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Statement: Trump is addressing to the nation today.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 27, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: He published several endorsements on his website that day, and on June 25, he spoke at a political rally in Illinois. We found no  of such a speech on June 27.   And even so, speaking at a rally or posting online is different from addressing the nation. An address to the nation is associated with the president’s office, and President Joe Biden is there — not Trump.   We rate this post .
Statement: I never said Russia did not meddle in the election.
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: February 18, 2018
Location: national
Topics: elections;foreign policy
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said that he "never said that Russia did not meddle in the election." In reality, he called the matter a "made-up story," and a "hoax." He has said that he believes Russian President Putin’s denial of any Russian involvement. He told Time , "I don’t believe they (Russia) interfered." Even when he has acknowledged the possibility that the Russians interfered, he has added that it could have been other countries or even individuals. Trump’s denial doesn’t match what he has actually said. We rate this  !
Statement: Photos show gas costs nearly $10 in the Carolinas.
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: May 11, 2021
Location: north carolina
Topics: gas prices;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In 2017, a Louisiana radio station reported that the "999" people were seeing on gas station signs  meant the stations were "out of fuel, or unable to sell fuel." That year, a gas pipeline was damaged in Alabama, causing shortages along the east coast, the station said.   And in 2016, an ABC News affiliate in Durham, N.C., reported that photos then circulating of gas stations advertising $9.99 unleaded also showed stations indicating they had run out of fuel. Tiffany Wright, a spokesperson for AAA in North Carolina, told us that she suspected any such signs surfacing today signal the same: "We are in a state of emergency and price gouging isn’t tolerated." We rate claims that gas prices have spiked to $10 in North Carolina and elsewhere .
Statement: Pam Bondi "refuses to take a position on the gay-adoption ban.
Speaker: john stemberger
About the speaker: John Stemberger is the president of the Florida Family Policy Council, a conservative Republican group that advocates against same-sex marriage and adoptions.
Date: August 8, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: lgbtq
Context: an endorsement letter
Fact-check justification: So back to the question. Did Bondi "refuse to take a position on banning gay adoptions"? No. She hedged at first, but she’s made it clear since then that she will pursue the appeal and opposes gay adoption. Therefore we rate his  .
Statement: Says under Wisconsin law, he cannot remove his name from the ballot for re-election to Congress.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: August 12, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: Even then, the death would have to happen before the ballot was printed, Magney said. Ballots are printed about 50 days before an election and they don’t get reprinted because of a death. Our rating Ryan said since he’s already on the ballot for re-election to Congress he could not get his name removed. Indeed, at this stage, death is the only way off the House ballot. We rate Ryan’s statement .
Statement: Photo shows a taxi driver in New York City who "drives around taking people to kill.
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: October 15, 2022
Topics: crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Similar warnings with the same photo and supposed taxi number have spread in other countries. Claims of this particular murderous cab driver have cropped up in Nigeria, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo .   Instagram posts from 2018 and 2019 tell New Yorkers that he’s "kidnapping and killing for organs" and to "contact 911 cause they believe he’s a serial killer!" And yet, there are no news reports of such a suspected criminal, nor any credible sources connecting 2465RB to something nefarious.   We rate the claims in this post .
Statement: The Obama Foundation stored classified documents in an abandoned furniture warehouse.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 22, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: But that doesn’t mean the Obama Foundation stored classified documents in an abandoned furniture warehouse, as the Facebook post says.   The National Archives moved records from the Obama presidency to the Hoffman Estates facility at the end of his presidency "under the assumption that former President Obama and his Foundation would be building and transferring to NARA a traditional, physical presidential library in the Chicago area," the National Archives said in a Sept. 23 statement .   When Obama decided he wanted a digital library — not a physical one — the National Archives "transported the classified records back to secure locations" in the Washington D.C., area.   "The Obama Foundation provided NARA with funds to help convert the Hoffman Estates facility and to cover some of the expenses of moving the classified records, but the foundation has never had possession or control over the records," the agency said.   We rate claims that the Obama Foundation stored classified documents in an abandoned furniture store .
Statement: Pennsylvania drop boxes were "pre-loaded" with ballots.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: October 27, 2022
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a screenshot shared on Instagram
Fact-check justification: An Instagram user shared a headline from The Gateway Pundit that claimed ballots were "discovered ‘pre-loaded’" inside drop boxes in Pennsylvania. A small number of eligible voters successfully inserted their ballots into a few of Centre County’s ballot drop boxes before the window of time when the boxes were officially opened. That was possible because of a defect that is now being corrected.  Although the ballots found in the drop boxes were unexpected, they are not  of fraud. We rate this  . RELATED: Marco Rubio said someone could blow up a ballot drop box, ignoring safe track record RELATED: The faulty premise of the ‘2,000 mules’ trailer about voting by mail in the 2020 election
Statement: Passing a federal firearms "background check through the NICS database . . . typically takes 90 seconds.
Speaker: james langevin
About the speaker: James Langevin has represented Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District since 2001. He was elected to the state's Constitutional Convention in 1986. Two years later, he won a seat as a State Representative and went on to become, at age 30, Rhode Island's youngest Secretary of State in 1995.
Date: December 3, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: government regulation;guns
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: James Langevin said in a news release that passing a federal firearms "background check through the NICS database . . . typically takes 90 seconds." Gun dealers tell us the federal process is, in fact, usually very quick, barring some ambiguity with a person's record. However, some readers might take Langevin's statement to mean that the whole process takes 90 seconds. It actually requires a few minutes for the customer to fill out the paperwork and the dealer to transmit the information to the NICS system. Because the statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, we rate it  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Says Texas "high school graduation rates are at all-time highs.
Speaker: greg abbott
About the speaker: Greg Abbott won election as governor of Texas in November 2014, carrying 59 percent of the vote. Abbott was re-elected in 2018. Abbott, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, served three terms as the state's attorney general before being succeeded by Ken Paxton in early 2015.
Date: August 30, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: education
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Abbott says in his ad that Texas has record high school graduation rates. In 2016, the Texas graduation rate of 89.1 percent was the highest the state has measured since 1996, the earliest year of available data. Abbott was not talking about an alternative metric by which Texas in 2012-13 trailed 20 states for its share of students graduating compared with the number of ninth-grade students advancing three years before. 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: Says Obama opposes lower gas taxes, nuclear power, new offshore drilling and doesn't have "new solutions" to the energy crisis.
Speaker: republican national committee
About the speaker: The Republican National Committee is the national arm of the Republican Party.
Date: July 6, 2008
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: The ad is correct that Obama opposes expanding the offshore production of oil. • It is  to say Obama offers "no new solutions." Obama's 11-page energy program is filled with proposals such as incentives for communities to invest in biofuels refineries, more emphasis on clean coal and expanded research for biofuels, and solar and wind power. So let's check the score for the RNC: two right, two . Overall, that sounds to us like the ad is .
Statement: Bikers show up to The Walter Reed Hospital to pray for President Trump.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 3, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In August, bikers from across the country gathered for a demonstration in Pretoria .   The BBC shared another TikTok account that posted the video in the Facebook post on Aug. 29. It includes the hashtags #alllivesmatter and #stopfarmmurders. Another, similar video posted on YouTube on Aug. 31 shows people kneeling with their heads bowed under the title, "Bikers pray in Pretoria against farm murders." We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Says Rick Perry is "the guy that tracked" down Democratic legislators who fled Texas in 2003.
Speaker: rush limbaugh
About the speaker: Rush Limbaugh is a conservative radio talk show host. His website describes him as "America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy."
Date: May 18, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: bipartisanship;candidate biography;elections;pundits;redistricting
Context: his radio program
Fact-check justification: His homeland defense coordinator and the Department of Public Safety were joined in that effort, which also involved federal agencies, and the governor reportedly directed the Texas Rangers to two Texas cities. But it was a news organization that got to the Democrats first. We rate the statement .    Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton was to be indicted over the Whitewater scandal four days before documents related to the case were destroyed in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 22, 2019
Topics: fake news;history;terrorism;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A meme on social media suggests Hillary Clinton had something to do with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing because she was to be "indicted" in a scandal four days after the bombing, but the blast destroyed documents related to the case. We could quibble about whether the Clintons were involved in any wrongdoing related to Whitewater, but the meme’s suggestion that Hillary was to be indicted days after the bombing, and that investigation documents related to the scandal were suspiciously destroyed in the event, is  and lacks any supporting . We rate this conspiracy theory !
Statement: U.S. military at the White House arresting Congress.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 9, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Twitter account of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has continued to tweet as normal, and not about the arrest of her fellow House representatives. Pelosi and President Joe Biden were in California for the Summit of the Americas the night of the post. Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who delivered the committee’s opening statement, has also not indicated on social media or her House website that anything was amiss. Nor have branches of the military announced the arrest of any lawmakers—or the entire Congress.   We rate this post !
Statement: We've recovered (from the recession) faster and come farther than almost any other advanced country on Earth.
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: July 17, 2014
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: Delaware
Fact-check justification: Obama said the United States has "recovered faster and come farther than almost any other advanced country on Earth" since the end of the Great Recession. The White House’s supporting data is pretty narrow, but other measurements show that the United States has generally fared better since the recession than many -- though not all -- of its peers among the world’s advanced economies. On balance, we rate this statement .
Statement: Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried "suspended gun rights — no due process — just because she says these people were merely 'involved' in January 6.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 27, 2021
Location: florida
Topics: congress;crime;facebook fact-checks;guns;jan. 6
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Since the names of permit holders are a private record in Florida, we can’t independently evaluate their charges to confirm that they are disqualifying offenses under state law. However, under state law, they have a right to request a hearing to challenge their suspensions. We rate this statement . RELATED: Misinformation and the Jan. 6 insurrection: When ‘patriot warriors’ were fed lies PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this fact-check.
Statement: It is projected that 3.07 million people will use the train annually. Keep in mind that Amtrak's Acela train in Washington D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore only had 3.2 million riders in 2010.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: February 16, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: state budget;stimulus;transportation
Context: comments announcing Florida would reject federal dollars for a Tampa-Orlando high-speed rail line
Fact-check justification: The population of the Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the northeast is about a combined 38 million, compared to about 5 million for Tampa-Orlando.) In offering a reason for rejecting $2.4 billion in federal money for high-speed rail, Scott said the ridership projections were overly optimistic, and cited train service in the busy northeast corridor to prove his point. But Scott's reference to the high-speed Acela is only one form of service in that corridor, and he omitted the bigger chunk of Amtrak's passengers when comparing ridership. That's an important detail that would have added more context.  We find this  .
Statement: Republicans would give seniors a (Medicare) voucher that limits what's covered, costing seniors as much as $6,400 more a year.
Speaker: kathleen sebelius
About the speaker: Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, was the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary from April 2009 through June 2014. She served as Governor of Kansas from 2003 to 2009.
Date: September 4, 2012
Location: national
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: Charlotte, N.C
Fact-check justification: Sebelius recycled an old number about an outdated Republican plan when she said, "Republicans would give seniors a voucher that limits what's covered, costing seniors as much as $6,400 more a year." She’s right that a shift to paying a defined amount for seniors to buy their own insurance essentially offers them a voucher. But the Republicans’ Medicare exchange with market-based premium support payments would offer more protection than a pure voucher. And we simply don’t have enough details about that new plan to know how much extra money seniors might have to pay for traditional Medicare. We rate her full statement .
Statement: Says there's no language in the U.S. Constitution that prevents someone from running for Congress simultaneously in multiple states.
Speaker: allan levene
About the speaker: Allan Levene, a Republican, is planning to run for Congress in Georgia and three other states.
Date: November 2, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: elections
Context: an article
Fact-check justification: The one requirement, he said, is that he must be a resident of the state where he is running at the time of the general election. Several constitutional scholars agreed with his assessment. Levene might have uphill political battles ahead. But on his constitutional point, he’s a winner. Our rating: .
Statement: Suggests a suspicious link between the COVID-19 delta variant and company named Delta that works in 5G.
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: August 7, 2021
Topics: public health;technology;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a viral image
Fact-check justification: The delta variant of the original virus has become the most dominant strain in the United States — but has spread to 130 nations, many of which don’t have 5G.  The Delta whose name is shown in the Facebook post is a company based in Taiwan that describes itself as a "global provider of power and thermal management solutions," including for 5G .   Some experts have speculated that 5G’s high-frequency radio waves could have some adverse health effects, such as neurological disorders, but other reports say the fear is overblown. In any case, radio waves don’t transmit human viruses. The only connection between the company and the variant is the word "delta." We rate the post .
Statement: Does the #DemConvention know @NYGovCuomo forced nursing homes across NY to take in COVID positive patients and planted the seeds of infection that killed thousands of grandmothers and grandfathers?
Speaker: michael caputo
About the speaker: Michael Caputo is the assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services. Caputo is a former adviser to Donald Trump. He also ran Carl Paladino's 2010 gubernatorial campaign.
Date: August 17, 2020
Location: new york
Topics: corrections and updates;public health;health check;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: In a tweet, the HHS assistant secretary for public affairs said that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo "forced" nursing homes across the state to admit COVID-positive patients and that this policy fueled the spread of COVID-19 that led to thousands of deaths in the nursing home population. Although nursing homes felt pressure to accept COVID-positive patients, they were not actually forced to do so. State regulations require nursing homes to accept patients only if they can care for them, and they could have refused them on those grounds. In addition, it’s unclear the extent to which the governor’s policy was responsible for nursing home COVID-19 deaths. Infection control is a longstanding problem in nursing homes that predates the pandemic and a report showed peak numbers of nursing home deaths came prior to the peak influx of patients as a result of Cuomo’s advisory. While the introduction of COVID-19 positive patients into nursing homes no doubt had an effect on infection spread, Caputo’s statement suggests it was solely responsible. That’s not what the  shows. We rate this .