2015 Lie of the Year: the campaign misstatements of Donald Trump
A presidential candidate with an unprecedented record on the Truth-O-Meter earns our annual award.
• A look back at previous years winners
• NEW! Trump reacts to Lie of the Year
A presidential candidate with an unprecedented record on the Truth-O-Meter earns our annual award.
• A look back at previous years winners
• NEW! Trump reacts to Lie of the Year
We reveal the winners of our 2015 Readers’ Poll.
We’ve been naming the most significant falsehood of the year since 2009.
Meet the Press dissects the Democratic debate on ABC with Donald Trump and the upcoming year in Congress with House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Donald Trump dissects the Democratic debate, and Speaker Paul Ryan sits down for an end-of-the-year interview on Meet the Press.
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley debated at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. We checked a few of their facts.
A grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, announced today, will enable PolitiFact to fact-check the 2016 presidential candidates posting on Medium.
Contrary to some opinion-writers, Jimmy Carter's actions during the Iran hostage crisis have some significant differences with what Donald Trump is proposing.
Drawing laughter, Ted Cruz improbably brought up horse thieves, Democrats and a Franklin D. Roosevelt ancestor in talking about Donald Trump.
It looks like the line came up before when the president’s mother, whose father was a staunch Republican, was courted by a Democrat before they were wedded in 1880.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio put energy into making claims about Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's record during the Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas aired by CNN--and Cruz fired back.
At issue: Cruz's established positions on how to address immigrants living in the country without legal permission and his votes on defense spending and national security measures. Cruz, in turn, brought up Rubio's past advocacy of a bipartisan immigration plan and what the Texan characterized as Rubio's alignment with Democrats on foreign affairs.
We'll be reviewing all that was said to see what might merit a fact check.
During the debate, PolitiFact in Washington, D.C. had this blog on what the candidates were getting right or wrong. To see news coverage of the debate, go to the Austin American-Statesman's website.
And let us know what you noticed?
The Republican candidates for president squared off for the final time in 2015. We fact-checked them on ISIS, Syrian refugees, the military and immigration.
Our PolitiFact Sheet answers five questions about military spending and cuts over the last seven years.