The media’s hyper-literal fact-checking strikes Maxine Waters

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Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler apparently couldn’t find anything better from the Women’s March to fact-check this weekend, because he took an obvious exaggeration literally.

At the march, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., criticized President Trump’s nominee to lead the Education Department, Betsy DeVos, calling her “a billionaire who he is picking to head Education who has never seen the inside of a classroom.”

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