2018 Lie of the Year Readers’ Poll result

by T Tue Dec 11, 2018 10:55 am

Readers of Politifact.com vote for lie of the year.

Here's their #1 choice:

"The Democrats want to invite caravan after caravan of illegal aliens into our country. And they want to sign them up for free health care, free welfare, free education, and for the right to vote." — Donald Trumpery on Oct. 26, 2018, at a rally — False

by T Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:03 am

PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year: Online smear machine tries to take down Parkland students

In the days after 17 people were viciously gunned down at a high school in Florida, the state’s Republican governor called for tighter gun laws and Donald Trumpery hosted victims’ families in the State Dining Room.

The nation seemed steadfast in seeking answers and finding solutions.

"It’s not going to be talk like it has been in the past," Trumpery said. "It’s been going on too long. Too many instances, and we're going to get it done."

But in the shadows, the internet engine of hoaxes and smears had started.

The lies went like this: David Hogg, an outspoken student, was really a "crisis actor" coached on what to say. Hogg wasn’t even from Florida, he was from California. Parkland’s students, who began to advocate for restrictions on guns, had secretly organized before the shooting or were backed by radicals with a history of violence. Another student, Emma González, was a communist with ties to Cuba. She even ripped up the U.S. Constitution.

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2018 Lie of the Year Readers’ Poll result

2018 Lie of the Year Readers’ Poll result

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