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You can check for yourself, for example.

Trump's claim:

“It has gotten so bad that nearly 20 million Americans have chosen to pay the penalty or received an exemption rather than buy insurance. That’s something that nobody has ever heard of or thought could happen, and they’re actually doing that rather than being forced to buy insurance.”

Kessler:

So how does Trump get up to 20 million? He’s adding in people who received an exemption; that totaled 12.7 million taxpayers. That only adds up to 19.2 million, but Trump did say “nearly 20 million.”

Trump is right, Kessler admits it. Result?

Three Pinocchios.

You're welcome.

I once challenged a reader who was angry about a column to read every fact check for a month -- and he wrote back and said, "You're right I have no idea what your politics might be."

/r/thathappened

Uh, if you read the full fact check carefully you will understand why I reached the conclusion of Three Pinocchios.

I did read it, and I understand completely how you reached your verdict - you're a partisan hack.

And as I documented, the 20-million figure was misleading.

It wasn't. 19.2 million - a number your math came up with - is "nearly 20 million", which is what Trump said.

While Trump slipped in “received an exemption,” he strongly suggests the figure is really about people paying a penalty

I aknowledge your effort here, but what you are doing is very transparent to anyone who reads it critically.

Your outfit is, for all intents and purposes, the same as politfact. Obviously biased, openly endorsing the democratic party. Doesn't Podesta write for you guys now?

It's always the same playbook: Is there a study? We don't like the methodology. There isn't a study? Take the opponents word as gospel and judge based on that.

IF it is a republican.

If it's a democrat, none of the above even matters.

I don't expect you to openly admit to what you are doing, I mean why would you, but everyone who wants to see it clearly can.

You (personally and the Washington Post) are like the last descendant of some old moneyed dynastie from massachusetts. Poor and destitute, but by using your name you can still get a loan from some bank to keep you and your dusty family portraits above water for another year. And maybe another one after that.

In an age where everyone can get to the source directly you're only sought after by people who want the spin added because they're to lazy to do it themselves.