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Donald Trump by the numbers

Donald Trump habitually lies, but numbers do not lie. Trump supporters seem impervious to logic and reason, so I thought I’d let the numbers speak for themselves.

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Donald Trump habitually lies, but numbers do not lie. Trump supporters seem impervious to logic and reason, so I thought I’d let the numbers speak for themselves.

4 Number of times an American president has been impeached.
2 Number of times Donald Trump has been impeached.
3 Number of times Trump has been married.
3 Number of wives Trump has cheated on.
26 Number of women who have publicly accused Trump of rape, kissing, groping without consent; looking under women’s skirts; walking in on naked teenage pageant contestants.
$88.3 million Amount Trump was ordered to pay writer E. Jean Carroll, who claimed Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in the ‘90s.
40 Percentage of the US’s roughly 450,000 coronavirus deaths (as of February 2021) that could have been avoided if Trump had handled the pandemic responsibly, according to a Lancet Commission report.
2.3 million Number that Americans without health insurance increased during Trump’s presidency.
34 Number of Trump’s felony convictions for falsifying business records in the first degree.
1 Number of US presidents ever convicted of a felony.
12 Minimum number of felony charges Trump is still facing.
187 Number of minutes between Trump’s incendiary speech at the Ellipse on January 6 and the release of a video telling the rioters to go home.
5 Number of people who died during, and within 36 hours of, the January 6 riot: 1 shot by Capitol Police, 1 drug overdose, and 3 of natural causes, including Officer Brian Sicknick who died of a stroke the day after being pepper-sprayed by rioter Julian Khater.
174 Number of police officers injured in the January 6 attack.
4 Number of police officers who responded to the January 6 attack who committed suicide within 7 months.
6 Number of Trump hotels and casinos that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy between 1991 and 2009.
$15 million Amount that Donald and Melania Trump claimed as a net loss on their 2020 federal income taxes.
$5 million Amount that Donald and Melania Trump claimed as a refund on their 2020 federal income taxes.
2.7 million Number of American jobs lost while Trump was president.
50 Percentage the national debt increased during Trump’s presidency, (from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion).
27.5 Percentage home prices increased in US during Trump’s presidency.
12.5 Percentage handgun production increased in US during Trump’s presidency.
25 Percentage murders increased in US during Trump’s presidency, (from 17,250 in 2016 to 21,570 in 2020).
30,573 Number of false or misleading claims Trump made while president (about 21 per day), according to The Washington Post fact-checkers.
82 Percentage of Americans who, according to Trump, “understands that it [2020] was a rigged election.”
30 Percentage of Americans who actually think that
$254 million Amount Trump raised online from Nov. 4, 2020, the day after the election, to President Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021, as he urged supporters to fuel an “election defense fund.”
60 Number of lawsuits lost by Trump and his allies claiming some sort of election fraud, miscount, or inaccurate results in the 2020 presidential election.
13 Number of Trump attorneys charged with felonies and/or disbarred for their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
8 Number of Trump allies sentenced to prison time (as of April 2024).
$9 million Amount the Trump campaign fundraised in the 3 days after Trump was booked on racketeering charges and his mug shot was released in Fulton County, Georgia.
$107 million Amount of Trump’s legal expenses from January 2021 to March 2024.
$1 billion Amount of campaign contributions Trump requested from Big Oil execs in exchange for dismantling environmental policies during his second term in office.

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Mark Heinz

Mark Heinz served as an Army journalist, and is now a freelance writer who has written eight novels. He lives at Nolin Lake with his wife Carrie. (Read the full bio on the Contributors page.)

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