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Statement: When I became governor, we banned sanctuary cities and we also did E-Verify.
Speaker: ron desantis
About the speaker: Ron DeSantis announced on May 24, 2023 that he is running for president in the Republican primary. DeSantis won the race for Florida governor in 2018 and 2022. DeSantis was first elected to Congress in 2012 and resigned in September 2018 to focus on his campaign. He represented Florida's 6th Congressional District which is south of St. Augustine and north of Orlando and includes Daytona Beach. DeSantis initially ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 but dropped out after Marco Rubio decided to seek re-election.
Date: March 13, 2021
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;workers
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: DeSantis said "when I became governor, we banned sanctuary cities and we also did E-Verify." DeSantis did sign both bills, but omits context about both.  The bill he signed in 2019 banned local governments from having sanctuary policies. and required local jurisdictions to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. But many jurisdictions already cooperated in such a manner before the law. The future of the law is uncertain due to a pending ruling from a federal judge regarding its legality. In 2020, DeSantis did sign a bill to require E-Verify for public employers and their contractors, but in his comments, the governor omitted that it didn’t apply to private employers who could instead use federal forms used to verify eligibility for employment.  The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it . RELATED: Fact-checking Florida attorney general on Biden’s immigration detainer policy RELATED: Fact-checking claims about deportations in Biden's first month
Statement: The Red Sox waited "87 long years" to win the World Series.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: November 28, 2007
Location: national
Topics: baseball;recreation
Context: St. Petersburg
Fact-check justification: It wasn't exactly the magnitude of Bill Buckner's blunder in Game 6 of the '86 World Series (there's that number again!) , when the ball rolled through his legs, letting the winning run score. But to Sox fans, it was a significant . And so, even though he was only off by a year, we award Romney a . A Sox fan should know better.
Statement: Thousands (in China) owe their jobs to Mitt Romney's companies.
Speaker: priorities usa action
About the speaker: Priorities USA Action is a PAC that is supportive of President Barack Obama.
Date: July 25, 2012
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;economy;jobs;foreign policy;message machine 2012
Context: an advertisement
Fact-check justification: Two of the companies cited by Priorities Action USA employed workers in China during Romney’s active years as CEO. Another employed workers in China after Romney left to work for the Olympics, but before he severed ties with the company entirely. Two other companies are of questionable relevance for proving the ad’s point. It’s plausible that the first three companies we looked at employed "thousands" of workers in China, but we haven’t seen definitive  of that -- much less whether they do today. And Priorities USA Action has not provided sufficient  to prove the  is accurate. On balance, we rate it . UPDATE : Shortly after we posted our item, readers informed us that the ad has been taken down from YouTube and from the Priorities USA Action website. It later became clear that it was taken down after pressure was applied by the U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee. Last we checked, it's still available here , but by the time you read this, it may be gone.
Statement: Ted Cruz leaks new document obtained from Hunter's laptop implicating Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 8, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In the second, Cruz is addressing attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas a couple of days later. There were no leaks as described in the Facebook post in his speech.   Looking more broadly for reports of what the post claims, we discovered none, though we did find a USA Today fact-check that looked at a similar  of Cruz revealing a deal between Pelosi and Biden. In this case, unrelated videos of Cruz were also used.   We rate this post .
Statement: Images of crowds and crowded arenas were taken "today in Tulsa Oklahoma
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 20, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In reality, this one shows Rolling Thunder motorcycle riders in a Virginia parking lot in 2019.   Both the third and fifth photos — which are actually the same picture — show a crowd gathering in Great Falls, Mont., before a Trump campaign rally in July 2018.   The fourth photo appears to be from outside the Tulsa rally , where hundreds lined up early to get in, an ABC News affiliate reported.    But most of these photos — including the two biggest photos — are from different events, and they’re being deployed en masse here to paint a  picture about Trump’s rally in Tulsa.   We rate this post .
Statement: There are no artifacts to prove that slave ships existed.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: July 9, 2022
Location: national
Topics: history
Context: a Twitter post
Fact-check justification: National Geographic provided an intricate look at the project’s work to dive for and research historical maritime sites of wreckage.    In total, 12.5 million enslaved people were brought to the United States.   Social media users questioned the existence of slave ships and the transatlantic slave trade. There is overwhelming , including wreckage from slave ship sites, to prove that slave ships and transatlantic slave trading existed.   We rate this  !
Statement: Says fired inspector general Michael Atkinson brought a "terrible, inaccurate whistleblower report" to Congress.
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 4, 2020
Location: national
Topics: impeachment
Context: a Coronavirus Task Force press briefing
Fact-check justification: Trump said that the intelligence community inspector general passed along a "terrible,  whistleblower report." In reality, the complaint got nearly every detail correct, as the memorandum released by the White House and the impeachment inquiry showed. It was correct on the request that Ukraine investigate the Bidens and the notion that Ukraine might have the DNC server that was hacked by the Russians in the 2016 election. It was correct that Trump aimed to connect the Ukrainians with Giluiani and Barr, even down to the detail of Trump mentioning the two in conjunction. The complaint described Trump as attempting to pressure Ukraine. In the impeachment inquiry, Democrats concluded that was correct, and most Republicans said it was . But the key details the whistleblower offered to back that up were correct. We rate this  .
Statement: It's the first time in the nation this many members have been drawn (by a Legislature) into the same districts where it wasn't a court order.
Speaker: will weatherford
About the speaker: State Rep. Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, is Florida's Speaker of the House for 2013-14.
Date: March 28, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: elections;redistricting
Context: remarks to the press
Fact-check justification: Weatherford’s  is reasonable to believe, according to our experts. We could not find direct  to contradict his , partly because Florida’s redistricting process is unique across the country. Even with data for incumbent matchups, as in Iowa and California, Florida doesn’t lend itself for an apples-to-apples comparison. Still, none of our experts expressed absolute certainty. A rigorous 50-state study has never been conducted. Given that element of doubt, we rate his statement .
Statement: Florida man arrested for using a lost U.S. nuke to power his home for more than 27 years.
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: November 15, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: energy;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The story describes the old munitions as explosive, but not as nuclear bombs. Plus, the air raids predated the world’s first nuclear explosion by about two years. But the suggestion in the  CNN headline about a Florida man powering his home with a nuclear bomb might stem from a 2015 story on the satire site World News Daily Report.   Above the photo of the scuba diver is this fictional headline: "Georgia: Amateur divers find long-lost nuclear warhead. "  We rate claims that a Florida man was arrested for powering his home with a nuclear bomb for nearly three decades !
Statement: Tens and tens of thousands of bridges are in disrepair, some on the verge of collapse.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: December 16, 2020
Location: national
Topics: transportation
Context: a transportation secretary announcement
Fact-check justification: Biden said there are "tens and tens of thousands" of bridges in disrepair, and some are on the verge of collapse. At least 46,000 bridges are rated to be in the worst shape. Most are in rural areas and are lightly used. Contrary to Biden’s dire description, engineering experts told us that no one is driving over bridges that could come down at any moment. Random events and human error aside, transportation officials close bridges before they reach that point. The accuracy of Biden’s words is mixed. We rate this  .
Statement: Says a Wisconsin welcome sign includes a message warning "criminals and terrorists" that over "170,000 Wisconsin residents have a legal permit to carry a handgun.
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: April 16, 2013
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: An old, viral image of a Wisconsin roadway welcome sign warns "criminals and terrorists" that over "170,000" of the state’s residents have permits to carry handguns. The real sign simply says "Welcome to Wisconsin" — the rest is photoshopped. We rate this !
Statement: There are still more people uninsured today than when Obama was elected president.
Speaker: jack kingston
About the speaker: Jack Kingston, a Republican, is a former U.S. Representative from Georgia and a political commentator.
Date: March 31, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: health care
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: The congressman based his  on a Gallup poll detailing the percentage of uninsured between the beginning of 2009 and now. His office says the Census Bureau data we found showing more people uninsured in 2012 than in 2008 supports his argument. The percentage of Americans uninsured we reviewed in other polls and surveys  shows there has been a slight increase since 2008, although the numbers are close or within the margin of error. We rate Kingston’s  . PolitiFact’s definition of  is the statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context.
Statement: Sarah Palin endorsed a Wasilla policy that charged sexual assault victims for their "rape kits.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: September 12, 2008
Location: national
Topics: crime
Context: blog postings on many Web sites
Fact-check justification: Wasilla clearly had the policy. Bloggers have portrayed it as a heartless rule seeking money from rape victims, but they have neglected to mention that the policy seems to have been aimed more at getting money from insurance companies than from victims. We can’t find that Palin ever commented on the policy, pro or con. But as mayor, she indirectly endorsed it by approving city budgets that relied on the revenue. So we find the bloggers' charge to be .
Statement: Quotes Kamala Harris as saying "Take the guns first. Go through due process second, I like taking the guns early.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 31, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims Harris said "take the guns first. Go through due process second, I like taking the guns early." There’s no record of Harris ever saying this. In fact, the comments were made by President Trump during a meeting at the White House in 2018. This is !
Statement: People who die from a home invasion make up a sad but minuscule .04% of all gun murders in the U.S. And over a third of them are killed by their own gun that the criminal has either stolen or wrestled from them.
Speaker: michael moore
About the speaker: Michael Moore directed the movie "Capitalism: A Love Story" and is a well-known documentary filmmaker. His movies includes "Roger and Me," "Bowling for Columbine," "Fahrenheit 9/11," and "Sicko." He won the Academy Award for best documentary in 2002 with "Bowling for Columbine," and he was a nominee in 2007 for "Sicko." Michael Moore's Web site is www.MichaelMoore.com.
Date: October 4, 2017
Topics: crime;public safety;punditfact;guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Moore said, "People who die from a home invasion make up a sad but minuscule .04 percent of all gun murders in the U.S. And over a third of them are killed by their own gun that the criminal has either stolen or wrestled from them." While Moore has a point that guns are rarely used when someone breaks into a home, it is difficult to confirm. After interviewing several experts and agencies, we only found one study that came close to supporting Moore’s assertion about the number of home invasion deaths. Even then, the report’s author said Moore misstated the scope and specifics. Our sources conceded that the homicide rate during burglaries is a tiny fraction of overall gun deaths, committed during burglaries or otherwise. But none of them, including federal agencies that track crime, could independently verify Moore’s figures about the owner of the weapon used in those crimes the way he claimed. We rate this statement .
Statement: The President of Ukraine owns a $35 million home in Florida and has $1.2 billion in a overseas bank account.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 17, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A now-deleted Facebook post shared the  that Ukraine President Zelenskyy owned a $35 million home in Florida among several other assets.  The  appears to have originated from a Russian-backed source, and no other corroborating  for the  could be found.  While leaked financial documents showed Zelenskyy owned several offshore companies and other assets like cars and property, they made no mention of a Florida home.  We rate this  .
Statement: We have a goal of 10 percent of [City of Providence] contracts going to women and minority businesses. In reality, less than 1 percent of contracts go to women and minority businesses.
Speaker: jorge elorza
About the speaker: Jorge O. Elorza was elected mayor of Providence in 2014. A professor at the Roger Williams University School of Law, he is co-founder of the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University and stepped down as a judge on the Providence Housing Court in 2014 to run for mayor. He received his law degree from Harvard University in 2003, and a bachelor of science degree in accounting from the University of Rhode Island. 
Date: August 28, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: city government;debates;jobs;women
Context: a radio debate
Fact-check justification: Jorge Elorza said that Providence has a goal of awarding 10 percent of city contracts to businesses owned by minorities or women, but that in reality less than 1 percent of contracts go to such firms. Elorza got both parts of the  . The goal is actually 10 percent for minorities and 10 percent for women, for a total of 20 percent. And the latest figures show that, in 2013,  2.3 percent of city contracts went to minorities, more than double the outdated 2012 figure Elorza cited. The difference in the 2012 figure and the 2013 figure is large when the numbers are considered in relation to each other. However, even though there has been an increase, 2.3 percent is still well short of the 20-percent goal. Elorza’s larger point -- that the city needs to act aggressively if it wants to meet policy goals in how it awards contracts-- may be valid, but the numbers he uses to support that  are way off. We rule his statement  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: State lawmakers are spending taxpayer money for parking that billionaire Arthur Blank could build while paying some state employees so little they are on food stamps.
Speaker: tyrone brooks
About the speaker: State Representative Tyrone Brooks, D-Atlanta, represents Georgia's 55th House District.
Date: January 20, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: economy;poverty;sports;state budget;transparency
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: And that debate will likely continue. But Brooks questioned whether a parking deck should be a state priority when there are state employees on food stamps and working two jobs. We found anecdotal  to suggest he could be right. But he did not produce  to back up his . Therefore, we rate his statement .
Statement: Shocking Video Emerges of Obama Mocking God and the Bible.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 5, 2018
Location: national
Topics: religion
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Obama gave a speech in 2006 that encouraged Christians to take a compromising approach to their religious values when creating policy. He spoke extensively about his own experience as a Christian and encouraged the crowd of Democrats to use their religion to guide them on moral issues. He does emphasize the extremity of many of the Bible stories, perhaps in a way that some Christians would feel is disrespectful. However, the few snippets of Obama’s longer speech do not accurately reflect his views on Christianity overall, and it is an overstatement to say that he is mocking God. We rate this  .
Statement: In May, Wisconsin had its own test of mask effectiveness, when "we went from masks, to no masks, and there (was) no significant difference in cases.
Speaker: chris kapenga
About the speaker: Republican Chris Kapenga, a certified public accountant and small-business owner, was elected to the Wisconsin Assembly in 2010. He represents the Delafield area west of Milwaukee.
Date: October 11, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: TV interview
Fact-check justification: Kapenga claimed that in May, Wisconsin effectively had a test of mask effectiveness when "we went from masks, to no masks, and there (was) no significant difference in cases." But Kapenga has his orders and lawsuits . What was lifted in May, under a Republican lawsuit that went to the state Supreme Court, was Evers’ stay-at-home order.  The governor’s mask mandate did not begin until Aug. 1, and remains in effect.  We rate this  .
Statement: One of the things I would immediately do … is bring back the warrior class -- Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. ... Every one was retired early because they told President Obama things that he didn't want to hear.
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: December 15, 2015
Location: national
Topics: military
Context: a GOP debate on CNN
Fact-check justification: Fiorina said that five generals -- Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, and Flynn -- resigned because they all told Obama things he didn’t want to hear. Fiorina might be pushing the point of whether Obama himself didn’t like what they had to say, but two of the men -- Mattis and Flynn -- likely departed over policy differences, published reporting shows. McChrystal’s story is harder to judge because Obama took his advice. There was friction over policy, but he was removed from his post due to an interview with Rolling Stone that at the very least put Obama in a difficult position. Petraeus’ departure had nothing to do with policy. He mishandled classified documents and had an affair. Keane retired long before Obama took office. Fiorina is on solid ground with only two of her examples, and also indicated an Obama involvement that is not proven. That’s shaky enough to rate this  .