- Falsely claimed that all her grandparents were immigrants (three of the four were not);
- Falsely claimed that she was named after the first man to summit Mt. Everest (but Everest was not summited until five years after she was born); and
- Falsely claimed that she was the object of sniper fire when landing in Bosnia.
In short, she lies even when she doesn’t have to. In the words of Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist William Safire, she’s not just a liar but a “congenital” one.