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Statement: Says that in his first 17 months as president, the United States doubled its world-leading $500 million a year commitment to fighting global AIDS.
Speaker: george w. bush
About the speaker: George W. Bush served as the 43rd president of the United States. He was sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2001, re-elected on Nov. 2, 2004, and sworn in for a second term on Jan. 20, 2005. Prior to his presidency, President Bush served six years as the 46th governor of the state of Texas.
Date: November 9, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: federal budget;health care;foreign policy
Context: his book, "Decision Points."
Fact-check justification: Drake said in an e-mail that by the end of June 2002, Bush had committed $500 million to the Global Fund and another $500 million to the International Mother and Child HIV Prevention Initiative. A former Bush adviser, Jay Lekfowitz, writes in a January 2009 article in Commentary magazine that the initiative was intended to increase the availability of preventive care, including drug treatments, and to devise delivery systems that would reach pregnant women and newborn children in two Caribbean nations and eight African ones (with four to be added later). Drake said Bush announced the second $500 million on June 19, 2002, just before the end of his 17th month as president. He was sworn in Jan. 20, 2001. We rate Bush's statement .
Statement: Says he has been to "Afghanistan, Iraq and those areas" twice as president.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: December 16, 2022
Topics: afghanistan;iraq;foreign policy
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Biden said he has been to "Afghanistan, Iraq and those areas" twice as president. As president, he has not visited either country. We rate Biden’s statement . RELATED:  No  to support Joe Biden's anecdote about giving uncle a Purple Heart while vice president RELATED: Fact-checks on and about Joe Biden RELATED: Republican National Committee fact-checks
Statement: Homicides against blacks have tripled" since Florida's "stand your ground" law has been in existence.
Speaker: jesse jackson
About the speaker: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the nation’s most recognized civil rights leaders, is founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a civil rights organization in Chicago. He was a Democratic candidate for president in 1984 and 1988.
Date: July 18, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: criminal justice;crime;race and ethnicity
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: During an interview on CNN about Florida’s "stand your ground" law Jackson said: "Homicides against blacks have tripled since this law has been in existence." The law was enacted part way through 2005. The number of homicides in which black people were the victims fluctuated from year to year between 2006 and 2012 and didn’t come anywhere close to tripling. It’s possible Jackson is confusing homicides with justifiable homicides, but that’s a key qualifier that he omitted in part of his comments. We’re rating his statement that homicides against blacks have tripled. That’s not accurate, so we rate the statement .
Statement: A poll just came out on my inauguration speech. … People loved it. Loved and liked.
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: January 25, 2017
Location: national
Topics: polls and public opinion
Context: an interview with ABC News' David Muir
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "A poll just came out on my inauguration speech. … People loved it. Loved and liked." He has a point that in both the Politico/Morning Consult poll and the Gallup poll, favorable opinions outpaced unfavorable opinions by double-digit margins. However, it’s worth noting that Trump’s positive score in the Gallup poll was between 9 and 28 points lower than the scores in the previous three inaugural addresses. We rate the statement .
Statement: Currently it costs more than a penny for the U.S. Mint to make a one cent coin and more than a nickel to make the five cent piece.
Speaker: steve rothman
About the speaker: Steven R. Rothman served as a Democratic congressman representing parts of northern New Jersey between January 1997 and January 2013. He left office after losing a primary election to Rep. Bill Pascrell.
Date: November 2, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: economy
Context: the Congressional Record
Fact-check justification: Rothman claimed it costs more for the U.S. Mint to produce a penny and nickel than the face value of the coins. It costs 1.79 cents to produce and distribute every penny the Mint makes. And every nickel costs 9.22 cents. So, you can bank on those numbers. We rate the congressman’s statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Latina who enthusiastically supported Donald Trump on stage in Las Vegas in October 2015 has been deported.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: October 9, 2015
Topics: immigration;fake news;punditfact
Context: social media posts, blogs
Fact-check justification: News has spread on social media saying Myriam Witcher, a Trump supporter who made headlines for effusively showing her admiration for him during a rally, has been deported. In a phone interview, Witcher said she’s a U.S. citizen who has not been deported and is still a Trump supporter. In 2015, a Colombian website wrote a satirical piece a day after Witcher appeared with Trump on TV. The post said Witcher had been ordered deported and would be returning to Colombia within days. Journalists have interviewed Witcher on U.S. soil in the past few months. An online search tool for immigration detainees shows no result for Witcher. We rate reports of Witcher’s deportation as !
Statement: Says he "helped bring" Uline company to Kenosha area, "creating 800 local jobs.
Speaker: bob wirch
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Sen. Bob Wirch, a Democrat from Pleasant Prairie in Kenosha County in southeastern Wisconsin, has served in the Senate since 1996. He survived a recall election in 2011. Wirch served in the state Assembly from 1992 to 1996.
Date: July 25, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs;workers
Context: campaign mail piece
Fact-check justification: That bill , sponsored by Wirch, allowed for business expansion in the area of Pleasant Prairie where Uline moved. However, the bill was introduced Jan. 25, 2008 -- three weeks after Uline had already announced its relocation Uline’s chief financial officer, Frank Unick, would not comment on whether the bill played a role in the relocation. Pleasant Prairie Village Administrator Mike Pollocoff said part of the company’s expansion could not have occurred without the bill, which also affected other companies. But by that point, Uline had already committed to the $100 million relocation. So, we feel it’s a stretch to say the bill "helped bring" the company to Pleasant Prairie.
Statement: You know, we spent $3-million to study the DNA of bears in Montana.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: September 26, 2008
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: Oxford, Miss
Fact-check justification: It also has resulted in doubling the previous population estimates. The new figures, when paired with the results of another study on population trends, may eventually lead to removing grizzlies from the endangered list. McCain's math is a little dated. And he clearly is suggesting "the study of bear DNA" is a frivolous use of federal money, but we won't argue the merits of the project. McCain claims $3-million in federal money has been used to study the DNA of bears, and that's .
Statement: Wendy Davis opposes any limits on abortion.
Speaker: texas right to life
About the speaker: A statewide anti-abortion and anti-euthanasia group that celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2013, Texas Right to Life says it fights "for the rights of the unborn (including the nascent humans created in laboratories), the disabled, the sick, the elderly, and the unloved," on its website, which also states, "We are non-sectarian and non-partisan, and we are the Texas affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee with representation on their board of directors."
Date: October 3, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: abortion
Context: an audio recording described as a radio ad
Fact-check justification: Texas Right to Life said, "Wendy Davis opposes any limits on abortion." Although Davis has spoken and voted against certain abortion limits, her campaign statement and her stated support for the Roe v. Wade decision indicate she opposes late-term abortions except in extreme circumstances. The group did not provide, and we did not find,  of Davis opposing "any limits on abortion." We rate this  as .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Breaking: four million Democrat votes just declared fraudulent.
Speaker: the politico news
About the speaker: The Politico News is a fake news website with a similar name to Politico, which is a real news website.
Date: February 7, 2018
Topics: elections;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: It’s unclear if the company still exists; the website was a dead link and the voicemail for the phone number was full. Not surprisingly for a made-up story, we found no  that the company is owned by the high-profile Democrats it mentioned. Brenda Bowser Soder, U.S. Election Assistance Commission spokeswoman, told PolitiFact that Novus Ordo Seclorum doesn’t make voting machines and that the story is . There is no  that 4 million Democratic votes were "just declared fraudulent." We rate this story .
Statement: Says state Senate leaders have accepted $142,400 in campaign contributions from dentists and pharmacists during the past two years.
Speaker: renee unterman
About the speaker: Renee Unterman, a Republican, is a Georgia state senator who represents portions of Gwinnett County.
Date: March 26, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: state budget
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: If you include those senators, Unterman’s  nearly hits the mark. If you exclude those senators, the  is off by nearly 40 percent. Unterman’s dollar figure is accurate, but there’s some important context missing here. Our rating: . Atlanta Journal Constitution staff writer Karishma Mehrotra contributed to this article.
Statement: McCain "said the other day that he would not meet potentially with the prime minister of Spain, because he . . . wasn't sure whether they were aligned with us.
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: September 26, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: Oxford, Miss
Fact-check justification: It's less clear if McCain "wasn't sure whether (Spain is) aligned with us." To us, McCain seemed confused. But Scheunemann's statement is adamant that McCain knew the subject was Spain. As a result, his comment that "I have to look at the relations and the situations and the priorities" indicates at least some doubt about U.S.-Spanish relations. So we find Obama's  to be .
Statement: Ketanji Brown Jackson "believes in abortion on demand up to the moment of birth.
Speaker: bob good
About the speaker: Bob Good is the 2020 Republican nominee for Virginia's 5th Congressional District seat. A self-described biblical conservative, Good is a former associate athletic director at Liberty University, and served a term on the Campbell County's Board of Supervisors.
Good defeated incumbent Rep. Denver Riggleman at a convention in June 2020 to win the 5th District's GOP nominaion. He is opposed in the general election by Democrat Cameron Webb, a Charlottesville physician.
Webb graduated from Liberty in 1988 with a degree in finance.
Date: March 22, 2022
Location: virginia
Topics: abortion
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: What she has said is that Roe and other Supreme Court rulings affirming it are "established law," and she will respect high court precedents in all of her decisions.   Roe allows states to ban rare late-term abortions and "partial-birth abortions" if they provide exceptions when a doctor determines a mother’s life or health is endangered by her pregnancy. The most we know is that Jackson will respect that precedent. Good’s statement says, with no credible , that Jackson wants to scuttle precedents allowing late-term bans.   We rate Good’s statement !
Statement: A Miracle! Only 23 Americans Tested Positive for Flu Last Week Compared to 14,657 Cases Reported Last Year at Same Time.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 31, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A headline from an article widely shared on Facebook claimed: "A Miracle! Only 23 Americans Tested Positive for Flu Last Week Compared to 14,657 Cases Reported Last Year at Same Time." The article cites this drop to suggest that health officials have improperly inflated the number of COVID-19 cases. Flu cases are down dramatically. The CDC reported that only 62 of 38,572 specimens tested positive for influenza for the week ended Jan. 16, 2021. A year earlier, the figure was 9,277.  Public health experts say they believe the drop is due not to a miracle or statistical tricks, but largely to social distancing and other precautions being used in response to the coronavirus pandemic. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz "opposes the DREAM Act, which is supported by 85% of Latinos.
Speaker: texas democratic party
About the speaker: The Texas Democratic Party says it's "working to advance issues like job creation, comprehensive immigration reform, good schools, health care and building an economy that lasts."
Date: February 3, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: immigration
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Cruz said in an interview that he does not support the DREAM Act, and three polls over the past 13 months have shown at least 85 percent of Latinos favoring the legislation. We rate the Texas Democratic Party’s statement .
Statement: Says Paul Ryan "is still endorsing Trump.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: October 10, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;elections;negative campaigning
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The New York Times and ABC News said Ryan responded to criticism for not supporting Trump more by emphasizing that he wasn't withdrawing his endorsement. As for Ryan himself, when we asked his campaign about Clinton’s , a spokesman simply reiterated what had been put out earlier, saying: "There is no update in his position at this time." Our rating Clinton says Ryan "is still endorsing Trump." As of the time when Clinton made the , Ryan’s endorsement of Trump for president remained in place. We rate the statement .   https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/82b74708-0ee4-414b-9fb4-437544a96b41
Statement: Says Donald Trump said, "Do not be distracted by all this going on in Afghanistan. Always keep one eye on Washington D.C. A magician always distracts his audience.
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: August 22, 2021
Topics: afghanistan;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We also didn’t find it searching Rev’s database of transcripts from Trump’s speeches, rallies, public statements, interviews and more.   From the pandemic to Afghanistan, it’s not unusual to see social media posts in which people suggest that major news events are happening or even orchestrated to distract from lawmakers in Washington. And certainly Trump has been critical of Biden’s leadership. But we found no  that he made the statement that appears in this post.   We rate it .
Statement: In 1963 Bernie Sanders was arrested for throwing eggs at black civil rights protestors.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 22, 2019
Topics: history;race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The post said that "in 1963 Bernie Sanders was arrested for throwing eggs at black civil rights protestors." The photo was Sanders being arrested, as the Chicago Tribune confirmed. However, Sanders was protesting in favor of civil rights. There is no  that Sanders threw eggs at protesters. We rate this statement .
Statement: We've got a 1,000 National Guard troop request that's been in front of this president for over a year and no response.
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: April 15, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: immigration
Context: an interview with The Texas Tribune and Newsweek
Fact-check justification: Texas has a huge border with Mexico. What does he anticipate the Guard doing? And those are the kinds of things that I think then I will transmit to the secretary of defense and the president in the ongoing decision about Guard — yes, no, and if so how many and where." Bottom line: The Obama administration has repeatedly acknowledged Perry's request for troops; it just hasn't given him the answer he seeks. We rate Perry's statement as .
Statement: Former President Donald Trump is actually another man wearing a Trump mask.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 30, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In May 2018, Trump confirmed in a series of tweets that he had personally reimbursed Cohen for the payments.   Just like allegations that other high-profile people are not who they purport to be, this one suggesting Trump is not Trump is unfounded. In February, we fact-checked a  that President Joe Biden didn’t deliver the annual State of the Union address but that someone else wearing a Biden mask did. That’s , and so is this.   We rate this post !
Statement: The Jewish holiday Purim is "their version of Halloween here.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: March 19, 2008
Location: national
Topics: religion
Context: Israel
Fact-check justification: That's the Hebrew name of Esther, Torop said, explaining the joke McCain appeared to be making. On a Political Gaffe scale of 1 to 10, with a one being John Kerry referring to the Green Bay Packers' hallowed home as "Lambert Field" and Dan Quayle telling that poor 6th-grader to add an "e" to the end of potato being a 15, we'd rate McCain's as maybe a two. He gets a bit of a pass because he apparently got bad info from his Jewish tour guide, Lieberman. And inasmuch as both holidays involve getting dressed up, it's somewhat understandable. But still, it's .
Statement: The Walton family of Walmart ... This one family owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of the American people.
Speaker: bernie sanders
About the speaker: Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
Date: February 23, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: economy;wealth
Context: a campaign rally
Fact-check justification: Sanders said the Walton family "owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of the American people." The latest comparable figures, from 2013, support his . We rate it .
Statement: Says the character Freddy Krueger was based on a real serial killer.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 22, 2019
Topics: fake news;history;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A scary tale that Freddy Krueger was based on a real serial killer is recirculating on social media. This story is fabricated. While Krueger’s creator previously disclosed that "Nightmare on Elm Street" was inspired by a legitimate news account, that account did not involve a real-life serial killer. We rate this rumor !