PolitiFact's Website Crashes During Trump's Lie-Filled State of the Union Address
by Caleb Ecarma | 12:10 am, January 31st, 2018
As Americans scrambled to decipher President Donald Trumps 2018 State of the Union address which was riddled with lies and half truths the fact checking service PoltiFact actually had its website crash due to an overflow of traffic.
Prior to their site crashing, PolitiFact which judges claims on their Truth-O-Meter as true, mostly true, half true, mostly false, false, and pants on fire had rated a number of the presidents statements as being fully or partially correct. By the end of the night, the group rated 13 of Trumps claims during his address to Congress as half true, mostly false, false, and pants on fire.
As for Trumps most egregious claims in his SOTU, PolitiFact rated his statement that the visa lottery hands out green cards without any regard for skill, merit, or the safety of our people as
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