By: Josh Bozzick ~Guest Writer~

Ryan Lochte’s story about being robbed at gunpoint with three other U.S. swimmers at the Rio Olympics made worldwide news. An investigation ensued, and Rio de Janeiro police found evidence that showed Lochte as a liar. However, last week, USA Today looked into the matter and found that the Rio police exaggerated and fabricated details of the story.

USA Today found no evidence the swimmers ever went near the bathroom they reportedly vandalized and no vandalizing seemed to occur in the bathroom at all, aside from Lochte removing a loosely attached advertising sign from a wall. The four swimmers were held up at gunpoint by security guards at the station and were not released until paying the equivalent of $50. According to the report, Fernando Deluz, who served as the translator between the swimmers and the security guards, said, “because of the language barrier, the Americans might have believed they were being robbed.”

It isn’t foolish to presume that meaning can get lost in translation. The swimmers were quite inebriated, and if you’ve ever been inebriated, you would know that recalling details can be challenging. Consequently, Lochte did spin his version of the story and paid for it – literally. Last week, Lochte lost all four of his major endorsement deals with Speedo USA, Ralph Lauren, mattress maker Airweave and Gentle Hair Removal. Lochte paid a steep price for a lie, unlike our two presidential candidates.

Last week, reports came out about Hillary Clinton lying again. The FBI uncovered 15,000 new emails from Clinton’s private email server after she claimed to have handed over all of them. Clinton had blamed former Secretary of State Colin Powell for the servers existence, but Powell said he had no recollection of any such conversation with Clinton.Condoleezza Rice, another former Secretary of State, backed up Powell’s statement.

It was also unveiled the Clinton Foundation served as a slush fund where donors got priority to meet with Clinton when she was Secretary of State. More than half of the people outside of the government who met with Clinton donated money to the foundation. In fact, Clinton met with representatives of at least 16 foreign governments who donated as much as $170 million. While Clinton was Secretary of State the list of donors for the foundation were not published, according to a report by Reuters.

Donald Trump flip-flopped on his immigration reform issue last week, he previously promised to build a wall and deport all illegal immigrants. He specifically attacked the immigration policies of Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, calling them weak. Trump changed his policy saying he is now “softening” his stance on roughly 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S.