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  • Trump Told 2019's 'Lie of the Year' About Whistleblower Call

    Trump Told 2019's 'Lie of the Year' About Whistleblower Call

    No surprises here. President Trump has been awarded the honor of telling “The Lie of the Year” by PolitiFact, a nonprofit, political fact-checking organization operated by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. and Washington D.C. Every year, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editors of PolitiFact review the year’s most flagrant inaccuracies in search of a significant…

  • PolitiFact Schools White People Who Refused to Believe White House Was Built by Slaves

    It seems that some people may have failed history. Or maybe it’s more a sign of how broken the education system is that PolitiFact actually had to go out and fact-check whether the White House was built by slaves after first lady Michelle Obama mentioned that fact during her rousing speech at the Democratic National…