The 2013 Lie of the Year was President Barack Obama 's promise that " If you like your health care plan , you can keep it " . As evidence , PolitiFact cited 4 million cancellation letters sent to American health insurance consumers . PolitiFact also noted that in an online poll , readers overwhelmingly agreed with the selection . This stands in stark contrast to its October 9 , 2008 statement that Obama ’s “ description of his plan is accurate , and we rate his statement True . ” PolitiFact 's 2014 Lie of the Year was " Exaggerations about Ebola " , referring to 16 separate statements made by various commentators and politicians about the Ebola virus being " easy to catch , that illegal immigrants may be carrying the virus across the southern border , that it was all part of a government or corporate conspiracy " . These claims were made in the midst of the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa when four cases were diagnosed in the United States in travelers from West Africa and nurses who treated them . PolitiFact wrote , " The claims – all wrong – distorted the debate about a serious public health issue . " PolitiFact 's 2015 Lie of the Year was the " various statements " made by 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump . Politifact found that 76 % of Trump 's statements that they reviewed were rated " Mostly False , " " False " or " Pants on Fire " . Statements that were rated " Pants on Fire " included his assertion that the Mexican government sends " the bad ones over " the border into the United States , and his claim that he saw " thousands and thousands " of people cheering the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11
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