The truth is Clinton is right depending on how you calculate truth. The mention of PolitiFact comes in reference to a March 2016 column by former New York Times editor Jill Abramson, who said Clinton was "fundamentally honest." Okay, first we did what anyone did and searched for our name. "The fact-checking organization PolitiFact, which found I told the truth more than any other presidential candidate in 2016. Our fact-checker’s guide to her book follows that eclectic mix. She is a self-confessed wonk, and her references to research and statistics range from the mundane to the deepest undercurrents that shape our politics. We’ll leave it to the pundits to assess whether she lived up to the promise in her introduction that she is "letting down my guard." For us at PolitiFact, Clinton’s book is a trove of checkable claims. The book is part personal memoir, part political science treatise, part self-defense of a failed campaign and part strategy session for Democratic politicians to come. Hillary Clinton might have become America’s first woman president, but she didn’t, and her book What Happened is her explanation of why.Ĭlinton writes about details as minor as eating pork chop on a stick at the Iowa State Fair (and liking it) and as damaging as her statement during a CNN town hall that "we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business," (which she called "garbled" and "the exact opposite" of her plan to foster jobs in coal country).
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