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PolitiFact’s 2015 Lie of the Year coverage

Angie Drobnic Holan
By Angie Drobnic Holan December 29, 2015

Here are links and summaries of our 2015 Lie of the Year coverage.

The 2015 Lie of the Year: the campaign misstatements of Donald Trump. Read our special report on Trump’s inaccurate statements and why they were the most significant misstatements of the year. We also looked at how Trump views political rhetoric and the art of persuasion.

Donald Trump responds to Lie of the Year, says he's ‘been proven right.’ Hours after seeing his campaign statements were named the 2015 Lie of the Year, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump took aim at PolitiFact, calling us a "totally left-wing group."

Mailbag: Lie of the Year edition. Readers weigh in with criticism and praise of our selection of the campaign misstatements of Donald Trump as the 2015 Lie of the Year.

Lie of the Year Readers’ Poll results. Every year, our readers pick their most significant fact-check out of a list of finalists. The complete results show Trump winning first, second and third.

A look back at previous years’ winners. We recap the Lies of the Year from 2009 to 2014.

 
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