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Statement: Says President Donald Trump as a candidate mentioned WikiLeaks "over 160 times in speeches" in the last month of the campaign.
Speaker: jackie speier
About the speaker: Rep. Jackie Speier, D–Calif., represents the state's 14th District, which includes most of San Mateo County and part of San Francisco.
Date: April 13, 2017
Location: national
Topics: elections;transparency
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Speier said Trump as a candidate mentioned WikiLeaks "over 160 times in speeches" in the last 30 days of the campaign. Official counts may vary, but her larger point is clear: Trump brought up WikiLeaks a lot in the waning days of the campaign. He has stayed largely mum about the group since taking office, even as his CIA director said WikiLeaks acts like a "hostile intelligence service." We rate this  .                                                                                                                                                          <a href="https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/13b3ef93-7755-4388-a286-c0f6e047d2e4">https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/13b3ef93-7755-4388-a286-c0f6e047d2e4</a>
Statement: Austin has "gone from being the 24th most congested city just about 10 years ago to being the fourth most congested — more congested than NYC.
Speaker: steve adler
About the speaker: Attorney Steve Adler won election as mayor of Austin in December 2014, drawing 67 percent of the vote in a December 2014 runoff. He was sworn in Jan. 6, 2015. He sought re-election in 2018.
Date: April 1, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: population;transportation
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Adler said of Austin: "We have gone from being the 24th most congested city just about 10 years ago to being the 4th most congested. More congested than NYC." Inrix ranked Austin the nation’s No. 4 worst for congestion through 2013, just ahead of the No. 5 New York area. Also, Austin placed 26th for congestion in 2007, not quite a decade ago. But there's missing context here in that by various measures, New York’s congestion comes out worse than what Austin drivers have been experiencing. On balance, we rate this statement .  – 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: Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, "While my father loves almost all his supporters, please do not come to Mar-a-Lago to support President Trump. We have many important people coming through the club and need to keep it clean.
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 14, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: one comment said.   But these accounts perhaps missed the supposed time Trump Jr. tweeted this — "6:99 AM" — and some text at the bottom of the image: "Parody by Back Rub. "  The Twitter account @FaithRubPol tweeted the image on Aug. 14. The following day the account tweeted extra clarification for those who had missed the parody label: "This is a parody, which we posted at 6:99 AM as it says on the bottom :). "  We rate claims that this is an authentic tweet .
Statement: 76 percent of doctors support the use of medical marijuana
Speaker: new approach oregon
About the speaker: New Approach Oregon is a group backing an initiative that would legalize recreational use of marijuana in Oregon.
Date: June 26, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: marijuana
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The associations representing most physicians in both Oregon and the U.S. are making no such call, at least for now, that marijuana should be a treatment option for doctors. The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate the  . Thoughts on our ruling? Click on over to OregonLive.com/politics to comment on our ruling.
Statement: North Korea's missiles are "not going to have a capability to reach the United States anytime real soon.
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: February 8, 2016
Location: arizona
Topics: foreign policy;nuclear
Context: remarks made on the Fox News segment, Outnumbered
Fact-check justification: McCain said of North Korea’s missile program, "They’re not going to have a capability to reach the United States anytime real soon, but it is inevitable over time they will." His statement is a bit of a generalization, but he’s right. North Korea may have the missile technology -- and range -- to strike the United States, but it hasn’t been tested. Experts on missile technology agreed with McCain. We rate McCain’s  as .
Statement: The cap-and-trade bill before Congress "prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the EPA administrator.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: October 7, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: cap and trade;climate change;economy;energy
Context: e-mail and blog postings
Fact-check justification: Homeowners who do want to retrofit their homes can do so voluntarily and with the help of government funding. Nonetheless, this e-mail keeps making the rounds, even though it has been debunked by PolitiFact , Snopes.com , and FactCheck.org . There's plenty of debate about the overall bill, which was passed by the House in 2009 on a largely partisan vote and is stalled in the Senate. But there's no debate among the fact checkers, and we invite readers to check one of these sites before blindly forwarding such messages to others. This e-mail warrants a .
Statement: Says Sen. Joe Manchin has a "$700,000 D.C. luxury yacht.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: August 7, 2018
Location: west virginia
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The NRSC said that Manchin has a "$700,000 D.C. luxury yacht." There’s no dispute that Manchin has a boat docked in Washington, D.C. Its 40-foot length would generally qualify it as a yacht, but since Manchin lives there when he is in town, it could be just as easily described as a houseboat. The vessel was purchased for much less, but it appears to be insured for $700,000. Whether it qualifies as a "luxury" vessel is a matter of opinion. The information we’ve found backs up elements of both the NRSC’s original assertion and Manchin’s counterargument, so we rate it .
Statement: Says Milwaukee County Parks director Sue Black has not received a pay raise in five years.
Speaker: chris abele
About the speaker: Chris Abele is Milwaukee County Executive, a position he won in an April 2011 special election to finish out the final year of the term of Scott Walker, who was elected governor in November 2010. The election was the first attempt at political office for Abele, a Milwaukee philanthropist and business owner.
The office is nonpartisan, but Abele has indicated he is a Democrat.
Date: March 22, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: labor
Context: a campaign appearance
Fact-check justification: While Black got nothing when some other department heads received bumps in 2008, Holloway gave her a raise recently. It was handled in a low-key manner; Abele apparently wasn’t aware of it. The main thrust was good work should be rewarded, with Black -- who went seven years without a raise -- the example. He got some of the details  -- even after he moved to correct them. But on balance, this rates as .
Statement: It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.
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: October 28, 2015
Location: virginia
Topics: criminal justice;education
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Sanders said "It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia." He starts his calculation with a figure of the nearly $31,000 average cost for a federal prisoner. Prisoners held by state corrections systems in the U.S., on average, cost closer to $28,000, based on the latest figures available. In Virginia, that is a little more than $27,000. Sanders’ campaign compares prison costs only to the cost of tuition at U.Va. That figure represents a significant low-ball for many U.Va. students, who pay the added costs of room and board as well as other fees. U.Va. estimates of the full cost for attending in the 2013-14 school year ranged from $26,000 to $31,000 for in-state students. That price doesn’t include an additional $8,800 the state provided to pay for Virginia undergraduates’ education. Out-of-state students’ bottom-line cost can range from $54,000 to $60,000. When all those costs are put together, they exceed the annual prisoner costs Sanders cites. Still, the  behind Sanders’ statement rests to some extent on the length of sentence for each prisoner and where they are held. If their incarceration surpasses four years, then it easily could surpass the cost of sending a student to the University of Virginia. Also, if that prisoner is held in a state such as New York, with high state prisoner incarceration costs of roughly $60,000 annually, it also could outpace the cost of sending someone to U.Va. We rate his  .
Statement: Mortgage fraud is "up 400 percent in the last five years.
Speaker: pam bondi
About the speaker: Pam Bondi, a former Hillsborough County prosecutor, was elected Floriday Attorney General on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. After leaving office, she joined Ballard Partners lobbying firm in Washington D.C.
Date: July 31, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: financial regulation;housing
Context: a Bay News 9/CFN 13 debate
Fact-check justification: Back to Bondi's statement. She said mortgage fraud is up "400 percent in the last five years." Bondi has her numbers right, but the nearly 400 percent increase is referring specifically to FBI investigations of mortgage fraud nationwide, and does not account for state and local investigations, or information collected through the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Bondi could have been more specific with where her figure was coming from. As such, we rate her statement .
Statement: Jen Kiggans' campaign confirmed today that she would support a national abortion ban.
Speaker: elaine luria
About the speaker: Democrat Elaine Luria represents Virginia's 3rd Congressional District, anchored in Virginia Beach. She was first elected to Congress in 2018, defeating Republican incumbent Scott Taylor.
Luria was born and reared in Alabama. She graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1997 with a double major in physics and history. She earned an MS in engineering management from Old Dominion University in 2004. Luria was a Navy officer for 20 years, spending her entire career aboard battle ships running nuclear reactors as an engineer. She retired from the Navy in 2017 as a commander.
 
Date: September 14, 2022
Location: virginia
Topics: abortion;health care;legal issues
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: At the bottom of the tweet, Luria noted she was talking about a proposed national abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Asked to comment on a proposed 15-week abortion ban, Kiggans’ spokesman said most American "support commonsense restrictions on abortion such as protecting babies from 15 weeks on." That clearly suggests Kiggans is open to the idea, but it does not confirm that she supports a ban. Kiggans has not clarified her position. We rate Luria’s statement .
Statement: The Biden Administration is recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas communities.
Speaker: greg abbott
About the speaker: Greg Abbott won election as governor of Texas in November 2014, carrying 59 percent of the vote. Abbott was re-elected in 2018. Abbott, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, served three terms as the state's attorney general before being succeeded by Ken Paxton in early 2015.
Date: March 3, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;border security;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: A spokesperson said that the  was based on news articles reporting that 108 migrants released by Border Patrol had tested positive in Brownsville. While that number has risen beyond 200 positive cases since then, it was well below "hundreds" at the time of Abbott’s tweet.    Abbott also mischaracterizes the status of the migrants being released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection by calling them "illegal immigrants." They are asylum seekers holding notices to appear in court. We rate this  .
Statement: Law passed: All child support in the United States will end by beginning of 2018.
Speaker: tmzbreaking
About the speaker: Tmzbreaking.com is a satirical website that posts fake news.
Date: September 20, 2016
Topics: children;fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: Trump also says that ant reports of abuse or negligence to a child from either party will result in the child automatically being turned over to the State Child Welfare." While this  story suggests that the federal government is wiping out child support, it’s worth noting that states set child support policies and have enforcement programs . We emailed the authors of the website and did not get a reply. A story stated that a law will end all child support in the United States in 2018, but no such law has been passed. We rate this  .
Statement: Proposed cuts in the House farm bill mean "2 million less people on food stamps, 210,000 children will not receive school lunches or breakfasts.
Speaker: barbara lee
About the speaker: First elected to congress in 1998, Rep. Lee sits on the House Appropriations and Budget committees. She is the senior Democratic whip, whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, chair of the Social Work Caucus, and co-chair of the congressional HIV/AIDS, Out-of-Poverty, Health Care, and other caucuses.
Date: June 17, 2013
Location: national
Topics: agriculture;welfare
Context: an interview with MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Lee said that cuts in the House farm bill would leave 2 million people without food stamps and remove 210,000 children from the school breakfast and lunch program. Ultimately, both numbers go back to the Congressional Budget Office, which is generally seen as impartial. The CBO analysis largely supports the food stamp rolls reduction, but there is more uncertainty regarding school meal subsidies. She is off a little bit on the 2 million number; it's actually 1.8 million. And, with school lunches, it's uncertain that all 210,000 would no longer qualify. It's possible some might still be able to receive free or reduced cost lunches by applying separately. We rate the statement .
Statement: We've heard talk about curbing our use of fossil fuels in nearly every State of the Union address since the oil embargo of 1973.
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 11, 2008
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: Dayton, Ohio
Fact-check justification: And that is substantial, but not "nearly every." We rule Obama's  . UPDATE: In our original posting of this item on July 18, 2008, we mistakenly attributed a 1976 quote from President Gerald Ford to President Jimmy Carter. The item was corrected on July 21, 2008.
Statement: Video shows former President Donald Trump saying an impostor is pretending to be President Joe Biden.
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: June 1, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: He doesn’t even come out of his basement … Joe doesn’t know he’s alive, OK? He doesn’t know he’s alive. "  Trump even posted a clip from that interview on YouTube with this title: "President Donald Trump says Joe Biden is not competent to be president." Trump’s quote about Biden being a "different guy" comes from remarks he made in June 2019, when he called Biden "mentally weak. "  We rate the  that this video shows Trump saying Biden has been replaced by a literal impostor .
Statement: Orange County "released" a sex offender instead of turning him over to immigration authorities - "like a sanctuary city.
Speaker: george holding
About the speaker: George Holding is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina.
Date: September 27, 2018
Location: north carolina
Topics: immigration
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Holding released a pair of campaign ads that say an illegal immigrant assaulted a child in Carrboro and that the Orange County Sheriff’s Office released him "like a sanctuary city." The ad doesn’t mention that the immigrant was convicted and completed his sentence. The Orange County jail did release the man. But the ad doesn’t mention that ICE had nearly 300 days to assume custody prior to his release. We rate this  . This story was produced by the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, a partnership of McClatchy Carolinas, the Duke University Reporters’ Lab and PolitiFact. The NC Local News Lab Fund and the International Center for Journalists provide support for the project, which shares fact-checks with newsrooms statewide.
Statement: We have a higher deficit with China now than we did before.
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: September 29, 2020
Topics: foreign policy;trade
Context: the first presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Biden said, "We have a higher deficit with China now than we did before." The most inclusive measurement, for goods and services, shows that the U.S. trade deficit with China was smaller under Trump in 2019, the most recent full year, than it was in any of the final three years of the Obama administration. Looking only at goods shows the trade deficit was generally higher under Trump than it was in the Obama years, but it declined in 2019 to around the level as the final year of the Obama administration. We rate the statement .
Statement: [Georgia] Republicans have mismanaged unemployment benefits.
Speaker: democratic party of georgia
About the speaker: Democratic Party of Georgia
 
Date: November 18, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: jobs
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The column does not specify what state leaders should have done to avoid the current problem of borrowing money from the federal government. The funds are still managed by the state Labor Department, which is run by a Democrat, not a Republican. Democratic Party officials say they should have been more precise in their description of the problem on Facebook. We agree. We rate it as .
Statement: An ingredient in some of Chick-fil-A's dipping sauces can cause serious health problems.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 29, 2023
Topics: food;facebook fact-checks
Context: a video on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A video on Facebook claimed calcium disodium EDTA, an ingredient in some Chick-fil-A dipping sauces, can cause serious health problems. Calcium disodium EDTA is commonly used as a food additive and the FDA has determined it is safe to consume in small quantities. The side effects mentioned in the video are linked to calcium disodium EDTA when it is used in medication, not as a food additive. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Mitt Romney "was director of a company that stole millions from Medicare.
Speaker: priorities usa action
About the speaker: Priorities USA Action is a PAC that is supportive of President Barack Obama.
Date: October 31, 2012
Location: national
Topics: medicare
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The Priorities ad says Romney "was director of a company that stole millions from Medicare," comparing him with Scott. Scott’s hospital company, Columbia/HCA, pleaded guilty to criminal charges and paid a total of $1.7 billion in fines related to Medicare fraud. Even though Scott had resigned by the time the case settled, prosecutors said the widespread fraud occurred while he was at the helm. But the fraud case at Damon Corp. doesn’t point straight to Romney. His firm bought the company that was later found guilty of fraud, but Romney was not running the show while crimes were being committed. The statement is accurate but needs additional information. That fits our definition of .