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This past week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blatantly lied while defending President Donald Trump’s terrible economic performance.

“Every economic metric does in fact show that the economy is improving,” she said Thursday.

This is not a hard fact to check. Unemployment is up, prices are up, and affordability continues to plague U.S. consumers as they deal with the fallout from Trump’s idiotic tariffs.

Leavitt’s lazy lie isn’t an aberration. Trump and his administration lie with abandon, not about obscure topics that require expertise to debunk, but about simple issues that anyone can easily understand.

For instance

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