Perhaps unintentional, but your examples are extremely biased. More than one politician has distorted reality and played fast and loose (to be charitable) with

Perhaps unintentional, but your examples are extremely biased. More than one politician has distorted reality and played fast and loose (to be charitable) with facts. Moreover, who checks the fact checkers? Politifact and other sites aren't unbiased themselves, after all, and we certainly have seen that the news media in America are easily manipulated (c.f. the tons of free media Trump gets and the collusion explicit in email dumps from the DNC hack). We don't have high quality, (mostly) neutral fact checkers in this country. That's a big contributing factor to the state of our current election, where the highest office is contested by a bigoted, stupid clown and a corrupt, deceitful and likely criminal woman, both of whom are likely to engage in terrible and aggressive foreign wars, while just about anything down-ticket of these two is ignored unless it intersects with the Presidential race or involves some completely irrelevant and salacious sex scandal.