For 2017 the dubious honor goes to President Donald J. Trump. In PolitiFact's own words:
"Trump continually asserts that Russia's meddling in the 2016 election is fake news, a hoax or a made-up story, even though there is widespread, bipartisan evidence to the contrary.
"When the nation's commander-in-chief refuses to acknowledge a threat to U.S. democracy, it makes it all the more difficult to address the problem. For this reason, we name Trump's claim that the Russia interference is a hoax as our Lie of the Year for 2017."This same presidential lie was also chosen by PolitiFact's readers as their choice for "Lie of the Year."
Trump so badly wanted to be Time magazine Person of the Year. He even went so far as to tweet out the false info that Time had contacted him to say they wanted to name him, but that he had turned it down because he didn't have time for the photo shoot they required. A spokesperson for Time said that's not the way they operate, and that the president's statement was false.
Does he not know that we will know that he's lying when he makes up something like that? Perhaps there's a tiny segment of his base who will believe anything he says. But they're not enough to re-elect him. And how long will it take them to notice that, with this tax bill, he has completely abandoned any pretense of populism and being for the working man -- and bringing back the coal jobs. That was all part of his bunkum con game.
Ralph
PS: In case you missed it, Time's Persons of the Year choice was the "#MeToo" movement of women coming forward to accuse men who have sexually harassed or abused them. How ironic that Trump claimed that he was Time's first choice, which would mean their first choice was one of the perpetrators who their second choice was honored for exposing. You really can't make up this stuff. It has to be true; it's too weird for fiction.
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