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Statement: If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. All the people. I'm not making this up. Just look at the data.
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: September 17, 2020
Location: national
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a CNN town hall
Fact-check justification: Biden said, "If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. All the people. I'm not making this up. Just look at the data." Experts disagreed with that assessment. A stronger U.S. response could have saved many lives, experts said, but not every one. We rate this statement .
Statement: Overturning Roe v. Wade was an "unconstitutional action by" the Supreme Court.
Speaker: karine jean-pierre
About the speaker: Karine Jean-Pierre is an assistant to President Biden and White House Press Secretary. She has been a long-time adviser to Biden in the administration, the campaign, and to the then-vice president. Earlier, she served as chief public affairs officer for MoveOn.org and as an NBC and MSNBC political analyst.
Date: August 3, 2022
Topics: abortion;legal issues
Context: a White House briefing
Fact-check justification: Jean-Pierre said overturning Roe v. Wade was an "unconstitutional action by" the Supreme Court. Ever since the 1803 Marbury v. Madison ruling, the Supreme Court has asserted its right to offer the final word on judicial interpretation. So although Jean-Pierre may disagree with the court’s decision, legal scholars say that the justices clearly had the right under the Constitution to rule as they did. We rate the statement .
Statement: The Inflation Reduction Act "doubles the size of the IRS, raises your taxes and spends billions on a green energy slush fund.
Speaker: tom cotton
About the speaker: Tom Cotton, a Republican, was elected to the House of Representatives in 2012 from a district in Arkansas.
Date: August 3, 2022
Topics: energy;federal budget;taxes;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Cotton said the Inflation Reduction Act "doubles the size of the IRS, raises your taxes and spends billions on a green energy slush fund." It is not proved that the IRS will double in size. The agency will get funding to hire as many as 87,000 employees over 10 years, but expects to lose 50,000 employees in the next five or six years. And the agency has not finalized how it will allocate the funds. The new law levies direct tax increases only on very large corporations and high-earning money managers. Independent experts expect that indirect effects of those hikes on most Americans will be offset by other provisions in the law, such as tax credits.  Cotton did not provide  of a "slush fund." Other critics of the law have pointed to $27 billion for states and nonprofits to use on projects that reduce greenhouse gases as a "slush fund." There is flexibility in how that money should be spent, but there are also rules. For example, grants must be awarded competitively and most of the money must go to low-income communities. Cotton’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it . RELATED: Kevin McCarthy’s   about an army of 87,000 IRS agents RELATED: No, Senate bill won’t strip $300 billion from Medicare RELATED: GOP  on tax hikes in Democratic bill doesn’t factor in subsidies, savings RELATED: The Democrats’ overstated  that the Inflation Reduction Act curbs debt, inflation
Statement: Crime is up under Governor DeSantis. Crime was down when I was your governor.
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 24, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: crime
Context: a gubernatorial debate
Fact-check justification: Nevertheless, overall crime — including robbery and motor vehicle theft, among other offenses — dropped more than 13% in DeSantis' first year in office. Violent crimes alone increased by 2% in 2020, the most recent data available. The effects of the pandemic on crime are still being studied. Even though crime fell over Crist’s time in office, every one of his years as governor had a higher volume of crime and a higher crime rate than what is on record so far for DeSantis. We rate Crist's  .
Statement: There are state workers who are "idle" at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: June 5, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Walker claimed there are state employees being paid to sit "idle" at home. Although there are state employees who are being compensated while unable to work due to coronavirus, there are stipulations that need to be met before a non-essential worker can qualify for paid administrative leave. What’s more, some people in nonessential jobs and unable to work from home have been put on to other COVD-related tasks. Our definition of  is "the statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context." That fits here.
Statement: In New Hampshire, I spent $3 million. Jeb Bush spent $44 million. He came in five, and I came in number one.
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 13, 2016
Location: new hampshire
Topics: campaign finance;elections
Context: a Republican debate
Fact-check justification: Trump said: "In New Hampshire, I spent $3 million. Jeb Bush spent $44 million. He came in five, and I came in No. 1." Bush came in fourth, not fifth, and his campaign and the PACs supporting him spent about $36 million, not $44 million. But it was still the most of any candidate. Trump did finish in first but spent closer to $4 million, not $3 million. Trump is slightly off in three out of the four claims, but his larger point about spending and campaign effectiveness in New Hampshire hold . We can’t say whether Trump was intentionally exaggerating or not. Either way, we rate his  .
Statement: Claims that former Sen. Tom Daschle said, "Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: April 2, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: Let’s do it!" A few shifted quote marks make all the difference here. Instead of McCaughey's words, they become Daschle's. That kind of thing may have made for '70s sitcom gold, but here it just muddies the debate. We rule the  in this e-mail .
Statement: Says that under a new program jail "time for non-violent, mentally ill offenders has been reduced by 50 percent.
Speaker: karen sage
About the speaker: Sage, who has been a Travis County prosecutor, is a judge for the 299th state District Court in Travis County.
Date: April 3, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: crime
Context: a mailer
Fact-check justification: The nitty gritty: We multiplied the number of affected defendants categorized by the level of felony they faced--ranging from first-degree felony charges to second- and third-degree felonies to state-jail felony charges--by the days that similarly charged defendants averaged in jail before the program began. Next, we totaled those defendant-days-in-jail and divided the total (19,432) by the number of defendants (253) to reach the pre-program estimate of an average of 77 days in jail. Through February, the magistrate had processed 253 defendants since the program’s start, according to Dawson-Brown, and they averaged 36 days in jail. Best we can tell, the average jail stay for defendants dropped by 41 days, or 53 percent. We rate Sage’s statement as .
Statement: Lego unveils new genderless bricks with no male/female connectors.
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 21, 2021
Topics: sexuality;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post doesn’t make clear the headline is from the Bee and while some people recognize it as a joke anyway, others are unsure. The story was published the same day that Lego announced a new LGBTQ-themed set called "Everyone Is Awesome." The 346-piece set includes 11 figures in the colors of the rainbow. It was inspired by the rainbow flag, a symbol of LGBTQ pride .   We rate claims that Lego is introducing genderless bricks .
Statement: The Nordic countries are some of the few countries" that meet development aid goals.
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: May 13, 2016
Topics: global news service;foreign policy
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Obama said that the Nordic countries are among the few that have met foreign development aid goals. He was referring to the voluntary target of 0.7 percent of Gross National Income that wealthier nations agreed to in 1970. For the largest Nordic nations of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Obama is correct. All of them have met or exceeded the 0.7 percent mark for many years. But if you put Finland and Iceland into the mix, the statement’s accuracy slips. Finland is close but not quite at the mark, and Iceland lies further from it. We’ll say the statement is three-fifths correct. That rates .
Statement: In 32 other states and Washington D.C., they [voters] can avoid the wait by voting before Election Day.
Speaker: christopher blazejewski
About the speaker: Christopher Blazejewski, a lawyer and Providence resident, has been a state representative since 2011.
Date: February 28, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: elections;public service
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: State Rep. Christopher R. Blazejewski, D-Providence, said: "In 32 other states and Washington D.C., they [voters] can avoid the wait by voting before Election Day." The National Conference of State Legislatures’ figures support Blazejewski’s statement as far as in-person voting and we could find no other figures that showed a lower tally. There are two other states that have all mail-in voting We rate the statement  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: The downsizing of Pinellas County government resulted in about 1,200 people being laid off in a 12 percent unemployment market. … I can tell you that every one of them was hired from the time that Ms. Latvala went into office in 2000.
Speaker: bob hackworth
About the speaker: Bio TK
Date: September 14, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: county budget
Context: Dunedin
Fact-check justification: On that broader point, he’s right. The county government has eliminated 1,612 positions since 2007. But not all of those jobs involved layoffs, because some were vacant, and some involved retirements that were not filled, for example. But Hackworth said "layoffs,’’ and specifically of people hired during Latvala’s tenure, which numbered only 341. So we rate his claims .
Statement: There have been "at least four incidents where bullets from Mexico have crossed the border.
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: January 14, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;crime;public safety
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Strickland, who told us that Abbott wasn’t referring to a specific time period when he said at least four incidents have brought bullets across the border, pointed to news reports to confirm the recent incident in West Texas. On Jan. 14, the El Paso Times , reported that the day before, "at least one gunman fired a high-powered rifles across the border" at four road workers toiling about half a mile from the border, east of Fort Hancock. Robert Wilson, a lieutenant with the Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Office, told us authorities found eight bullets around Indian Hot Springs Road, where the men were working. The men weren’t hit, according to the news article. We rate Abbott’s statement as .
Statement: In California, Democrats have intentionally implemented rolling blackouts.
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: August 18, 2020
Location: national
Topics: energy;infrastructure;california
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Officials at CAISO said the motivation for the blackouts was to ensure California’s power grid didn’t collapse, and that politics was not a factor. Officials said neither the CEO nor board members, who are appointed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, called for the blackouts. Instead, the decision was made by a power grid shift manager. In the end, Trump offered no  to back up his provocative and questionable .   We rated it .   – The statement is not accurate.
Statement: In a majority of states, you can now marry freely, but can still be fired for who you love.
Speaker: mark pocan
About the speaker: Mark Pocan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2nd Congressional District on Nov. 6, 2012. He is from Madison and previously served as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin state Assembly. 
Date: June 26, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: civil rights;lgbtq;states
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: That means 28 states -- a majority -- do not have explicit laws protecting workers from discrimination based on sexual orientation. Our rating Pocan said, "in a majority of states you can now marry freely, but can still be fired for who you love." Federal law does not explicitly protect against this discrimination, though the agency tasked with enforcing the law has interpreted federal protections to include sexual orientation. Meanwhile, 28 out of 50 states do not have such laws. We rate Pocan’s  .
Statement: Video shows "current weather situation in Karachi.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 16, 2023
Topics: weather;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: This post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat  news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta , which owns Facebook and Instagram.) We did reverse-image searches of several scenes in the video, and none show Karachi during this recent storm. Included in the montage are clips from the 2009 movie "Tidal Wave," footage of people enjoying the beach in Karachi in May 2022, and video clips that first appeared online years ago.   We rate claims that this video shows recent weather in Karachi .
Statement: Tens of thousands" of people leave New York every week.
Speaker: donald trump jr.
About the speaker: Donald Trump Jr. is the son of President Donald Trump and his former wife Ivana Trump.
Date: November 1, 2019
Location: new york
Topics: economy;population;states
Context: a Tweet
Fact-check justification: Donald Trump Jr. tweeted that "tens of thousands" of people leave New York every week.  Census data show that when counting only the people who move to other states, the number reached 8,808 per week on average in 2018. That figure falls to 3,915 when including the number of people moving into New York from other states.  We rate Trump Jr.’s  .
Statement: Says Pat Robertson said, "We must impose a rule on the gay population that would require them to wear specially-colored clothes.
Speaker: uspoln website
About the speaker: A fake news website that describes itself as a news/satire site.
Date: May 22, 2017
Location: national
Topics: fake news;lgbtq;religion
Context: an article on a fake news website
Fact-check justification: The USPOLN website posted an article alleging that Robertson called for a law to require gays and lesbians to wear specially colored clothes. Robertson never said those words. The  was recycled from a two-year-old  that had been previously debunked. We rate this  !
Statement: Most of the black scientists in this country don't come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools.
Speaker: antonin scalia
About the speaker: Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has served on the Supreme Court since 1986. He is an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan.
Date: December 9, 2015
Location: national
Topics: education
Context: a Supreme Court hearing
Fact-check justification: Citing a brief, Scalia said, "Most of the black scientists in this country don't come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools." In terms of raw numbers, it’s probably  that most of the black scientists come from schools that are less selective than the University of Texas at Austin. But that’s not a statement on the effects of affirmative action. Rather, it’s because the vast majority of American college students, and thus most science majors, go to schools that are less selective than UT. Regarding the larger point — that black students fare better at "lesser" schools because their academic credentials are better matched to the curriculum — the  is mired in controversy. There is some scholarly research that backs up this point, but there is also scholarly research that refutes it. We rate the statement .
Statement: Burka clad woman runs over baby, gets away with crime for one stunning reason ...
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 12, 2018
Location: ohio
Topics: criminal justice;fake news;crime
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: So yes, Mohamed was able to "roam around until her sentencing hearing," so to speak. But she surrendered her passport and was bound to return to court by a high bond. She also did not get away with her crime, as the Daily Headlines headline falsely stated. (Daily Headlines did not respond to a request for comment submitted via the contact page on their website.) We rate this statement .
Statement: Kari Lake has been appearing at rallies with neo-Nazis," while "two federal juries have found" Katie Hobbs "guilty of racial discrimination.
Speaker: aaron lieberman
About the speaker: Aaron Lieberman, a Democrat, served as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from 2019 until 2021, when he resigned to run for the 2022 Democratic nomination for governor of Arizona. 
Date: April 28, 2022
Location: arizona
Topics: civil rights;legal issues;race and ethnicity;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Lieberman said that Lake "has been appearing at rallies with neo-Nazis" and "two federal juries have found" Hobbs "guilty of racial discrimination." Lieberman is exaggerating the facts to cast his opponents in the worst light possible. Lake posed for a photo and video at one of her campaign rallies with one man who is identified in news reports as a Nazi sympathizer, but there’s no  that this was anything more than a random interaction at a campaign event. Hobbs, now Arizona’s secretary of state, was the Democratic leader of the Arizona Senate when she participated in the 2015 decision to fire an Arizona Senate employee who later successfully sued the Arizona Senate for racial discrimination. Hobbs herself was not sued, which means no court made a finding specifically against her. Lieberman’s  has an element of  but leaves out critical information that would give a different impression. We rate it . PolitiFact staff researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: U.S. deaths since 1/22 (2020): COVID-19: 27, flu, 4,700; abortion: 118,000.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 17, 2020
Topics: abortion;public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Precise numbers for Jan. 22, 2020, through March 17, 2020, are not available in any of the three categories. It’s generally  that the number of abortions in the United States far outpaces the number of deaths to COVID-19 or the flu. But the numbers included in this post are not in line with the best data. Abortion is an elective procedure, not a disease. For a statement that contains only an element of , our rating is .