The biggest whoppers of 2017

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The biggest whoppers of 2017

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https://www.factcheck.org/2017/12/the-whoppers-of-2017/

Spoiler alert, Trump won. I'm so tired of his winning!

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I don't mind so much his taking credit for things that occur - such as stock market - even if he has little to nothing to do with it. After all, he (they) were happy to blame Obama for a bad economy he had nothing to do with. But it drives me nutz when he proclaims something crazy he just totally made up and it gets reported as if it were real. To be fair, though, writers do seem to be doing a better job of inserting clarification, such as "though he offered no evidence" or "despite former debunking..."