Holan: when we fact check we don’t think about how the politicians are going to react - our goal is to inform voters and people who want to make a good decision based on accurate information.
BOB: Angie Drobnic Holan is the editor of Politifact. The Pulitzer-prize winning fact-checking site has a spectrum of six ratings for every political claim they investigate. As of this recording, the site has fact-checked 72 statements from Donald Trump -- and not a single one has received a rating of “True.” 29 of them have been ranked False, and 16 have been ranked as “Pants on Fire” -- so wrong as to be ridiculous.
There are times, however, that a claim doesn’t fall on either end of that spectrum.
Holan: ...our definition of the rating of half-true is the statement is partially accurate, but...