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Statement: (Stimulus money) went to critically important projects like studying ants in Africa.
Speaker: crossroads gps
About the speaker: Crossroads GPS is a conservative advocacy group founded by prominent Republicans, including former White House political adviser Karl Rove.
Date: November 10, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: message machine 2012;stimulus
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: "Some ants are pest ants, and to better understand and better control pest ants, you need to understand where they come from like where they organize, what their ecology is like in their original range, and what natural enemies they have," Ward said. Our Ruling: The Crossroads ad says that $1.9 million in stimulus money went to study ants in Africa. Officials working on the project have said the research could help provide insight into climate change, the spread of disease, natural disasters and could also help findings ways to control pest ants in the United States. But there’s no dispute that ant research is indeed where the money is going. We rate the  .
Statement: 40,000 veterans in Texas won't get health care because Perry rejected Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.
Speaker: gilberto hinojosa
About the speaker: Gilberto Hinojosa, a former elected judge for Cameron County in the Rio Grande Valley, won election as chairman of the Texas Democratic Party in June 2012.
Date: September 25, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: health care;veterans
Context: an interview on YNN’s “Capital Tonight”
Fact-check justification: Hinojosa said there are "40,000 veterans in the state of Texas that are not going to receive health care as a result of" the decision to reject expanding Medicaid. Two calculations based on Census data suggest 42,771 or 48,900 uninsured Texas veterans earn less than what would be the poverty threshold for adults qualifying for Medicaid if Texas had embraced that part of the Obamacare law. That’s not the same thing as saying they won’t "receive health care"; in fact, some likely qualify now for Medicaid or VA care, but aren’t signed up. Hinojosa had a reasonable basis for his figure, but his statement lacked this clarification. We rate it as .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: You can't raise taxes in Ohio. We are one of the highest taxed states in the country.
Speaker: john kasich
About the speaker: John Kasich is the governor of Ohio. A Republican and a former congressman, he defeated Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in 2010 and was reelected in 2014. He ran for president in 2016.
Date: August 22, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: message machine 2010;taxes
Context: a television campaign ad
Fact-check justification: We think both are important points that help provide clarification about taxes in Ohio. One thing about Kasich’s  is clear: by one measure, it’s accurate. But how to best define tax burden is cloudier, and a look at other research shows that answers and rankings can vary wildly depending on which taxes are included, which data sets are employed and which projectons are applied. For these reasons, we rate Kasich’s  . Comment on this item .
Statement: Says "Bush Jr. handed Obama a $1.4 trillion deficit" and Obama "reduced Bush Jr.'s deficit to just $492 billion.
Speaker: occupy democrats
About the speaker: Occupy Democrats, founded in 2012, is an advocacy group created to counterbalance the Republican tea party, and to "give President Obama and other progressive Democrats a Congress that will work with them to grow the economy, create jobs, promote fairness and fight inequality, and get money out of politics!"
Date: April 25, 2015
Topics: deficit;punditfact
Context: a meme first posted on Facebook
Fact-check justification: Occupy Democrats said that George W. Bush "handed Obama a $1.4 trillion deficit" and Obama reduced Bush’s "deficit to just $492 billion." The post picked certain years to back that up, and for those years, its numbers were accurate. But many factors complicate this simple picture. While it’s  that Bush pushed policies that drove up deficits, the federal response to the Great Recession was to some extent shared by Bush and Obama. In addition, while deficits have fallen under Obama, the  brushes over that deficits remained above the trillion dollar mark for several years, long after Bush left office. The statement leaves out a lot of important information. We rate it .
Statement: An account of attacks in Benghazi written by former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers shows that the body of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was "dragged through the streets" and abused.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: September 4, 2013
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;terrorism
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: The chain email forwarded an account purportedly written by Dee Dee Myers of how her cousin and Ambassador Chris Stevens were killed in the Benghazi attack, including being "sodomized and beaten and cut and stabbed and burned." Myers told PolitiFact that she had nothing to do with the email, and that anything it said about her was . As for the email’s claims about Stevens’ being violently attacked and violated rather than killed by smoke inhalation, two government reports and several contemporary journalistic accounts cast strong doubt. The one Web report that supports this scenario was recanted by the website after the mainstream media source it had cited, Agence France Presse, said it had reported no such thing. The email is a combination of fabrication and unsupported speculation. We rate it .
Statement: The DREAM Act "was written by members of both parties. When it came up for a vote a year and a half ago, Republicans in Congress blocked it. The bill hadn't changed. ... The only thing that had changed was politics.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: June 22, 2012
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: Orlando
Fact-check justification: Obama said the DREAM Act was written by members of both parties and since then has been blocked by Republicans, even though "the bill hadn’t changed, the need hadn’t changed. The only thing that had changed was politics." The president is correct that Democrats and Republicans worked on the original bill and it had bipartisan support in Congress for several years, though never enough to pass. In 2010, most of the opposition was on the Republican side, but five Democrats helped sustain the filibuster in the Senate. And there have been minor changes to the legislation, most importantly an increase in the age cap from 21 to 30. Other revisions made the bill more restrictive, and thus in theory more appealing to conservatives. Finally, there’s no question that the political debate about immigration has evolved, with the tea party surge crowding out more moderate viewpoints and even pushing some Republicans out of office. Obama’s comment glosses over some of the details, but his statement is largely correct. We rate it .
Statement: Giving money to politicians has paid off for Paul Workman. Workman gave thousands to politicians and got millions in government construction projects.
Speaker: holly turner
About the speaker: Holly Turner is a lawyer who grew up in Seguin and moved to the district from Fort Worth in July 2009.
Date: March 31, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: ethics
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: No way to know that." We agree: There’s no way to know. It’s undisputed that Workman has contributed thousands to political candidates — both local and statewide — and that his company has handled government construction projects worth millions. But that doesn’t mean Workman’s donations "paid off" in contracts for his companies, and Turner offers no  of that. We rate her loaded statement as .
Statement: Crimea "was sort of taken away from President Obama. … And he wanted Russia to be out of what was called the G-8. And that was his determination.
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 26, 2019
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: Biarritz, France
Fact-check justification: Trump said that Crimea "was sort of taken away from President Obama. … And he wanted Russia to be out of what was called the G-8. And that was his determination." Obama did oppose Russia’s annexation of Crimea and back its expulsion from the G-8, but Trump’s view leaves out much of the story. Trump’s remark ignores both widespread opposition to Russian’s actions within Europe and among U.S. allies, as well as the strongly worded decision by the remaining G-7 nations to expel Russia from the group. It also ignores that Crimea was "taken away" from Ukraine, not Obama. We rate the statement .
Statement: There are actual cities" like Birmingham, England, "that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don't go in.
Speaker: steven emerson
About the speaker: Steven Emerson is the executive director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism, which he founded in 1995, and has co-authored several books on terrorism.
Date: January 10, 2015
Topics: religion;punditfact
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Emerson said Birmingham is a city in England that is totally Muslim, "where non-Muslims just simply don’t go in." He has since admitted that is , and for good reason. The stats say Birmingham is about 20 percent Muslim. All that is left to say is Emerson’s statement rates !
Statement: Says a Barack Obama "black imposter" joke got a standing ovation at San Angelo rodeo.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: March 2, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: polls and public opinion
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: Isley appears to have made a wisecrack about Obama impersonating a president. However, we found no confirmation that the joke included a racial reference or that the audience gave a standing ovation. This chain email has an element of ; we rate it .
Statement: If you actually took the number of Muslims [sic] Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: June 1, 2009
Location: national
Topics: religion
Context: interview with Canal Plus Television
Fact-check justification: So Obama is trying to make a point that the United States is in touch with the Muslim world because it has a substantial Muslim population. But he dramatically overreaches by saying the United States would be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. Ranking 58 out of the world's 60 most populous Muslim nations does not a large Muslim country make. Indeed, by even the most generous estimate we found of 8 million, the United States still ranks 29 out of 60. As a result, we give Obama a .
Statement: Says the term "illegal alien" is "a legal term, it's in statute, it's a federal term.
Speaker: steve mccraw
About the speaker: Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, previously worked more than 20 years for the FBI.
Date: April 18, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: immigration
Context: testimony to a Texas House panel
Fact-check justification: McCraw told legislators the term "illegal alien" is "a legal term, it’s in statute, it’s a federal term." The term appears--yet scarcely--in federal law. Best we can tell, though, no law defines the term as referring to all individuals living in the U.S. without legal authorization. Where the term does appear, it’s undefined or part of an introductory title or limited to apply to certain individuals convicted of felonies. On balance, we rate McCraw’s  .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Suggests a January traffic accident involving lab monkeys was responsible for spreading monkeypox to humans.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 21, 2022
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post suggests that a January traffic accident involving lab monkeys was responsible for spreading monkeypox to humans. There is no  that the lab monkeys were infected with monkeypox or that they spread it to humans. The woman who came into contact with the monkeys had minor symptoms and did not have the characteristic skin rash associated with monkeypox. The incubation period for monkeypox is typically no longer than 21 days, and the traffic crash occurred in January, while the current monkeypox outbreak began in mid-May. We rate this  .
Statement: An antifa flyer encourages activists "to disguise yourselves as patriots/Trump supporters" on Nov. 4.
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: September 2, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "While I personally loathe the likes of Antifa and their tactics," the author wrote, "I can assure you that this is simply a hoax. "  In 2017, Will Sommer, a politics reporter for the Daily Beast who covers conservative media, described the flyer in a Medium post as one of several "fabricated ‘planning documents’ that urge antifa guerillas to commit violence while posing as police or Trump supporters. "  In June, a Twitter account — @ANTIFA_US — appeared to call for violence, rallying "comrades" to move into residential areas and "take what’s ours." But the account wasn’t actually affiliated with antifa activists ; rather, it was created by a known white supremacist group, according to Twitter.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Says "Rosie O'Donnell apparently committed the same offense five times, five times, when she broke the identical law that Dinesh (D'Souza) was prosecuted for.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: June 4, 2018
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Cruz said, "Rosie O’Donnell apparently committed the same offense five times, five times, when she broke the identical law that Dinesh was prosecuted for." Both D’Souza and O’Donnell violated campaign contribution limits, which is a criminal offense. Those cases are subject to prosecution if determined to be willful. D’Souza’s violation was considered willful. He violated another law by using straw donors to donate $20,000 over the legal limit to one Senate candidate. O’Donnell surpassed the limit by a quarter of that money in donating to five different campaigns under her own name. We rate this statement .
Statement: An image shows "Ukrainian soldiers praying.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 6, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: In October 2017, SML Ministries shared the photo on Facebook with the caption, "Powerful image of U. S. soldiers praying together after a chapel service in Fort Benning, Georgia." Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, old media is being repackaged on all platforms, Joan Donovan, research director at the Shorenstein Center of Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard, told NPR . "And so we have been seeing quite a bit of people just trying to get clicks, likes and shares," Donovan said. "Some is financially motivated, and then other parts of it are propaganda." We rate the  that an image shows Ukrainian soldiers praying .
Statement: Since 1938 the minimum wage has been increased "23 times" and was raised "21 times during Democratic congresses, and only twice during Republican ones.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 11, 2019
Topics: congress;income;labor;voting record;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A social media meme claims that since 1938, the federal minimum wage has been increased "23 times" and was raised "21 times during Democratic congresses, and only twice during Republican ones." Including the introductory federal minimum wage in 1938, the rate has indeed been raised 23 times and 21 of those increases came during a Democratic majority in Congress. But sometimes the bills for increases came as a multi-year package, while others were just single-year raises. That said, four Republican presidents signed the laws that made these raises possible and eight Republican presidents were in leadership at the time these increases took effect. The statement that Democrats controlled Congress 21 of 23 times the minimum wage was increased  is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it .
Statement: Says Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser "has prejudged matters that are likely to come before the court.
Speaker: joanne kloppenburg
About the speaker: JoAnne Kloppenburg of Madison is state Court of Appeals judge and a former assistant state attorney general. She ran for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2011 and is running for the high court again in 2016. 
Date: March 16, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: legal issues
Context: a newspaper interview
Fact-check justification: The fact that Prosser disavowed one statement, about his being a "complement" to Walker and other GOP leaders, indicates he had concern about signaling how he might rule on cases.    But Kloppenburg didn’t accuse Prosser of giving signals. She said he had "prejudged matters that are likely to come before the court." Yet she could provide no examples. We rate Kloppenburg’s  .
Statement: Quotes Rep. Kevin McCarthy as saying "there are no mass shootings in Japan because there are no video games there.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 5, 2019
Topics: facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "We’ve watched from studies shown before of what it does to individuals. When you look at these photos of how it took place, you can see the actions within video games and others. "   While mentioning video games, McCarthy did not mention Japan in the Bartiromo interview after the shootings. The Facebook post’s  came from a screenshot of a tweet that has since been deleted.    This faux quote is !