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Statement: Says George Floyd's criminal history includes "23 arrests," "3 car thefts" and many violent crimes.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 18, 2021
Location: national
Topics: civil rights;crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims that Floyd’s criminal history involved 23 arrests, three car thefts and many violent crimes. Court documents show that Floyd was arrested nine times for charges including four charges of drug possession and distribution, two theft charges, one illegal trespass, one charge of failure to identify to a police officer and one aggravated robbery.  The  overstates the number and severity of these charges and includes crimes Floyd wasn’t charged with, including beating four victims and three car thefts. Court documents and reports contain no  of such charges. We rate this  . PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: In 2012, the state "put together a list of over 100,000 people that they thought were ineligible to vote. Came out there were less than 10.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: August 17, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: elections
Context: a speech to Louisiana Democrats
Fact-check justification: Crist said that in 2012, "the secretary of state put together a list of over 100,000 people that they thought were ineligible to vote. Came out there were less than 10." If Crist’s point was that only a tiny fraction of noncitizens were found on the voter rolls, that’s certainly . But he’s  that the number was less than 10. The best data we could nail down from the state was that there were about 85 noncitizens removed as of August 1, 2012. We rate his  .
Statement: Romney failed to take action against "sanctuary cities" in Massachusetts.
Speaker: rudy giuliani
About the speaker: Rudy Giuliani is the former mayor of New York City. He was born in Brooklyn in 1944 and previously served as a federal prosecutor, as well as an associate attorney general under President Reagan. He graduated from Manhattan College and earned a law degree from New York University Law School. He has been married since 2003 to Judith Nathan and was married twice before. He has two children, Andrew and Caroline. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 30, 2008.
Date: November 28, 2007
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: St. Petersburg, Fla
Fact-check justification: But Romney's inaction does not necessarily confirm the Giuliani campaign's larger point –- that Romney was soft on illegal immigration. Late in his term, Romney approved a plan to deputize state troopers to help enforce immigration laws, although the plan was not implemented because it was rescinded by his successor, Gov. Deval Patrick. We expect to see this allegation repeated as the campaign goes on, though. The Giuliani campaign has apparently been searching for cities with policies of not turning in illegal immigrants; they recently upped their count of Massachusetts sanctuary cities from three to six. We rate Giuliani's  as  because, although the facts are right, there's not enough  to back up Giuliani's larger point that Romney was not aggressive on illegal immigration.
Statement: We're not allowed to read it (the Trans-Pacific Partnership) before representatives vote on it.
Speaker: martin o'malley
About the speaker: Martin O'Malley is the former governor of Maryland who is running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. He has also served as the mayor of Baltimore.
Date: April 20, 2015
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;trade;transparency
Context: an interview with NPR
Fact-check justification: O’Malley said that "we're not allowed to read it (the Trans-Pacific Partnership) before representatives vote on it." Strictly speaking, he’s  -- Congress, and the American public, will be fully informed of what’s in the Trans-Pacific Partnership before lawmakers vote to make the agreement part of United States law. But he has a point that lawmakers won’t know what’s in the Trans-Pacific Partnership before they cast a separate, precursor vote -- the vote to authorize Obama to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership on a fast-track basis in the first place. In a meandering radio conversation, O’Malley made a reasonable point that transparency about the deal has been lacking, but in doing so, he conflated two separate congressional votes. On balance, we rate his  . UPDATE, Apr. 25, 2015 : This version adds additional information from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative regarding the transparency policies afforded members of Congress prior to the passage of Trade Promotion Authority.
Statement: Says the toddler shown in a photo clinging to a police officer was found wandering, alone and barefoot, looking for his mother amid protests in Philadelphia.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 30, 2020
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Facebook posts say a toddler, seen in a photo clinging to a police officer, was rescued by law enforcement after he was found wandering alone and shoeless, looking for his mother amid the protests in Philadelphia. This is . The boy was not found wandering the streets. He was pulled from the backseat of an SUV after police swarmed the vehicle and arrested his mother. We rate it .
Statement: If Sen. Hillary Clinton could enact all of her campaign proposals, taxpayers would be faced with financing more than $777.6-billion in new spending over one White House term.
Speaker: republican national committee
About the speaker: The Republican National Committee is the national arm of the Republican Party.
Date: November 26, 2007
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: Web "Spend-O-Meter"
Fact-check justification: We realize the RNC had to make some assumptions to keep the arithmetic simple. For instance, their calculations assume that each program becomes law at the very start of Clinton's first term, allowing the Spend-O-Meter to add things up over four full years. Of course, it can't really happen that way, but for purposes of keeping tabs on the cost of Clinton's proposals it's within reason.
 It's also  that the RNC doesn't note that some of Clinton's proposals, already in legislation in Congress, have drawn the support of some Republicans. Still, as gimmicks go, this one stays close enough to the facts to rate a .
Statement: The House Republican health care "plan doesn't get rid of Medicaid expansion.
Speaker: mick mulvaney
About the speaker: In December 2018, President Donald Trump named Mick Mulvaney as his acting chief of staff. In 2017, Trump nominated Mulvaney to direct the Office of Management and Budget, and he was confirmed shortly after. Before, he served as the new U.S. Congressman for South Carolina's 5th District from 2010-2017. Mulvaney grew up in the Carolinas and went to Georgetown University. He attended law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later did additional course work at Harvard Business School.
His professional background includes law and real estate.
Date: March 13, 2017
Location: national
Topics: health care;medicaid;public health
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Mulvaney said the House Republican health care "plan doesn't get rid of Medicaid expansion." The House Republican health care proposal does not explicitly repeal the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. But by wringing out the funding that supports the expansion starting in 2020, experts predict states will have little choice but to abandon some or all of the expansion. In seven states, it’s actually required by state law. Mulvaney’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so we rate it .
Statement: Hillary Clinton surged the trade deficit with China 40% as Secretary of State, costing Americans millions of jobs.
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: June 21, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;foreign policy;trade
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump tweeted, "Hillary Clinton surged the trade deficit with China 40% as Secretary of State, costing Americans millions of jobs." Trump is largely accurate about the 40 percent bump, though that number is somewhat cherry-picked, and he has a point that some -- though not all -- estimates suggest that trade with China has resulted in millions of job losses. However, Trump’s strong words of blame for Clinton overplays the role she had in this process. Not only do other administration players have a bigger role in setting trade policy, but the growth in the trade deficit predates the Obama administration and has a lot to do with factors that any administration would have little control over. We rate the statement .
Statement: As hundreds of North Carolinians face long lines at DMV offices around the state, Governor Cooper created a secret DMV office just for his friends.
Speaker: north carolina republican party
About the speaker: The N.C. GOP is a political party in North Carolina
Date: August 28, 2018
Location: north carolina
Topics: corrections and updates;transportation
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The NCGOP Facebook account said, "As hundreds of North Carolinians face long lines at DMV offices around the state, Governor Cooper created a secret DMV office just for his friends." The statement referred to an office first reported by WBTV that offered quick appointments for state employees and their associates. The office was not acknowledged, open or advertised to the public, but Meister said that was because it could not accommodate the general public. The DMV commissioner falls under the leadership of the Cooper administration, but Porter said Cooper did not play any direct role in the office’s creation, and we found no  to suggest otherwise. Plus, the DMV granted access to the office to state employees from several different agencies, not just Cooper’s friends. The state GOP’s  makes it sound like Cooper opened a special office just for his closest buddies so they could avoid long lines. But the model office’s creation was not that nefarious, even if it was kept secret. Overall, the state GOP’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it . 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. CORRECTION: This article has been corrected to list October 2020, not October 2022, as the date when the federal government is due to start requiring stricter identification for flights.
Statement: Ted Cruz says owning a gun should be as hassle free as owning a car, which as I recall requires a license and registration.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 26, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "I’m not trying to perfectly equate these two, but we have a lot of drunk drivers in America that kill a lot of people," Kennedy said. "We ought to try to combat that too. But I think what many folks on my side of the aisle are saying is that the answer is not to get rid of all sober drivers." The Facebook post purporting to quote Cruz is unsubstantiated. So we rate it .
Statement: Quotes Adolf Hitler as saying the best way to control a people is "to take a little of their freedom at a time.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 21, 2019
Topics: corrections and updates;fake news;history;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A month later, the Enabling Act  was passed, granting him full power without having to consult other government representatives. Less than three months after his appointment to chancellor, all non-Nazi parties, organizations and labor unions ceased to exist. By 1934, the chancellorship and the presidency were merged, securing his position as "Führer." There is no  Hitler said or wrote this statement, and it could not be found in Mein Kampf. We rate this  .
Statement: U.S. taxpayers are being forced to fund Feisal Abdul Rauf's trip to the Middle East.
Speaker: ileana ros-lehtinen
About the speaker: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Florida. First elected in 1989 to succeed the venerable Democrat Claude Pepper, Ros-Lehtinen in 2011 became chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Date: August 10, 2010
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;religion;terrorism
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: But while we're not taking sides on the fundraising question, we believe that the less-far-reaching statement by Ros-Lehtinen is accurate. U.S. taxpayers are indeed funding Rauf’s trip, as they have his prior two trips to the region. It's worth noting that the decision to sponsor his trip was made before the current controversy became the focus of media attention, and also that Rauf took his first State Department-funded trip during the Bush administration rather than Barack Obama. But none of those facts undercut the statement we checked by Ros-Lehtinen. We rate her statement .
Statement: Despite the administration telling us (health care reform) was going to reduce health care costs, they now acknowledge it's going to dramatically increase health care costs.
Speaker: lamar smith
About the speaker: Lamar Smith is a Republican congressman from a San Antonio-based district in Texas. He became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January 2011.
Date: January 5, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: health care
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: We don't see the projected upticks as dramatic, as Smith puts it. The actuary didn't apply such labels. We also don't see Obama acknowledging the actuary's September estimate as a shift. Then and to date, Obama has maintained the law will ultimately cut costs. We rate Smith's statement .
Statement: The FBI targeted a woman and searched her home because she "protested local school board, elections.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 18, 2021
Location: colorado
Topics: education;elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: an article
Fact-check justification: Colorado authorities searched Bishop’s home and those of three others on Nov. 16. But the search was connected to an investigation into an alleged election system breach in Mesa County. There is no  linking the search to Bishop’s involvement in school board politics or her statements about the election. The  contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate this  .
Statement: The Beirut explosion was linked to "human trafficking by HRC.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 4, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an image
Fact-check justification: Some fringe internet users noticed that Podesta had communicated with the owner of Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C., to discuss a potential fundraiser, and they claimed that Podesta’s use of the word "pizza" was a code word for pedophilia. The successor of Pizzagate is QAnon, a right-wing conspiracy theory that in part alleges President Donald Trump and former special counsel Robert Mueller are working together to arrest child molesting elites. Groups dedicated to the conspiracy theory often float unproven or bogus claims in the wake of major news events. While investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the Beirut explosion, there is no indication that it had anything to do with Clinton or a sex trafficking ring. We rate this post .
Statement: The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office has said that Obamacare will kill 800,000 jobs.
Speaker: michele bachmann
About the speaker: Michele Bachmann, first elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, represents the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota. She was reelected in 2008. Previously, she served in the Minnesota State Senate. Prior to that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children, live in Stillwater, Minn., and own a mental health care practice.
Date: June 13, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;health care
Context: New Hampshire
Fact-check justification: "That means that if the reduction in the labor used was workers working the average number of hours in the economy and earning the average wage, that there would be a reduction of 800,000 workers. "In fact, as we mentioned in the -- in our announcements last summer, the legislation also creates incentives that might affect the number of hours people work, might affect the tendency to work with lower and higher income people. We haven't tried to quantify those things. But the impact is that these 800,000 (jobs) might not be exactly the number ..." The CBO report also noted that the health care law could actually help economic productivity.
Statement: Says crime is on the rise in Austin and a new study showed that it "is the No. 1 city in America in the year-to-year percentage increase in murders, with a percentage increase of more than 64% for the first half of this year.
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: August 18, 2020
Location: texas
Topics: crime
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Abbott said crime is on the rise in Austin, which is "the No. 1 city in America in the year-to-year percentage increase in murders, with a percentage increase of more than 64% for the first half of this year." Abbott’s figures are from a Wall Street Journal analysis of homicides in cities across the country, and they are reflected in reports from the Austin Police Department. But the issue is the conclusion he is drawing from these figures. Experts said crime data of this scale (changes in small numbers over a short time period) does not accurately reflect a crime trend or the safety of a specific area. They also said focusing on the percentage change in discussions of shifts in smaller values can overstate increases or decreases over time. Abbott’s statement is accurate, but leaves out important details and needs more context. We rate it .
Statement: A few weeks ago Obama took Hamas and Iran OFF the terror list.
Speaker: glenn beck
About the speaker: Glenn Beck is the host of The Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show. He also hosts an Internet-based TV show. Beck formerly hosted a television talk show on CNN Headline News and then Fox News.
Date: March 19, 2015
Topics: israel;foreign policy;nuclear;terrorism;punditfact
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Beck said, "A few weeks ago Obama took Hamas and Iran OFF the terror list." Beck made a few clear mistakes here. First, it appears he mistook Hamas for Hezbollah. Second, Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah remain on the official, and legally binding, State Department terror lists, as they have for decades. Obama did nothing to change that "a few weeks ago." Beck's  is , so we rate it .
Statement: Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, his prospective opponent, has received $1.2 million from the gun lobby.
Speaker: mandela barnes
About the speaker: Mandela Barnes is an American politician serving as the 45th lieutenant governor of Wisconsin. A member of the Democratic Party, Barnes is a former state representative. On August 14, 2018, he won the Democratic primary in a landslide and became the running mate of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tony Evers. Evers and Barnes went on to win the November 2018 election, defeating incumbent Republicans Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch. Barnes became Wisconsin's first African American lieutenant governor.
 
 
Date: May 27, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;legal issues;guns
Context: News release
Fact-check justification: Barnes claimed Johnson has taken $1.2 million from the gun lobby.  Data shows that Johnson has received — through both direct and indirect contributions — about $1.2 million in support since his first campaign started in 2016.  But of that, only about $200,000 went directly to his campaign. The rest — more than $1 million — represents outside spending either in support of Johnson, or against his opponents over time. So, Barnes is off in his wording. Our definition for  is "the statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context." That fits here
Statement: When a car is sent to the United States from China, there is a Tariff to be paid of 2 1/2%. When a car is sent to China from the United States, there is a Tariff to be paid of 25%.
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: April 9, 2018
Location: national
Topics: china;trade
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "When a car is sent to the United States from China, there is a Tariff to be paid of 2 1/2%. When a car is sent to China from the United States, there is a Tariff to be paid of 25%." American and Chinese government trade data support the numbers in Trump’s statement. However, Trump’s tweet ignored that China makes up a relatively small share of U.S. auto imports overall, and he didn’t tell the whole story by singling out cars rather than a broader category of related imports. One expert said Trump’s own trade policies have contributed to the disparity in car import tariffs. We rate this .