Year 2016: Election Year Full of Weasels Who Were (Some Still) Full of **it

Award for the Top Liar of 2016: The Envelop Please

The following is about big lies, and no, it’s not about “Big Whoppers at Burger King.”

A year ago, Fact Check.org broke with past practice and named Donald Trump as their first ever “King of Whoppers.”

This year, the reigning champ defended his title well – once again dominating their annual review of political whoppers.

Setting the scene as it were from the main article in part here:

At his campaign rallies, Trump regularly disparaged the media as “dishonest,” referring at one point to fact-checkers as “dishonest scum.” 

Yet, Trump peddled conspiracy theories from a supermarket tabloid and a website that serves as a platform for the alt-right (I note: And, then Trump hired Stephen Bannon from Breitbart – amazing isn’t it?).

The Republican president-elect used a thinly sourced story from the National Enquirer to make the baseless claim that Sen. Ted Cruz’s father “was with Lee Harvey Oswald” prior to John F. Kennedy’s assassination — a claim he doubled down on after Cruz already had dropped out of the presidential primary. 

Trump also cited Breitbart as evidence that he was “right” when he suggested that President Obama supported terrorists. No, Trump wasn’t right. 

During the campaign, Trump also made the wild accusation that Obama “is the founder of ISIS,” the terrorist group based in Syria and Iraq, and retweeted a fake image of Fox News host Megyn Kelly that purported to show her posing with Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal. Ding, wrong on both counts. 

Plenty of others also distorted the facts and made false claims in 2016. After all, it was the year when the facts caught up with Hillary Clinton’s numerous false and distorted claims regarding her use of a private email server while secretary of state. 

Contrary to what she said, Clinton did have classified material on her server and did not have government approval to use a private server because she never requested it. 

Even so with all that, Trump is in a league of his own. These biggest whoppers in an election year stunned the political expert followers as it shook up the party establishment and kept fact-checkers very busy. 

This is an enjoyable trip back down memory lane as it were. 

All this is truly one for the history books about the clowns who wanted to be president, and now the leader of the pack as it were, it about to that one.

Thanks for stopping. Seems the Trump voters as much as they disliked him on many levels, hated Hillary Clinton, too, but ended up going with Trump not because he lied so much, but despite the fact that he did. How ironic is that?

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE TOP POLITICAL LIAR OF ALL TIME…