Carly Fiorina is a unique candidate; as the one of two female candidates running for president, she is special among the Republican contenders for her visceral remarks and hostility towards anything resembling the truth. She makes staunch, insistent statements that are undeniably incorrect, and when she’s confronted with actual, unquestionable facts that prove her claims wrong, she denies all evidence and pledges that she is correct. As far as she’s concerned, the simple fact that she’s said it makes it true.

For example, last week’s Republican debate was rife with news, but the most outstanding was the blatant lie that Fiorina told. In an answer to a question about how she would defeat ISIS, Fiorina declared that she wanted to bring back the “warrior class” and that Generals David Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal, James Mattis, John Keane and Michael Flynn were “retired early because they told President Obama things that he didn’t want to hear.”

However, this statement can easily be proven wrong. David Patraeus was nominated by Obama to be a CIA director, which resulted in his retirement, and then he resigned due to a scandal over an extramarital affair he was having. John Keane resigned from duty in 2003, which is long before President Barack Obama took office in 2009. He even said this in an interview on Fox Business:

STUART VARNEY: Did you in fact, general, give advice to President Obama, which he didn’t want to hear and didn’t take?

JACK KEANE: No, I have never spoken to the president. That’s not accurate, and I never served this administration. I served the previous administration.

Finally, McChrystal famously resigned after a statement against civilian officials in Rolling Stone. Only forty percent of Fiorina’s statement was correct: Mattis and Flynn actually did have disagreements with the White House.

And yet, when confronted about these blatant lies, Fiorina stands by her claims:

“No, I didn’t misspeak,” she said to reporters. “But he has been someone of great experience who has been highly critical of the way this administration has not taken threats seriously and unfortunately he hasn’t been listened to. I would listen to him.”

However, Fiorina’s biggest lie so far has been about Planned Parenthood. At the September 16th debate, she gave a gruesome description of certain Planned Parenthood tapes, claiming that they showed: “... a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.'" However, these moments are pure fiction; the clips in question are all online and provide proof against her statements. Amanda Marcotte of Slate said that the scene Fiorina explained did not exist:

It was quite a performance, and it opens the question of what Fiorina was inhaling before she watched those videos. There is nothing in the videos made by CMP, either in the edited or full-length versions, that has anything approaching images of legs kicking or hearts beating.

But, Fiorina has mercilessly stood behind her claim, telling ABC News: “Rest assure, I have seen the images I talked about last night. Rest assure, human lives are being harvested.” Vox’s Sarah Kliff has even asked Fiorina’s campaign staffers to back up Fiorina’s claim with evidence, but they failed to substantiate the claims.

Fiorina also appeared on “Fox News Sunday”, where host Chris Wallace attempted to lead Fiorina to acknowledge the truth:

WALLACE: First of all, do you acknowledge what every fact checker has found, that as horrific as that scene is, it was only described on the video by someone who claimed to have seen it? There is no actual footage of the incident that you just mentioned?

FIORINA: No, I don’t accept that at all. I’ve seen the footage. And I find it amazing, actually, that all these supposed fact-checkers in the mainstream media claim this doesn’t exist. They’re trying to attack the authenticity of the videotape.

However, the fact-checkers researched Fiorina’s claim and concluded that it was the opposite of reality. The Washington Post wrote that “no video has surfaced showing the scene Fiorina describes taking place inside a Planned Parenthood facility.” Politifact rated Fiorina's statement to be “mostly false” and Planned Parenthood released a memo simply headlined, “Carly Fiorina lied.”

During an appearance on CNN’s “New Day", Carly Fiorina was confronted by co-host Chris Cuomo as he suggested that Robert Dear, the man who was involved in the Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic shooting, was “influenced by some of the rhetoric that was coming out of you that painted a very ugly, unfair picture of planned parenthood.” Fiorina testily replies to each of his statements, claiming that it is “very clear what Planned Parenthood has been doing.”

Cuomo then goes on to say the videos in question were indeed edited, and Fiorina shoots back, denying the claim. Cuomo finishes with bringing the conversation back to the shooting, stating: “Now you have someone who went out and killed in the name of that.” Fiorina shouts back, composure flagging: “I don’t recall — and careful Chris, you’re a journalist — I don’t recall anybody in the pro-life community celebrating this tragedy.” However, contrary to her statement, many conservatives did celebrate Dear’s attack on the clinic.

Carly Fiorina is riddled with blatant lies and slander that many Americans are — unfortunately — believing. Even when confronted with facts and proof of her claims being false, she strongly declares that she is right and doesn’t back down. In the case of her Planned Parenthood scandal, it has gone viral; many are believing that Planned Parenthood are “baby harvesters” and profit of selling fetus organs and parts. However, the more the Republican candidate claims that she’s “seen the footage,” the more we’re reminded that there is no such footage.