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  2. PolitiFact - Wikipedia

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    PolitiFact's 2015 Lie of the Year was the "various statements" made by 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Politifact found that 76% of Trump's statements that they reviewed were rated "Mostly False," "False" or "Pants on Fire".

  3. Bill Adair (journalist) - Wikipedia

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    PolitiFact is known for its "Truth-O-Meter", which rates officials' public statements on a scale ranging from "True" to "Pants On Fire.” In 2009 the PolitiFact team was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. Thanks to support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Adair was also able to create the "Settle It!

  4. False or misleading statements by Donald Trump - Wikipedia

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    The attendance at the inauguration claim. And on and on and on. Every fact checker – Kessler, Factcheck.org, Snopes.com, PolitiFact – finds a level of mendacity unequaled by any politician ever scrutinized. For instance, 70 percent of his campaign statements checked by PolitiFact were mostly false, totally false, or "pants on fire" false.

  5. Jacob Wohl - Wikipedia

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    Fine, probation, and community service. Jacob Alexander Wohl (born December 12, 1997) is an American far-right conspiracy theorist, fraudster, and convicted felon. Wohl and lobbyist Jack Burkman have been responsible for multiple unsuccessful plots to frame public figures for fictitious sexual assaults. The pair were allegedly behind plots in ...

  6. Charles Cicchetti - Wikipedia

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    PolitiFact rated Cicchetti's claims "Pants on Fire." A 2021 PNAS study by political scientists at Stanford University and the University of Chicago rebutted Cicchetti's analysis as being not even remotely convincing. Selected publications. Cicchetti, Charles J. (1972). Alaskan Oil: Alternative Routes and Markets. Routledge.

  7. Jill Karofsky - Wikipedia

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    Education. Duke University ( BA) University of Wisconsin, Madison ( MA, JD) Website. Campaign website. Jill Judith Karofsky (born July 15, 1966) is an American attorney who has served as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court since 2020. [1] Karofsky served as a Wisconsin Circuit Court judge in Dane County from 2017 until her 2020 election to ...

  8. Betsy McCaughey - Wikipedia

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    Politifact rated this assertion as "Pants on Fire", and FactCheck.org also called it false. [97] In an October 25, 2013, appearance on Fox News, McCaughey said that the Affordable Care Act would have the effect of "eviscerating Medicare".

  9. Sarah Davis (politician) - Wikipedia

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    PolitiFact rated Davis' claim "Pants on Fire." In 2015, Davis opposed limiting pre-kindergarten class sizes to 18 and opposed ensuring that teachers met certain qualifications. In that same session, Davis voted to table Amendment 4 on HB1 - meaning that the public education budget would be cut by $800,000,000. Crime