It was a “falsehood,” it was a lie, it “wasn’t true,” and all the other strong and powerful things the media like to say when fact-checking some minor utterance of the president. Except this time, it was Democrats flat-out lying, and about something fairly substantial.

During the third night of the party’s national convention on Wednesday, a little Latina girl with an illegal immigrant mom told of how her mother was deported under the Trump administration (as if no one’s ever been deported under any other administration before, including the one Joe Biden served in).