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Statement: Says the Steele dossier "was—according to (James Comey's) June 2017 testimony—'salacious and unverified.'
Speaker: devin nunes
About the speaker: Devin Nunes is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing a district in California. He serves as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
Date: February 2, 2018
Location: national
Topics: homeland security;legal issues
Context: a staff-written memo from the House Intelligence Committee
Fact-check justification: The Nunes memo said the Steele dossier "was—according to (Comey's) June 2017 testimony—'salacious and unverified.' " Comey's careful phrasings in four portions of his testimony indicate that he meant only that portions of it were "salacious and unverified." The memo twists Comey’s words in an effort to leverage his stature to undercut the dossier. We rate the memo’s characterization of Comey’s past statements .
Statement: A California health care CEO is promising to reduce our prescription drug costs.
Speaker: ohioans against deceptive rx ballot issue
About the speaker: Opponents of Ohio's Issue 2 ballot issue.
Date: May 23, 2017
Location: ohio
Topics: drugs;health care
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: An ad against Ohio’s Issue 2 ballot initiative said, "A California health care CEO is promising to reduce our prescription drug costs." Weinstein is the president and co-founder of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a nonprofit funding Issue 2, but the articles cited by the campaign referred to Weinstein as a CEO either in jest or in a photo caption. His organization deals with health care and he is indeed its top executive, but the ad makes it seem as though he represents the drug industry, which is actually  of the ad makers. It’s the national association for pharmaceutical companies that opposes the ballot measure. We rate this statement .
Statement: If you became a Medicaid recipient through the Obamacare expansion, you are grandfathered in.
Speaker: kellyanne conway
About the speaker: Kellyane Conway is a White House counselor to President Donald Trump. Previously, she was a Republican strategist and pollster who served as campaign manager for Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Date: June 25, 2017
Topics: health care;medicaid;punditfact
Context: an appearance on ABC's 'This Week'
Fact-check justification: Conway said, "If you became a Medicaid recipient through the Obamacare expansion, you are grandfathered in." The GOP health care bill that passed the House, along with the "discussion draft" circulated in the Senate, make changes to Medicaid for people who acquired health care coverage through Obamacare. The House proposal includes a grandfather clause that allows people covered by expanded Medicaid as of Dec. 31, 2019 , to continue to qualify for a 90 percent federal match rate. But the "grandfathered expansion enrollees" would have to maintain near-continuous coverage in order to get the higher rate. Experts say that is extremely difficult because of changes in income or because of changes states could choose to make. The Senate plan, which remains just a draft, continues the Medicaid expansion program largely as is until 2020, before beginning to reduce federal funding for all enrollees. That means either states will have to pick up a larger share of the cost or make changes to the program. In either scenario, changes are likely. It's just a matter of when and how. We rate Conway’s statement .
Statement: More than 50 percent of immigrants from (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) use at least one major welfare program once they get here.
Speaker: bill o'reilly
About the speaker: Bill O'Reilly hosted The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News until 2017. He formerly worked as a television news reporter and has authored numerous books.
Date: July 8, 2014
Topics: immigration;welfare;punditfact
Context: comments on Fox News
Fact-check justification: O’Reilly said that more than 50 percent of immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras use at least one welfare program. That’s correct when looking at households and use a broad definition of "welfare," experts told us. But looking at individuals would produce a different, lower percentage. Also, there is a wide disparity depending on what particular welfare program you’re looking at. The statement is accurate but needs additional information. We rate it .
Statement: Says President Donald Trump "had a different opinion" in 2013 than he does now about whether (Barack) Obama should have intervened in Syria after Obama's red line was crossed.
Speaker: greta van susteren
About the speaker: Greta Van Susteren, a Wisconsin native, is a talk show host. In January 2017, her show moved from the Fox News Channel to MSNBC.
Date: April 4, 2017
Topics: foreign policy;punditfact
Context: an episode of MSNBC's 'For the Record'
Fact-check justification: Van Susteren said Trump "had a different opinion" in 2013 than he does now about whether Obama should have intervened in Syria after Obama’s "red line" was crossed. In 2013, Trump said emphatically that the United States should not attack Syria even though the Assad regime crossed the line by using chemical weapons. But in 2017, he criticized the Obama administration for not reacting to the 2013 chemical weapon attack with force. Trump admitted that his position on Assad has changed. We rate Van Susteren’s  .
Statement: Says Facebook is removing the share button from "Pro-Trump posts.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 25, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Facebook spokesperson, Lauren Svensson, also told us the  is . "There’s no validity to this, Svensson wrote in an email. "If someone is not seeing a ‘Share’ button on a post, it could be because the original poster has set the privacy of that post to ‘Friends only’ or a narrower audience. "  A Facebook Help Center article that explains how to share posts on news feeds expands on this: "Keep in mind that you can't share posts to people who weren't part of the original audience (example: a post shared with ‘Friends’ can’t be shared with ‘Public’)." We rate this "warning" .
Statement: Kamala Harris "has not formally taken questions from the press a single time" since she was announced as Joe Biden's vice presidential pick.
Speaker: dinesh d'souza
About the speaker: Dinesh D’Souza is a former policy analyst in the Reagan White House and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He served as the president of The King’s College in New York City from 2010 to 2012 and is the author of numerous books and director several documentary films, including "2016: Obama's America."
Date: September 23, 2020
Location: california
Topics: pundits;facebook fact-checks;punditfact
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post says Harris "has not formally taken questions from the press a single time" since Biden named her as his vice presidential pick. That’s . Harris has made numerous media appearances and interviews since the Aug. 11 announcement. We rate this Instagram post .
Statement: Says county parties representing more than half the state's Republican voters approved resolutions "demanding changes" in Texas House leadership.
Speaker: new leadership pac
About the speaker: The New Leadership PAC emerged in 2017 in opposition to state Rep. Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, continuing as speaker of the Texas House.
Date: October 19, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: bipartisanship;elections;states
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: The PAC said county parties representing more than half the state’s Republican voters approved resolutions demanding changes in House leadership. The group fell short of proving its . But we identified 19 counties, arguably accounting for more than half the voters in the state’s 2016 Republican presidential primary, where local party leaders approved calls this year for Speaker Straus to go. We rate this  .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: No private business was conducted on public property. That issue is a contract dispute.
Speaker: bruce rauner
About the speaker: Bruce Rauner was elected governor of Illinois in 2014. He became the first Republican governor in the state in 12 years upon his inauguration in January 2015. The gubernatorial campaign was Rauner's first foray into politics. He previously had been a principal at the private equity firm GTCR in Chicago.
Date: January 29, 2018
Location: illinois
Topics: ethics
Context: a session with Chicago Tribune editorial board
Fact-check justification: Rauner said, "No private business was conducted on public property." At its core, the question raised by the lawsuit against Rauner is simple to address. He has claimed from his first days as governor that he would have no involvement in managing an investment portfolio worth hundreds of millions of dollars to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest. Kirkpatrick’s lawsuit contends Rauner violated that pledge. In defending himself, Rauner has appeared evasive and is now attempting to parse the difference between personal involvement with an investment and personal involvement with a contract dispute stemming from an investment. It is a distinction without a difference. Rauner is being disingenuous and obtuse, and we rate his statement as .
Statement: Unemployment and the housing and auto industry crises can be fixed by giving a million dollars to every worker over age 50 to retire.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: December 20, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: deficit;economy;housing;jobs;stimulus
Context: a message via the Internet
Fact-check justification: That's $44,648 for every man, woman and child -- legal and illegal -- in the United States. Getting 40 million Americans to retire early and spend money on a car and home would certainly help out the housing and automotive industries. But saying that our economic problems would be solved by nearly quadrupling our national debt to $173,000 per person is a  statement. Personally, we don't have that kind of money to burn. So, instead, we'll take a match and lighter fluid to this e-mail and declare it !
Statement: A movement representing "minor attracted people" has adopted a flag that is being integrated into LGBTQ+ advocacy.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: May 31, 2023
Topics: children;lgbtq;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram reel
Fact-check justification: An Instagram reel suggested that a movement representing "minor attracted people" has adopted a flag that is being integrated into LGBTQ+ advocacy. This flag design first surfaced on Tumblr in 2018 in what appears to have been intended as a prank. It is not a part of a large movement for people attracted to children and neither it nor its supposed symbolism is embraced or endorsed by LGBTQ+ advocates. We rate this  . Lea una versión de este reporte en español.
Statement: I would be the first Republican senator elected in New Jersey in 41 years.
Speaker: steve lonegan
About the speaker: The former mayor of Bogota in Bergen County, Steve Lonegan is the New Jersey director of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group. Lonegan ran unsuccessfully in 2005 and 2009 for the Republican nomination for governor.
 
Date: September 23, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: congress;elections
Context: an interview on the John Gambling radio program
Fact-check justification: Lonegan said during a radio interview, "I would be the first Republican senator elected in New Jersey in 41 years." In 1972, New Jersey sent Republican Clifford Case to the U.S. Senate to serve a fourth term, but he lost a Republican primary re-election bid in 1978, to Jeffrey Bell. Since then, New Jersey voters have not elected another GOP candidate to the Senate. Republicans from New Jersey served in the Senate for eight months during 1982, and since mid-June, but both were appointed, not elected. We rate Lonegan's  . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com . Editor's Note: The 'Our Ruling' section of this story has been corrected to reflect that Clifford Case lost the Republican primary in 1978 to Jeffrey Bell, not Bill Bradley.
Statement: Says President Barack Obama's acceptance of an "Islamic order and gold medal" was "unconstitutional.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 27, 2014
Location: national
Topics: legal issues;foreign policy
Context: viral posts on the Internet
Fact-check justification: The meme says Obama's acceptance of an "Islamic order and gold medal" was "unconstitutional." Experts agree that Obama’s acceptance of the medallion and collar -- and their transferral to the National Archives -- is entirely constitutional, since the administration followed the longstanding rules on gifts set up by congressional statute. Experts are more divided, however, on whether acceptance of the medallion amounts to acceptance of a foreign title. Meanwhile, the meme errs in calling it an "Islamic order." On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: Rob Portman's "plan to tax, slash and privatize" Social Security "would devastate Ohioans.
Speaker: lee fisher
About the speaker: Lee Fisher is the former lieutenant governor of Ohio. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2010.
Date: July 12, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: bush administration;economy;trade
Context: a campaign statement
Fact-check justification: Agreeing to hear others out is not the same as agreeing to "slash" or "tax." And favoring privatization before, in a dramatically different economic climate, is not the same as pushing for it now. It would be credible to cite Portman’s past actions and question what he might do now. But in saying that Portman has a plan to do so, the  becomes .    Comment on this item .
Statement: Right now, we have the lowest gas tax of anywhere in the country.
Speaker: colleen kiernan
About the speaker: Colleen Kiernan is director of the Georgia Sierra Club.
Date: May 14, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: transportation;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: The breakdown has a column that includes federal taxes, which are 18.4 cents per gallon in every state. Kiernan erred a bit in what she meant to say on a radio show with a large audience. Her larger point is supported by several charts that show Georgia has one of the lowest excise gas taxes in the nation. Her statement could have been more precise. Still, under our rating system, she gets a .
Statement: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez votes with President Trump more than Abigail Spanberger does.
Speaker: nick freitas
About the speaker: Republican Nick Freitas was first elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2015. He represents the 30th District, comprising Madison, Orange and part of Culpeper Counties.
Freitas served in the Army Green Berets and served two tours in Iraq.  After his honorable discharge in 2009, he moved to Virginia and works as director of operations for a sevice disabled veteran owned company.
Freitas is seeking the 2020 Republican nomination for the Seventh District congressioanl set held by Democrat Abigail Spanberger. He unsuccessfully sought the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2018. He is married to Tina Freitas, a local Republican activist and state senate candidate in 2019. 
Date: July 11, 2020
Location: new york
Topics: voting record;virginia
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Freitas says, "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez votes with President Trump more than Abigail Spanberger does." In raw numbers, his statement certainly holds up. Trump has taken a position on 80 of the bills that have come up for vote in the full House since the start of 2019. Ocasio-Cortez voted in accord with him 10 times and Spanberger did six times. Neither congress member can be listed as a Trump advocate. But the suggestion that Ocasio-Cortez was somewhat friendlier to the president withers when we look behind the numbers. When Ocasio-Cortez voted with Trump, it was usually for reasons that were antithetical to his agenda. The same pattern isn’t visible in Spanberger’s record. So Freitas’ statement tells half the story, and we rate it .
Statement: Bernie Sanders voted in favor of every war during his tenure.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 20, 2020
Topics: foreign policy;military;facebook fact-checks
Context: social media
Fact-check justification: The post says that Sanders "voted in favor of every war during his tenure." That’s . Sanders’ record on major war authorization votes is actually mixed. While he cast votes affirming military actions in Bosnia, Kosovo, and after 9/11, Sanders voted against entering the Persian Gulf War in 1991, against entering the Iraq War in 2002, and successfully led the charge to pass a measure that would have removed U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen in 2018. We rate the statement .
Statement: Violent crime (is) at an all-time high.
Speaker: ben kral
About the speaker: North Carolina State Trooper Ben Kral is President of the North Carolina Troopers Association.
Date: August 10, 2022
Location: north carolina
Topics: crime
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: Kral, the president of the North Carolina Troopers Association, said that "violent crime [is] at an all-time high." Available data contradicts Kral’s statement and he didn’t offer any  to support it. We rate his  .
Statement: Matt Patten kicked off his dirty campaign with thousands in dirty cash from guess who? (Frank) Russo and (Jimmy) Dimora.
Speaker: ohio house republican organizational committee
About the speaker: The Ohio Republican House Organizational Committee is a campaign arm of the Ohio Republican Party in the Ohio House of Representatives.
Date: October 13, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: message machine 2010;negative campaigning
Context: an election ad
Fact-check justification: To sum up, it looks like House Republicans got caught with their hand in the cookie jar on this one.    Republicans argue that the "thousands" threshold comes when you count others connected to the corruption scandal, but, frankly, we aren’t buying it. The ad states very explicitly "Russo and Dimora" were the ones giving the "thousands" to Patten. We rate the Ohio House Republican Organizational Committee’s  to be . Comment on this item .
Statement: A lot of the move to free the slaves ... did not come from the federal government. It came from a growing movement among the people, particularly people of faith.
Speaker: jim demint
About the speaker: Jim DeMint is a former U.S. Senator from South Carolina. He is now president of The Heritage Foundation .
Date: April 3, 2014
Topics: history;religion;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of "Vocal Point"
Fact-check justification: DeMint said that the federal government played less of a role in the freeing of the slaves than did a movement among people, especially those of faith. DeMint has a point that people of faith played a part in supporting the end of slavery. But the historical record is clear that people of faith also played a role in trying to defend slavery. More critical, leading historical scholars we consulted were unanimous that the federal government was the necessary and decisive force that ended slavery. DeMint's statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate his  .
Statement: The Banking Committee voted a 1,336-page bill "out of committee in 21 minutes with no amendments, with the understanding that before the bill came to the floor, we would reach this bipartisan agreement.
Speaker: bob corker
About the speaker: Bob Corker is a senator from Tennessee.
Date: April 25, 2010
Location: national
Topics: financial regulation;this week - abc news
Context: an interview on ABC's This Week
Fact-check justification: So Corker is correct that it only took the committee about 21 minutes to debate and vote on the bill, and he's also right that Democratic leaders promised more bipartisan negotiation before the legislation comes to the Senate floor. But he's  that the bill was passed without amendments. Dodd rolled more than 20 Democratic amendments into the final version of the bill. And Republicans had the opportunity to offer their own, but declined to do so. As a result, we find Corker's statement to be .
Statement: Says he followed state law and the precedent of other Massachusetts governors when he erased electronic communications as he left office.
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 21, 2011
Location: national
Topics: new hampshire 2012;transparency
Context: an interview with the editorial board of the 'Telegraph.'
Fact-check justification: The Romney administration’s decision to erase most electronic files is neither illegal nor unusual. According to state records officials, past governors such as Weld, Cellucci and Swift have not made their electronic records available to the state archive or to the incoming administration, according to state staff. They have submitted some computer print-outs to the state archive, but Romney did that, as well. So we rate Romney's  . UPDATE: The last paragraph originally included a reference to to the removal of the hard drives. That reference has been removed to clarify that ruling is on Romney's  about deleting the records.
Statement: There are 'sore loser' laws that would bar Luther Strange from pursuing a seat" because he already lost the Alabama Republican Senate runoff to Roy Moore.
Speaker: amanda carpenter
About the speaker: Amanda Carpenter is a writer and CNN contributor. She was previously an aide to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
Date: November 13, 2017
Topics: elections;punditfact
Context: a CNN roundtable
Fact-check justification: Carpenter said, "There are ‘sore loser’ laws that would bar Luther Strange from pursuing a seat," because he lost the primary to Moore. Alabama does have a "sore loser" law that prevents primary losers from making a second run in the same election as an independent or with another party. But the consensus is that this law applies only to names printed on the ballot -- a scenario that is now moot because the ballot text is already set. Carpenter said as much in a subsequent tweet but added that a write-in candidacy could face legal challenges. Winning a write-in campaign faces long odds, but the bottom line is that Strange could make the attempt if he wishes. We rate Carpenter's statement .