WorldNews brief

I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned

NewsJaws News FeedSource-attributed news briefs
1 min read
The White House in Washington, photographed circa 2012
File photograph: The White House in Washington, photographed circa 2012. Rene DeAnda / Unsplash. Illustrative context, not a photograph of this reported event.
LinkedInPostEmail
Save for later

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate Donald Trump, who was telling a remarkable number of lies but was rarely being corrected. Like a lot of people, I thought Trump would lose the 2016 election.

Read the original report at Cnn.

Read in depth: World

New enhancement technology has allowed detectives to re-examine footage from Putney Bridge station, but the Metropolitan Police say the work is part of existing...

4 min read

The temporary order lets the federal government resume its expanded citizenship-checking system, while election law limits systematic voter-roll removals close to the...

5 min read

Sources and context

Cnn

Source headline and summary supplied via NewsData.io. First collected by NewsJaws on 2026-09-28. This is an automated news brief, not original NewsJaws reporting. Dates reflect the source publication. Feed delays may apply.

Topics

Elections

More from World