Rick Santorum says Trump ‘has a problem’ with lying – ThinkProgress
[ad_1] Former Pennsylvania senator and CNN commentator Rick Santorum said on Wednesday that President Trump “has a problem” with lying, during an interview with CNN’s New Day . “The president says things that don’t comport with the facts,” Santorum told host Chris Cuomo. “I don’t like calling people liars, but the reality is this president has a problem. And I have said that over and over again. I wish he wouldn’t go out and say things that don’t comport with the facts.” Santorum’s admission came in response to analysis released by Washington Post fact-checkers this week, which showed that, since taking office in January 2017, President Trump has made 3,001 “false or misleading claims…an average of nearly 6.5 claims a day.” “We have never seen a record like this,” Cuomo said. “…How do you justify this data from the Washington Post?” Santorum initially responded by claiming President Obama lied about the Affordable Care Act when he said people would be able to keep their doctor a...