The next time you hear Donald Trump refer to Sen. Ted Cruz as “lying Ted,” think about that old saying that when you point your finger at someone, you point three fingers back at yourself. That saying is a yuuuge understatement when it comes the multitude of outrageous misstatements, falsehoods, prevarications and outright lies the Donald has used in his attempt to obtain the Republican presidential nomination.

You don’t have to take my word for this, consider what the fact checkers have said about the Donald’s veracity.

PolitiFact designated the many campaign misstatements of Trump as the 2015 Lie of the Year. What a great designation to share with President Obama. PoliFact has rated 76 of 77 statements checked as Mostly False , False or Pants on Fire :

No other politician has as many statements rated so far down on the dial. In considering our annual Lie of the Year, we found our only real contenders were Trump’s — his various statements also led our Readers’ Poll. But it was hard to single one out from the others. So we have rolled them into one big trophy.

Fact Check.org called Trump “The ‘King of Whoppers,” when the Donald dominated FactCheck.org’s 2015 annual review of political falsehoods:

In the 12 years of FactCheck.org’s existence, we’ve never seen his match. He stands out not only for the sheer number of his factually false claims, but also for his brazen refusals to admit error when proven wrong.

Fact Check.org says it does not conflate Trump’s controversial policy proposals with the many cases where he’s just wrong on the facts. The organization lists 12 of the Donald’s whoppers in the 2016 review:

There are more, lots more. Fact Check.org’s complete and growing list, which currently contains 98 of the Donald’s whoppers is here.

Then there is the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler, who has awarded the Donald 19 Four-Pinocchio ratings so far. That’s no small feat:

At last count, more than 60 percent (19 of 31) of our rulings of his statements turned out to be Four Pinocchios, our worst rating. By contrast, most politicians tend to earn Four Pinocchios 10 to 20 percent of the time. (Moreover, most of the remaining ratings for Trump are Three Pinocchios.)

Here are the Donald’s 19 Four Pinocchio’s.

Then there are Lying Don’s Three Pinocchios:

What happened to that Trump guy who was going to be a straight-talker and tell it like it is? Instead he just makes stuff up. In his book The Art of the Deal, Trump writes:

You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on. [. . .] People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration — and a very effective form of promotion.

Trump has gone way beyond his “truthful hyperbole” and exaggeration. The Donald is flat out lying. There is no other way to look at. So keep this article handy. Next time you hear him trying to disparage Sen. Cruz think about all of Lying Don’s prevarications and sigh.