Politifact: 2017 Lie of the Year: Russian election interference is a 'made-up story'

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http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/dec/12/2017-lie-year-russian-election-interference-made-s/

2017 Lie of the Year: Russian election interference is a 'made-up story'

By Angie Drobnic Holan on Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 at 6:30 a.m.

A mountain of evidence points to a single fact: Russia meddled in the U.S. presidential election of 2016.

In both classified and public reports, U.S. intelligence agencies have said Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered actions to interfere with the election. Those actions included the cyber-theft of private data, the placement of propaganda against particular candidates, and an overall effort to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process.

Members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, have held open and closed door hearings to probe Russia’s actions. The congressional investigations are ongoing.

Facebook, Google and Twitter have investigated their own networks, and their executives have concluded — in some cases after initial foot-dragging — that Russia used the online platforms in attempts to influence the election.

After all this, one man keeps saying it didn’t even happen.

"This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should've won," said President Donald Trump in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt in May.

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See also:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/dec/12/2017-lie-year-readers-poll-results/

2017 Lie of the Year Readers’ Poll results

By Angie Drobnic Holan on Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 at 6:30 a.m.

President Donald Trump calling "the Russia thing" a "made-up story" has overwhelmingly won the reader competition for most significant falsehood of 2017. It is the same falsehood selected by PolitiFact for Lie of the Year.

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[YessirAtsaFact]

1. Liar of the century

That would be Trump

[0rganism]

4. in fairness, the century is yet young

i'm done thinking we've hit the bottom of the barrel.
this is no barrel. it's a goddam sewer.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Or swamp

that is getting worse

[smirkymonkey]

2. K&R

If Trump is speaking or tweeting, he's lying. That should be a given. He is incapable of telling the truth, even about things that are relatively inconsequential. The man is sick.

[underpants]

3. Yeah. The House voted 419-3 and the Senate voted 98-2 for new sanctions

as a result of the intel briefings.

The media conveniently doesn't mention that Congress overwhelmingly voted for these.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/07/25/politics/iran-sanctions-bill/index.html

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Those are "fake sanctions"

[Gothmog]

7. Trump's lies about the russian investigation deserve this award