Donald Trump on the Truth-O-Meter, fact-checking the GOP frontrunner

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

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.