Tag Archives: Politfact

Axios reports: Fact-checking website PolitiFact announced today that President Trump’s claim that the Ukraine whistleblower complaint was “almost completely wrong” is being recognized as its annual “Lie of the Year.” The big picture: In August, a whistleblower reported that Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and his son in a July phone call. Trump immediately dismissed …

CNN reports: President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address proved too much for non-partisan fact-checking site PolitiFact Tuesday night. The website saw its servers crash for six minutes during the President’s speech. “Welp … our website just crashed. Thanks for reading ?!!? We’ll keep things up here on Twitter while we see what happened,” the website tweeted, citing …