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Fact-checking is broken: The petty, pedantic, pointless picking at Trump’s State of the Union

By Becket Adams
Published February 6, 2019 4:32pm ET
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Fact-checking is broken: The petty, pedantic, pointless picking at Trump’s State of the Union
U.S. President Donald Trump, center, delivers a State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. | (Doug Mills/Bloomberg)

The fact check is dead.

President Trump delivered his State of the Union address Tuesday evening. Remarkably, it contained only a small portion of the incendiary, untethered, free-wheeling rhetoric we’ve come to expect from the current White House resident.

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