PolitiFact Awards Trump "Lie Of The Year" For Denying Russian Election Interference

From the Pulitzer Prize winning fact-check website, PolitiFact:

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.

Trump continually asserts that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election is fake news, a hoax or a made-up story, even though there is widespread, bipartisan evidence to the contrary.

When the nation’s commander-in-chief refuses to acknowledge a threat to U.S. democracy, it makes it all the more difficult to address the problem. For this reason, we name Trump’s claim that the Russia interference is a hoax as our Lie of the Year for 2017.

2017 Lie of the Year: Russian election interference is a 'made-up story' https://t.co/SGBnNqbinP pic.twitter.com/cemPutGORl

— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) December 12, 2017