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Statement: Nearly 45 percent of the women who receive health screenings through (the Women's Health Program) do so at a Planned Parenthood health center.
Speaker: elliott naishtat
About the speaker: Elliott Naishtat, dean of the Travis County legislative delegation, won his first Texas House term in 1990.
Date: March 5, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: abortion;health care;public health;women
Context: an op-ed column
Fact-check justification: The Democratic legislators wrote that nearly 45 percent of women who received health screenings through the targeted family-planning program in fiscal 2010 had them at Planned Parenthood clinics. That could be so, but we identified a couple of unsettled hitches. According to the state, 46 percent of the cited program’s clients went to a Planned Parenthood clinic, but the state has no breakdown of the number of women who were screened overall, which is what the Democrats focused on. Also, the Democrats’ statement implies that 46 percent of women rely on Planned Parenthood exclusively for screenings, but some women included in the 46 percent could have had screenings at a different kind of clinic, though (again) such details are not available. We rate the  .
Statement: Navy SEALs arrested Hillary Clinton.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 27, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) The video contains the audio of a man speculating about Clinton’s fate — whether she was already arrested and executed, whether a clone of Clinton was arrested — and none of it is backed up by any .   Clinton, meanwhile, can be found online and sometimes in person — but not in custody. She is active on Twitter , making public appearances and promoting a new book , giving an address at the University of Oxford , and bumping into Duran Duran in a studio .    We rate this post !
Statement: Says Anthony Fauci "is married to Ghislaine Maxwell's sister.
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 7, 2020
Topics: crime;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: His wife of 63 years at the time of his death in 2013 was Barbara, a former assistant dean at Seton Hall Law School.   Maxwell’s parents were Robert Maxwell, a British publishing giant, and Elisabeth Maxwell , who was born in France and established a scholarly journal called Holocaust and Genocide Studies.   Elisabeth Maxwell was born Elisabeth Jenny Jeanne Meynard. Robert Maxwell changed his name multiple times during his life, but he never went by the name John H. Grady.   We rate this  post .
Statement: You can't bring an iPad or a piece of paper and a pencil in the (Wisconsin Assembly) gallery to take notes of what's going on," but "you can bring a gun up there.
Speaker: peter barca
About the speaker:  
Peter Barca, a Kenosha native and Democrat, has served two stints in the state Assembly. He was first elected in 1984 before resigning after winning a U.S. House seat in 1993. He served one term in Congress, losing re-election to Mark Neumann. Barca served in various governmental and private-sector posts before winning election to the Assembly in 2008. He was elected Minority Leader of the Assembly Democrats in 2011.
 
Date: February 19, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: states;technology;transparency;guns
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: More importantly, nobody but the Assembly can say what its rules actually mean. "Because it’s a legislative rule, it means, ultimately, what the Legislature says it means," Dreps said.    Our rating Barca claimed: "You can't bring an iPad or a piece of paper and a pencil in the (Assembly) gallery to take notes of what's going on," but "you can bring a gun up there." He is right that the Assembly audience gallery allows guns and not iPads, but it’s debatable at best whether he’s right that Assembly rules prohibit a pencil and paper. We rate Barca’s statement .
Statement: All money donated to Black Lives Matter goes directly to Act Blue, a Democrat Super PAC that then feeds the money to Democrat candidates.
Speaker: ryan fournier
About the speaker: Ryan Fournier is the founder and co-chairman of Students for Trump.
Date: June 11, 2020
Topics: campaign finance;civil rights;corrections and updates;race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a status
Fact-check justification: A popular  on social media asserts that donations to Black Lives Matter go directly to ActBlue, which uses them to fund Democratic campaigns. It’s . ActBlue is a nonprofit technology organization that provides a platform for people to contribute to Democratic campaigns and causes. Black Lives Matter and Democratic presidential candidates use the platform to fundraise. ActBlue does not pocket donations that are facilitated by its platform — it routes donations to organizations in a similar way to the Republican fundraising platform WinRed. The Facebook post is . We rate it . Correction, June 16, 2020 : A previous version of this article stated that the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit. In fact, it is in a fiscal sponsorship with a nonprofit. It is not yet its own 501(c)(3) organization.
Statement: Since I took office, Michigan has added more than 25,000 auto jobs.
Speaker: gretchen whitmer
About the speaker: Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, was elected governor of Michigan in 2018. She gave the Democratic response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union in 2020. She was elected to the state House of Representatives in 2000 and elected to the Michigan State Senate in 2006 where she served as the Senate Democratic Leader. 
Date: June 2, 2022
Location: michigan
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Whitmer claimed that since she entered office, "Michigan has added more than 25,000 auto jobs." Her number refers to jobs automakers and suppliers have created, but it also includes jobs they have committed to add in exchange for state support that don’t currently exist. Current employment data does not show that Michigan has gained 25,000 jobs since January 2019, when Whitmer took office. Whitmer is referring to jobs promised through state deals over the last few years. But the  ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Thousands of those jobs haven’t been created yet, and employment data shows those added haven’t made up for job losses in Michigan’s auto industry. We rate it .
Statement: 83% of Trump tax breaks go to the wealthiest 1%.
Speaker: tax march
About the speaker: Tax March is an advocacy group that emphasizes closing tax loopholes for the wealthy and large corporations.
Date: June 21, 2018
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: Nevada
Fact-check justification: The Tax March ad says 83 percent of the Trump tax breaks go to the wealthiest 1 percent. The number is about right, but only for the last year of the tax law. In the two earlier years estimated by the Tax Policy Center, the share going to the highest income group was between 20 and 25 percent. The law does favor the well-to-do, but not by nearly as much as the ad says. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Jimmy Carter was the last "U.S. president to say flat out those (Israeli) settlements are illegal.
Speaker: marianne williamson
About the speaker: Marianne Williamson is an American self-help author, spiritual leader and politician. In 2014, Williamson unsuccessfully ran as an independent for California's 33rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Williamson is a Democratic candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
Date: April 14, 2019
Location: national
Topics: israel;foreign policy
Context: a CNN town hall
Fact-check justification: Williamson said that Jimmy Carter was the last "U.S. president to say flat out those (Israeli) settlements are illegal." We couldn’t find an example of Carter actually using the word "illegal" to refer to Israeli settlements while he was president. However, he did as an ex-president, and experts agreed that his rhetoric came closer than the words used by his successors in the Oval Office. At the same time, it’s important to note that subsequent presidents’ actual policies may have had more teeth than Carter’s, despite his tougher rhetoric. We rate the statement .
Statement: Our tax code is so complicated it extracts $140 billion in extra tax preparation costs every year - one thousand dollars for every American family.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: September 28, 2007
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: Detroit
Fact-check justification: That's not clear in McCain's statement. McCain has suggested fixing the tax code by getting a task force headed by former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan to come up with a plan for simplifying the code and putting it to Congress for an up or down vote. McCain's point is on target; tax preparation is costly because the tax code is so complicated. But McCain is off by a good bit on the figure he uses and he's not being clear that the cost he's talking about isn't an expense of dollars but of time. That leads us to a .
Statement: ISIS is in 32 countries.
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 19, 2016
Location: national
Topics: history;homeland security;foreign policy;terrorism
Context: a presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Trump said "ISIS is in 32 countries." As the experts noted, context is important here. If lone wolf attacks by ISIS wannabes or people with access to ISIS propaganda who are exploring attacks are included, Trump's number is a little low. But if you look at countries where ISIS has a sizable, established presence, Trump's number is too high. We rate the  .
Statement: We're sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming.
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: March 25, 2021
Topics: immigration;border security;families;homeland security
Context: press conference
Fact-check justification: Border Patrol data shows that in February the majority of families were not expelled, they were let in and placed in immigration proceedings. So far, February is the only full month of the Biden administration for which data is available. In January, more than half of families were expelled, but most of that period covered the Trump administration. Biden’s  is . We rate it .
Statement: Tens of billions of dollars (from taxpayer-funded bailouts) ... flowed straight through AIG into the coffers of foreign corporations and foreign banks.
Speaker: mike pence
About the speaker: Mike Pence is the former vice president of the United States. A Republican, Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012. Pence previously served for 12 years as a congressman from Indiana representing the Sixth Congressional District; he was first elected in 2000. During his time in the U.S. House of Represenatives, he served as House Republican Conference chairman and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee. Pence was born in Columbus, Ind. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 from Hanover College and a law degree in 1986 from Indiana University. After accepting Donald Trump's offer to be running mate, Pence ended his 2016 campaign to be re-elected as Indiana governor. 
Date: March 17, 2009
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: We have got to bring this country back, this business community back to the notion of personal responsibility and accountability for one's actions." There are reasoned arguments on both sides of whether Congress ought to have committed billions of taxpayer dollars to bailing out the troubled AIG. But the fact is, one of the consequences of infusing AIG with taxpayer cash to help it pay off its financial obligations was that tens of billions of that money went to foreign companies. We rule Pence's statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/91ae1e1f-21f9-41b0-9651-a7a0a0813f96
Statement: About 70 percent of Republicans nationwide ... don't think Donald Trump is the right guy" to take on Hillary Clinton in November.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: February 21, 2016
Location: national
Topics: elections;polls and public opinion
Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Cruz said, 70 percent of Republicans nationwide "don't think Donald Trump is the right guy" to take on Hillary Clinton in November. Cruz is referring to the polling average of 34 percent of GOP voters who say Trump is their top choice. Inverted, 66 percent of Republicans prefer someone else. That doesn’t mean, however, that the 66 percent refuse to support Trump overall. The highest estimate we found for Republicans flat-out protesting Trump is 42 percent. Cruz’s statement is largely accurate but leaves out some context. We rate it .
Statement: Dozens of artists, including Justin Timberlake, Jay Z and Rihanna, are canceling Florida shows like Stevie Wonder in protest of  "stand your ground.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: July 21, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: crime
Context: Instagram posts
Fact-check justification: The Internet is rife with claims of Stevie Wonder’s beefed-up Florida boycott. It’s short on proof. Most of the stars identified in social media lists may have spoken out against the verdict or in support of Trayvon, but we haven’t seen them go the extra mile and call off shows until the "stand your ground" law is abolished. With the exception of two smaller acts that aren’t included in some iterations of the meme, we could not find  to back up the notion that scores of acts are joining up with Wonder's boycott. We rate this statement . We updated this check after publishing with comments from representatives for Madonna and Alicia Keys.
Statement: Says President Barack Obama's recent New York fundraising trip "cost between $25 million and $50 million.
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 13, 2014
Topics: pundits;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of "Fox and Friends" on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Trump said Obama’s recent New York fundraising trip cost between $25 million and $50 million. Trump provided no , likely because all the available information points to a total that would be way, way lower than $25 million, let alone $50 million. We rate the  .
Statement: We've already started (the border wall). We started it in San Diego.
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: June 23, 2018
Location: california
Topics: immigration;infrastructure;crime
Context: a campaign speech
Fact-check justification: President Trump recently claimed: "We’ve already started (the border wall). We started it in San Diego." His statement gives the  impression that border fence replacement projects in California, including those in San Diego and Calexico, are the same as the solid, 30-foot-high concrete wall he promised during his run for president. The $1.6 billion authorized by Congress for these projects does not allow for the construction of any sort of wall prototype requested by Trump. Instead, the projects underway include arrays of steel posts, between 18 and 30 feet high, that allow border patrol agents to see through. The planning for at least some of these projects, which will replace shorter scrap metal fencing, started long before Trump ran for office. Congress, however, agreed to pay for them under Trump’s administration. We also grant that Trump at the Nevada rally added: "We’re fixing it. And we’re building new." This could be interpreted as a slight acknowledgement that the projects aren’t exactly what he promised, but they don’t add much clarity to what overall is a  statement. We rate Trump’s  .  –  The statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.
Statement: Says 2012 was the "first year in American history that more minorities are being born than people in the majority.
Speaker: cory booker
About the speaker: Cory Booker is a senator from New Jersey. He was first elected to the Senate in 2013, making him the first African-American senator from New Jersey and the first African-American elected to the Senate since Barack Obama in 2004. Booker served as mayor of Newark from 2006 until 2013. He has a bachelor's degree in political science and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University, an honors degree in United States history from The Queens College as a Rhodes Scholar and a J.D. from Yale Law School. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and suspended his campaign in January 2020.
Date: February 1, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: census;race and ethnicity;population
Context: an appearance on "Bill Maher Overtime"
Fact-check justification: Booker claimed on "Bill Maher Overtime" that 2012 was the "first year in American history that more minorities are being born than people in the majority." Since 2000, the highest number of minorities born in the United States was in 2007, at 2,005,890 – but there were 2,310,333 non-Hispanic whites also born that year. After reviewing 11 years worth of data, there was no other year in which the number of minority births was higher than that of the majority, non-Hispanic whites. Looking strictly at population breakdowns by race, the Census Bureau said 2011 was the first time a majority of people in the United States younger than age 1 were minorities. Booker’s  referenced that milestone, but with the  year. The mayor said it happened in 2012, but the Census Bureau said it occurred in 2011. Since Booker’s statistic was partially correct we rate his statement . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: President Trump in his first year and a half has already tripled what President Obama did (for African-American employment) in eight years.
Speaker: sarah huckabee sanders
About the speaker: Sarah Huckabee Sanders became the governor of Arkansas in January 2023. She worked as White House press secretary 2017-2019. The daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, she was a surrogate for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Date: August 14, 2018
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a White House press briefing
Fact-check justification: Sanders said, "President Trump in his first year and a half has already tripled what President Obama did (for African-American employment) in eight years." Sanders dramatically undercounted African-American employment gains under Obama. In reality, the correct Obama-Trump comparison shows the opposite of what Sanders indicated: African-American employment gains under Obama were four times higher than the gains to date on Trump’s watch. The White House's Council of Economic Advisers later tweeted a correction and apology. As is our policy, we rate the original statement .
Statement: George Floyd at his own funeral and George Floyd three days ago.
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 10, 2020
Topics: criminal justice;crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The photo caption with the story identifies Jackson as "wearing black sunglasses" — he’s the only person visibly wearing sunglasses in the picture — as well as two players for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Jackson published a video recording of himself in that outfit on his Instagram on June 7, and a June 11 New York Times story shows another photo of him in the hoodie, hat and sunglasses with this caption: "Stephen Jackson has been a consistent presence at protests and news conferences in Minneapolis since George Floyd’s death last month. "  The second photo does show Floyd, but it wasn’t taken "three days ago." News outlets started publishing it the day after his death courtesy of Benjamin Crump, the attorney for Floyd’s family.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: In-state tuition available "for non-U.S. citizens after three years … veterans have to wait five years.
Speaker: wisconsin assembly republicans
About the speaker: Members of the Wisconsin Assembly Republican Caucus
Date: March 12, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: immigration;education;state budget;veterans
Context: news release
Fact-check justification: The available benefit for veterans is not discounted in-state tuition, but full coverage of all tuition and fees. And the five-year wait applies only to veterans who move to the state after their service time ends, not to all veterans. Many would get the larger benefits without any wait. In our view, the original  contained an element of  but ignored critical facts that would give a different impression. That’s what we call .