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Statement: Says there are "fewer jobs in America today than when Barack Obama became president.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: September 23, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: jobs
Context: a campaign speech
Fact-check justification: At a campaign rally in Missouri, Christie said there are "fewer jobs in America today than when Barack Obama became president." If we start counting with January 2009, when Obama was sworn in, the governor’s  is right. Between that month and August 2012, there has been a net decrease of 261,000 jobs. But that figure is . Starting with February 2009, which was Obama’s first full month in office, there has been a net increase of 463,000 jobs. Overall, the nation’s employment picture has been steadily improving with 23 consecutive months of total job growth. Therefore, Christie’s  "contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression." That meets our definition of . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/e9298d92-d7fe-429b-b4ef-96596752dbe1 To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com . Total Non-Farm Jobs, January 2009 to August 2012 Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; P = preliminary
Statement: Every day, four North Carolinians die from a medication or drug overdose.
Speaker: greg murphy
About the speaker: Rep. Greg Murphy is a Republican from Greenville and the only North Carolina legislator who is a medical doctor. Murphy is a practicing surgeon.
Date: April 10, 2017
Location: north carolina
Topics: drugs;public health;public safety;science;states
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Rep. Greg Murphy has been promoting his STOP Act, which would limit access to prescription painkillers, by saying that drug overdoses kill four people a day in North Carolina. That’s basically accurate (it’s 3.5 per day) but prescription pills alone are only responsible for 2 deaths a day – half of what Murphy said. However, there’s wide agreement in the scientific community that for such counts it makes sense to lump heroin and painkillers together (which cause 2.7 deaths a day) and some research has argued for including cocaine deaths, too. Even if his statistics are slightly inflated, Murphy’s general point – that opioid addiction is leading to multiple deaths per day in North Carolina – is correct. We rate this  .
Statement: So many of these people that commit the mass murders end up being Democrats.
Speaker: claudia tenney
About the speaker: Claudia Tenney is a member of Congress from New York's 22nd district. She represents the area stretching from Utica to Binghamton.
Date: February 21, 2018
Location: new york
Topics: guns
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: There’s no proof to support that . The political affiliation of most of the mass shooters we looked at was either unreported or never verified. Experts said these events are rarely motivated by politics to begin with. Tenney walked back her  later that day in a statement, saying "we know the perpetrators of these atrocities have a wide variety of political views." We rate her  !
Statement: A video of Mark Zuckerberg shows him talking about controlling "billions of people's stolen data" to control the future.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 7, 2019
Topics: corrections and updates;fake news;technology;privacy issues;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Instagram post
Fact-check justification: A video posted on Instagram appears to show Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling the world that he controls "billions of people’s stolen data" in order to control the future. The clip was created by artists as part of an art installation called "Spectre" and is a "deepfake" video that used a real clip of Zuckerberg and manipulated the audio to make it appear as if he said things that he actually didn’t. We rate this  video ! UPDATE , June 13, 2019: This story has been updated to include a statement from a CBS spokesperson regarding its request that Facebook, "take down this , unauthorized use of the CBSN trademark."
Statement: The No. 1 cause of childhood deaths is preventable accidents.
Speaker: nationwide
About the speaker: Nationwide is an insurance company headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
Date: February 1, 2015
Location: national
Topics: children;public health;public safety
Context: an ad during the Super Bowl
Fact-check justification: In a Super Bowl ad, Nationwide claimed, "The No. 1 cause of childhood deaths is preventable accidents." The  is based on hard numbers from the CDC, and the general trend has been consistent for the last decade and a half. However, there are different ways to slice the numbers, and if infants are counted as children, then congenital anomalies top the list for certain age ranges. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate the  .
Statement: Malia Obama just got arrested buying cocaine
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: September 8, 2018
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: We found no  of the existence of a "notorious" drug dealer Christopher Turk mentioned in the story. A doctor named Christopher Turk is, however, a main character on the sitcom Scrubs. Malia is currently attending Harvard University, and Sasha is a senior at Sidwell Friends School in Washington. Neither has been suspended or expelled, and neither has been charged with cocaine possession. We rate this  !
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton "was completely exonerated, when I was in the White House" by an official inquiry on Whitewater.
Speaker: bill clinton
About the speaker: Bill Clinton was president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He is married to Hillary Clinton, the 2016 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
Date: June 14, 2015
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;history
Context: comments on CNN's State of the Union
Fact-check justification: Bill Clinton said his wife "was completely exonerated, when I was in the White House"  by an official inquiry on Whitewater. A December 1995 report by the independent law firm Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro report found no  of the Clintons’ and particularly Hillary Clinton’s participation in fraud. Pillsbury’s task was to assess whether federal regulators could justify a lawsuit legally and cost-effectively. The report found that they couldn't, but the report and its authors didn’t and still don’t view their findings as exoneration. While some take issue with the word "exoneration," Bill Clinton’s broader point that his wife wasn’t found guilty is accurate. On balance, we rate his statement .
Statement: One of the Planned Parenthood videos shows "a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, 'We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.'
Speaker: carly fiorina
About the speaker: Carly Fiorina is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. She is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). She was defeated in her attempt as the Republican nominee to unseat Sen. Barbara Boxer in 2010.
Date: September 16, 2015
Location: national
Topics: abortion;debates
Context: the CNN debate
Fact-check justification: Fiorina said one of the Planned Parenthood videos shows "a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain." One of the Center for Medical Progress’ videos attacking Planned Parenthood shows an interview with a woman identified as a former tissue procurement technician, who tells about an experience in a Planned Parenthood pathology lab where she sees a fetus outside the womb with its heart still beating. According to the woman, her supervisor said they would procure the fetus’ brain. The video’s creators added footage of an aborted fetus on what appears to be an examination table, and its legs are moving. But Fiorina makes it sound as if the footage shows what Planned Parenthood is alleged to have done. In fact, the stock footage was added to the video to dramatize its content. We rate her statement .
Statement: Says Mitt Romney once supported President Obama's health care plan but now opposes it.
Speaker: democratic national committee
About the speaker: The Democratic National Committee is the national organization of Democrats.
Date: November 28, 2011
Location: national
Topics: health care;message machine 2012
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: It’s  that the law Romney signed in Massachusetts in 2006 looks a great deal like the federal law Obama signed in 2010. But the video implies that Romney supported the federal law. We looked, but we couldn’t find any instances when Romney endorsed the federal law. Instead, we found Romney criticized Obama’s plan repeatedly, usually over the public option. After the public option was left out of the law, Romney still criticized the law as a federal power grab. Democrats could make an argument that Romney has changed position in opposing the type of plan he once supported. But in this ad, they imply he once supported Obama’s proposal. We don’t find that he did, and we rate the Democrats’ statement .
Statement: Says "we've accomplished balancing two budgets without raising taxes. We've now created 60,000 new private-sector jobs. We've made government smaller.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: January 17, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: jobs;state budget
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: About five hours before he was set to deliver the State of the State address, Christie released a Hollywood-esque trailer touting his accomplishments. As words flash across the screen, Christie is heard listing some of those achievements as "balancing two budgets without raising taxes. We’ve now created 60,000 new private-sector jobs. We’ve made government smaller." We’ve heard all this before from the governor and, once again, his statement needs some serious clarification. Christie has balanced two budgets, but he is required to do so under the state constitution. It’s  that the rates for the state’s three major taxes have not changed under Christie, but the governor has cut funding for some tax credits. The jobs-related claims in the video are on target. The number of state workers has declined during Christie’s tenure, and number of private-sector jobs has grown by about 60,000. But the governor is giving himself too much credit for that job growth. Overall, the three claims don’t give a completely accurate picture of Christie’s New Jersey. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: In the 100 days since its passage, the economic stimulus has "saved or created nearly 150,000 jobs.
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: May 27, 2009
Location: national
Topics: economy;stimulus;workers
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: We find that the stimulus is a complicated, ongoing effort and data collection is just getting started. The Obama administration does not provide a solid accounting for either the jobs "created" or "saved." Yes, there is anecdotal  that jobs are being saved, such as the 25 police recruits in Columbus, Ohio, in an example cited by Obama. But the 150,000 figure sounds specific and verifiable when actually it's the administration's best guess for a relatively small snapshot in time. Because it's not much better than a guess presented as a fact, we rate his statement .
Statement: Says that had E-Verify been in place in Florida when 9/11 terrorists lived here, "we might have saved the lives of 3,000 Americans.
Speaker: john thrasher
About the speaker: John Thrasher is a Republican state Senator representing District 8 in Northeast Florida and the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida.
Date: May 3, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;terrorism
Context: comments on the Senate floor
Fact-check justification: Hijackers did live in Florida and obtain Florida driver's licenses. But in order to potentially be flagged by the E-Verify system, they would have had to work in the state. There is no record that any of them ever tried to get jobs here.    And as such, E-Verify -- had it been used by Florida employers as Thrasher wanted -- wouldn't have found them or stopped their plotting. We rate this  !
Statement: In Biden's America, 7 million people illegally crossed the border and are given a free cellphone and airline tickets.
Speaker: francis suarez
About the speaker: Republican Francis Suarez is the 43rd Mayor of Miami.
Date: July 16, 2023
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;border security
Context: a speech at Turning Point Action Conference
Fact-check justification: ICE issues cellphones to some migrants released from federal custody, but these phones track migrants; they’re not for personal use. ICE uses flights to remove people from the U.S. or to take them to detention centers. Following the law, a separate U.S. agency flies unaccompanied children around the country to reunite them with family members or get them to shelters for care. Suarez’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Sen. Jim Webb "persists on negating" Sen. Mark Warner's votes
Speaker: george allen
About the speaker: George Allen was a U.S. senator from 2001-2007. He was governor of Virginia from 1994-1998.
Date: December 9, 2010
Location: virginia
Topics: voting record
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: The argument is deeply flawed. Webb and Warner vote together 87 percent of the time, and rarely differ on key votes. Were a Republican to replace Webb, that percentage would undoubtedly plummet.     Disagreeing doesn’t deny Virginia a voice in the Senate, it merely offers two opposing ones. We find the  to be .
Statement: Photo shows "Dr. Fauci, Melinda Gates and Barack Obama at the Wuhan Lab in 2015.
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: July 14, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The new coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, and we’ve already debunked claims implying Obama funded the creation of COVID-19 in a lab there. But the photo in this Facebook post was taken in 2014 in Bethesda, Md., outside Washington, not China.   Obama, then president, was visiting the campus of the National Institutes of Health "to see first-hand the progress that biomedical research is making against Ebola virus disease," according to a blog post by Francis Collins, the agency’s director. In the photo, Obama can be seen talking with Nancy Sullivan, chief of the biodefense research section of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.  Fauci, director of that institute, is standing behind them alongside Sylvia Burwell, then the Health and Human Services secretary, not philanthropist Melinda Gates.   We rate this post .
Statement: Says Gov. Chris Christie's proposal to reduce state income taxes "would be the second tax cut for the rich by the governor in two years.
Speaker: paul sarlo
About the speaker:  Paul Sarlo is a Democratic state senator representing parts of Bergen and Passaic counties. The mayor of Wood-Ridge in Bergen County since 2000, Sarlo also serves as Deputy Majority Leader and chairman of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee.
Date: January 30, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: taxes
Context: opening remarks at a Senate committee hearing
Fact-check justification: During a Senate committee meeting about Christie’s proposed income tax cut, Sarlo claimed: "This would be the second tax cut for the rich by the governor in two years." Sarlo was referring to Christie vetoing the proposed millionaires tax in 2010. But that veto just kept income tax rates at the same levels as when the governor took office. Those millionaires actually got their tax cut under a Democratic governor and the Democrat-controlled Legislature -- before Christie took office. Yet since Christie’s veto stopped a proposed tax increase from going through, we rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: In Iran in 1979, the extremists hijacked the broad-based popular revolution against the Shah and established a brutal theocracy.
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: June 10, 2014
Location: national
Topics: history;foreign policy
Context: her book, "Hard Choices"
Fact-check justification: Clinton said that "in Iran in 1979, the extremists hijacked the broad-based popular revolution against the Shah and established a brutal theocracy." She’s generally correct, experts say, despite questions over whether "hijacked" is the right word and whether she used an overly broad time frame. We rate her  .
Statement: Says he would have "almost twice the actual experience practicing law" Greg Abbott did on becoming attorney general of Texas.
Speaker: sam houston
About the speaker: Sam Houston, a Democrat and longtime Houston lawyer who's now co-managing partner at Shepherd, Scott, Clawater and Houston, was the Democratic nominee for attorney general of Texas in 2014. He claims no relation to the similarly named Texas historical figure. He ran for a seat on the state Supreme Court in 2008.
Date: December 13, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a campaign web page
Fact-check justification: Houston, who’s nearing 27 years of private practice, said he would have "almost twice the actual experience practicing law" that Abbott did on taking office. That would require Houston to have 18 years’ experience if only Abbott’s private practice is tallied, but 34 years if Abbott’s time as a judge is counted We rate Houston’s  as .  – 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: Russia "has an economy the size of Italy.
Speaker: lindsey graham
About the speaker: Lindsey Graham is a U.S. senator from South Carolina. He was a candidate for the Republican nominee for president in 2016.
Date: July 27, 2014
Location: national
Topics: economy;foreign policy
Context: comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Graham said Russia "has an economy the size of Italy." In terms of nominal GDP, Graham is correct. But if you run the numbers a different way and measure purchasing power parity, Russia's economy is larger than Italy's. Graham's statement is accurate but needs additional information. We rate his  .
Statement: Says Republican state leaders are using "Soviet-style" budget management.
Speaker: bill white
About the speaker: Bill White, an author, is a San Antonio native who was mayor of Houston from 2004-2009. He was the 2010 Democratic nominee for governor of Texas.
Date: March 9, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: state budget
Context: a public interview
Fact-check justification: Who in America wants the Soviet economy or supports Naziism?” Our conclusion? The GOP leaders' request that agencies submit proposed budget cuts isn’t Soviet style — not even close. At best, White's statement is an example of how politicians try to light up a room. It's so off base, we're lighting up the meter: !
Statement: Says Russ Feingold's "campaign is powered by small-dollar contributions like ours.
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: May 26, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: campaign finance
Context: a fundraising letter
Fact-check justification: Just 15 percent of his funds come people who donate less than $200, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Our rating Sanders said in a fundraising letter that Feingold’s "campaign is powered by small-dollar contributions like ours." Both the presidential and congressional hopefuls have received the majority of their support from individual donors. While small donors have played a role in Feingold’s funding, they’re not as integral as Sanders’ small donors. We rate the  .
Statement: Current immigration policy imposes as much as $300 billion annually in net fiscal costs on U.S. taxpayers.
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: December 15, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration;economy
Context: White House graphic
Fact-check justification: The White House claimed that "current immigration policy imposes as much as $300 billion annually in net fiscal costs on U.S. taxpayers." A study from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine analyzed the fiscal impact of immigration under different scenarios. Under some assumptions, the fiscal burden was $279 billion, but $43 billion in other scenarios. The report also found that U.S.-born children with at least one foreign-born parent are among the strongest economic and fiscal contributors, thanks in part to the spending by local governments on their education. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it .