The Endless Fact Check

I've been following Daniel Dale, the current Washington bureau chief from the Toronto Star since his days covering the Rob Ford crazy town era in Toronto. Now he's known for his fact checking of Donald Trump, who may be the biggest liar in American political history. I don't know how he does it – a week of doing that would drive me insane.

Slate's The Gist podcast interviewed Dale this week. I highly recommend giving it a listen.

Donald Trump speaks many untruths every day, and someone has to track them all. Somehow that task has fallen to a Canadian. The Toronto Star’s Daniel Dale is here to tell us what counts as a lie, why details matter, and how neither the left nor the right seem satisfied with his work.