There’s a high bar to accusing someone of committing a ‘lie,’ and we don’t do it lightly,”

writes Mary Ann Georgantopolous for BuzzFeed News.

She goes on to say,

A lie isn’t just a false statement. It’s a false statement whose speaker knows it’s false. In these instances, the president — or his administration — have clear reason to know otherwise. Reporters are understandably cautious about using the word — some never do, because it requires speculating on what someone is thinking. The cases we call “lies” are ones where we think it’s fair to make that call: Trump is saying something that contradicts clear and widely published information that we have reason to think he’s seen. This list also includes bullshit: speech that is — in its academic definition — “unconnected to a concern with the truth.”

So when former FBI Director James Comey testified before congress and declared,

 

 “I was honestly concerned he might lie about the nature of our meeting, so I thought it really important to document.”

So to refresh your memory, the following text is a verbatim excerpt from Mary Ann Georgantopolous’ BuzzFeed article listing Trump’s whoppers:

Feb. 16, 2017: Lied about winning the most Electoral College votes since Ronald Reagan.

Trump’s words: “We got 306 because people came out and voted like they’ve never seen before so that’s the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan,” Trump said during a news conference on Feb. 16.

Lie: Trump actually won 304 electoral votes, because two electors refused to cast their vote for him when the Electoral College met.

Several former presidents have also received more electoral votes than Trump. George H. W. Bush won with 426 electoral votes in 1988. Bill Clinton won 370 votes in 1992 and 379 in 1996, and Barack Obama won with 365 votes in 2008.

When a reporter at the news conference called Trump out for spreading false information, the president said, “Well, I was just given that information. I don’t know. I was just given…We had a very big margin.”

Feb. 10, 2017: Claimed without evidence that “thousands” of people were bused across state lines to vote.

Trump’s words: Trump again claimed there was widespread voter fraud during the November election, this time telling senators “thousands” of people were bussed in from Massachusetts to vote in New Hampshire.

Trump made the unsubstantiated claims in a closed-door meeting with 10 senators Thursday to discuss his Supreme Court nomination, Neil Gorsuch, Politico reported.

Trump blamed “thousands” of people who were “brought in on buses” from Massachusetts to vote illegally in New Hampshire during the meeting, which was also reported by the Associated Press.

Lie: Officials at New Hampshire’s secretary of state office, US Attorney’s Office, and Massachusetts’ attorney general’s office told BuzzFeed News there was no evidence to support the president’s claim.

“We have not seen any evidence of busloads of out-of-state voters coming across the border to vote in New Hampshire elections,”

David Scanlan, deputy secretary of state for New Hampshire, said.

And I’m adding this one: remember he claimed that 3 million illegal aliens voted and that cost him the popular vote. RFLMAO!!!!

Feb. 7, 2017: Lied that the murder rate was the highest in 45 years

Trump’s words: Trump told a group of US sheriffs that the murder rate in the US was the highest it’s been in “45 to 47 years.”

The truth: The US murder rate is at close to an all-time low, and law enforcement experts say Trump’s claim is so far away from the facts that it’s ludicrous. Based on FBI statistics, the murder rate was 5.0 homicides per 100,000 people in 2015, down from a peak in 1980 of 10.2 per 100,000 people. The highest number of total homicides was in 1991, when 24,703 were killed. Though several US cities have seen the number of murders rise from 2015 to 2016, the overall number is still dramatically lower than what it was in the 1980s and 1990s.

The record speaks for itself.

So whose pants are on fire? You be the judge.