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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Derry, N.H., on Aug. 19, 2015. (AP/Mary Schwalm)
At PolitiFact, we’re checking all the presidential candidates. But people keep asking about new GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.
So far, we’ve fact-checked Trump 28 times since his June presidential announcement at his Trump Tower office building in Manhattan.
How has the Republican frontrunner fared on the Truth-O-Meter?
The numbers largely tell the story:
True
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0
Mostly True
0
Half True
5 (18%)
Mostly False
4 (14%)
False
15 (54%)
Pants on Fire
4 (14%)
Put another way, two in three claims we’ve checked from Trump resulted in a rating of False or Pants on Fire.
You can see all fact-checks involving Trump here, and you can read all our fact-checks involving the 2016 presidential race here.
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