Donald Trump Labeled PolitiFact’s ‘Lie of the Year’ Winner
Donald Trump has won PolitiFact's annual "Lie of the Year."
Every year, political fact-checking organization and website PolitiFact publishes its annual "Lie of the Year" by politicians and campaigners. This year, Republican presidential candidate Trump told so many lies, the website was unable to narrow down the award to a single instance.
According to the PolitiFact, the requirements of the annual contest have given them no other choice but to designate his 77 statements as one collective trophy for the award. It seems as though this year, the "Lie of the Year" award goes to Trump's entire ensemble of lies, not just one of them.
Of the 77 statements measured by the organization, 76 percent were classified as "False," "Mostly False" or "Pants on Fire" -- the three classifications the organization equates to a lie.
Ironically, Trump has told the truth about one thing. The honest comment came back in 1987 in his book "The Art of the Deal." But that truth, in effect, showed that he was, in fact, the best person for the organization to crown as top liar.
"People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts," Trump wrote in the book. "People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration - and a very effective form of promotion."
The most extreme category of lying for PolitiFact, "Pants on Fire," cited three instances where Trump was found to be the most guilty. Not surprisingly, those three instances were his claim that Jersey City residents cheered at the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11; that the Mexican government was sending the "bad ones over;" and his statistic of "whites killed by whites" versus "whites killed by blacks," which he claimed to be 16 and 81 percent, respectively.
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