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Statement: Because of the Trans-Pacific Partnership "we've got a country like Malaysia taking really serious efforts to crack down on human trafficking.
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: August 2, 2016
Topics: global news service;human rights;trade
Context: at the White House
Fact-check justification: Obama said Malaysia is "taking really serious efforts to crack down on human trafficking" due to the TPP.   Malaysia has been drafting changes to its legal code, experts told us, and already made legislative and administrative changes to combat human trafficking. Even if human trafficking numbers haven’t yet changed, experts said what Malaysia has done constituted a "serious effort," and that the TPP had an influence. We rate Obama’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/dd84a634-8f85-4c2d-8606-3ab308f03e7e
Statement: We offer a tremendous amount of low calorie, no calorie options, like waters, unsweetened products, low calorie diet items. All of which unfortunately are taxed by this tax.
Speaker: ax the bev tax
About the speaker: Anti-soda tax coalition in Philadelphia
Date: March 22, 2017
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: food;taxes
Context: In a tweet
Fact-check justification: The Ax The Bev Tax Twitter account played a clip of Pepsi employee Amy Chen saying "We offer a tremendous amount of low calorie, no calorie options, like waters, unsweetened products, low calorie diet items. All of which unfortunately are taxed by this tax." Water, as long as it has no sweeteners added, and unsweetened beverages are not taxed. Chen actually said on the radio show that "most" of those types of beverages were taxed, but Ax The Bev Tax’s clip was altered. Ax The Bev Tax has acknowledged the clip is , with spokesperson Anthony Campisi chalking it up to an editing error by someone still getting familiar with the nuances of the tax. But the error was still made. A  statement by Chen was turned into a  statement by Ax The Bev Tax.  PolitiFact   regularly   challenges  politicians who make claims and then later admitted they made a  or misspoke or walk their original statement back. This is similar. We rule the  .
Statement: For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During that month, an estimated 97% of the ice sheet thawed.
Speaker: brian schatz
About the speaker: Brian Schatz, a former lieutenant governor of Hawaii, has been a United States Senator for the state since December 27, 2012. He served as a State Representative from 1998 to 2006 and served for eight years as the CEO of Helping Hands Hawaii.
Date: July 24, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: environment;climate change;weather
Context: a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate
Fact-check justification: Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz said: "For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During that month, an estimated 97 percent of the ice sheet thawed." His first sentence is correct. Because he also prefaced his comment by asserting that "glaciers continue to retreat" and the ice sheet "provides a stark example of the rapid recession of the world's ice," his contention that  "97 percent of the ice sheet thawed," could easily be misinterpreted as referring to the whole ice sheet. Because parts of the statement are accurate but the wording of the second sentence leaves out an important detail, we rate it   . (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 board of a nonprofit organization on which Obama served as a paid director ... granted funding to a controversial Arab group.
Speaker: tennessee republican party
About the speaker: The Tennessee Republican Party represents Republicans in Tennessee.
Date: February 25, 2008
Location: national
Topics: israel
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: And some of the leaders of AAAN have made statements that could be interpreted as anti-Israel. The release implies that Obama's public pro-Israel stance should be questioned based on the opinions of leaders from the AAAN. But there's no  the AAAN used any of the Woods Fund money to promote an anti-Israel foreign policy agenda. In fact, the AAAN's focus is on local initiatives, and has no foreign policy. We rate the  .
Statement: When Atlanta Police Chief George Turner was interim head of the department, overall crime fell 14 percent and violent crime dropped 22.7 percent.
Speaker: kasim reed
About the speaker: Kasim Reed is Mayor of Atlanta.
Date: July 9, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: crime
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Furthermore, the city acknowledged that the "rolling monthly average" method cited was not the most appropriate one to use when officials talk to the public about crime.   Despite the city's mathematical errors, the fact remains that crime is down. But this doesn't erase the fact that the city got the violent crime statistic . And it used the  type of data to begin with. We rate Reed's statement .
Statement: Babysitter on crystal meth eats 3-month-old toddler.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 9, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Never mind that 3 months old is firmly in infant — not toddler — territory, this story isn’t real.   If you search for "babysitter on crystal meth eats 3-month-old toddler," you’ll find that it originated on a self-described satire site with a fabricated story that PolitiFact previously examined about a Missouri babysitter supposedly snarfing down her ward.   The mugshot is authentic, but the woman’s arrest was unrelated to cannibalism. She was arrested in Indiana in 2016 on a charge of domestic battery in the presence of a child. We rate claims that this is a real news story !
Statement: Says the 2014-15 Texas budget increases spending by less than the rate of inflation and population growth.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: June 10, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: state budget
Context: a bill-signing ceremony
Fact-check justification: Perry said the 2014-15 Texas budget that legislators approved would keep spending increases below combined changes in population and inflation. Setting aside the foundation’s analysis, which split expenditures by when they were authorized and not which budget they belonged to, we found that state spending rose no more than 8.7 percent from 2012-13 to 2014-15. That falls below the 9.85 percent population/inflation rate embraced by legislators last fall, which is also in line with recent biennial average increases of 9 percent. Then again, the spending could exceed other predictions for that rate. On balance, we rate Perry’s statement as .
Statement: Says if you are on your bike in a crosswalk, all you have to do is dip your wheel into the road and cars must legally stop.
Speaker: bikeportland.org
About the speaker: BikePortland.org is an independent, daily news source that covers the Portland bike scene, run by Jonathan Maus.
Date: January 4, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: transportation
Context: a tweet.
Fact-check justification: Finally, we also talked to Oregon Sens. Jackie Dingfelder and Ginny Burdick, both of whom helped pass the crosswalk law. The Portland legislators confirmed that it was always their intent that the new law apply to slow-moving cyclists as well as pedestrians. Maus tweeted that the new law meant a cyclist could dip a tire into a crosswalk and cars would legally have to stop to permit crossing. We checked the laws ourselves, spoke with a lawyer and the legislators involved and found that Maus is correct. We rate this statement .
Statement: Roadside bombs are responsible for 70 percent of casualties in Iraq and these new mine-resistant vehicles can reduce those casualties by two-thirds.
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: May 23, 2007
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: In the May 23 news release, Biden of Delaware criticized Pentagon delays in approving the deployment of mine-resistant vehicles in Iraq, arguing that the more heavily-armored vehicles could be sparing the lives of U.S. troops. Biden's assertions are based on information from the Department of Defense. In testimony and reports, military officials have said roadside bombs – improvised explosive devices – have caused 70 percent of U.S. casualties. The Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James Conway, told the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a March 2007 letter the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, called MRAPs, "could reduce the casualties in vehicles due to IED attack by as much as 80 percent." Those estimates are based on damages sustained  by Humvees, which are commonly used for quick transport but offer little protection from bombs.
Statement: Very little of (the defense) budget — less than 10 percent — actually goes into fighting ISIS and international terrorism.
Speaker: bernie sanders
About the speaker: Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
Date: January 17, 2016
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;military
Context: comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Sanders said, "Very little of (the defense) budget — less than 10 percent — actually goes into fighting ISIS and international terrorism." He’s getting that number by using a very limited view of the overall defense budget, pointing only to specific allotments in the budget for addressing ISIS and other terrorist threats. Experts told us that no matter what amounts are designated for that purpose, those operations draw from resources paid for in the base budget. There’s no clear way to separate the two. Sanders’ figure does refer to some specific funding but paints a  picture of overall defense spending. We rate it .
Statement: Says Monica Lewinsky tweeted that she's "willing to take one for the team" by engaging in oral sex with President Donald Trump because, "Apparently that's the only thing that can convince Republicans to impeach.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 3, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We also searched Lewinsky’s Twitter handle @MonicaLewinsky in the All My Tweets database , which compiles users tweets in a single webpage, and could not find anything from Lewinsky on Oct. 3 – as the screenshot shows – that references impeachment, Trump or oral sex.   Another red flag demonstrating that the tweet is fabricated: An advanced Twitter search of its keywords came up with (almost) no results. For a viral tweet that has supposedly garnered thousands of retweets and likes, only one similarly-worded tweet from a user who isn’t Lewinsky showed up on the platform. We reached out to Lewinsky for comment, but haven’t yet heard back.   We know enough, though, to rate this faux tweet !
Statement: If you look at the benefits and wages of recorded federal employees, they far outstrip the market rates of the private sector.
Speaker: eric cantor
About the speaker: Eric Cantor is a former congressman who represented Virginia's 7th District from 2001 to 2014. He rose to House minority whip in 2009 and House majority leader in 2011. Cantor was upset by Dave Brat in the 2014 GOP primary for congress. He is now vice chairman and managing director of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank.
 
 
 
Date: May 18, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: federal budget;jobs
Context: a Town Hall conversation
Fact-check justification: Cantor claims that the "benefits and wages" of federal employees far outstrips those of the private sector. On average, that’s ; total compensation for federal workers is nearly double the private sector average. Looking at salary alone narrows the divide a bit, and some argues private pay even exceeds federal pay, but Cantor played it safe by avoiding specific numbers and including benefits. As some suggest, there may be solid reasons for the disparity -- expertise, education requirements, responsibility, seniority -- but that doesn’t change the facts. We rate the  .
Statement: Trump's tax plan is "completely focused on the wealthy and the powerful - not the middle class.
Speaker: charles schumer
About the speaker: Charles Schumer is a Democratic senator from New York and the Senate majority leader.
Date: October 1, 2017
Location: new york
Topics: economy;taxes
Context: an interview on CBS' Face the Nation
Fact-check justification: Schumer said Trump’s tax plan is "completely focused on the wealthy and the powerful - not the middle class." Granted, there are lots of details missing from Trump's tax plan. But the plan presented so far does deal with taxpayers who are not wealthy. So in a strict reading of his , Schumer is saying the Trump plan has no changes, positive or negative, for low- or middle-income taxpayers. That isn't the case. It's possible that by "completely focused" Schumer meant the Trump plan benefits only the wealthy and the powerful. But that also isn't completely . While many of the plan’s proposals would benefit the wealthy, doubling the standard deduction would mean more of the country’s lowest earners would pay no federal income tax and taxpayers earning less than about $150,000 would see a tax cut. We rate Schumer's statement .
Statement: He's a good man but he's a pro-life liberal. He's right on the pro-life part, but he's a liberal.
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: November 7, 2007
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a Nashville radio interview
Fact-check justification: Cato's director of health and welfare studies, Michael Tanner, says unflatteringly that Huckabee resembles Bush in his "big-government conservatism." But "pro-life liberal"? Pro-life seems an intentionally narrow description of Huckabee's strong "values" positions. And "liberal" is a clear exaggeration, especially if it means "on everything else," though you can't deny liberal elements in his populism. Keeping in mind the subjective nature of the term, we rate Thompson's "pro-life liberal" label as no better than .
Statement: Local law enforcement . . . will have access to the [Obamacare] Data Hub's treasure trove of personal info.
Speaker: evan feinberg
About the speaker: Evan Feinberg is president of Generation Opportunity, which describes itself as a "free-thinking, liberty-loving, national organization of young people promoting the best of being American."
Date: October 1, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: criminal justice;health care;legal issues;privacy issues
Context: a Providence Journal commentary
Fact-check justification: Evan Feinberg of Generation Opportunity said,  "Local law enforcement ... will have access to the Data Hub’s treasure trove of personal info" in a database with "private medical records, tax and financial info, legal history, and other intimate information." Not only is he making a huge stretch when he says the treasure trove includes private medical records and legal history -- with financial data, not so much -- he is stretching further to suggest that local police will have anything close to routine access to the data in the Hub. Thus, the contention that signing up for Obamacare will allow a prying police chief to view your latest mammogram is  . (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 Obama administration "called Bashar Assad a reformer when he was turning his Russian-provided guns on his own people.
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: October 11, 2012
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: Danville, Ky
Fact-check justification: Ryan said the Obama administration "called Bashar Assad a reformer when he was turning his Russian-provided guns on his own people." That’s not quite what Clinton said; instead, she was describing what she understood lawmakers’ views to be. Still, as a secretary of state speaking on national television, her decision to discuss such beliefs without knocking them down suggests that she lends them at least some credibility. On balance, we rate Ryan’s  .
Statement: Obama's lawyers officially admit birth certificate is fake.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 20, 2012
Topics: obama birth certificate;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Obama is not a Muslim from Kenya . According to the president and independent biographies, he’s a Christian who was born in Honolulu. And we’ve carefully documented his Hawaii birth certificate. You can read our guide here .   We rate this story !
Statement: There's a "new Netflix show to make little boys into 'sexy' little girls.
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 14, 2019
Topics: corrections and updates;sexuality;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Justin Dwayne Lee Johnson is the owner of the dance company and a popular contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race where his alter-ego, Alyssa Edwards, first became famous. Before that, the parents of his students didn’t know their children’s teacher was a gay man who does drag . The Dancing Queen reality show followed and, as Vanity Fair recalled in this October 2018 article , the first two episodes show Johnson officiating a wedding of friends in full Alyssa Edwards drag, him buying his first home, and him visiting his childhood home in Mesquite, Texas. The series also has plenty of drama, sniping among the dance moms (think pageant moms) and dancing as the children practice and perform in competitions. We rate this Facebook post !
Statement: Says U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin "proposed a $3.9 trillion tax increase -- a tax increase so extreme" that "even Nancy Pelosi voted against it.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: October 15, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;message machine 2012;voting record;taxes
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Our rating The National Republican Senatorial Committee said Baldwin "proposed a $3.9 trillion tax increase -- a tax increase so extreme" that "even Nancy Pelosi voted against it." Baldwin backed a budget that included a $3.9 trillion tax increase. Pelosi voted against the budget and its tax increase, although her reasons aren’t clear. We rate the  . Note: On Oct. 31, 2017, we edited this item to make it clear that experts had told us that tax collections would be $5 trillion higher in the caucus budget than in the Obama budget, not that the caucus budget would have raised taxes by $5 trillion more.
Statement: Joe Biden's margin of the less than 21,000 votes in Wisconsin was the tightest of any state in 2020.
Speaker: rebecca kleefisch
About the speaker: Rebecca Kleefisch was the lieutenant governor of Wisconsin from 2011-19 under Gov. Scott Walker. She previously worked as a TV anchor and reporter, most recently with WISN-TV in Milwaukee. Kleefisch was defeated August 9, 2022 in her Republican primary bid for Republican nomination for governor.
 
Date: June 8, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;states
Context: Campaign email
Fact-check justification: Kleefisch’s campaign claimed in a fundraising email that Wisconsin’s 2020 margin was the tightest of any state in the country. Though the campaign claimed to have sent a correction to the statement to note the margin was among the tightest, we weren’t able to find any  of a correction being sent out. The margin between Biden and Trump in many 2020 battleground states was narrow, but in two states – Arizona and Georgia – it was narrower than Wisconsin. We rate this  .
Statement: Says the United States does not "trade as much as other developed nations.
Speaker: rob portman
About the speaker: Rob Portman was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He is a former Republican congressman who also was a U.S. trade representative and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George H.W. Bush.
Date: January 20, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;trade
Context: a speech to the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce
Fact-check justification: So we turn to the -O-Meter. Portman’s statement was made to bolster of a point of view. But economists say that Portman’s measure -- exports as a percentage of GDP -- is valid and useful. Dispute his goals if you wish, but Portman’s  about the United States’ export rate is accurate. On the -O-Meter, we rate his  .