Don’t call PolitiFact an “independent fact-checker.” When they assemble to select their “Lie of the Year,” they have singled out Donald Trump in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021. No Democrat has been tagged with this dishonor since Trump arrived on the scene.

It was Trump again this year, as PolitiFact tweeted: “A lie marked a town and its residents in the name of campaign rage. It was absurd. It was consequential. Our Lie of the Year goes to Donald Trump and JD Vance for false claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pet dogs and cats.”

This was an unproven accusation in a presidential debate. It’s also exactly the pick you expect if you only poll liberals. Everything in the “fact checking” racket is about target selection. Republicans are “fact checked” more, and get harsher ratings for dishonesty.

PolitiFact reported “eating the pets” won in a “landslide” in their readers’ poll, with 54 percent. The second-place finisher was also Trump: the argument that FEMA is spending its disaster dollars on illegal migrants drew 17 percent. In fact, if you look at the 10 items PolitiFact listed for readers, the Trump side – including Vance, Elon Musk, and Marjorie Taylor Greene – drew 88 percent of the votes!