(The Washington Post) — “Regular readers know we have been willing to award ourselves Pinocchios if we get something incorrect. But that’s not the case here.”


This will be an unusual fact check. Essentially, we are fact-checking The Fact Checker.

Like many things these days, it all started with a tweet. President Trump tweeted about the $1.7 billion in cash that the Obama administration sent to Iran and wondered why there had not been an investigation.

Donald J. Trump – on Twitter – Never gotten over the fact that Obama was able to send $1.7 Billion Dollars in CASH to Iran and nobody in Congress, the FBI or Justice called for an investigation!

Glenn Kessler, WP – on Twitter – Has no one who works for Trump ever explained it was a legal settlement of money the Unites States owed Iran from before the 1979 revolution?

Click to continue reading. By Glenn Kessler – March 1, 2018.