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Is There More Lying In This Election?

Did you know that U.S. General John Pershing shot 49 terrorists with bullets covered in pig's blood?

No? But presidential candidate Donald Trump

told that story to at least 2,000 people at a campaign rally recently. The story is nothing more than Internet rumor, according to Snopes.com.

It foundnothing that documentsthe story about General John Pershing in the Philippines more than 100 years ago.

Trump's story on General Pershing is one of a large number of untrue or unconfirmed statements from the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Is this an unusual campaign season? There is noscientific wayto know if more lies are being told in this campaign than any other,

according to Dartmouth College political scientist Brendan Nyhan. With that said, I think it is fair to say Donald Trump isgoing beyond

norms for inaccuracy among top presidential candidates, ” he said. Long history of telling a lie in politics

Telling a lie or falsehood is not new to American politics. Even the 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, known asHonest Abe, ”

did not always tell the truth. He did not tell members of Congress about negotiations to end the Civil War in 1865,

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