CNN fact checker reveals the truth behind Trump’s bizarre claim about a fake award

AlterNet logoPresident Donald Trump lies all the time. But some of those lies are stranger than others.

One falsehood that has been haunting CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale is Trump’s repeated claim, first made right before the 2016 election, that he won Michigan’s “Man of the Year” award five years go. The problem is that there’s no record of such an award or of him winning it.

Trump made the claim again Thursday night, reigniting the search for the truth. Neither Trump’s campaign nor White House has ever offered an explanation for his baseless assertion.

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