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Statement: Sarah Palin "has more experience than Barack Obama.
Speaker: fred thompson
About the speaker: Fred Thompson was a U.S. senator from Tennessee from 1994 to 2003. He graduated from Memphis State University and earned a law degree at Vanderbilt University. Thompson practiced law and served a variety of government counsel positions, including as minority counsel for the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities ("Watergate Committee"). In his acting career Thompson has appeared in 18 films, and recently worked as a TV actor, playing a prosecutor on the series Law and Order. Thompson was born in Alabama in 1942. He has been married to Jeri Kehn since 2002, and has four children, two from his first marriage. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 22, 2008.
Date: August 31, 2008
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: St. Paul, Minn
Fact-check justification: We rate her having 13 years relevant experience to his sixteen years, and this doesn't consider the difference between municipal and state government, which would work toward Obama's favor. Thompson would probably argue that we should not count Obama's experience as a civil rights attorney, but legal work does seem directly applicable to creating and enforcing the nation's laws, particularly civil rights law. Finally, Thompson might argue that Palin's experience as governor should overrule Obama's experience as senator because it is executive, statewide experience as opposed to legislative experience. But if we granted that, then Palin would also be more qualified than Joe Biden and John McCain, because neither of them have gubernatorial experience, either. We find Thompson's statement that Palin is more qualified than Barack Obama to be .
Statement: If West Virginia had voted for our Democratic nominee in 2000 and 2004, we wouldn't have had to put up with George Bush for the last 7 years.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: May 12, 2008
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: Logan, W. Va
Fact-check justification: If Gore had won in 2000, then Bush almost certainly wouldn't have been running against Kerry in 2004 and who knows what the electoral map would have looked like in a Gore re-election race. Clinton is right that Bush wouldn't be president if West Virginia had gone for Gore in 2000. That alone would have prevented 7 years of a Bush administration. By raising the 2004 election, though, Clinton ruins her perfectly accurate argument. Suggesting that West Virginia voters had the same chance to defeat Bush in 2004 that they had in 2000 is just , which is how we end up at .
Statement: In the first round of repayments"  from financial institutions that received TARP money, "the government has actually turned a profit.
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: June 9, 2009
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: a statement at the White House
Fact-check justification: And the warrants could also prove profitable. "People think the government gave banks money," Ely said. "They made investments in banks." As for Obama's , he is careful to note that the overall program could still cost taxpayers money, but he is correct to say the government turned a profit on the first round of repayments. We rate his statement .
Statement: By the time you drink your coffee, an elephant is killed for its ivory tusks.
Speaker: minka kelly
About the speaker: Minka Kelly is an American actress.
Date: May 10, 2016
Topics: global news service;environment;animals;trade
Context: a post on Instagram
Fact-check justification: Kelly said, "By the time you drink your coffee, an elephant is killed for its ivory tusks." The group behind this , the International Fund for Animal Welfare, is trying to draw attention to a real problem by boiling down complex research into a simple-to-use factoid. But they are testing limits of the research they’re citing. The study measured three years and estimated that about 100,000 elephants were killed by poachers in that time period. Experts caution against taking those figures -- which rely on estimates -- and boiling them down in the way IFAW did. And since that study concluded, other research suggests that poaching has declined. And, it should be obvious, but this only really matters if you take 15 minutes to drink a cup of coffee. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Beto O'Rourke crashed into barriers, "causing a collision while driving drunk, then fleeing the scene to avoid accountability.
Speaker: club for growth
About the speaker: The Club for Growth is an anti-tax group.
Date: March 10, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: elections
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Club for Growth said O’Rourke crashed into barriers, "causing a collision while driving drunk, then fleeing the scene to avoid accountability." A police report of the incident states that O’Rourke crashed into another car while driving under the influence of alcohol. A witness said he attempted to flee the scene, but was unsuccessful. We rate this  . Editor’s note: This is one of four fact-checks featuring a  made in Club for Growth’s TV ad about Beto O’Rourke. To read the others, click here .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information.
Statement: Traditionally, the Speaker says: 'Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States.' (Tonight) Speaker Pelosi said, 'Members of Congress, the President of the United States.'
Speaker: jake tapper
About the speaker: Jake Tapper is host of CNN's The Lead.
Date: February 4, 2020
Topics: congress;history;punditfact
Context: comments on CNN
Fact-check justification: Tapper tweeted, "Traditionally, the Speaker says: ‘Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States.’ (Tonight) Speaker Pelosi said, ‘Members of Congress, the President of the United States.’ " Between 2007 and 2018, Pelosi and her successors used that language or something close, regardless of the party affiliations of the speaker and the president. In 2019, for unclear reasons, Pelosi didn’t speak before Trump started. This year, she did, but she left out the part about a "high privilege and distinct honor." We rate the statement .
Statement: Quotes President Donald Trump as saying, "Everybody says I've done a tremendous job with COVID… I think a little gratitude would be nice. Maybe a big 'Thank you Mr. President' is called for.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 13, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post claims Trump asked for "gratitude" for how he has dealt with COVID-19 and said "maybe a big ‘thank you Mr. President’ is called for."  The quote originates from two opinion pieces that attribute the quote to two different dates. There is no  that Trump said this quote. We rate this .
Statement: Says Mark Neumann = Nancy Pelosi
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: September 7, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;infrastructure;message machine 2010;transportation;voting record
Context: campaign TV and radio ads
Fact-check justification: Using Walker’s logic, Walker could have linked himself to Pelosi. After all, he supported a provision in the bill at the time. Walker wouldn’t agree with that comparison. And we don’t agree with the Neumann-Pelosi one. We rate the connection .
Statement: Lee Zeldin "missed 2/3rds of Veterans Affairs Hearings
Speaker: anna throne-holst
About the speaker: Anna Throne-Holst is a Democrat running for the 1st Congressional District in New York.
Date: August 9, 2016
Location: new york
Topics: congress;veterans
Context: a Newsday article
Fact-check justification: The DCCC and Throne-Holst  Zeldin missed two-thirds of the Veterans Affairs hearings.   We found through webcasts and transcripts that their  doesn’t add up. Zeldin attended at least seven hearings the DCCC claimed he missed. Zeldin attended at least half of the hearings. He did not miss two-thirds of the hearings. We rate this  from Throne-Holst and the DCCC as .
Statement: Todd Staples recently tried to woo his supporters and right-wing base by suggesting the Agriculture Commission cut programs intended to feed the elderly and disabled, many of whom are veterans.
Speaker: hank gilbert
About the speaker: Hank Gilbert, who raises cattle near Tyler, was the 2010 Democratic nominee for Texas agriculture commissioner. He won the party's 2006 nomination for the same post.
Date: March 1, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: agriculture;veterans
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: But it’s  to suggest that the food program was targeted for reduction. Nor did Gilbert present any  that Staples suggested the cuts to pander to his right-wing supporters. We rate his 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 1 in 5 Texans did not have health insurance coverage before the pandemic, and now "nearly 1 in 3 Texans under the age of 65 don't have access to health care insurance.
Speaker: m.j. hegar
About the speaker: M.J. Hegar is the 2020 Democratic nominee to challenge U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in Texas. She is an Air Force veteran who challenged U.S. Rep. John Carter in 2018 and came within three percentage points. 
Date: July 22, 2020
Location: texas
Topics: health care;coronavirus
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Hegar said 1 in 5 Texans did not have health insurance coverage before the pandemic, and now "nearly 1 in 3 Texans under the age of 65 don’t have access to health care insurance." Hegar is right about how many Texans under 65 were previously uninsured. The number of Texans without access to health insurance during the pandemic is harder to pin down, but her "nearly 1 in 3" remark reflects the latest available estimates. We rate this  .
Statement: Our credit rating went up since I've been in office.
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: August 11, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: corrections and updates;financial regulation
Context: an interview with Panama City radio station WFLA 94.5
Fact-check justification: But that isn't considered an upgrade, the ratings agency says. (We should note that Brian Hughes, a spokesman for the Republican Party of Florida, corrected his tweet about the credit rating. "Correction: S&P made positive change to the outlook of FL's credit worthiness, not the rating.") Standard & Poor's did react favorably to Florida's budget behavior this year. Both the S&P press release and a longer report we reviewed from the July outlook change spoke highly of Florida's fiscal strategy, especially its willingness to cut spending as revenue dropped. But it's not accurate to say Florida's credit rating went up, so we rule Scott's statement .
Statement: If President Trump decides to deploy the U.S. military domestically, he would be "mobilizing U.S. military troops on American soil for the first time since 1807.
Speaker: erin burnett
About the speaker: Erin Burnett is anchor of Erin Burnett OutFront, a nightly news program on CNN. 
Date: June 1, 2020
Topics: homeland security;legal issues;military;punditfact
Context: remarks on her CNN show
Fact-check justification: Burnett said that if Trump decides to deploy the U.S. military domestically, he would be "mobilizing U.S. military troops on American soil for the first time since 1807." That’s not correct. The law was passed in 1807, but it was last invoked in 1992. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Aftab Pureval is "lying" about his office's "$400,000 projected deficit.
Speaker: steve chabot
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot has proudly served Ohio's First Congressional District for 18 years. A lifelong Cincinnatian, Steve previously served as a Cincinnati City Councilman and Hamilton County Commissioner for four years each prior to being elected to Congress in 1994.
Date: September 6, 2018
Location: ohio
Topics: county budget
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Steve Chabot says Aftab Pureval’s is "lying" about his office’s "$400,000 projected deficit." If you’ve read this far, you no doubt understand this is a tricky . Some budget documents showed the Hamilton County clerk of courts office with a projected shortfall of actually more than $500,000, but the county’s budget director said the deficit was really only on paper. It was also a temporary projection. As explained above, Pureval's office -- in agreement with other offices including the county commissioners' -- had wiped out the projected general fund gap well before Chabot made his ad. It’s complex stuff. But Chabot is a congressman and a former Hamilton County commissioner. We rate his  .
Statement: A yearbook photo shows Mark Kelly dressed as Adolf Hitler.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: October 24, 2020
Location: arizona
Context: online posts
Fact-check justification: At PolitiFact, the burden of proof is on the speaker. These claims fall short. We rate the posts . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: Says Nancy Pelosi's son served on the Burisma board with Hunter Biden.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 29, 2020
Topics: corrections and updates;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We rate this post . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more. Correction (Dec. 15, 2020):  Joe Biden was vice president when his son served on the Burisma Holdings board. An earlier version of this post had an  title; the story has been updated.
Statement: The state government workforce grew when Tim Kaine was governor.
Speaker: george allen
About the speaker: George Allen was a U.S. senator from 2001-2007. He was governor of Virginia from 1994-1998.
Date: July 21, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: workers
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Allen said the state workforce expanded during Kaine’s governorship. But there are no records that tabulate the number of executive branch employees on the mid-January day when Kaine took office in 2006 and the day he left four years later. Allen backs his  by using U.S. Census data that only allows a comparison of numbers in March 2006 -- two months after Kaine entered office -- to March 2010 -- two months after Kaine left. The Census data also includes workers in the judicial and legislative branches, over which a governor has limited control. Better information is available from Virginia’s government, which counts the number of state employees at the end of every month. Determining the increase or decrease in the workforce under Kaine depends on when you start counting. If you compare Dec. 31 figures from 2005 to 2009, the executive workforce -- controlled by the governor -- dropped by 2,909 full-time equivalents. The decrease appears largely because of the number of temporary employees on Virginia’s payroll at the close of 2005. If you compare Jan. 31 figures from 2006 to 2010, the state staff increased by 295. Contrary to the Census numbers cited by Allen, state records show that the bureaucracy under the governor’s control shrank by 828 full-time equivalents between March 2006 and March 2010. So Allen’s information does not come from the best source: The state government. Using state numbers, Allen is  right by one measure and  by two others. Allen’s statement, while containing an element of , ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: The Senate version of the health care reform bill "allows taxpayer money to pay directly for abortion in federal community health centers funded in the bill.
Speaker: daniel lipinski
About the speaker: Rep. Daniel Lipinski is a U.S. Congressman from Illinois. He represents the state's 3rd congressional district.
Date: January 22, 2010
Location: national
Topics: abortion;health care
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: They have not even though federal funding limited by the Hyde Amendment comprises just 20 percent of their annual budget now (and they'll still be getting that appropriations money, with its strings). Given all that and the public pronouncements from the White House, the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus and Sebelius that the money could not be used to provide abortions, we think it's highly  to state definitively, as Lipinski did, that if the Senate bill passes then federal dollars will start flowing to community health centers to provide abortions. We rule Lipinski's 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: We now have the greatest income inequality since the Great Depression.
Speaker: john edwards
About the speaker: John Edwards is a former U.S. senator from North Carolina who was John Kerry's running mate in 2004. A personal injury attorney, Edwards was born in South Carolina in 1953 and now lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. He graduated from North Carolina State University and earned a law degree from the University of North Carolina Law School. He is married to Elizabeth Edwards, who has been diagnosed with cancer. They have three children; a fourth was killed in an auto accident. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 30, 2008.
Date: May 12, 2007
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: a story by Reuters wire service
Fact-check justification: Indeed, economists have found that the top tier of Americans earn a disproportionately large percent of the income, and they almost always have. The income gap narrowed just after the Great Depression but has been climbing since -- most sharply in the 1980s and 1990s. An analysis of income tax returns by economists Emmanuel Saez at the University of California, Berkley, and Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics found that income going to the top 1 percent doubled from 8 percent of total income earned in the workforce in 1980 to 16 percent in 2004, and reached pre-Depression levels in 2005.
Statement: Says that if Texas, California and New York all voted for Democratic presidential nominees, "it would be mathematically impossible for Republicans to elect a president.
Speaker: gilberto hinojosa
About the speaker: Gilberto Hinojosa, a former elected judge for Cameron County in the Rio Grande Valley, won election as chairman of the Texas Democratic Party in June 2012.
Date: September 6, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: elections
Context: a comment while attending the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: Hinojosa said that if Texas, California and New York all backed the Democratic presidential nominee, it would be mathematically impossible for the Republican nominee to win. Mathematically speaking, that is . A case can be framed for the notion that if a Democrat carried the three states, he or she would hold a commanding position. Maybe, but that also assumes that many states would stay politically fixed one way or the other through the indefinite future based on voters' current leanings -- "ifs" that are, at the least, open to debate and speculation. All told, regardless, Hinojosa put no qualifiers on his statement. We rate it as .
Statement: Under the Affordable Care Act, anyone on Medicare who is admitted to a hospital for observation will be responsible for the bill. Medicare won't pay a cent.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: June 24, 2015
Location: national
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: The chain email said that "under the Affordable Care Act, anyone on Medicare who is admitted to a hospital for observation will be responsible for the bill. Medicare won't pay a cent." That’s . Medicare will cover the hospital stay, minus standard copayments and the like. Patients kept in the hospital under observation will not be able to receive Medicare reimbursements for follow-up care such as nursing-home stays, however. Even more  is the charge that this policy stemmed from the Affordable Care Act. In reality, this stems from a separate policy decision and had nothing to do with Obama’s law. The  is not only  but also dangerous, by urging ailing patients to leave the hospital for no good reason. This  rates .
Statement: Florida passes bill legalizing recreational use of marijuana.
Speaker: abc news-us
About the speaker: fake news blog site not affiliated with ABC News
Date: March 17, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a fake news blog post
Fact-check justification: A site known to peddle online hoaxes claimed that Florida passed a bill making recreational marijuana legal. But that’s not . The story was repurposed from a debunked  story about Wisconsin passing the same fictional legislation. We rate this  .
Statement: TSA WILL ACCEPT DRIVERS PRIV CARDS FOR ID AT THE AIRPORT
Speaker: lars larson
About the speaker: Lars Larson is a conservative radio talk show host. The "Lars Larson" show runs on 18 radio stations in Oregon and Washington. His Compass Media Networks national show is carried by 200 radio stations around the country. Larson got his start in radio, then reported for KPTV, Channel 12, in Portland for many years.
Date: October 2, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: immigration
Context: an email
Fact-check justification: "It’s not an immigration check." The ruling: Oregon voters on Nov. 4, 2014, will decide the fate of Measure 88, which, if passed, will allow DMV to issue driver cards to Oregon residents who can’t prove legal residency. Supporters and the ballot measure itself say the cards could not be used to board airplanes. But TSA officials – the people checking passengers onto planes -- say otherwise. We rule Larson’s  .