The Washington Post fact-checking crew has done impeccable work — and you can tell because no one has caught them in a serious error. If they had, Trump would be tweeting about it every hour on the hour. The newspaper has now decided that instead of just awarding one to four "Pinocchios" when a public figure utters an untruth, a new category is necessary. Read all about it.
And remember the good ol' days when Al Gore was branded a "congenital liar" and "unfit for office" because he once said that a magazine had written that he and his first wife were the author's models for the characters in the book Love Story? The magazine in question had said that but they (not Gore) were wrong because only Al, the former college roommate of author Erich Segal, had influenced the book. That was a "lie" back then.