@zackarydow by your logic, only a minority voted against him and for the other side... And only a minority is opposed to the wall. Democrats (and Hillary) didn't get 50% of the vote, much less 50% of the entire voting pupulation. Saying "he shouldn't do it" doesn't have any better reasoning.

The fact that he gained seats in the senate and did better in the mid terms in congress than previous presidents - including Obama and Bill - shows be hade enough support to stick to his guns on what a large percent of the population wants. And past statements show democrats are simply voting against anything trump.

@KRyan Washington post is only marginally less biased than od. Fact checkers can be as biased when the interpretations get pushed in certain directions. Plenty of proof exists of bias in "fact checkers" giving conflicting reports when comparing the same statements by different sides. Or proof that fact checkers don't check everything or update info when lies are proven right (Ie trump was spied upon. He was proven right... But you could say his campaign was spied on, not him - lots of room to spin "lies" out of complicated statements)

@WernerCD Spygate has in no way been confirmed link 1, link2, link 3. 15 alleged lies a day is over 5,000 in a year. I'll concede it's unlikely that every one is strictly true, but to cherry-pick a few wrong ones so you discount the number as a whole is very disingenuous and misleading.

@WernerCD Further Clinton won a plurality, and in this midterm the left won a majority in both chambers (52.5% in the house and a whopping 59.3% in the Senate). Lastly most people don't want the wall. I don't know why you insist this is a minority opinion.

@LordFarquaad SpyGate hasn't been disproved - there is enough murk to spin it lie or truth in either direction AND it's easy to think Trump has access to information that isn't public. to cherry pick a few wrong ones while you ignore the "few wrong ones" and give the remaining ones a pass (including highly controversial ones like those surrounding SpyGate) is equally bad - and you ignore the bias claims. Clinton won a plurality but she didn't win a majority (which was a claim earlier). Most people don't want the wall but a large percentage do - and importantly - his base does.

@WernerCD Russell's Teapot.

@LordFarquaad usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2013/05/28/… (usnews left-center - fact checkers are often biased and provably so) (edit: I love how your gallop poll shows that 73% of trumps base strongly/support expanding the wall - seems like a majority of his base)

Yes, a majority of Trump's base does want the wall. And a majority of Bernie's base wants to break up the banks, and a majority of the Liberatarian base wants to abolish drivers licenses. But none of these are going to be passed into law because a majority of the country doesn't want them. It's irrelevant if a majority of Trump's base is in support, because he is the president of the united states, not the Republicans.

In addition, your link cites two studies. Both of them assert Republicans have been less honest (Let me begin by stating I am only making this claim about Trump). From there, it claims that this proves a bias. After all, look at all those examples of Obama lying. However, every one of the cited studies concludes it happens on both sides.

Nobody asserts that either party consistently tells the truth, but your article builds a strawman that the left contends they never lie, then tears down that strawman and declares victory.

This also comes about as a result of the balance fallacy, which claims both sides must be equal. So if a study comes back claiming one side lies more often than the other, it must be biased.

Lastly, I find it a little ironic that your article meant to definitively demonstrate bias is an opinion piece with links to editorial cartoons of Obama and Benghazi. It weakens the claim that you actually care if your information comes from a biased source.