Throughout the Trump presidency, The Washington Post boasted about its groundbreaking presidential fact check database. Regardless of one’s political persuasion, or even the stock one places in the reporting of the Post, it is not hard to admit that the “fact check” system was impressive. Such a tool would be invaluable, if the same scrutiny were given to presidents on both sides of the aisle, but just in time for President Biden to give his first joint address to congress, the Post conveniently scrapped its years-kept practice of tallying all presidential falsehoods.
