Sunday, December 17, 2017

Trump repeats PolitiFact’s ‘Lie of the Year’ minutes after earning dubious honor — and floats new one

Trump repeats PolitiFact’s ‘Lie of the Year’ minutes after earning dubious honor — and floats new one

"President Donald Trump repeated PolitiFact’s freshly minted “lie of the year,” and got down to work on spreading a contender for next year’s dubious honor. The nonpartisan fact-checking organization on Tuesday morning named Trump’s insistence that allegations of Russian election interference were a “hoax” as its lie of the year, and the president tweeted the claims anew a few minutes later."