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Statement: Federal agents in Portland have been "kidnapping and holding citizens without charges.
Speaker: bob casey
About the speaker: Bob Casey, a Democrat, is a U.S. Senator representing Pennsylvania.
Date: July 21, 2020
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;pennsylvania
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Casey said federal agents in Portland have been "kidnapping and holding citizens without charges." It’s clear from Mosman’s ruling and from Cline’s remarks that the two detentions in question were unconstitutional or , and it’s not in dispute that the two men were briefly held without charges. The circumstances of these two detentions fit many elements of the crime of kidnapping. This is  even if the crime is never charged or proved beyond a reasonable doubt. For these reasons, we rate Casey’s  .
Statement: Says Target ended its "Heroes & Helpers" program that pairs children with police officers for holiday shopping trips.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 23, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: On the contrary, a Target spokesperson told PolitiFact that the company plans to keep it going.   "We plan to continue to support children with Heroes & Helpers events across the country this holiday season," the spokesperson wrote in an email. "Like many of our holiday programs, we’re carefully considering how to manage these events during the COVID-19 environment in a way that ensures the health and safety of our team and guests. We will have additional details to share as we approach the holiday season." We rate this .
Statement: Says the Philadelphia shootings were "fake" and that police officers sprayed "fake blood on themselves.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 15, 2019
Topics: facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "The officer was applying pressure on his arm and when he let go of the pressure blood squirted out," the PPD said in an email. "It is unknown what the other officer was trying to do." RELATED COVERAGE: Why people believe " flag" conspiracies Philadelphia police are known for "a load and go approach to officer injuries," said Jeffrey Bumgarner, head of the Department of Criminal Justice and Political Science at North Dakota State University, in an email. That means officers are often taken to hospitals in police cars rather than waiting for emergency medical services. Because the post is not accurate and makes a  , we rate it !
Statement: Says Indiana Gov. Mike Pence "advocated diverting taxpayer dollars to so-called conversion therapy.
Speaker: gavin newsom
About the speaker: Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California in 2018. He is the state's former lieutenant governor and served as mayor of San Francisco. He is a Democrat.
Date: July 27, 2016
Location: california
Topics: civil rights;corrections and updates;lgbtq;the 2018 california governor's race
Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom said Indiana Governor and now Vice President-Elect Mike Pence "advocated for diverting taxpayer dollars to so-called conversion therapy." Pence’s own words on his campaign website from 2000, specifically a passage that calls for funding groups that give "assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior," have been interpreted by LGBT advocates as supporting the controversial practice. Pence’s statement, however, does not explicitly mention conversion therapy. Readers and other fact-checking outlets have said Pence may have been calling for safer sexual sexual practices rather than pushing for efforts to change one’s sexual orientation. When asked about the statement in July, Pence’s spokesman Marc Lotter did not directly answer whether the Indiana governor supports the practice. Months later, Lotter strongly denied that Pence supports conversion therapy and said Pence was calling for funds to "be directed to groups that promoted safe sexual practices" Given Pence’s strong and extensive opposition to LGBT rights, his words in 2000 have been widely interpreted as supporting the controversial practice. Rea Carey, executive director of the National L.G.B.T.Q. Task Force, has called them "a dog whistle" for like-minded supporters of conversion therapy. Newsom’s definitive , however, that Pence advocated for conversion therapy is not fully supported. We rate it .  – 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. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/62f4ea40-225a-4933-a430-aa0a942a7509
Statement: In the city of Milwaukee, we've still got a mayor and a police chief who are furloughing police officers at a time when we have violence all across the city.
Speaker: robin vos
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, has represented western Racine County in the state Assembly since 2004. In November 2012, he was elected Assembly speaker. Vos previously served on the Racine County Board of Supervisors, from 1994 to 2004.
Date: May 30, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: city budget;crime
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Crivello also said furloughs also hurt morale. Our rating Vos said the mayor and police chief were furloughing police officers. But Vos places the blame for them solely on Barrett and Flynn, when the responsibility is shared by the council and Fire and Police Commission.   What’s more, it’s a longstanding practice to deal with budget issues and steps have been taken to mitigate the impact on public safety. We rate the  .
Statement: Says crime is 'rising' in Manchester and has gone up 19 percent under Mayor Ted Gatsas.
Speaker: chris sununu
About the speaker: Chris Sununu is serving his third term on the New Hampshire Executive Council representing 20 percent of the state's population, which is about 265,000 people. The council votes on state contracts and appointments. He is CEO of Waterville Valley, one of the state's ski areas in the White Mountains. He is the son of former Governor John H. Sununu and brother to former U.S. Sen. John E. Sununu.  
Date: September 7, 2016
Location: new hampshire
Topics: crime
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Chris Sununu says crime is ‘rising’ in Manchester and has gone up 19 percent under Mayor Ted Gatsas. Sununu didn’t specify a time range for his  about crime in the state’s largest city. But looking at recent crime stats from the Manchester Police Department shows crime did increase by 19 percent from 2008 to 2015. However, Gatsas wasn’t in office that whole time and more recent data shows crime in the Queen City to be dropping or holding steady. It’s also dubious to link a crime rate, for good or ill, to any specific administration. On balance, we rate it .
Statement: Robert Mueller's investigative team has "13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans.
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 18, 2018
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance;corrections and updates;legal issues
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump tweeted that Mueller’s team has "13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans." Mueller’s team does have 13 registered Democrats and no registered Republicans, and several team members made donations to Clinton’s campaign in various amounts. However, Trump leaves out a crucial registered Republican — Mueller himself — and glosses over the fact that we don’t know the identities, or the partisan affiliation, of other Justice Department or FBI staff who are working with the investigation. It’s also questionable to say that the multiple non-donors are "hardened" Democrats. We rate the statement . CORRECTION, March 22, 2018 : The article has been changed to reflect that Rosenstein was "kept on" in his existing job by Obama.
Statement: Moderna patent uncovers horror nanocensor contained in bioweapon.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 8, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a public Facebook group
Fact-check justification: A video shared on Facebook claims that Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine contains "wireless nanosensors" or "biochips," and that  of their existence can be found in the patents of the vaccine. The eight patents published online by Moderna make no reference to those components. When they use the term "nano," they are not referring to sensors. And when they mention "chips," they are not naming an ingredient of the vaccine. The FDA says that none of the approved COVID-19 vaccines contains "wireless nanosensors" or "biochips," and the CDC says that the Moderna vaccine does not contain microelectronics, nanostructures, or metals. We rate the post .
Statement: Twenty percent of our electricity currently comes from nuclear power plants. I think there are 104 in the United States, two of them around the coast in California.
Speaker: bill kristol
About the speaker: Bill Kristol is the editor at large of the Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine. He previously served as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle during the Bush administration and to Secretary of Education William Bennett under President Reagan.
Date: March 13, 2011
Location: national
Topics: environment;energy
Context: an interview on Fox News Sunday
Fact-check justification: Finally, we checked Kristol's  about nuclear facilities on the California coast. There are, in fact, two:  Diablo   Canyon , located 12 miles from San Luis Obispo, and San   Onofre , located 46 miles from Long Beach.  The photographs on the agency's website clearly show that the plants are located near the water. So Kristol was basically correct, only erring with his mislabeling of "reactors" as "plants." We rate his statement .
Statement: The U.S. now leads the world in producing both oil and natural gas, and at the same time reducing energy-related emissions.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: August 14, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: environment;corrections and updates;energy
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: We rate this  .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Update:  This piece was updated to include a comment and additional information provided by Shaylyn Hynes, Perry's press secretary. These additions did not affect the ruling.
Statement: Says Kelly Loeffler was wearing a wire during the Georgia Senate debate.
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: December 6, 2020
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Reviewing footage of the debate , we saw nothing to suggest that Loeffler was wearing a wire. The Atlanta Press Club, which hosted the debate, tweeted on Dec. 7 that the candidates "had no audio assistance from their campaigns. "  We rate this post . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: California's credit rating is "the worst in the country.
Speaker: jerry brown
About the speaker: Jerry Brown is the governor of California. A Democrat, he earlier served as governor of California from 1975 to 1983.
Date: June 7, 2010
Location: national
Topics: economy;message machine 2010;state budget
Context: a video on his campaign website
Fact-check justification: California is also feeling the bite of the recession more than many other states because it derives 50 percent of its revenue from income taxes, much of it from capital gains taxes. So when the stock market took a sharp dip, so did California's revenue. Brown was right about California having the lowest credit rating. Illinois' recent descent to California's level in Moody's ratings happened after Brown's post, so we are not counting that in our assessment.   So we rate his statement .
Statement: Says Vladimir Putin said the West is controlled by Satanic pedophiles.
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: February 28, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;russia
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration." "‘I’m going to defeat the Illuminati with my bare hands’ | Putin 2016," appeared atop a 2016 blog post that reported "Putin is said to have uttered these bold words." We couldn’t find a credible source to corroborate it.   What we do know: claims that he said the West is controlled by Satanic pedophiles are .
Statement: We're also cutting a Forest Service economic development program that strayed so far from any mission that it funded a music festival.
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: February 1, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: remarks on the budget
Fact-check justification: In fact, many of the proposed cuts this year are repeats from last year that were ultimately overridden by Congress. The two examples cited by Obama here make for good belt-tightening sound bites. But this strikes us as part of the annual budget dance that happens every year: The administration proposes cuts it knows full well will be restored by some anonymous member of Congress who supports the program. And maybe the Forest Service's EAP program is "not targeted" or duplicative, as Obama's budget documents suggest, but it's  for Obama to employ a way-back machine to discredit a $5 million Forest Service program by citing a $10,000 grant awarded for a music festival in 1997, during the Clinton administration. And so we rule his statement .
Statement: An elderly British politician has been savagely beaten to a bloody pulp by a gang of anti-Trump protestors because he 'welcomed' the U.S. president to the United Kingdom.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 13, 2018
Location: national
Topics: fake news;crime
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: There has been no  released linking the attack of a former ambassador to Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom.  Meyer was beaten by two teenagers, not a "gang of anti-Trump protestors," as Neon Nettle alleges. The protests against Trump, which took place two days after the attack, were relatively uneventful as far as violence goes. Because police are still investigating the incident, we cannot conclusively say that it was not motivated by politics. However, for that same reason, Neon Nettle goes too far to say that it was. Further, it is an overstatement to say that the anti-Trump protests were "violent riots." Our ruling is .
Statement: West Virginia has one of the greatest percentages of veterans in any state.
Speaker: jim justice
About the speaker: Jim Justice is the Republican governor of West Virginia. A businessman, Justice was originally elected as a Democrat.
Date: September 14, 2020
Location: west virginia
Topics: veterans
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Justice said, "West Virginia has one of the greatest percentages of veterans in any state." Justice phrased his statement carefully — and accurately. The most recent data available, from 2018, shows that 7.98% of West Virginians are veterans, ranking it seventh among the 50 states. We rate the statement .
Statement: With the Trump tax law, "70 percent of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1 percent.
Speaker: sherrod brown
About the speaker: Sherrod Brown is a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Ohio. He won his first elected office to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1974. He later served as Ohio secretary of state and was elected to Congress in 1992. He first joined the U.S. Senate in 2007.
Date: February 18, 2019
Location: national
Topics: wealth;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Brown says that with the Trump tax law, "70 percent of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1 percent." One nonpartisan analysis estimates that in 2027, the top 1 percent will receive 83 percent of the benefits of the law that Trump signed. And another analysis puts that figure even higher for 2027. But both analyses estimate that through 2025, the 1 percent gets about 20 percent to 25 percent of the tax cuts. Brown’s statement is partially accurate, but leaves out important information. We rate it .
Statement: Says property insurance rates are going up because Rick Scott signed a bill preventing the state from regulating insurance.
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 21, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: health care;housing
Context: Jacksonville
Fact-check justification: Crist said property insurance rates are up because Scott signed a bill preventing state from regulating insurance. There are actually two bills involved here: One in 2011 concerning property insurance that effectively let rates go up while reducing coverage, and another in 2013 that prevents the state’s regulatory agency from having a say in health insurance rates for two years. Scott signed both those bills, but they are not interchangeable. Crist mixed his talking points here, but the result confuses the issues. We rate the statement .
Statement: Robert Redford Says: Michelle And Barack Obama Should Get Five Years In Prison.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 28, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Similar hoaxes say Clint Eastwood, Nicole Kidman and Jeff Bridges all made the same . None of them should be trusted. A blog claimed in a headline actor Robert Redford said Michelle and Barack Obama should get five years in prison. But that’s rubbish. We rate this  .
Statement: Florida is "second in the nation in the uninsured.
Speaker: christopher l. smith
About the speaker: Christopher L. "Chris" Smith is a Democratic state senator representing parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties. He was a state representative from 1998-2006 and elected to the Senate in 2008.
Date: March 5, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: health care;medicaid
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Sen. Chris Smith said "We are second in nation in the uninsured." There are different ways to measure the uninsured. In terms of sheer numbers, Florida is third. We found the most useful measure is to count Floridians under the age of 65, which includes only those not eligible for Medicare. That measure shows the state in third place in the percentage of uninsured, after first place Texas and second place Nevada. Smith is slightly off on his numbers, but his point is on solid ground. We rate this  .
Statement: Nearly 90% of Travis County government races will be settled by the time of the Democratic primary.
Speaker: wayne thorburn
About the speaker: Thorburn is a former executive director of the Republican Party of Texas, an appointee in the departments of Education and Housing and Urban Development during the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations and the author of a history on the Young Americans for Freedom political organization, according to biographical information on the party's website. More recently, he has written “Red State: An Insider’s Story of How the GOP Came to Dominate Texas Politics.”
Date: January 8, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: county government;elections
Context: the Austin American-Statesman
Fact-check justification: Thorburn said "nearly 90 percent" of the Travis County government races this year will be settled by the March Democratic primary, thanks to the paucity of Republicans who filed to run. His declared count was too high. Still, 16 out of 19 races for county office lack a Republican candidate, which suggests that 84 percent of the positions will be all but settled once the primaries are over. 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: Romneycare was model for Obamacare.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: October 11, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: health care
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: For example, scholars credit Alain C. Enthoven — an emeritus professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business who worked in the Defense Department during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations — with popularizing the idea of health insurance exchanges as many as three decades ago. And at least one previous Republican proposal on health care has included an individual mandate, a plan put forward by Sen. John Chafee, R-R.I., during the Clinton administration’s unsuccessful push for universal coverage in the early 1990s. So, what of Perry’s tweet? Although the federal law isn’t an exact replica of the one in Massachusetts, the plan signed by Romney certainly served as a model. We rate the statement as .