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Statement: President Obama campaign surrogate Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley "acknowledged that we are not better off than we were four years ago.
Speaker: chris devaney
About the speaker: A University of Oklahoma graduate, Devaney came to Tennessee in 1994 to work on the campaign of Sen. Fred Thompson. He was elected to serve as state chairman in 2006 and reelected in 2010. He lives in Chattanooga with his wife Heather and their four children.
Date: September 4, 2012
Location: tennessee
Topics: economy
Context: Tennessee Republican Party web site posting
Fact-check justification: During his "Face the Nation" appearance, O’Malley did, in fact, say Americans are not better off than they were four years ago, but he made clear he felt this was the fault of the Bush administration, not Obama’s. He further clarified his beliefs in a CNN interview the next day and in another television interview three days later. In those follow-up interviews, O’Malley said that while not all jobs lost during the recession have been recovered, Americans are still better off because the country is creating jobs instead of losing them. Chairman Devaney correctly cited O’Malley’s original remarks but failed to mention that the governor had said the opposite in subsequent interviews. We understand that, especially in the hyper-partisan atmosphere surrounding a presidential election, politicos are going to cherry-pick comments that make their side look good and the other guy look bad. Still, we rate Devaney’s  as .
Statement: The White House "created a fake set for (President Joe) Biden to get his booster shot. The entire Biden presidency is one giant charade.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 29, 2021
Topics: coronavirus
Context: social media posts
Fact-check justification: Social media posts said the White House "created a  set for (President Joe) Biden to get his booster shot." There was nothing  about the event's staging. Biden received his vaccination in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, a frequent venue for White House news events and photo ops. Publicly available video footage shows the entire event, including Biden’s walk from a lectern to the chair set up for his vaccination, and that it was held in the presence of reporters and photographers. In addition, the backdrop wasn’t "created" for the booster event at all —  it had been used five days earlier for a global coronavirus summit. We rate the statement .
Statement: GDP was zero essentially for the last two quarters.
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 10, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: the Miami GOP debate
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "GDP was zero essentially for the last two quarters." Economic growth in the last two quarters of 2015 was modest: 1 percent and 2 percent. But that’s not zero. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: In Switzerland, it is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 p.m. in apartments to avoid disturbing neighbors.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 7, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a photo shared on Facebook
Fact-check justification: 21 of the world's most bizarre laws. "  The Daily Mail’s article said it was common for Swiss landlords to impose house rules preventing flushing from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., but it did not provide  for the .   PolitiFact searched Google and Nexis for reports of a post-10 p.m. ban on toilet flushing in Switzerland and found no  that such a law exists. We rate the  that "in Switzerland, it is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 p.m. in apartments to avoid disturbing neighbors" . PolitiFact Researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: Says Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez "approved a 67% pay raise for himself and increased his own pension. He makes $250,000 a year, more than almost every big-city Mayor in the country. He also kept his taxpayer-funded Mercedes-Benz after slashing $400 million in government jobs and spending.
Speaker: debbie mucarsel-powell
About the speaker: Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S. House in 2018.
Date: September 17, 2020
Location: florida
Topics: congress;county government
Context: a campaign website
Fact-check justification: Mucarsel-Powell said Gimenez "approved a 67% pay raise for himself and increased his own pension. He makes $250,000 a year, more than almost every big-city Mayor in the country. He also kept his taxpayer-funded Mercedes-Benz after slashing $400 million in government jobs and spending." The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. Gimenez did get a 67% pay raise in the fall of 2018, which will increase his pension. But the  shows he slashed the mayor’s salary when he took office in 2011.  Mucarsel-Powell’s campaign website points to a 2018 news article which shows that the $250,000 salary is higher than most big city mayors. In 2009, the County Commission along with Gimenez voted for the budget cuts while keeping their car perks. But when Gimenez became mayor, he took over the lease for his car and no longer had a car allowance. We rate this statement .
Statement: Liberty University students "were mandated" to attend Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential announcement "or they would be fined.
Speaker: jess mcintosh
About the speaker: Jess McIntosh is vice president for communications for Emily's List.
Date: March 24, 2015
Topics: elections;punditfact
Context: with Chris Hayes"
Fact-check justification: McIntosh said Liberty University students "were mandated" to attend Cruz’s presidential announcement "or they would be fined." Cruz’s speech was part of a regular program at the university called Convocation. By the letter of the law, students are required to attend or pay a $10 fine. The private university wouldn’t tell us if they issued any fines to students skipping Cruz’s speech, how the system works and how often fines are issued. McIntosh’s  is accurate. We rate it .
Statement: The Senate Finance Committee approved a reform proposal that has both Democratic and Republican support.
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: October 17, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: his weekly address
Fact-check justification: Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican member on the committee, called the measure partisan and deeply flawed. So Obama is technically correct that the proposal had "Democratic and Republican support." But he didn't mention that it got only one Republican vote, which meant the nine other GOP senators voted against it. That's not exactly a robust example of bipartisanship. So we rate his statement .
Statement: Sen. Barbara Boxer "voted against immigration reform to permit (Hispanic immigrants) people to come here legally to work.
Speaker: susan b. anthony list
About the speaker: The Susan B. Anthony List is a Republican group that seeks to  elect pro-life women to Congress.
 
Date: September 30, 2010
Location: national
Topics: immigration;message machine 2010
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: It states simply that Boxer "voted against immigration reform to permit our people to come here legally to work." Boxer did not vote against the immigration reform bill in 2007. She voted against a provision in it that she felt would lead to the exploitation of immigrant workers. Moreover, the ad ignores Boxer's history of support for comprehensive immigration reform, including a program to allow immigrants to come to the United States to work legally. We rate the ad's  about Boxer's immigration record .
Statement: When Congress voted to condemn Iran for sentencing a Christian pastor to death, (U.S. Rep. Lois) Capps was the only member who voted no.
Speaker: emergency committee for israel
About the speaker: The Emergency Committee for Israel advocates for a strong US-Israel relationship, particularly on security issues. Its board includes such conservatives as William Kristol and Gary Bauer.
Date: October 9, 2012
Location: national
Topics: human rights;islam;israel;foreign policy;religion
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The official record does show that Capps was the only lawmaker to vote "no" on the resolution in question, but that’s not the whole story. Quickly realizing her , Capps took several steps to correct the record, including taking to the floor to clarify her position within minutes of the erroneous vote. The speed of her correction suggests that she is not simply changing her mind after the fact. The ad’s  contains an element of , but it ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate the ad’s  .
Statement: Says Donald Trump "said as recently as a few weeks ago in Phoenix that every undocumented person would be subject to deportation.
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 19, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration;candidate biography;homeland security
Context: the third 2016 presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Clinton claimed that Trump said "as recently as a few weeks ago in Phoenix that every undocumented person would be subject to deportation." Trump said Aug. 31 that anyone in the country illegally who wants lawful status has to go back home and apply for re-entry, and that those who came illegally are subject to deportation. But Trump also said "then and only then will we be in a position to consider the appropriate disposition of those individuals who remain." That suggests he doesn’t intend to deport literally every undocumented person. Clinton’s statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/ac1ea82e-ae5f-46ba-ad05-e4114efd4e0d
Statement: ﻿﻿"Since Mayor Kennedy O'Brien took office Sayreville has issued 22,081 building permits! Now O'Brien is holding secret meetings with big developers.
Speaker: new jersey democratic state committee
About the speaker: The New Jersey Democratic State Committee represents the Democratic Party in New Jersey.
Date: October 17, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: elections
Context: a political advertisement
Fact-check justification: The Democratic State Committee sent a mailer to Sayreville residents stating more than 22,000 building permits had been issued in the borough during the incumbent mayor’s tenure, and accused him of having secret meetings with big developers. We confirmed that 22,081 permits were issued, but just 5 percent -- 1,240 -- of those were for new home construction. O’Brien says a complaint alleging that an out-of-town meeting he attended in February 2010 was unethical was filed with the state DCA, but the agency will neither confirm nor deny that. A spokesman for the Democrats admits assuming Kennedy is having other "secret" meetings, but there’s no proof of that allegation. Therefore, we rate this  .  To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin was "partly right" that a woman's body has a way of shutting down so that a pregnancy doesn't occur if she's raped.
Speaker: phil gingrey
About the speaker: Phil Gingrey, a Republican, is a congressman from Georgia
Date: January 10, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: abortion
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Our conclusion: Gingrey said it’s "partly right" that a woman's body has a way of shutting down so that a pregnancy doesn't occur if she's raped. There is some information that suggests that some conditions, particularly stress, can reduce fertility. But our research found it is not typically the stress of a rape. There’s scant scientific  to support Gingrey’s argument. We rate his statement .
Statement: We're the highest developed nation taxed in the world.
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: October 17, 2017
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: an interview with E.W. Scripps television
Fact-check justification: Trump said that the United States is "the highest developed nation taxed in the world." Looking at tax collections relative to the size of the U.S. economy and the number of people, the numbers tell a different story. The United States ranks 28th in tax revenue as a percentage of GDP and 13th on a per-capita basis. Trump said his view is "exactly correct." In fact, it is exactly . We rate this  .
Statement: These images show LeBron James dressed in pink for the "Barbie" movie.
Speaker: social media
About the speaker: logo
Date: July 21, 2023
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates
Context: Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  Several images circulating on social media  that Lebron James is dressed in pink for the "Barbie" movie premiere. These images are all generated with artificial intelligence, PolitiFact found no  that James wore that outfit.   We rate this  . CORRECTION , July 28: We’ve updated this fact-check to clarify a comment from Valerie Wirtschafter. Lea este artículo en español.
Statement: Mitch McConnell was one of the few senators that voted after Tiananmen Square not to have punitive actions against China for human rights violations.
Speaker: don blankenship
About the speaker: Don Blankenship is a candidate for U.S. senator from West Virginia and the former CEO of Massey Energy. He spent a year in jail for his conviction on conspiring to avoid mine safety regulations, an act that led to the deaths of 29 miners in a 2010 mine explosion.
Date: May 1, 2018
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;china;human rights;trade
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Blankenship said, "Mitch McConnell was one of the few senators that voted after Tiananmen Square not to have punitive actions against China for human rights violations." This assertion is  in multiple ways. McConnell and every other Senate Republican had voted in favor of sanctions in the immediate aftermath of Tiananmen Square; the legislation Blankenship said he was referring to came 11 years later. The 2000 bill arguably weakened but did not eliminate human-rights leverage over China. And the vast majority of Republicans -- not just a "few" -- supported the final version of the measure. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Chick-fil-A funds the National Christian Foundation, which "paid a preacher to go to Uganda and help their lawmakers" with a bill that would impose the death penalty for homosexuality.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 14, 2019
Topics: corporations;lgbtq;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post of a tweet claimed that Chick-fil-A has contributed to the National Christian Foundation, which then funded a preacher to travel to Uganda to help lawmakers craft an anti-gay bill. News reports show that the evangelical preacher Lou Engle did travel to Uganda in 2010, around the time that lawmakers were crafting a bill that would have imposed the death penalty for gay sex. However, Engle did not directly contribute to the legislation. While he complimented Ugandans for their stance against homosexuality, he denounced the harsh penalties proposed in the bill. Federal tax returns show that the National Christian Foundation contributed to Engle’s evangelical Christian group in 2009, before his trip. Documents also show that the WinShape Foundation, which is run by Chick-fil-A’s owners, donated to the National Christian Foundation in 2009, but the link between the company and Uganda’s anti-gay legislation is weak. The post contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Florida ranks last in the ratio of employees to residents... And Florida is dead last in the nation in state employee payroll expenditures per resident.
Speaker: alex sink
About the speaker: Alex Sink is a candidate for Congress in Florida's 13th Congressional District. She served as Florida's Chief Financial Officer from 2007 to 2011. She was the Democratic Party's nominee for governor in 2010, but lost to Rick Scott.
Date: September 13, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: state budget
Context: a campaign website
Fact-check justification: Or to put it more simply: Stay tuned.  We don't think Sink has made clear yet how she will reach the goals of streamlining middle management and paying fair and competitive salaries if she is elected governor. But for this -O-Meter, our task was to evaluate whether Sink's statement was accurate that Florida ranks last in the ratio of employees to residents and in state employee payroll expenditures. Sink accurately quoted those rankings from the state's most-recent Department of Management Services report, although Florida tied Illinois on the number of employees per 10,000 residents -- putting both in last place. We rate this  .
Statement: PHIL MURPHY ONLY ALLOWING IN PERSON VOTING ON Election Day AT PRUDENTIAL CENTER IN NEWARK NJ - Calling it a #SuperPollingStation
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 16, 2020
Location: new jersey
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post claimed that Murphy is "only allowing in-person voting on Election Day at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., "calling it a #SuperPollingStation." The Prudential Center is being offered as a "super polling site" on Election Day, when voters who don’t want to cast their ballots by mail can show up and vote in person with a provisional ballot.  But it won’t be the only in-person polling site available. Murphy in August specifically mandated that every county provide polling locations on Election Day to give voters the option of casting their ballots in person.  We rate this  .
Statement: We see an uncompleted wall that was duly appropriated dollars during the Trump days to build over 700 miles. Only 150 miles were constructed.
Speaker: george p. bush
About the speaker: George Prescott Bush, formerly a corporate lawyer, won election as Texas land commissioner in 2014. He's renominated to seek a second term in 2018.
Date: June 9, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;border security
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: However, U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows that this is an undercount.  About 453 miles of primary and secondary border walls were completed between 2017 and 2020.   Bush’s  that Congress appropriated money to build over 700 miles of barriers also misses the mark. Although Congress appropriated some money — $5.9 billion — for the border wall project during Trump’s term, most of the construction was financed using $15 billion redirected from other purposes.   We rate this  .
Statement: I voted to defund sanctuary cities.
Speaker: claire mccaskill
About the speaker: Claire McCaskill is a Democrat and a U.S. Senator from Missouri.
Date: September 10, 2018
Location: missouri
Topics: immigration
Context: a Q&A at Truman State University
Fact-check justification: McCaskill said she "voted to defund sanctuary cities." The vote her campaign references, despite being procedural, had the proxy effect of voting for the defunding, experts point out, especially considering the context where McCaskill has explicitly stated she takes that stance. The rest of her voting record, however, is against defunding sanctuary cities, and her intent back then supports the idea that those votes were substantive, too. So groups who attack her on this stance have a point. In short, she voted most recently to defund, but other votes show her defending sanctuary cities. We rate this statement .
Statement: Obama Announces Bid To Become UN Secretary General
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 12, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: USA NEWS claimed, "Obama Announces Bid To Become UN Secretary General." The post includes outdated information and is based on unfounded claims. We rate USA NEWS’ statement !
Statement: Mar-A-Lago (was) destroyed by (Hurricane) Irma (and) Jared Kushner (is) still missing.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: September 10, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: fake news
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: "Reality is often in the eye of the beholder. You won’t find any of it here." Other elements of the story are also plainly . The article claims President Trump’s son, Eric Trump, designed Mar-a-Lago himself, and constructed the building to be able to "withstand bunker-busting bombs," but not water damage. We rate this .