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Statement: I have little doubt that we've moved into recession at this point.
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: July 12, 2008
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: a conversation with reporters aboard plane
Fact-check justification: But he implied that there is little doubt that we're in a recession, when in fact there is ample room for doubt. Remember, recessions typically include negative growth, and GDP actually rose slightly in the first quarter of this year. Obama may well have little doubt that we're in a recession. But it's difficult to conceive that his economic advisers, who surely have a handle on the technical nuances at work, had not informed him that there's room for plenty of doubt about that. So we rule his statement .
Statement: Marijuana contains 50 to 70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco.
Speaker: michael cerullo
About the speaker: Michael C. Cerullo is a psychotherapist in private practice in Exeter, R.I.
Date: February 20, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: drugs
Context: a newspaper commentary
Fact-check justification: When Michael Cerullo said, "Marijuana contains 50 to 70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco," he was quoting a reputable source. But we could find no  that marijuana smoke contains more kinds of cancer-causing chemicals. And  on whether marijuana smoke has higher concentrations of cancer-causing chemicals is hazy at best. It depends on whether you are talking about smoke inhaled by the user, or second-hand smoke. On this burning issue, because the statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, we rate it . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Says Rep. Jim Renacci was "trying to leave town for the holidays without extending your payroll tax cut.
Speaker: democratic congressional campaign committee
About the speaker: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is responsible for assisting Democratic candidates for the U.S. House.
Date: December 9, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: social security;voting record;taxes
Context: a telephone campaign
Fact-check justification: With newly drawn congressional districts in Ohio, Renacci faces an election challenge from Rep. Betty Sutton, a Democrat whose district was carved up on the new map. PolitiFact Ohio is sure that this salvo is just the beginning, with many claims to come from both sides. But as for this one, Renacci indicated he was open to extending the payroll tax cut and did vote for a bill that contained the extension. And the DCCC asserted no grounds of support for the  that that Renacci wanted to leave Washington without voting. On the -O-Meter, we rate the DCCC’s  .
Statement: With the Republican tax law, "the rich folks got $1.5 trillion.
Speaker: elizabeth warren
About the speaker: Elizabeth Warren is a senator from Massachusetts. Warren was elected to the Senate in 2012 and was re-elected in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024. Warren received a bachelor’s degree in speech pathology and audiology from the University of Houston and a J.D. from Rutgers Law School. In 2019, she announced her race for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out March 5, 2020.
Date: January 2, 2019
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: an interview on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show
Fact-check justification: Warren said that under the Republican tax law, "the rich folks got $1.5 trillion." During much of the tax cut debate, $1.5 trillion has been a shorthand measure of the ultimate cost of the bill. Looking at how the tax cuts are spread around, there’s broad agreement that higher income people do best. Those making $200,000 or more get about half of the cuts. There’s room to argue that a 50/50 split means those people get about $750 billion to $1 trillion over 10 years. But no model predicts they would get as much as Warren said, nor that they get all of the benefits. She exaggerated the gains for the well-to-do. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton in 2013 said: "I would like to see people like Donald Trump run for office; They're honest and can't be bought.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: December 11, 2018
Topics: history;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: And there's that memorable phrase from a former member of the Senate: You can be maybe rented but never bought." The transcript doesn’t say that Clinton specifically mentioned Trump by name. As Snopes and Factcheck.org noted , the quote attributed to Clinton stemmed from websites claiming to be a "hybrid" of news and satire. Clinton did not say, "I would like to see people like Donald Trump run for office; They’re honest and can’t be bought." We rate that made-up quote as .
Statement: The Hispanic population in Gwinnett and Henry counties has increased by 153 percent and 339 percent, respectively, since 2000 while Republican presidential candidates are getting a smaller percentage of the vote in those counties.
Speaker: karl rove
About the speaker: Karl Rove is a former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush. He has worked as a commentator and political analyst for Fox News.
Date: June 26, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: elections
Context: an op-ed
Fact-check justification: Rove’s numbers were either identical or very close to what our research found. But his emphasis on Hispanic numbers implied a greater influence on the election outcome in the two counties than they brought. African-American voters, who got cursory mention in his remarks,  may have had a larger influence on the performance of GOP presidential candidates in those counties.    That context is necessary to fully consider why GOP candidates did not do as well in Gwinnett and Henry counties. We rate Rove’s statement .
Statement: Says "566,000 crimes" were "made in Texas by criminal aliens in the last 6 years.
Speaker: dan patrick
About the speaker: As a Houston state senator, Dan Patrick won election as lieutenant governor of Texas in November 2014 after earlier defeating incumbent David Dewhurst for his party's nomination. Patrick also has hosted a daily talk show on AM700 in Houston.
Date: January 4, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;criminal justice;crime
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Patrick said that "566,000 crimes" were "made in Texas by criminal aliens in the last 6 years." We didn't find a factual path to this figure and, in fact, spotted no state-posted information specifying a relevant count of criminal arrests or convictions for the six-plus years singled out by Patrick. The DPS has said that more than 638,000 charges and over 286,000 convictions were accumulated through their "criminal careers" by more than 240,000 "criminal aliens" booked into Texas jails in the six-plus years. Unsaid: Some of those people were living in the U.S. with legal authorization. We find Patrick’s statement  and . !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: We spend less than 2 percent more every year. That is the lowest increase in spending since they have been keeping numbers.
Speaker: andrew cuomo
About the speaker: Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, was elected to his first term as governor of New York in 2010.
Date: November 16, 2016
Location: new york
Topics: economy;state budget
Context: Fishkill, NY
Fact-check justification: At an event in Fishkill last month, Cuomo said, "We spend less than 2 percent more every year. That is the lowest increase in spending since they have been keeping numbers." It’s  that Cuomo has enacted the lowest spending increases since state government started tracking that data. No comparable data exists before the Rockefeller administration. We rate this  as . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/2dc30eaa-f63d-4b26-a8ac-fd0c1a6c634d
Statement: Sen. Kamala Harris "may have broken laws" when she visited a voting site in Ohio
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 26, 2020
Location: ohio
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A headline in a story posted on Facebook stated that Harris "may have broken laws" when she campaigned outside a voting site in Ohio. A county election official said that Harris did not violate laws against electioneering near a polling site. Police officers were on site during the visit by Harris and are allowed to help election officials enforce the neutral zone, but the county said that wasn’t required. We rate this statement . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: Only Nancy Pelosi is "responsible for what happened at the Capitol" on Jan. 6, "security at the Capitol is her job.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 13, 2021
Topics: congress;homeland security;facebook fact-checks;jan. 6
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A widely shared Facebook post claimed that only Pelosi is "responsible for what happened at the Capitol" on Jan. 6, "security at the Capitol is her job." Responsibility for Capitol security is shared, it is not solely the responsibility of the Speaker.  Security is provided by the sergeant-at-arms of the House, the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate and the Capitol Police. The House  sergeant-at-arms reports to the House speaker, Pelosi. The Senate sergeant-at-arms reports to the Senate majority leader, then McConnell. The Capitol Police is overseen by a four-member board that includes both sergeants-at-arms. News reports indicate that before the attack, the House sergeant-at-arms resisted calls from the Capitol Police to bring in the National Guard for extra security at the Capitol because of "optics," but he said intelligence reports didn’t warrant the extra security. The chain of command for Capitol security does include Pelosi, but it does not fall solely to her as this post claims. Others in the chain of command include the Senate majority leader and the Capitol police chief. We rate the  .
Statement: These 11 mass shootings involved an AR-15-style weapon.
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: March 22, 2021
Location: national
Topics: guns
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: A tweet said an AR-15 style weapon was used in the Boulder mass shooting and 11 past mass shootings. At least one AR-15 style weapon was used in 10 of the examples.  For the 11th — at the Pulse nightclub — the weapon used had some internal differences from the AR-15 style, but the ATF characterized it as an AR-15. With that technical difference, we rate this  .
Statement: Student loan forgiveness is "passed. I got it passed by a vote or two. And it's in effect.
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: October 23, 2022
Topics: education
Context: a forum with Now This
Fact-check justification: Biden said that student loan forgiveness is "passed. I got it passed by a vote or two. And it’s in effect." He’s  on both counts. The plan didn’t pass Congress; he is seeking to implement it by administrative action. And although online applications are being processed, a court ruling is blocking the plan from proceeding. The long-term legal outlook for Biden’s plan is uncertain at best. We rate the statement .
Statement: She stood by our National Guard and Reserve and kept standing till they received health care they deserved.
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 4, 2007
Location: national
Topics: military
Context: Iowa and New Hampshire
Fact-check justification: In 2005, she was one of 23 co-sponsors for legislation sponsored by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina that would allow reserve troops to enroll in Tricare, a Defense Department managed health care program. (Statements on Clinton's Web site don't mention that she was one of many co-sponsors.) The legislation didn't pass, but much of its substance was adopted in the 2007 defense authorization bill. The tone of her ad suggests she was a key player in the passage of the bill, but the record indicates that Graham took the lead in the effort, and she was one of several supporters. So while it's fair for her to say she was an advocate for expanded benefits for Guard and Reserve members, the statement would be more accurate if it indicated she was one of many.
Statement: When colleges and universities are added, education spending is the biggest item in the state budget — about 52 percent of all state dollars.
Speaker: dan patrick
About the speaker: As a Houston state senator, Dan Patrick won election as lieutenant governor of Texas in November 2014 after earlier defeating incumbent David Dewhurst for his party's nomination. Patrick also has hosted a daily talk show on AM700 in Houston.
Date: June 8, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: education;state budget
Context: newspapers including the San Antonio Express-News
Fact-check justification: Patrick, saying it’s disingenuous to suggest lawmakers held back on education aid, said 52 percent of state spending in the 2018-19 state budget was appropriated to public plus higher education. That’s an accurate percentage. Unclarified: Education also accounts for the smallest share of budgeted state spending in at least 20 years, which is as far back as we checked. We rate the statement .  – 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: In the "past few weeks," President Donald Trump pointed out "Iranian violations on ballistic missile tests. By the way, these ballistic missiles are inscribed in Hebrew, 'Israel must be destroyed.'
Speaker: benjamin netanyahu
About the speaker: Benjamin Netanyahu is the prime minister of Israel. He served in that position between 1996 and 1999, and then from 2009 until the present. He has held other high offices in Israel, including minister of foreign affairs.
Date: February 15, 2017
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;nuclear;terrorism
Context: a joint press conference with President Donald Trump
Fact-check justification: Netanyahu said, "President Trump has led a very important effort in the past few weeks, just coming into the presidency. He pointed out there are violations -- Iranian violations on ballistic missile tests. By the way, these ballistic missiles are inscribed in Hebrew, ‘Israel must be destroyed.’ " He’s right that there was such an incident (with slightly different wording) during an Iranian ballistic missile launch in 2016. However, it’s worth noting that, despite Netanyahu’s implication, there is no  of a repeat when Iran undertook its most recent test in 2017. We rate the statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/ae08540a-2931-4912-8149-8db6ea117789
Statement: Says a photo shows President Ronald Reagan meeting with Taliban leaders in the White House.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 9, 2019
Topics: fake news;history;terrorism;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Social media posts  a photo of President Reagan seated in the Oval Office shows him meeting with members of the Taliban. This is flat-out . The image was taken in 1983, about a decade before the Taliban formed, and featured Afghan rebels fighting against Soviet occupation in Afghanistan. We rate this .
Statement: Mr. Renacci was registered as a foreign trade lobbyist in the United States government.
Speaker: john boccieri
About the speaker: John Boccieri is former member of Congress. A Democrat, he represented Ohio's 16th Congressional District.
Date: October 18, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: negative campaigning;trade
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: So yes, Renacci is registered as a lobbyist, and his fledgling firm said on its registration form that it intended to lobby on trade. But it ended up not lobbying at all, and had that not been the case, it also might have lobbied on all manner of benign-sounding matters, not a one of which Boccieri singled as horrific. Boccieri’s "foreign trade lobbyist"  is not  because it contains elements of . But it leaves out context and detail, intentionally creating a menacing picture of Renacci’s activities. The ’s accuracy is overshadowed by those details, and so the -O-Meter considers it .
Statement: The Navy "is bringing charges against" a Navy officer who shot at the Chattanooga shooter "for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property.
Speaker: allen west
About the speaker: Allen West announced in July 2021 that he is running for the Republican primary for Texas governor. He served for about a year as chairman of the Texas Republican Party, stepping down in June 2021. West represented Florida's 22nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013. Lieutenant Colonel West retired from the Army in 2004 after 22 years of service.
Date: August 1, 2015
Topics: military;terrorism;punditfact;guns
Context: a blog on his website
Fact-check justification: West wrote that the Navy "is bringing charges against" a Navy officer who shot at the Chattanooga shooter "for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property." Certainly no charges were filed at the time West wrote his blog post, and none have been filed to date. To the contrary, the Navy has said that it has "no plans to press charges," and we have found no credible reporting to call the Navy’s official statement into question. We rate this  .
Statement: The President wants the U.S. to sign on to the U.N.'s International Criminal Court.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: April 24, 2014
Location: national
Topics: legal issues;foreign policy
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: The chain email says Obama "wants the U.S. to sign on to the U.N.’s International Criminal Court." While the Obama administration has been more willing to engage with the court than the Bush administration, which was strongly opposed to cooperating, Obama has made no sign that he wants to become a full-blown member of the court. Even if he did, doing so would require 67 votes in the Senate, making it essentially a nonstarter. We rate the  .
Statement: Hobby Lobby's CEO wrote a letter saying the company's stores may close.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 15, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Somebody who saw one of the recent Facebook posts sharing Green’s 2012 column may not realize that, and  his concerns as new. They’re not. But more importantly, the posts wrongly  that Green said Hobby Lobby stores may close. That wasn’t  then, and it isn’t  now.   We rate this post .
Statement: Says a photo of Pete Buttigieg in a military uniform was staged.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 25, 2020
Topics: candidate biography;military
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: There were also parking lots on base, he said, explaining the reflection in Buttigieg’s sunglasses. In the photo, Buttigieg is clearly posing; this isn’t a candid shot. But that doesn’t mean it’s staged. Buttigieg’s military record is clear and convincing, while these claims are unfounded.   We rate this post .
Statement: Says Steph Curry decided to split with Nike because the company wouldn't allow him to write Bible scriptures in his shoes.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 29, 2016
Topics: fake news;sports;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: If he signed back with them, we're on that second tier.’" Curry went on to sign a $4-million-a year deal with Under Armour that Nike failed to match. In 2015, the partnership was extended through 2024. It’s  that Curry writes his favorite Bible verse on his shoes, but there is no indication Nike barred him from writing the verse or that any such conflict over Curry writing Bible verses inspired Curry to leave the company and join Under Armour. We rate this .
Statement: South Korea doesn't pay the United States for U.S. troops that protect their country.
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: March 23, 2011
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;foreign policy;military
Context: an interview on ABC's "The View"
Fact-check justification: When we contacted Trump’s organization, Michael Cohen, his political aide, said that the point Trump was making is that "we have no money … and yet here we are playing police officer to the entire world, and we do it at whose expense?" But Trump’s statement on The View is . South Korea has signed an agreement to cover labor, logistical and construction costs running into the hundreds of millions of dollars annually. That may or may not be a big enough payment, but Trump is  to suggest that South Korea bears no financial burden at all. We rate his statement .