Hussein's "trail" was in a kangaroo court of the US's making.
The hanging was handled particularly badly, even for a US operation; Hussein's political foes jeered and took videos on their phone and the executioner was so incompetent he literally ripped Hussein's head off in what is supposed to be a hanging strangulation.

Murder.  But a difference in perspective is not "fake news".  A term the Trumpeters have so abused it is now meaningless except as a mindless annoyance.