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Statement: America has lost nearly one third of its manufacturing jobs since 1997, following the enactment of disastrous trade deals supported by Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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: July 21, 2016
Location: national
Topics: trade
Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention
Fact-check justification: Trump said that America has lost about a third of its manufacturing jobs since 1997 after enactment of two trade deals supported by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Government figures show about a 30 percent decline in manufacturing jobs. Bill Clinton advocated for both deals. And while Hillary Clinton played no official role, she has spoken in favor of trade agreements. But Trump’s statement overlooks that manufacturing employment climbed after passage of NAFTA. The general consensus among economists is that overall, NAFTA has neither helped nor hurt American workers. There’s broad agreement that China’s entry to the WTO has come at the price of many American manufacturing jobs, with estimates ranging from about a million to over 2 million. But that would be less than half of the manufacturing jobs lost that Trump talked about. Trump’s focus on the Clintons also overlooks the key role played by Republicans. In naming the Clintons, he leaves out at least half of the picture. There’s a measure of  in Trump’s words, but he omits a lot of important information. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/874386ed-8192-432c-b8c0-2e23b3e98f4f
Statement: Says Marsha Blackburn "voted against the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which attempts to protect women from domestic violence, stalking, and date rape.
Speaker: taylor swift
About the speaker: Taylor Swift is a country music and pop singer and a resident of Tennessee.
Date: October 7, 2018
Location: national
Topics: elections;lgbtq;women
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Swift said Blackburn voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. Blackburn voted no on the final version that became law. She did vote for a Republican alternative that lacked discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. While there were other issues, over two dozen Republicans decided that it was better to fund the act than to continue to oppose the nondiscrimination provisions. Blackburn was not one of them. We rate the  .
Statement: Joe Biden says Americans can only celebrate the Fourth of July if he says so.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 26, 2021
Topics: government regulation;public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed: "Joe Biden says Americans can only celebrate the Fourth of July if he says so." Biden in March said that if Americans followed COVID-19 safety guidelines, there was a "good chance" they could gather in "small groups" to celebrate the Fourth of July. In April, urging Americans to wear masks and get vaccinated, he alluded to his March remarks about July Fourth gatherings, but did not say anything more about them. He has not said that he might ban or cancel Fourth of July celebrations or gatherings. We rate the statement .
Statement: The average student loan debt in Texas is over $22,000...the cost of an average size pickup truck." But unlike car owners, "students are not allowed to refinance their loans at lower rates.
Speaker: pete gallego
About the speaker: Pete Gallego, initially elected to the Texas House in 1990, won election to the U.S. House in November 2012. He lost his re-election bid in 2014. In July 2018, he ran in a special election to represent Texas Senate District 19.
Date: May 14, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: education;federal budget;financial regulation
Context: an email blast
Fact-check justification: Gallego said the "average student loan debt in Texas is over $22,000...the cost of an average size pickup truck." But unlike car owners, he said, "students are not allowed to refinance their loans at lower rates." This  reflects the latest estimate of average student-loan debt and a findable price for an average-size pickup. It’s also so that most college loans are federally backed and Uncle Sam doesn’t offer a way for students and graduates to refinance. On the other hand, students taking loans from banks or other private lenders aren’t prevented from refinancing; this  lacks that clarification. We rate this statement as .  – 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: Mass shootings went up 200 percent in the decade after the assault weapons ban expired.
Speaker: ted deutch
About the speaker: Congressman Ted Deutch represents South Florida's 22st District, which includes communities in Palm Beach and Broward counties. He was first elected to Congress in 2010 and previously served in the Florida State Senate.
Date: February 21, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: crime;public safety;guns
Context: a CNN town hall
Fact-check justification: Deutch said, "Mass shootings went up 200 percent in the decade after the assault weapons ban expired." Researchers of mass shootings told us the analysis Deutch relied on is flawed because it did not adjust for population changes and used irrelevant data points for comparison. Trends in the incidence and severity of mass public shootings on a per capita basis also show that the rate per 100 million is similar now to that of the 1980s and early 1990s, an expert told us. A separate analysis found an 183 percent increase in mass shootings where six or more people were killed in the decade after the ban, compared with the 10-year ban period. But experts caution against inferring that an increase is due only to the ban’s expiration. Deutch’s  contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Said Vin Diesel declared his love of Rockford, Ill., after locals provided him car help and hospitality.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 13, 2017
Location: illinois
Topics: fake news
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: But sites that traffic in more serious " news" don’t put disclaimers on their articles. They’re out not to entertain, but to agitate. Know the warning signs and be a smart news consumer. OUR RULING Anyone who saw the Vin Diesel or Johnny Depp posts should have been tipped off about their nature by the "disclaimer" tab above the headline. Even the most cursory second look at this  would have revealed it worthy of our  rating.
Statement: A photo shows Marjorie Taylor Greene wearing a Soviet shirt and giving a Nazi salute.
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 19, 2022
Location: georgia
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post sharing the photo was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat  news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) We found that this photo has been online since at least 2013, and in photos that appeared on Russian and Turkish websites. This is not a real photo of Greene. We rate the  .
Statement: The Pentagon's survey about the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy found that 92 percent of service members "agree that they could serve ... in a unit in combat" without compromising "mission readiness.
Speaker: wesley clark
About the speaker: Wesley Clark, a retired Army general, ran for president in 2004.
Date: December 5, 2010
Location: national
Topics: lgbtq;military;this week - abc news
Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
Fact-check justification: So while the level of comfort Clark cites -- 92 percent -- is too high, the survey nonetheless found a notable degree of comfort with a repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" within the ranks. (Or at least a tolerance for repeal. Only about 18 percent of all respondents went so far as to say repeal would be "very positive" or "positive," while 52 percent -- an absolute majority -- said it would either have no effect on performance or an equal mix of positive and negative effects.) So Clark is generally right that only a small minority of service members think a repeal would have negative or very negative effects on unit performance, but he  just how small that minority is. For this reason, we rate his statement .
Statement: Marco Rubio says "Solo Ingles" (English only).
Speaker: kendrick meek
About the speaker: Kendrick Meek is a former U.S. Representative for Congressional District 17 in Miami, serving from 2003 to 2011. He campaigned for the U.S. Senate and was defeated on Nov. 2, 2010.
Date: October 15, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: immigration
Context: a web ad
Fact-check justification: Rubio hasn't staked out a position on anything like that. Instead, Rubio supports making English the official language of the United States, but says he wouldn't want to ban other languages. We don't think that equals an "English only" policy. English, for instance, already is the official language of the state of Florida (been that way since 1988), yet the state publishes driver's license forms, state voting materials and public school districts information all in Spanish. We rate the  Falso ().
Statement: Manufacturing is having its best employment year in almost 15 years.
Speaker: austan goolsbee
About the speaker: Austan Goolsbee is the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. He also serves as chief economist of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Goolsbee is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He was an economic adviser to Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign.
Date: June 5, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;history;this week - abc news
Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
Fact-check justification: In 2009, the economy lost more than 1.1 million manufacturing jobs. Counting the projection for 2011, the manufacturing sector will have rebounded by the end of this year by only 282,000 jobs, replacing only about a quarter of those lost since the start of 2009. While Obama isn’t solely to blame for this hemorrhaging -- the recession did start under his predecessor, George W. Bush -- this does make the overall assessment of the sector under Obama more downbeat than Goolsbee indicated on the show. On balance, we feel that Goolsbee’s decision to highlight manufacturing jobs may be aimed at  downplaying the otherwise disappointing jobs numbers for May, but his facts are  on target, though he didn't provide the context of the large manufacturing job losses in 2009. Since assigning responsibility for the 2009 losses is a complicated business, we’ll lower Goolsbee just one notch and rate his statement .
Statement: Says an Obama administration policy prohibits people who work with at-risk youth from promoting marriage as a way to avoid poverty.
Speaker: rick santorum
About the speaker: Rick Santorum is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican presidential candidate in 2012.
Date: January 16, 2012
Location: national
Topics: marriage;poverty
Context: South Carolina
Fact-check justification: Santorum said the Obama administration is not allowing people who work with at-risk adolescents to promote the benefits of marriage. Santorum said he had heard this from Elayne Bennett of the Best Friends Foundation, but she told us he misspoke. The change under Obama, according to Bennett, was about what could be taught regarding abstinence -- not marriage. The Department of Health and Human Services said there was confusion in this area, so it clarified the policy, which does allow discussion of abstinence in other contexts but not as a stand-alone education program. Santorum simply got it . His statement is .
Statement: Despite the U.S. spending $10 billion on Iraq's electrical system, Baghdad still only gets five hours of electricity a day.
Speaker: george packer
About the speaker: George Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker.
Date: August 8, 2010
Location: national
Topics: energy;infrastructure;iraq;this week - abc news
Context: ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: It's also important to note that, according to the July 2010 quarterly report  from the Special Inspector General for Iraqi Reconstruction, and confirmed by Bowen, the U.S.'s investment in Iraq's electrical system has to date been $5 billion, not the $10 billion cited by Packer on Meet the Press . So in his remarks Packer doubled the amount of money spent on the power grid. Also, although the Brookings numbers only go through March, they put the average daily power supply in Baghdad at more than twice as high as Packer's number. While the five hours a day figure may have been an accurate anecdotal snapshot during the month of July, experts say any figure is highly speculative. As a result, we rate Packer's  .
Statement: Says Marco Rubio said that "people who essentially don't agree with him, ought to leave the country, like Keith Olbermann.
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: October 24, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: pundits;voting record
Context: a U.S. Senate debate on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Fact-check justification: The story prompted this impassioned response from the MSNBC host: "You have inadvertently revealed that you don't see those with other viewpoints as merely disagreeing with you. You have inadvertently revealed  that you dismiss them as not loving this country." Sunday morning, Rubio’s campaign didn’t flinch. Spokesman Alex Burgos offered this quick response from his BlackBerry after the debate: "It's  what Marco said, and we appreciate the governor bringing it up." Given the , and both sides’ endorsement of it, we rate Crist’s statement .
Statement: Black women make only around 63 cents while Native American women earn 58 cents, and Hispanic women make just 54 cents in comparison to every dollar a man makes.
Speaker: west virginia democratic party
About the speaker: The West Virginia Democratic Party is the official Democratic organization in the Mountain State.
Date: April 2, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: jobs;race and ethnicity;women
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The West Virginia Democratic Party tweeted, "Black women make only around 63 cents while Native American women earn 58 cents, and Hispanic women make just 54 cents in comparison to every dollar a man makes." The tweet is right for Native American women, but the figures for black women and Hispanic women are 67 cents and 55 cents, respectively. That’s not exactly what the tweet said, but it’s not far off. We rate the statement .
Statement: While introducing Donald Trump, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani omitted the September 11, 2001, strikes as a 'successful' terrorist attack during the eight years before President Obama's 2008 election.
Speaker: john burton
About the speaker: John Burton is chairman of the California Democratic Party, and a former Congressman. 
Date: August 16, 2016
Location: california
Topics: terrorism
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: PolitiFact California’s ruling on Burton’s  California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton said Giuliani omitted the 9/11 attacks as "a ‘successful’ terrorist attack during the eight years before President Obama’s 2008 election." Giuliani’s remarks were captured on video and clearly show he left out the 9/11 attacks. Based on this video and PolitiFact’s reporting about terror attacks that took place under President Bush, including 9/11, we rate Burton’s  .   – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin ranks "as the most liberal member of the House.
Speaker: tommy thompson
About the speaker: Tommy Thompson, a Republican, was a 2012 candidate for the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin. He served as governor of Wisconsin from 1987 until 2001, when he left office to become President George W. Bush's secretary of health and human services. He previously spent 20 years in the Wisconsin Assembly. Thompson briefly ran for president, withdrawing in 2007.
Date: September 6, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;voting record
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: One ranking puts Baldwin as the 19th most liberal. But that ranking covers her entire House career, and Thompson’s  refers to the present. Three other major rankings -- one liberal, one conservative and one nonpartisan -- all ranked Baldwin as being among a group of House members considered the most liberal in 2010, the most recent period available. But she was not singled out as being the most liberal in any of the rankings. We rate Thompson’s  .
Statement: An Army report stated Allen West "performed illegal acts, merited court martial, faced 11 years in prison.'
Speaker: patrick murphy
About the speaker: Patrick Murphy won his first seat in 2012 for the U.S. House of Representatives representing District 18 in Florida. Murphy lost a U.S. Senate race against Marco Rubio in 2016. 
Date: October 2, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;iraq;crime;military
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Murphy’s ad included this sentence: "The final Army report: West ‘performed illegal acts, merited court martial, faced 11 years in prison.' " The ad cites Boston Globe and CNN reports, but it also could leave viewers with the impression that those quotes were pulled from some "final Army report," though the Murphy ad wasn’t directly citing such a report. West did violate military code and confessed to the assault, so the ad is on safe ground when it says West "performed illegal acts." The military concluded that West’s "crimes merit a courtmartial," which could have meant prison time. But the ad fails to explain that the Army found mitigating circumstances and handled West’s case through a noncriminal proceeding that meant he avoided courtmartial and prison was off the table. For the omissions we rate this  .
Statement: Austin has more lobbyists working for it than any other municipality in Texas.
Speaker: dave claunch
About the speaker: Dave Claunch, a business owner, won his first term as mayor of West Lake Hills in 2008 after previously serving of its Wastewater Commission.
Date: January 14, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: city government;ethics
Context: a meeting of the West Lake Hills City Council
Fact-check justification: Claunch said: "Austin has more lobbyists working for it than any other municipality in Texas." In 2014, indeed, Austin had more lobbyists (22) representing its interests before state government than any other Texas city and also was expected to spend more on such lobbyists than a few other cities identified as clients by multiple lobbyists. But lobbyist filings with the state don’t reveal how much time any lobbyist puts in for a particular client. It's possible, for instance, that some lobbyists who registered for Austin worked for firms hired by the city but didn’t personally put in time on its behalf. We rate this statement, which has a tinge of uncertainty, .  – 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: How is a misogynist bigot of epic proportions (like U.S. Rep. Steven Smith) allowed to serve?
Speaker: reader 
About the speaker: A reader of PolitiFact Georgia.
Date: October 24, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: congress;states
Context: a Tweet to PolitiFact Georgia
Fact-check justification: The outrageous statements in question come from a parody account, not a real U.S. representative. How can someone like that serve? The U.S. Constitution says the only rules to serve are to be at least 25, a citizen for seven years and a resident of the state electing you. Of course, all those requirements mean you do have to be real. We rate this as .
Statement: Images that show a 90-year-old UK woman receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine appeared online in a CNN news story in October.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 8, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A social media post claims that images of Margaret Keenan receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in the UK appeared in a CNN news story in October, despite the event taking place in early December. This is . Images of Keenan receiving the vaccine were not published in earlier articles by CNN, or any other news organization. They were taken on Dec. 8, and do not appear online before then. Those who spread the post misunderstood that some news websites, including CNN’s, feature clips of other, unrelated stories on various article pages. This is .
Statement: Says Scott Walker "gave $6 million in tax breaks to a corporation and told them that they can keep that money even if they lay off half their workforce.
Speaker: mary burke
About the speaker: Burke is a former Trek Bicycle executive and former Wisconsin Commerce Department secretary who announced on Oct. 7, 2013 that she would seek the Democratic nomination for governor in Wisconsin in the fall 2014 election against incument Republican Gov. Scott Walker. She lost to Walker on Nov. 4, 2014. She is a school board member in Madison, Wisconsin.
Date: October 24, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;infrastructure;jobs;state budget;workers;taxes
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Walker heads the board of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., and that board has approved $6 million in tax credits to aid an expansion of Ashley Furniture. The tax credits would be used toward a flood-control project in the city where the furniture maker is headquartered, but the project clearly is part of the company’s plan to expand. If Ashley did lay off half its workforce, the credits could still remain in place, but since they would be used for a flood-control project, it’s not as though the company could "keep the money." For a statement that is partially accurate but leaves out important details, our rating is . To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page .