WASHINGTON (AP) – It was a week of caustic rhetoric by President Donald Trump over Syria and the impeachment inquiry, and truth often took a beating. Seeking to justify pulling U.S. troops out of Syria, Trump spread false information about the total defeat of the Islamic State and misrepresented the scope of the original U.S. mission, saying it was only supposed to last “30 days.” He stepped up political attacks on his Democratic investigators, contradicting himself in the process. First he accused a Democratic lawmaker of concocting a dramatic account of a Trump phone call with Ukraine’s president without having seen a rough White House transcript of what was actually said in the conversation. Then he accused the same lawmaker of concocting his account only after reviewing the rough transcript and deciding it wasn’t interesting enough. On the economy, the president declared a premature victory for farmers over the weekend, incorrectly suggesting that China’s pledge to buy up to $50 billion in U.S. farm products was a signed, done deal. Here’s a review, also covering statements about Hunter Biden, judges and the auto industry: TRADE TRUMP: “The deal I just made with China is, by far, the greatest and biggest…