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Statement: Says Donald Trump hired illegal workers "from Poland and he had to pay a million dollars or so in a judgment.
Speaker: marco rubio
About the speaker: Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016 and then dropped out and won re-election to the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former Speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Date: February 25, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration;candidate biography
Context: Texas
Fact-check justification: Rubio said Trump "hired from Poland and he had to pay a million dollars or so in a judgment." It was Trump’s contractor, not Trump himself, who hired 200 undocumented Polish workers to demolish a building to make room for Trump Tower in Manhattan. Trump said he didn’t know. The lawsuit sought $1 million in damages, and a judge ruled that Trump had to pay $325,000 plus interest. But the case was appealed and before it was retried, Trump settled the case out of court, so it’s unclear how much he ended up doling out. Rubio’s statement is partially accurate but missing that context. We rate Rubio’s  . <div class='artembed'>
Statement: The Foundation for Government Accountability, which supported a Florida law requiring drug testing of welfare recipients, is a "Koch brothers affiliated group.
Speaker: rachel maddow
About the speaker: Rachel Maddow is the host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show”. She formerly hosted a radio program of the same name on the defunct Air America network.
Date: January 2, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: drugs;punditfact
Context: comments on her show
Fact-check justification: But in the case of Florida, I think the connection is tenuous." Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a University of Notre Dame law professor who focuses on nonprofit advocacy issues, told us the Kochs’ network of entities shows that "they have gone to significant lengths and expense to hide their contributions and where those contributions are going," But, "it does seem to be a stretch to say that all of the donors to the State Policy Network are somehow affiliated with Foundation for Government Accountability given the small size of the grant to the foundation compared to all the grants made by the network." Maddow said the Foundation for Government Accountability, which supported a Florida law requiring drug testing of welfare recipients, is a "Koch brothers affiliated group." The  to prove that particular  is thin. We rate the  .
Statement: Teachers spend $1.6 BILLION per year on school supplies. The Republican tax bill ELIMINATES their ability to deduct those expenses.
Speaker: dianne feinstein
About the speaker: Dianne Feinstein is a Democratic U.S. Senator from California.
Date: November 6, 2017
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;education;taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Feinstein tweeted, "Teachers spend $1.6 BILLION per year on school supplies. The Republican tax bill ELIMINATES their ability to deduct those expenses." She has a point that the GOP plan would get rid of the existing deduction for out-of-pocket classroom expenses for teachers. But the tweet overstates the value of the deduction in two ways -- first, because only a portion of that amount can actually be deducted under the law, and second, because not all teachers use the deduction. We rate the statement . CORRECTION, Nov. 7, 2017, 7:30 p.m.: After this article was published, several readers informed us that teachers do not have to itemize to benefit from this deduction. Any qualified teacher can reduce their taxable income by $250 off the top, whether they itemize or not. Some teachers with very large out-of-pocket expenses may be able to deduct additional amounts if they itemize. We have changed the article to reflect this. The rating remains the same.
Statement: We stopped traffic coming through -- 78 percent.
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: August 28, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "We stopped traffic coming through -- 78 percent." Though Trump’s  is vague, he’s made similar remarks about the border being "down 78 percent" and being "close to 80 percent stoppage." But the latest figures available for southwest border apprehensions do not support his . Only cherry-picked data would yield a 76 percent decline in apprehensions. Available information regarding drug seizures do not show a 78 percent decline, either. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: Last year, out of the 500,000 (in) population growth we had in the state of Texas, about 250,000 of the 500,000 came to Texas... from the other 49 states.
Speaker: david dewhurst
About the speaker: David Dewhurst, the former state land commissioner, was initially elected lieutenant governor of Texas in 2002. He lost his 2012 bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate and lost his bid for re-nomination in 2014.
Date: January 18, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;economy
Context: his inaugural address
Fact-check justification: Not quite. First, the census data for 2010 hasn’t been released yet. And the most generous census estimate prior to last year indicates net migration from other states equaled 143,000 people from July 2008 to July 2009, accounting for less than a third of the state’s population increase in the period. However, looking at Texas population growth in terms of people moving here "with their feet" versus people born here, Dewhurst pegged the ratio correctly -- about half-and-half. We rate his  .
Statement: Kirstie Alley faked her death.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: December 7, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: "She was surrounded by her closest family and fought with great strength, leaving us with a certainty of her never-ending joy of living and whatever adventures lie ahead," the statement said. "We are grateful to the incredible team of doctors and nurses at the Moffitt Cancer Center for their care." Her manager later told news outlets, including NBC News , that Alley’s cancer was colon cancer. She had been receiving treatment at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida’s Tampa Bay area.   We rate claims that she faked her death !
Statement: Attorney general candidate Brad Schimel "is in cahoots with Wisconsin Right to Life to make abortion a crime in Wisconsin.
Speaker: chris taylor
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Rep. Chris Taylor, a Madison Democrat, was elected to the Assembly in a special election in August 2011. An attorney, she is the former public policy director of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin.
Date: October 24, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: abortion;legal issues;government regulation;states
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Schimel signed a legal paper by the group that argues that, under an old statute, abortion would immediately become illegal in Wisconsin if Roe v. Wade is overturned. But we’re not aware of any  that Schimel is actively working with Wisconsin Right to Life to make abortion a crime. And he has said he would not defy U.S. Supreme Court decisions such as Roe, which makes abortion legal. Taylor’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression -- our definition of . To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page .
Statement: Martin Luther King Jr. "was a Republican.
Speaker: philip van cleave
About the speaker: Philip Van Cleave is president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a pro-gun lobbying group in Virginia that was founded in 1994.
Date: January 18, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: civil rights;history
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Van Cleave said at a rally that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. He told us he had heard the  many times but, after doing some research, now concludes that the  is cloudy and said he will stop using the line in speeches. Experts say King eschewed party labels and was critical of both major parties. King’s son and daughter have denied claims that their father sided with the GOP. King’s niece, who once said the civil rights leader was a Republican, retracted that statement three years ago. The burden is on Van Cleave to prove his statement, and he, too, backs away from it. We rate his  .
Statement: Under Hosni Mubarak's rule, "Egypt received more American dollars than any country besides Israel.
Speaker: ross douthat
About the speaker: Ross Douthat is a conservative columnist for the New York Times
Date: January 30, 2011
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;pundits
Context: a newspaper column
Fact-check justification: This time, Israel ($117.6 billion) was number one, followed by Egypt ($83.7 billion) at number two. Rounding out the top 10 were Iraq ($54.4 billion), Afghanistan ($35.2 billion), Russia ($18.1 billion), Pakistan ($18 billion), Turkey ($16.7 billion), Jordan ($11.2 billion), Sudan ($10.3 billion), and Colombia ($10.3 billion). For our ruling, we wanted to know if Douthat was correct that under Mubarak's rule, Egypt received more American dollars than any country besides Israel. Douthat is right. We rate his statement .
Statement: The very first Republican convention after the Civil War was held in Virginia in a Black church.
Speaker: winsome earle-sears
About the speaker: Winsome Earle-Sears, a Republican, was elected Virginia's lieutenant governor in 2021. She is the first Black woman to be elected to statewide office in Virginia.
Sears lives in Winchester, Va. and owns a plumbing and appliance repair store. She was born in Jamaica in 1964 and reared in New York City. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Old Dominison University and a Master of Arts degree in organizational leadership from Regent University. 
Sears served in the U.S. Marines from 1983 to 1986. She represented Virginia Beach in the House of Delegates from 2002 to 2004 but did not seek reelection, opting to launch an unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. House of Repesentatives in 2004. 
Date: May 13, 2021
Location: virginia
Topics: history;race and ethnicity
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Sears said, "The very first Republican convention after the Civil War was held in Virginia in a Black church." The Union Republican Party of Virginia held a state convention at the First African Baptist Church in Richmond on April 17, 1867. Records show Republicans in at least six states - one in the South and five in the North - held post-Civil War conventions before Virginia. So, we rate Sears’ statement . Editor’s Note, June 17, 2021: As noted in this fact check, Sears’ campaign did not respond to two requests we made for the source of her  that the first GOP convention after the Civil War was held in a Black church in Virginia. After the fact check was published, Sears’ campaign told us her  was based on an historical marker outside the First African Baptist Church in Richmond that says, "In 1865, the site hosted the first Republican State Convention held in Virginia."  We contacted Virginia’s Department of Historic Resources, which researches and posts historical markers and, after investigation, it told us the sign is . The church hosted Virginia’s first post-Civil War Republican convention in April 1867, as we reported. "We may need to consider a revision to the marker," Randall Jones, public information director for the department, said. By April 1867, at least six other states had held Republican conventions since the war’s end. That continues to undercut Sears’s unqualified statement that the church held the first post-war convention, period. So, our  rating on Sears’  remains intact.
Statement: Says El Paso was named America's "Safest Large City" a year after San Antonio, Houston and Dallas had the nation's highest crime rates.
Speaker: jose rodriguez
About the speaker: José Rodríguez, who initially won election to the Texas Senate in 2010, is the former county attorney for El Paso County.
Date: September 9, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;crime;public safety
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: El Paso has had low crime rates, and its murder rates are considerably below those of the other cited cities. But the statement is  in two meaningful ways. Only a City of El Paso press release named El Paso the nation’s "safest" large city--and its police department dropped the label. Also, the other Texas cities did not have the nation’s highest overall crime rates; that’s  only in comparison to a few huge cities. We rate the statement .
Statement: More than 9,000 Rhode Island voters used the Moderate Party master lever mechanism and they didn't have a single Moderate on their ballot.
Speaker: kenneth block
About the speaker: Kenneth Block is a software engineer and president of Simpatico Software Systems. He founded Rhode Island's Moderate Party and ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2010. He switched to the Republican Party in 2013 and made an unsuccessful run for Rhode Island Governor in 2014.
Date: January 24, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: elections
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: Kenneth Block said, "More than 9,000 Rhode Island voters used the Moderate Party master lever mechanism and they didn't have a single moderate on their ballot." He derived that number in part from guesswork. But according to the precise figures from the Board of Elections, he was off by nearly 350 -- roughly 4 percent. But Block’s underlying point that the master lever confuses many voters is valid. More than 8,000 used it to vote for Moderate Party candidates when there weren’t any on their ballots. For those reasons, we rule his   . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: When the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport needed to stop its earthquake spike a few years ago, they temporarily shut down the wells that were injecting fracking fluid into the ground ... (and) those earthquakes stopped.
Speaker: rachel maddow
About the speaker: Rachel Maddow is the host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show”. She formerly hosted a radio program of the same name on the defunct Air America network.
Date: February 17, 2014
Topics: environment;energy;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show"
Fact-check justification: Maddow said, "When the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport needed to stop its earthquake spike a few years ago, they temporarily shut down the wells that were injecting fracking fluid into the ground ... (and) those earthquakes stopped." An airport official confirms Maddow's story, aside from the fact that it was one well. Officials at the airport asked that a well be shut down, and after it was, the earthquakes eventually stopped. Seismologists linked the well to the earthquakes. We rate the  . Update: This item was updated on Feb. 24, 2014, to make clear that airport officials asked Chesapeake Energy to shut down the well.
Statement: I released all my emails.
Speaker: jeb bush
About the speaker: Jeb Bush was a Republican candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He served two terms as the governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is also the brother of former President George W. Bush and the son of former President George H.W. Bush. 
Date: August 27, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a campaign video
Fact-check justification: Bush said, "I released all my emails." In trying to draw a contrast to Hillary Clinton, Bush actually offered much of the same defense. In reality, Bush says he released all the emails he was required to under Florida law, in the same way Clinton says she turned over all the emails she was required to under federal law. But Bush hasn’t turned over every single email he sent as governor. While the state handled his public account’s emails, he was allowed to self-edit [email protected] correspondence from his private server. That amounted to 280,000 emails out of a half-million or more, which Bush repackaged on a website earlier this year. Bush’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: ISIS reaches "about 100 million people a day" through social media.
Speaker: stanley mcchrystal 
About the speaker: Stanley McChrystal  is a retired U.S. Army general.
Date: June 12, 2015
Topics: iraq;terrorism;punditfact
Context: comments on the Hugh Hewitt radio show
Fact-check justification: McChrystal said ISIS reaches "about 100 million people a day through various things." ISIS certainly has taken its war to social media, and experts agree that their strategy has some bite. But saying ISIS social media posts reach 100 million people a day is, at best, a high-end guesstimate, researchers say. And there are lots of caveats to consider. Thousands of ISIS social media accounts have been shut down in recent months. Followers of ISIS accounts often overlap. And not all the messages sent actually reach every follower, or leave a lasting impression. McChrystal’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it .
Statement: Says President Barack Obama's approval rating "gained 3 points in the last couple months.
Speaker: dan pfeiffer
About the speaker: Dan Pfeiffer is an adviser to President Barack Obama.
Date: March 16, 2014
Location: national
Topics: polls and public opinion
Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: When asked about Obama’s approval rating, Pfeiffer said, "We’ve gained 3 points in the last couple months." He’s right that the aggregate of polling data suggests that Obama’s low point was December, not early March, as the new WSJ/NBC poll said. But there’s some variation in how big of a rebound Obama’s approval rating has seen. While Real Clear Politics says its 3 percent (buoyed by two outliers), Huffington Post put it at less than a percentage point. Franklin said it was somewhere in between those two. Pfeiffer’s correct that the president’s poll numbers are up slightly over the past few months. But they remain low (and underwater), and the gains depend on how you run the numbers. We rate Pfeiffer’s  . Correction: Charles Franklin said President Barack Obama's aggregate approval rating bottomed out at 41.98 percent in December 2013. An earlier version of this fact-check included a different figure.
Statement: Ron Johnson pushed through a special tax loophole that benefited his own family's business … Then he cashed out of the company for $5 million … (he has) doubled his wealth since taking office.
Speaker: opportunity wisconsin
About the speaker: Opportunity Wisconsin is a coalition of Wisconsin residents focused on an economy that works for working people. 
Date: February 21, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;legal issues;taxes
Context: YouTube ad
Fact-check justification: Opportunity Wisconsin claimed "Ron Johnson pushed through a special tax loophole that benefited his own family's business … Then he cashed out of the company for $5 million … (he has) doubled his wealth since taking office." The change benefitted his business – but also applied to tens of millions of other businesses. And it was hardly a loophole, if it was widely discussed publicly. He did sell his company for at least $5 million, but the doubling of wealth deserves more context: In that period, the S&P Index nearly quadrupled. So, the overall  is a mixed bag – it’s partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. That’s our definition for .
Statement: Georgia has lost 14 percent of its jobs paying more than $50,000 a year and added 15 percent to its Medicaid rolls during the recovery.
Speaker: michael mule'
About the speaker: Michael Mule' is a campaign adviser to Dalton Mayor David Pennington, a Republican candidate for Georgia governor.
Date: November 4, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: economy;medicaid
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: PolitiFact Georgia could not find anything to back up this part of his statement. And we think it would take more than a comma to clear that up. Overall, his statement is partially accurate. But it takes things out of context when read as a whole. That’s our definition of .
Statement: The convoy in Canada has made the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest convoy.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: January 25, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: For starters, people attempting to set a record must apply with the organization and then wait to receive guidelines before, say, organizing and executing the world’s longest truck convoy. The organization also requires a number of pieces of  to verify the achievement, such as video and photographic , witness statements, cover letters, and statements from stewards who have been tapped to supervise the record attempt.    The longest convoy, or the "largest parade of trucks," in Guinness’ words, was achieved in Egypt in November 2020 by the Tahya Misr Fund, which advocates for needy families and organized a parade of 480 trucks "amid harsh weather and heavy rain, breaking the Guinness World Records title for the largest parade of trucks," according to an entry on the World Records website . The previous record was achieved 16 years earlier in the Netherlands with 416 trucks, according to the site.   We rate claims that the "Freedom Convoy" in Canada achieved a Guinness World Record .
Statement: In 2017, the CEO of McDonalds got paid $21.8 million. The median pay for a McDonald's worker that year was $7,000. This is a moral outrage. We need a $15 minimum wage so that no one is paid a poverty wage.
Speaker: ilhan omar
About the speaker: Ilhan Omar is a Democratic congresswoman representing Minnesota's 5th congressional district, which includes parts of Minneapolis and surrounding municipalities.
Date: February 7, 2019
Location: national
Topics: corporations;economy;income;jobs;workers
Context: a congressional hearing
Fact-check justification: Omar said that while the McDonald’s CEO made $21.8 million, the median worker made $7,000.  Those numbers reflect the company’s official filing, but Omar failed to note that the worker pay was a worldwide estimate and that it included part-time workers. Based on available information, we estimated that the typical McDonald’s crew member works part-time and makes about $12,000 a year. That’s about two-thirds more than Omar said.  The disparity between the CEO and the typical worker remains vast. But the specifics Omar offered leave the  impression about the real numbers for U.S. workers who would be affected by a minimum wage hike. We rate this  .