The only thing worse than well-considered liberal bias is immediately-posted liberal bias. In their "live fact checking," PolitiFact demonstrates it's just trash-talking Trump like any MSNBC liberal and calling it a "fact check."
Try this one from Amy Sherman on Friday doing the usual goalpost-moving on Trump colluding with the Kremlin:
Trump has referred to the Russia 'hoax' for years
In an Air Force One interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, President Donald Trump said he had a good relationship with Putin despite the Russia “hoax.”
When talking about the 2016 election, Trump frequently refers to what he calls the "Russia hoax" — what he maintains is a fabricated story about Russia’s involvement in his winning election against Hillary Clinton.
Probes led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence found evidence Russia interfered in the election. The committee’s 2020 report concluded that "the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election."
Mueller’s 2019 report cleared the Trump campaign of criminally conspiring with the Kremlin but reaffirmed the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia favored Trump over Clinton, and noted that the Trump campaign believed it would benefit on Election Day from Moscow's interference.
When Trump says "hoax," he's not denying the Russians interfered in the 2016 election. He's denying that he was in bed with Putin or was literally a Russian agent, as the lefties tried to smear him. The "hoax" refers to the Steele Dossier and the "pee tapes" and all the unproven garbage that was thrown from 2016 to 2019.
Fun Fact: Christopher Steele has no page on PolitiFact. All his unverified garbage, and he was never identified as a Pants On Fire liar.
Then Lou Jacobson tried this whine on Monday. You can't claim Obama "gave" Crimea to Putin!
Obama’s role in Crimea
In an Aug. 17 Truth Social post, Trump referred to Crimea — the Ukrainian region that Russia seized and annexed more than a decade ago — as “Obama given … without a shot being fired!”
Trump was referring to 2014 actions by then-President Barack Obama. Until 1954, Crimea, a peninsula on the Black Sea, had been part of Russia. But in 1994, Russia, Ukraine, the United States and the United Kingdom signed the Budapest Memorandum, under which Ukraine surrendered its nuclear weapons in exchange for recognition of its borders and sovereignty over those territories, including Crimea. Russia seized and annexed Crimea in 2014.
It’s an exaggeration to say that Obama “gave” Crimea to Russia. Obama, along with nearly the entire global community, refused to recognize Russia’s annexation, which was the first such takeover in Europe since the end of the Cold War...
"You can't say Obama 'gave' Crimea to Putin." Well, Putin took it, and Obama did nothing -- except for some strongly worded statements "refusing to recognize" the obvious takeover. The facts remain: Putin invaded Ukraine under Obama and under Biden -- but never under Trump.
Fun Fact 2: Vladimir Putin has only six "fact checks" on PolitiFact. Who's soft on Putin? These guys!
Compare that six to 1,108 checks of Trump -- and 859 of them are "Mostly False" or worse. That's 77.5 percent Wrong. This is a cranky editorial page, not an "independent fact checker."
