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The Real Fake News Awards

For Donald Trump, a man who has been documented as having lied over 2,000 times in his first year in office, to hold a ceremony for Fake News Awards is to give  irony a bad name. Oddly enough, while President Trump listed 10 stories at his awards ceremony which have since been corrected, Pulitzer Prize-winning site Politifact.com  has graded 74 claims by Trump as "Pants on Fire," meaning they're so egregiously false, they could literally set a person's pants on fire. Let's look at those, shall we? 1) "Says of the diversity visa lottery program, 'they give us their worst people, they put them in a bin,' and 'the worst of the worst' are selected." 2) "For years, they have not been able to get tax cuts -- many, many years, since Reagan." 3) "Says Joe Scarborough is party to an 'unsolved mystery' from his time as a congressman in Florida." 4) "Chicago is 'the city with the strongest gun laws in o...