Someday presidential historians will have a field day trying to decide what was the biggest lie Donald Trump told during his romp across the American political landscape. Their challenge will be to decide, out of tens of thousands of lies — 30,573 in his first term alone, according to the Washington Post — which was the biggest whopper?

Among the front-runners: He would have won the popular vote in 2016 if illegal votes hadn’t been counted. He didn’t know anything about Russian interference in the 2016 election. He didn’t know that fixer Michael Cohen paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush money. The crowd at his first inaugural was the biggest ever. His first-term marked the best economy in history. Haitian immigrants were eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. And, of course, he won the 2020 election.

None of which is true. But none of them tops the lie that’s most relevant today: that he knew nothing about Project 2025. That lie alone is worthy of four Pinocchios.

Project 2025 is the 922-page blueprint for a second Trump administration prepared by the conservative Heritage Foundation and published in April 2023. As soon as it was made public, however, then-candidate........

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