The Leading Liars

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Oct 9, 2024 · 5m

Fact-checking website Politifact has determined that beginning with his 2016 presidential campaign and up until this week, Donald Trump has spoken lies, either substantially or completely—76 percent of the time. Only 3 percent of his statements have been labeled as fully true. J.D. Vance’s declarations have been deemed mostly to completely false 79 percent of the time. In other words, The Republican Presidential ticket regularly hovers between Pants-on-Fire and Pinocchio.

Understand the gravity of that reality for a moment:

More than three-quarters of the time the former President of the…