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“This Department of Corrections has certainly never seen a first year like this. Falsehoods and exaggerations have tumbled relentlessly out of Trump’s Twitter account, speeches and interviews, the vast majority in service of his ego. 

“Other presidents have skewered the truth — George W. Bush on the pretext for the Iraq war, Barack Obama on the benefits of ‘Obamacare’ — but Trump is of a different order of magnitude.” 

—Calvin Woodward, Associated Press fact-checker, “AP FACT CHECK: Trump presidency creates an alternate reality,” Associated Press, Jan. 18, 2018.

• Editorial Comment: Job security for AP’s Department of Corrections.

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