{"id":39961,"date":"2018-12-11T11:18:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T19:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39961"},"modified":"2018-12-11T11:32:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T19:32:22","slug":"president-pathological-donald-trump-dominates-politifacts-2018-lie-of-the-year-readers-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39961","title":{"rendered":"President Pathological: Donald Trump Dominates PolitiFact’s 2018 Lie of the Year Readers’ Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there is one thing that thrills Donald Trump more than anything else, it’s being “Number One”<\/em> at whatever he is being judged for. So he will undoubtedly be writhing in ecstasy when he hears that the readers of PolitiFact have, once again, singled him out for tribute as America’s most unconstrained liar, even if he isn’t really very good at it.<\/p>\n

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PolitiFact’s editors’ choice for Lie of the Year<\/em> was the “Online Smear Machine”<\/a><\/strong><\/em> that viciously maligned the Parkland students who survived the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. The story of the conspiracy theorists who invented horrific tales of “crisis actors”<\/em> was surely worthy of being featured as the year’s worst lie. PolitiFact noted that:<\/p>\n

“The students and the country were about to learn a hard lesson about participating in democracy in 2018. That you don\u2019t have to be a politician to be on the receiving end of the internet\u2019s worst hoaxes. That the lies don\u2019t vanish after being debunked. That the same hoaxes will spread again after the next attack.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, the site’s readers had a somewhat different take. They clearly saw Trump as the undisputed fountain of untruths that he is now world renowned for. And this isn’t the first time Trump has been “honored”<\/em> in this manner. He previously won the 2017 Lie of the Year award<\/a><\/strong> for repeatedly calling Russia\u2019s election interference a “hoax.”<\/em> He got an honorable mention of sorts in 2016\u2019s Lie of the Year<\/em>, \u201cFake News,\u201d<\/em> because he was such a frequent contributor to the fakery. And in 2015 Trump won his first Lie of the Year<\/em> award for \u201cThe campaign misstatements of Donald Trump.\u201d<\/em> They were so numerous the fact-checkers couldn\u2019t settle on a single lie.<\/p>\n

However, in PolitiFact’s 2018 Readers Poll<\/a><\/strong>, Trump’s lies dominated the contest by taking five of the top ten spots. Here are those five flagrant and deliberate lies that Trump is even now continuing to disseminate:<\/p>\n