Fox News attempted to spin President Donald Trump’s rambling, lie-filled speech to the United Nations on Tuesday, praising the moment as “raw truth” despite the embarrassing display.

At the conclusion of Trump’s speech, Fox anchor Harris Faulkner said, “President Trump has been speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. He unfurled raw truth to countries in attendance there and to the rest of the world.”

But Trump had just completed a tour de force of lying.

The fact-checking website PolitiFact did a live blog as Trump spoke and their entries showed that more often than not, when Trump’s lips were moving he wasn’t telling the truth.

For instance, Trump claimed that his current approval ratings are “the highest poll numbers I’ve ever had.” In reality, Trump’s appr

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