Fact-checkers had a field day with ex-President Donald Trump’s CNN town hall, but one stood out by ticking through a whopping 20 false or misleading claims.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins moderated a CNN town hall at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire Wednesday night that devolved into a chaotic spectacle of attacks, falsehoods, and abuse that sparked a barrage of criticism and recriminations at the network.

The pace and volume of Trump’s lies were such that post-show anchor Jake Tapper could not stop commenting on it. Seconds after the town hall ended, Tapper immediately remarked on the fact that from the very first minute, Trump began spewing lies about the 2020 election.

And a few minutes later, he punctuated correspondent Sara Murray’s game first attempt at a fact-check by exclaiming there were “more lies than I can count!”

Murray’s quick try took on three Trump claims.

The event touched off a veritable Fact Check Demolition Derby among outlets.

CNN’s morning-after fact check featured six claims from Trump. The New York Times took a run at ten Trump falsehoods, as did FactCheck.org. Politifact hit their top six.

But the champ for this event is The Washington Post, whose fact-checker Glenn Kessler vetted the aforementioned whopping twenty Trump claims. A sampling:

• Claim: “That was a rigged election, and it’s a shame that we had to go through it. … If you look at True the Vote, they found millions of votes on camera, on government cameras, where they were stuffing ballot...

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