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Statement: Says Tim Michels' family foundation "funded an organization that tracks women when they get near abortion clinics … he wants to treat women like they're the criminals.
Speaker: liberal groups
About the speaker: XXX
Date: September 6, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: abortion;criminal justice;legal issues
Context: TV ad
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  The Alliance for Common Sense ad claimed that Michels "wants to treat women like they’re the criminals. "  His support for Wisconsin’s abortion ban does mean women doctors who perform abortions could face criminal penalties — but that wasn’t the ad’s main thrust. And any women whose locations are being tracked by the Veritas Society in or around the state’s Planned Parenthood locations today aren’t committing a crime by being there.   A  is  if it contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.   That fits here.
Statement: Jason Carter never passed a bill in his tenure in the state Senate.
Speaker: nathan deal
About the speaker: Nathan Deal is running for Georgia governor in 2010.
Date: October 7, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: states
Context: debate
Fact-check justification: Our conclusion: Deal is right. Jason Carter hasn’t been the chief author of a bill that’s made it through the General Assembly. But that’s a fate most out-of-power Democrats face, as did Republicans in the decades they were in the same boat. That’s context the reader needs. We rate the statement as .
Statement: This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: January 26, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: israel;terrorism
Context: Jacksonville, Fla
Fact-check justification: In Florida, a state with a significant Jewish voting population, Romney said: "This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip." But that doesn’t square with our review of Obama’s speeches. In his 2009 speech to the U.N., Obama said that America does not accept "the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements." Though he did not specifically mention Hamas, he did mention Israeli’s fear of rockets. And in later speeches to the U.N., Obama was blunt in his criticism of violent attacks against Israelis, once saying "the slaughter of innocent Israelis is not resistance -- it's injustice."  Our examination of three of Obama’s speeches to the U.N. showed that Obama is fairly even-handed as he has laid out goals for both sides -- while he spoke against the Israeli settlements, he also bluntly opposed violent attacks on Israelis. We rate this  .
Statement: Democratic lawmakers who voted in favor of short-term spending bills "just voted to deport Dreamers.
Speaker: credo action
About the speaker: Credo Action is a progressive activism organization, supported by their sister mobile phone company CREDO mobile.
Date: December 21, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Credo tweeted that Democratic lawmakers who voted in favor of short-term spending bills in December "just voted to deport Dreamers." Lawmakers voted to continue funding the government until Jan. 19, but there was no language in the legislation to deport Dreamers. Credo contends that voting for a bill that does not include protection for Dreamers is essentially a vote to deport them. That’s an interpretation of the vote, but not an accurate representation of the content of the bill that was voted on. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Gov. Andrew Cuomo "issued a legal blanket immunity, and snuck that into our budget, giving these facilities essentially a license to kill, a get-out-of-jail free card.
Speaker: ron kim
About the speaker: Ron Kim lives in Flushing, Queens, and represents part of Queens in the New York State Assembly.
Date: February 18, 2021
Location: new york
Topics: health care;coronavirus
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Kim said that a law protecting health care facilities gave them "blanket immunity," was snuck into the budget by Cuomo, gave health care facilities get out of jail free cards and a license to kill.  The law contained broad protections, but doesn’t grant blanket immunity. Experts disagree on how broad the protections are. It will likely take court cases to resolve that question.  While Cuomo may have fought aggressively for the law during budget negotiations, saying that he "snuck it in" minimizes the legislature’s role. Staff and leaders knew about the provision even if many members didn’t.     Kim’s use of "essentially" when describing a "license to kill" modifies it somewhat. Even the Attorney General’s Office said it is unclear to what extent facilities or individuals can be held accountable if found to have failed appropriately to protect the residents in their care. But the law contains exceptions for some criminal conduct.  Coupled with other actions the Cuomo administration took to aid health workers and prevent virus transmission in nursing homes - relaxing recordkeeping requirements related to patient care and prohibiting visitors - families will have difficulty winning cases against nursing homes.    Kim conveyed the difficulty families have in holding nursing homes accountable, but his statement goes too far because the the immunity protections do not cover everything.  He made a compelling statement that has elements of .   We rate his statement .
Statement: Says Austin is the largest city in the U.S. without nonstop flights to Europe.
Speaker: pete winstead
About the speaker: Winstead, an Austin-area attorney practicing business law, has long been active in regional politics on issues including transportation.
Date: February 6, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: transportation
Context: a KUT-FM news story
Fact-check justification: Winstead said Austin was the largest U.S. city without a nonstop flight to Europe. But four larger cities lack such flights, making this statement .
Statement: Says the Congressional Budget Office has estimated "every penny of the federal budget will go to interest on the debt and entitlement spending by 2025.
Speaker: frank wolf
About the speaker: Frank Wolf, R-10th, has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1981. The 10th District stretches from McLean to Winchester. Wolf sits on the House Appropriations Committee, where he is the Chairman of the Commerce, Justice and Science subcommittee. In addition, he is the co-chairman of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, a bipartisan organization made up of more than 200 members of Congress who work together to raise awareness about international human rights issues. Wolf announced in December 2013 that he would not run for re-election in 2014.
Wolf served as a lawyer in the U.S. Army Reserves. He lost the first two congressional elections he ran in before winning in 1980.
Wolf was born in 1939 in Philadelphia. He received his undergraduate degree from Penn State University in 1961 and his law degree from Georgetown University in 1965. 
Date: March 28, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: deficit;federal budget
Context: a floor speech
Fact-check justification: Wolf said the CBO projects that by 2025, every penny of the federal budget will go to interest on the debt as well as spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.   The CBO report he cites says entitlements programs and debt interest will consume all the revenues going into the budget that year. Wolf’s language is a bit inexact, but we don’t think it detracts from his clear point: the U.S. is on a dangerous fiscal path. We rate his statement .
Statement: The minute the president speaks about it to someone, he has the ability to declassify anything at any time without any process.
Speaker: james risch
About the speaker: James Risch, a Republican, is a U.S. Senator from Idaho. Previously, he served as his state's governor, lieutenant governor and state senator. 
Date: May 15, 2017
Location: national
Topics: legal issues;military;transparency
Context: remarks to reporters
Fact-check justification: We found broad agreement that a president, using powers granted by the Constitution, is able to declassify essentially anything. However, experts added that Risch’s comment was not entirely on point for the particular situation involving Trump. In this case, it appears Trump didn’t actually use his declassification power before talking to the Russian officials, and just because Trump’s actions were legal doesn’t necessarily mean they were wise. These caveats add nuance to analyses of what Trump did. The statement is accurate but needs clarification and additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: The New York Times "published Tucker Carlson's home address and location.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 21, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Aas of July 22, it had been retweeted more than 58,000 times.) "@nytimes does not plan to publish Tucker Carlson’s residence, which Carlson was aware of before his broadcast tonight," the New York Times tweeted . Activists protested outside of Carlson’s home in Washington, D.C. in 2018 — he referred to them as "screaming antifa lunatics" on his July 20 show.   But the New York Times did not publish his address. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Arizona audit" shows 86,391 voters "don't appear to exist.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 28, 2021
Location: national
Topics: elections;arizona
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post said the ballot review in Maricopa County found 86,391 voters who "don’t appear to exist." The GOP-orchestrated review of ballots in Maricopa County cast in the 2020 presidential election found that 86,391 voters were not found in a commercial database known as Melissa.  But the ballot review report did not declare that these voters don’t exist. The report said, "It is expected that most if not all of these individuals are in fact real people with a limited public record and commercial presence." An official for Melissa estimated that their database covers 80% of adults and said that being absent from their data tool doesn’t mean someone doesn’t exist. We rate this statement .  RELATED : Arizona "could decertify" the 2020 presidential election RELATED : Trump falsely describes Arizona audit findings RELATED : No  Maricopa County audit found 17,000 "duplicate" votes RELATED : No  for  that Maricopa County ‘purged machine records before audit’
Statement: Says no Austin City Council "member lives south of" Lady Bird Lake "or north of 45th Street.
Speaker: shaun ireland
About the speaker: Former candidate for Austin City Council Place 6; defeated in May 2012 primary election.
Date: March 30, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: city government
Context: a campaign video on the city's website
Fact-check justification: No council members live in South Austin, as Ireland says, and five council members live south of 45th Street. If that street were extended east and west, though, Leffingwell and Martinez would land north of it, though not by much. We rate Ireland’s statement .
Statement: Says the National Mall's webcam was "abruptly shut down" and removed from the White House's website to stop viewers from seeing the lack of attendees at president Trump's Fourth of July event.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 4, 2019
Topics: fake news;transparency;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Mike Litterst, chief of communications for the National Park Service, told PolitiFact that while the webcam overseeing the National Mall is indeed offline, it has been so since September 2017.   "The webcam at the top of the Washington Monument is owned and operated by EarthCam, Inc. and placed at the top of the monument under an agreement with the National Park Service," Litterst wrote in an email. "Due to the ongoing restoration work at the monument, the camera has been offline since September 2017." As well, Dan Scavino Jr., the White House social media director, posted a compilation video of the event that includes multiple shots that feature hundreds of spectators.   We rate this post .
Statement: Deidre DeJear refused to stand for police.
Speaker: kim reynolds
About the speaker: Kim Reynolds, a Republican, has served as governor of Iowa since 2017.
Date: October 6, 2022
Location: iowa
Topics: criminal justice;crime
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: A Kim Reynolds campaign commercial accuses gubernatorial opponent Deidre DeJear of failing to stand for police while showing DeJear sitting during a standing ovation for Reynolds’ January Condition of the State comments on supporting law enforcement. That DeJear didn’t stand during the speech is indisputable; a photo exists and she admitted it. But saying that instance means DeJear would not support police as the governor takes DeJear’s actions at the Condition of the State address out of context.  DeJear consistently has said her refusal to stand during the speech was about Reynolds and not police. On her actual policy positions, DeJear has said consistently that she supports programs that can help police. We rate the statement .
Statement: I am the only U.S. Senate candidate who spoke out against bombing Syria, and who challenged Georgia's governor and insurance commissioner over obstruction to the Affordable Care Act.
Speaker: branko radulovacki
About the speaker: Dr. Branko Radulovacki is an Atlanta psychiatrist who is running as a Democrat for the United States Senate.
Date: October 14, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: health care;foreign policy
Context: an email
Fact-check justification: And another candidate produced a radio ad about her opposition. On the health care front, one other Democratic Senate candidate spoke out against the state’s decision not to expand Medicaid to poor residents, which was a large part of the Affordable Care Act. Dr. Rad admitted that the campaign email was  and promised to correct the error. Corrections are always a good thing. But on the initial , the doctor gets a .
Statement: So many of these shooters turn out to be communist Democrats.
Speaker: larry pittman
About the speaker: N.C. state Representative
Date: February 15, 2018
Location: north carolina
Topics: crime;guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Pittman said many perpetrators of mass shootings turn out to be communist Democrats. We found no  to support that statement and experts say only a small fraction of mass shooters were motivated by a political agenda. We rate this .
Statement: Most Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant.
Speaker: lawrence o'donnell
About the speaker: Lawrence O'Donnell is the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word. He was formerly the chief of staff for both the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance and the Committee on Environment & Public Works in the 1990's. He is also an actor, and has been executive producer of the television shows The West Wing and Mister Sterling. O'Donnell blogs at the Huffington Post as well. In the past, O'Donnell has described himself as a socialist.
Date: March 22, 2011
Location: national
Topics: energy;nuclear;public safety;pundits
Context: MSNBC's "Last Word"
Fact-check justification: But back to O'Donnell's statistic. He said most Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant. About 65 percent of the population in 2000 lived within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant. That's certainly most. We rate O'Donnell's statement .
Statement: The impact of President Biden being beholden to the Green New Deal radicals in his party has electricity costs through the roof in Texas.
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, 2022
Location: texas
Topics: economy;energy
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Cruz tweeted, "The impact of President Biden being beholden to the Green New Deal radicals in his party has electricity costs through the roof in Texas."  However, Green New Deal legislation has not passed. Rising electricity costs are tied to natural gas prices, which in turn are impacted by European nations turning away from Russia as a major supplier of natural gas. We rate this .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton's "been very clear where she stands on trade.
Speaker: john podesta
About the speaker: John Podesta is chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
Date: June 14, 2015
Location: national
Topics: trade
Context: comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Podesta said Hillary Clinton has been "very clear on where she stands on trade." While you can argue that clear is a bit of a subjective term, it’s hard for any neutral person to say Clinton has been clear about trade, particularly in the context of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Clinton has avoided answering whether she supports grants Obama fast-track trade promotion authority, which is seen as the linchpin to cutting a trade deal in Asia. Clinton has said what she would like in an ideal trade deal in terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But she has yet to say definitively whether or not Obama’s pending trade deal meets her standards -- though she has admitted some provisions could use improvement. This is a change from just a couple years ago, when she seemed more supportive than not of the pending trade deal. Does any of this sound "very clear" to you? We’ll concede a little wiggle room based on Podesta’s wording. But that’s about it. We rate this  .
Statement: One in every three women has an abortion during her lifetime.
Speaker: wendy davis
About the speaker: Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth attorney, was initially elected to the Texas Senate in 2008. She was the 2014 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, giving up a shot at winning re-election to the Senate.
Date: January 4, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: abortion
Context: a legal brief
Fact-check justification: Davis said: "One in every three women has an abortion during her lifetime." That statement is a bit  in that it sounds like it is based on hard data showing one in three women have had abortions. Of late, the statistic is based on extrapolations of 2008 data analyzed by the Guttmacher Institute in an effort to estimate how many women will have an abortion during their reproductive years. Meantime, abortion rates have generally declined so it’s possible such estimates don’t reflect reality. We rate this , which is missing important qualifications, .    – 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: Says the federal government is supporting a study in Hawaii to "develop a menu for when we colonize Mars.
Speaker: rand paul
About the speaker: Rand Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky elected in 2010. He ran for president in 2016 before dropping out to seek re-election to the Senate. Paul is a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist. His father is Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate and a former member of Congress from Texas. 
Date: March 14, 2013
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;science;space
Context: a speech at the CPAC conference
Fact-check justification: Paul gets the basics of the project right. The government is paying for a study in Hawaii in which people will prepare foods under conditions that simulate a mission to Mars. He  when he refers to "colonizing" Mars, since the project is a broader look a how astronauts would eat on short-term visits. Also, he  the appeal of the assignment, which is in a small capsule on a barren landscape. It ain't waterfalls and palm trees. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: PCR tests used to put luciferase in the brain.
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 25, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Luciferase can be used "to tag certain proteins and genes with biofluorescence so that they can be investigated to understand diseases at a genetic and molecular level," Soni said, but that’s not what’s happening with PCR tests.   And while some claims about luciferase and COVID-19 vaccines and tests appear couched in a biblical context, the enzyme doesn’t refer to the devil. Luciferase is derived from the latin roots "lux," meaning "light," and "ferre," meaning "to carry," Soni said. "Lucifer translates to lightbearer, which is an apt description of luciferase assays ." We rate claims that PCR tests put luciferase in your brain .
Statement: Pfizer CEO: New Pill Will Have a Microchip That Transmits Info Once You Swallow It!
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 2, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an article
Fact-check justification: The article cites a video of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaking at an event about sensors in pills. But the video was from 2018, about two years before the COVID-19 pandemic. Bourla was talking about a drug that had been approved two months earlier for treating schizophrenia, not any COVID-19 treatment. While Pfizer has a new antiviral medication, Paxlovid, that has been approved for COVID-19 treatment, there is no  it contains a microchip. We rate this  .