tweet is a great example of false precision. We do not know exactly how many days Trump has golfed and we do not know how much has been paid by taxpayers for his golf outings.

The website cited by VoteVets combines estimates and extrapolations from newspaper reporting and yet suggests the actual figure as known down to the dollar. That’s pretty misleading, especially because the hourly cost of flying the president to his properties appears much too high. Unless actual, confirmed data is available, estimates should never be presented as actual dollar figures.

We know the president likes to play a lot of golf and that travel to his properties is probably expensive. But we don’t know the numbers.

Update: After this fact check was published, Germain wrote The Fact Checker to thank us for the “excellent article,” which she said “make really great points.” She said she would examine more closely the figures used for air travel and would immediately begin using a rounded figure on the website, not a precise dollar amount.

Three Pinocchios

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/fact-check-have-u-s-taxpayers-spent-72-million-on-trumps-golf-outings/