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Statement: Says a bill co-sponsored by Sen. Claire McCaskill "would give a free pass to any illegal immigrant who brings a child to the border.
Speaker: josh hawley
About the speaker: Josh Hawley took office as U.S. Senator from Missouri in 2019. Hawley previously served as Missouri’s Attorney General. 
Date: September 13, 2018
Location: national
Topics: immigration;corrections and updates
Context: a foxnews.com op-ed
Fact-check justification: Hawley said McCaskill backed a bill that "would give a free pass to any illegal immigrant who brings a child to the border." The bill in question takes no such measure. Undocumented immigrants are not afforded any new protections from prosecution under the bill; it seeks to stop the separation of immigrant children from their families or guardians. The thinking behind Hawley’s charge against McCaskill has been echoed by Republican officials throughout the country. That doesn’t make it more right. We rate the statement . Update, Oct. 6, 11:30p.m.:  The article has been updated to add context to two sources, Leon Fresco and Matt Barreto.
Statement: Says Gov. Rick Scott's approval ratings are up.
Speaker: brian kilmeade
About the speaker: Brian Kilmeade serves as co-host of FOX News Channel’s live morning news program, “Fox & Friends,"  the No. 1 cable morning program. Immediately after “Fox & Friends”, Kilmeade hosts “Kilmeade and Friends,” a nationally syndicated three hour radio show on FOX News Radio. Additionally, he is the network’s sports reporter covering breaking national sports stories and major sporting events.
Date: April 15, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: polls and public opinion;pundits
Context: comments on 'Fox and Friends'
Fact-check justification: I ran to make sure this state is most likely to succeed," he said. Kilmeade, on Fox and Friends , said Scott's approval numbers are going up. Not according to the publicly available poll numbers we found. We rate this  . Updated to include Viewpoint Florida poll result.
Statement: California is registering non-citizens to vote and has refused to cooperate with the Federal Election Integrity Program.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 6, 2022
Location: california
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post shared a link to an image claiming California is allowing noncitizens to vote and refusing to cooperate with the "Federal Election Integrity Program." The  appears to be based on misinformation involving a 2018 San Francisco law that allowed noncitizens to vote in local school board elections but was struck down as unconstitutional in July.  Noncitizens were also mistakenly registered to vote through a Department of Motor Vehicles mix-up in 2018, but state officials were able to fix the issue before that year’s midterm elections. California does not allow noncitizens to vote in elections. Eligible voters must be 18, U.S. citizens and California residents.  We rate this  .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has "ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Speaker: sean duffy
About the speaker: Sean Duffy is a Republican member of the U.S. House, representing Wisconsin's 7th District in the northwestern part of the state. The former Ashland County district attorney was elected In November 2010, taking the seat previously held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Dave Obey of Wausau.
Date: August 23, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: foreign policy;religion;terrorism
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: And we’ve found no  to support Duffy’s , either. Our rating Duffy says Clinton aide Huma Abedin has "ties to the Muslim Brotherhood." Duffy made the  in the context of stories in the presidential campaign that get relatively little media coverage. But he cited no  to back his statement, and we couldn’t find any. We rate his statement .
Statement: There are no federal or state laws that say prosecutors must seek death sentences. And the United States Supreme Court has banned all state laws that make executions mandatory for murders.
Speaker: randolph bracy
About the speaker: Randolph Bracy served in the Florida House of Representatives between 2012-2016 and was elected to the Florida Senate in 2016. His district consists of parts of Orange County.
Date: April 4, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: death penalty;legal issues;states
Context: a New York Times op-ed
Fact-check justification: Bracy wrote, "There are no federal or state laws that say prosecutors must seek death sentences. And the United States Supreme Court has banned all state laws that make executions mandatory for murders." Ayala, the Orlando-area prosecutor, has been criticized by some people for refusing to pursue the death penalty in any case. But the U.S. Supreme Court has made it clear for decades that it is unconstitutional to require prosecutors to seek the death penalty in any case. We rate this  .
Statement: Even Fairfax County doesn't pay the kind of (school administration) salaries that Richmond is paying right now.
Speaker: kim gray
About the speaker: Kim Gray represents the Second District on Richmond's City Council. She was elected the the seat in 2016. Prior to that, she served eight years on the Richmond School Board. In 2020, Gray announced she would run for mayor against incumbent Levar Stoney.
Date: March 3, 2020
Location: virginia
Topics: city budget;county budget;education
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Gray, in complaining about what she sees as the high pay of top Richmond school officials, said, "even Fairfax doesn’t pay the kind of salaries Richmond is paying." That suggests Richmond administrators are taking home bigger checks than their Fairfax counterparts. That’s what Gray told us she thought, and it’s . Actually, they’re taking home 20 percent less pay. If Gray, in the future, wants to compare the pay of school administrators adjusted for cost of living, she should specify that. But as for the comment she made, it’s .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's email password was "password.
Speaker: reince priebus
About the speaker: Reince Priebus was the first chief of staff to President Donald Trump, replaced by John Kelly in July 2017. Priebus was previously chairman of the Republican National Committee, a post he assumed in 2011. He is also the former chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. He was an unsuccessful Wisconsin state Senate candidate in 2004. He is a Kenosha, Wis., native and lawyer.
Date: January 8, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;crime;foreign policy;technology
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: → Among the cyber analysts examining the phishing emails used to infiltrate Podesta’s and others’ accounts, none have made similar claims. → Podesta was using a Gmail account, and Google doesn’t allow users to make their passwords password . Our rating Repeating a  that originated with WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, Priebus said the email password of Podesta, Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman, was password . His  is catchy, but we’ve seen no material  to back it. Our rating is .
Statement: Wisconsin's state court agency "basically" has rented the same office space across from the Capitol "since 1974.
Speaker: matt adamczyk
About the speaker: Republican Matt Adamczyk was elected Wisconsin state treasurer in 2014.
Date: December 15, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: infrastructure
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Adamczyk hasn’t spelled out where in a state-owned building the courts agency might go, what the savings might be and what other issues would come with owning rather than renting. As part of a separate branch of government, the courts agency generally has the authority to choose its own office space, Michels said. Our rating Railing against the state leasing office space as being too expensive, Adamczyk says the state courts agency "basically" has rented the same office space across from the Capitol "since 1974." He’s correct, although he doesn’t offer  indicating there is a viable alternative for the agency that would save money. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Robert De Niro said, "I preferred the time in America when the president and the village idiot were two different people.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: June 23, 2019
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: He also didn’t say it at last year’s Tony Awards in June 2018, when he walked on stage and declared, "f--- Trump." Searching the Nexis news database for "Robert De Niro" and "village idiot" and "Donald Trump" we found no results. Searching for the same words online, we found instances of the insult slung at both De Niro and Trump, but not De Niro calling Trump a "village idiot. "  If  surfaces proving the actor made this statement, we’ll reconsider our ruling. For now, we rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Florida Democrats just voted to impose Sharia law on women.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 30, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: islam;legal issues;religion
Context: various social media posts
Fact-check justification: Claims like this one recently circulated on the internet: "Florida Democrats just voted to impose Sharia law on women." Senate Democrats did vote against a bill that prohibits judges from applying foreign law in family-law cases if it contradicts United States public policy. In reality, though, the bill would have essentially codified existing practice. The bill didn’t single out Sharia law, and the United States Constiution still applies. It’s  -- beyond , really -- to suggest that Senate Democrats forced on women such elements of Sharia law as burqa-wearing and stoning to death. We rate this  .
Statement: The federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: September 22, 2011
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: Orlando
Fact-check justification: Texas Gov. Rick Perry has railed against the Obama administration for failing to adequately invest in border security in Texas. At the Fox News Google debate in Orlando Sept. 22, 2011, he took it a step further, saying "the federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all."
Statement: North Korea sent more than 100,000 troops to Russia for the Ukraine War!
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 28, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: A video shared on Facebook claims North Korea sent "more than 100,000 troops to Russia" to help with the country’s war against Ukraine.  The video appears to be based on a statement made on a Russian-backed television station that said North Korea offered troops to Russia, not that it sent any.  The Facebook video and the statement made on television provided no  of their claims.  Russian officials have denied they received any offer from North Korea about sending soldiers to help fight in Ukraine.  We rate this  .
Statement: A Paul Ryan-Scott Walker (or Scott Walker-Paul Ryan) ticket for the White House in 2016 would be unconstitutional because both men live in Wisconsin.
Speaker: internet commenters
About the speaker: People who post comments on stories published on the Internet
Date: January 21, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections
Context: website comments
Fact-check justification: Which is why, among many other obvious strategic calculations, that same-state tickets are so unlikely to develop. Our rating Commenters on a hypothetical Ryan-Walker or Walker-Ryan ticket in 2016 claimed that such arrangements are unconstitutional. The constitution does exact a price for such arrangements, as electoral voters could only cast a ballot for one or the other candidate. But the  that such tickets would be outlawed or blocked from running is off the mark. With a gentle nod to the commenters who probably never dreamed their musings would be fact-checked, we rate the  .
Statement: My company was building the Keystone Pipeline when (President Joe) Biden canceled it.
Speaker: tim michels
About the speaker: Timothy J. Michels is an American politician and businessman from Brownsville, Wisconsin. He co-owns and co-manages Michels Corporation, a family-owned and operated construction company. A member of the Republican Party, Michels is a candidate in the 2022 Wisconsin gubernatorial election. Michels won the GOP primary for governor on August 9, 2022.
Date: June 23, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;energy;gas prices;jobs
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: In a tweet, Michels claimed his "company was building the Keystone Pipeline when Biden canceled it." The way it was stated could leave readers thinking his company was fully responsible for the pipeline. And some of the pump stations his campaign and company cited apparently are tied to the existing portion of the pipeline. So, there is a lack of precision there. But Michels is right that his company had a significant role in the pipeline project. We rate the  .
Statement: Video shows "military robots ready for war.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: October 27, 2022
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Boston Dynamics recently pledged not to weaponize its robots, Axios first reported . A day after posting its video about a new robot making soldiers obsolete, Corridor Crew posted another showing how it "used CGI to  military robots." The behind-the-scenes footageshows a person in the position where the "robot" ultimately appeared in the video. (CGI stands for "computer generated imagery.") We rate claims that the footage in the post shows a real military robot .
Statement: Says the Trump administration "has banned the CDC even using the word 'transgender.'
Speaker: tammy baldwin
About the speaker: Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 6, 2012. She represented Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District from January 1999 to January 2013. She served as a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from January 1993 to January 1999. She was a Dane County supervisor from 1986 to 1994 and briefly served on the Madison Common Council, filling a vacancy, in 1986.
Date: June 26, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;health care;public health;sexuality
Context: a public forum
Fact-check justification: The statement was based on a Washington Post report. But that story was later countered by several other published reports that indicated the words were not banned. Rather, it was suggested that other words be used in some cases — in part to temper controversy during the budget process. And despite The Washington Post headline, the first paragraph of the story does not mention the word "banned" instead saying "they should avoid using certain words or phrases in official documents being drafted for next year's budget." We rate the  .
Statement: Says "taxes were raised 115 times in the eight years before I became governor" and those increases were part of a "path that led to wealth and jobs and people leaving our state.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: August 28, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: taxes
Context: Tampa
Fact-check justification: During his keynote address, Christie claimed "taxes were raised 115 times in the eight years before I became governor" and those increases were part of a "path that led to wealth and jobs and people leaving our state." But the governor shouldn’t have described all of those 115 increases as "taxes." In the eight years before he took office, state officials approved roughly 115 increases in taxes and fees or other tax policy changes. Also, there are multiple factors behind losing jobs, wealth and residents, such as the general downturn in the economy. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton "wants to go to a single-payer plan" for health care
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: October 9, 2016
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Trump says Clinton "wants to go to a single-payer plan" for health care. She has consistently said she would fight efforts to repeal Obamacare and would try to improve it. She said she wants a public option to be "possible" but she has not  called for moving to a system of only single payer. Clinton has not called for a single-payer plan. At times, she has praised the health care systems of other countries that have a single-payer plan, but she has not advocated that plan for the United States. We rate Trump’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/4bde16f2-778f-4229-b2d2-a3819786738b
Statement: In an average grocery store, roughly 75 percent of processed foods contain genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
Speaker: donna nesselbush
About the speaker: Donna Nesselbush is a lawyer and Rhode Island state senator representing District 15 in Pawtucket.
Date: March 6, 2015
Location: rhode island
Topics: environment;agriculture;animals;consumer safety;economy;government regulation;public health;science;technology
Context: a commentary
Fact-check justification: Donna Nesselbush said, "In an average grocery store, roughly 75 percent of processed foods contain genetically modified organisms, or GMOs." Nesselbush quoted a percentage intended to apply to all foods and not restricted to processed foods. Although the figure is widely cited by both sides in the debate, it’s not clear that this is anything more than an estimate. And finally, in the cases of many processed foods created using the sugars, oils and other products of genetically modified organisms, the organisms themselves aren’t present in the food at all. Because the statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context, we rate it  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.) ( Correction: Rhode Island state Rep. Donna Nesselbush represents House District 15, which includes portions of Pawtucket and North Providence. The original version of this item incorrectly reported the community she represents.)
Statement: Shooter in Highland Park, Illinois, "bought the gun illegally.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 5, 2022
Location: illinois
Topics: government regulation;facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed that Crimo "bought the gun illegally." Investigators told news outlets that Crimo obtained the proper identification to legally purchase firearms and passed several background checks before ultimately buying his weapons legally. We rate this  . RELATED: What Illinois’ ‘red flag’ gun law means after the Highland Park shooting RELATED: Highland Park shooting wasn’t a ‘ flag’ RELATED: Ask PolitiFact: What are red flag gun laws and do they keep people safe? RELATED: No  ties Highland Park shooter to antifa
Statement: Says Clint Eastwood said Hollywood is "the place of traitors and pedophilians" and he's decided to "leave" it to "fight against traitors with real American patriots with president Trump.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 18, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims Eastwood said Hollywood is "the place of traitors and pedophilians" and he’s decided to "leave" it to "fight against traitors with real American patriots with president Trump." There is no  that Eastwood ever said this. We tracked the  quote to a  news website that referenced an interview the director and actor gave during the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. But he said nothing in that interview about traitors, pedophiles, or leaving Hollywood. We rate this bogus quote !
Statement: In first week as governor, Tim Kaine "proposed a nearly $4 billion tax increase, $4 billion, including a tax increase on people earning as little as $17,000 a year.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: July 25, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: taxes
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Trump said Kaine, during his first week as governor, proposed a "nearly $4 billion tax increase" that would have hit people earning as little as $17,000. Kaine, six days after taking office in 2006, did propose a plan to raise about $1 billion a year for transportation. Trump calls it a "nearly $4 billion tax increase," citing a figure used in a newspaper article at the time. But the article said that sum would be realized over four years. Trump, in using that high $4 billion figure, omits the clarifying time span. The tax package centered on raising levies on auto insurance and vehicle purchases in addition to increasing car registration fees. It would have affected people with taxable incomes of $17,000 or lower - if they had a car. So Trump’s statement largely is accurate but needs some clarification. We rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/528b42df-6b46-432f-8de0-34061afc6b13