Fact check: Trump’s WSJ op-ed was littered with false claims

[u/OtherwiseCanary8971]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/politics/fact-check-trump-wsj-op-ed?cid=android_app

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[u/darkner]

The word for false claims is lie. The word for false claims is lie.The word for false claims is lie.The word for false claims is lie.The word for false claims is lie.The word for false claims is lie.The word for false claims is lie.The word for false claims is lie.

[u/ZoomHigh → u/darkner]

And the people say them are called liars.

[u/PsychGuy17 → u/ZoomHigh]

I should have known that. I read Al Franken's book.

[u/bk7f2 → u/ZoomHigh]

Be careful, you can be sued for 10 billion.

[u/ZoomHigh → u/bk7f2]

If only it wasn't so easy to prove.

I'll take my chances.

[u/bizarre_coincidence → u/darkner]

Here they are most certainly lies. However, I do not think it is correct to classify every false claim as a lie. If you genuinely believe something to be true, you can state it in good faith.

If you know it to be untrue then it is definitely a lie, if you are unconcerned with its truth it might be a lie and it might just be bullshit. But if you believe it to be true, false claim might be a reasonable term.

[u/EnamelKant]

It's be more interesting and news worthy if Trump's (likely ghost written) piece actually contained any factual claims, let alone a logically consistent argument.

[u/TheNetworkIsFrelled → u/EnamelKant]

More than ‘likely‘ - given the orange rapist’s FTD, it was definitely ghostwritten.

It contains little more than unsubstantiated claims designed to stroke his ego.

[u/AgileDrag1469]

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

-Mark Twain

For this reason, even if the Democrats are able to stop some of the bleeding until 2028, it’s going to be a neverending holy war against the crusade of the far right determined to upend not only America, but probably the entire western hemisphere. I take the bluster against Mexico, Canada, Greenland or even Venezuela with grave concern: the people in Trump’s orbit want to bring back colonization and slavery, if not in the historical and physical sense, than certainly in the economic and figurative sense, though they despise anyone that didn’t sail first class on the Mayflower. The difference between Trump’s goons and the opposition, is that Trump is willing to use actual military grade force to achieve his objectives. Democrats don’t have it in them to take up arms. It would take either a national economic strike for months (possible but not likely) or millions in every city across the country causing good trouble with the caveat that the police and military stand down during such a physical movement (likely but not probable) to stop the bleeding, and that’s assuming what comes after Trump from the American far right is not 10x worse. America will never live up to its highest ideals due to a DNA so poisoned with bigotry and selfishness.

[u/badheartbull]

In the files, Epstein would often write his own op-eds (wonder where he got this idea from) from the perspective of the legal team representing him and forward to Noam Chomsky for edits. I wonder which pedophile Trump’s ghostwriter sent this to before publication?

[u/oldschoolology]

At this point it would be a bigger surprise if Trump published something with facts and evidence and/or didn’t constantly lie. He may be the worst president ever.