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Statement: The Iran nuclear deal is "putting billions of dollars back into a country that's the world's largest supporter of terrorism. We are actually giving them the money to fund the terrorists that are killing us and our allies.
Speaker: rudy giuliani
About the speaker: Rudy Giuliani is the former mayor of New York City. He was born in Brooklyn in 1944 and previously served as a federal prosecutor, as well as an associate attorney general under President Reagan. He graduated from Manhattan College and earned a law degree from New York University Law School. He has been married since 2003 to Judith Nathan and was married twice before. He has two children, Andrew and Caroline. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 30, 2008.
Date: July 18, 2016
Location: new york
Topics: terrorism
Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention
Fact-check justification: At the Republican National Convention, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said the United States is giving Iran billions of dollars under the Iran nuclear deal and that the money is being used to fund terrorists. He also called Iran the world’s largest supporter of terrorism. Giuliani is right that Iran ranks as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. The billions of dollars released to Iran was already Iran’s money, but could only be released with U.S. consent. On the last part of Giuiani's , experts have said it’s difficult to know whether Iran has used any of the money to sponsor terrorist groups. We rate this  as . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/d81d1a7d-7aa5-47d8-b7e3-1859f23fc5b8
Statement: Nobody is found dead of corona in their homes.. They all die at the hospital.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 7, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: While many people who die at home aren’t tested for COVID-19, an "increasing number" of at-home deaths have been confirmed to show they were caused by the disease, the story says. This Facebook post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat  news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .)   The coronavirus is not a hoax, and you can read all of PolitiFact’s coverage about it here .   We rate this post .
Statement: As governor, Maggie Hassan first proposed a $1 billion spending increase.
Speaker: impact america action
About the speaker: Impact America is an Indiana-based 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization, Impact America isn't required to publicly disclose its donors as a campaign committee 
Date: June 8, 2015
Location: new hampshire
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification:   Multiple ads from Impact America Action state that "As governor, Hassan first proposed a $1 billion spending increase." The reality is more complicated. There was a spending increase of $1 billion in her proposal, but nearly half of that amount came from the federal government, and much of the rest came from other sources of revenue. Only about $184 million -- one fifth of the total increased spending -- came from the general fund. We rate the
Statement: Says all Vegas hotels but Trump's have donated food, rooms in COVID response.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 9, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post attacks Trump’s Las Vegas hotel as being the only one in the city that didn’t offer food or rooms for emergency personnel. The Trump Organization hasn’t provided any information, and searches by PolitiFact and other news organizations didn’t turn up any  that Trump’s properties have made such donations. Several other hotels in Las Vegas have made donations, but the Trump hotel does not appear to be the only exception. The city has hundreds of hotels, motels and inns, and a hotel industry trade group says 36 Las Vegas hotels were participating in its national initiative to offer rooms to first responders and health care workers.  For a statement that contains an element of , but leaves a  impression, our rating is .
Statement: Mark Kelly criticized the (Paycheck Protection Program), then turned around and took money for his own multi-million dollar company.
Speaker: martha mcsally
About the speaker: Martha McSally, a Republican, is a former U.S. Senator and former U.S. Representative from Arizona. McSally served 26 years in the U.S. Air Force, retiring in 2010 as a full colonel. She was the first female fighter pilot to fly a combat mission and command a fighter squadron. She was elected to public office for the first time when she won election to Congress in 2014.
Date: July 31, 2020
Topics: economy;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: A company that Kelly co-founded and in which he has investments received up to $2 million in a loan from the program. But Kelly’s campaign and the company say he was not involved in the application process. McSally’s campaign did not provide information disputing that statement and we didn’t find any either. McSally’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Says Rick Perry told students he couldn't attend a gubernatorial forum due to scheduling conflicts, then on forum day "tweeted that he'd just been running with his dog.
Speaker: bill white
About the speaker: Bill White, an author, is a San Antonio native who was mayor of Houston from 2004-2009. He was the 2010 Democratic nominee for governor of Texas.
Date: October 5, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: ethics
Context: a news story
Fact-check justification: However, it looks like there was another message delivered to the student organizers of the Coronado High forum; the saved voice mail — which no one in Perry's office questioned — is persuasive. It's also undisputed that Perry tweeted about his run around Lady Bird Lake (né Town Lake) the morning of the El Paso forum. That's also what White said. In the end, we're mindful that Perry has repeatedly said his unwillingness to debate is based on White not releasing more tax returns, whereas White's statement suggests that Perry would have joined the forum if only he hadn't ginned up the "schedule conflict" excuse. We rate White's statement .
Statement: Franklin Roosevelt never allocated more than 12 percent of GDP to federal spending, while the percentage for Barack Obama is not projected to drop below 22.8 percent.
Speaker: glenn beck
About the speaker: Glenn Beck is the host of The Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show. He also hosts an Internet-based TV show. Beck formerly hosted a television talk show on CNN Headline News and then Fox News.
Date: February 8, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;pundits
Context: a commentary on Fox News Channel's 'Glenn Beck Program'
Fact-check justification: Instead, he pulled a fast one on viewers. Beck's end date excluded rates of federal spending that were twice as high as what Obama is on pace to spend. So 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: 400,000 Oregonians have gained access to health care" through the Affordable Care Act.
Speaker: jeff merkley
About the speaker: Jeff Merkley is a Democratic senator from Oregon. He was elected in 2008. Merkley won his first campaign for the Oregon Legislature as a representative in 1998. He was elected Democratic leader in 2003 and speaker of the House in 2007. He studied international relations at Stanford University and earned a graduate degree in public policy at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Date: May 28, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: health care
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: And anywhere from 60,000 to 83,000 Oregonians who didn’t qualify for Medicaid have purchased private health insurance plans, many with the help of tax credits. So those totals may well make Merkley’s 400,000  . But neither he nor anyone else can say how many of them already had access to health care before the ACA went into effect. Merkley’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it .
Statement: Kamala Harris said about Hurricane Ian that "if you have a different skin color, you're going to get relief faster.
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: October 2, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: climate change;congress;corrections and updates;weather
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: Scott claimed Harris said, "if you have a different skin color, you're going to get relief faster" after Hurricane Ian. Harris said no such thing in a response to a question that touched on several topics, including Hurricane Ian, climate change policy and disparities in who is most harmed by climate change and extreme weather. We rate this  . Clarification, Oct. 6, 2022 : This story has been updated to clarify that the FEMA webpage for Hurricane Ian victims linked to in this story doesn’t mention race or equity. Elsewhere, the agency’s website does discuss its efforts regarding equity. The rating is unchanged.
Statement: Photo shows the "USS Al Gore Global Warming Research Vessel" covered in ice.
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: February 8, 2021
Topics: climate change;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Climate change deniers sometimes point to cold weather as  that global warming is a hoax. But experts say that extreme cold weather like some communities in the United States are experiencing could be linked to climate change .   As Judah Cohen, the director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environmental research, told the New York Times: "Severe weather is much more frequent when the Arctic is warmest. It’s not in spite of climate change, but related to climate change. "   We rate this  .
Statement: Says his book, The Art of the Deal, is "the No. 1 selling business book of all time.
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: July 1, 2015
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: remarks on CNN
Fact-check justification: Trump said his 1987 memoir The  Art of the Deal is "the No. 1 selling business book of all time." The highest estimate pins the number of sales at 1 million, which we weren’t able to verify. According to one source of sales data, The Art of the Deal sold 184,000 physical copies since 2001. There are no lists of all-time sales, but we weighed The Art of the Deal against other popular books in its genre. While the book was very successful, it comes nowhere near claiming the title of top seller. Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People  and Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People easily outpace it. We rate the  .
Statement: There's not one public study, and by public study I mean a study available to the public, that has looked at using the product Kaput to poison feral hogs.
Speaker: will herring
About the speaker: Will Herring owns the Hubbard-based Wild Boar Meat Company.
Date: March 6, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: environment;animals
Context: a San Antonio Express-News news story
Fact-check justification: Herring said there’s no public study of Kaput, the product that might soon be available in Texas to attack feral hogs. There’s no public study of that EPA-registered product, we confirmed. But a 2015 study submitted to a science journal would become public if it’s accepted for publication. Also, the effects on feral hogs of warfarin, Kaput’s active ingredient, has been explored in published studies. We rate this statement .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/79f1a70f-3245-4ee8-ae8a-b94980d9c72f
Statement: Independent analysts "found that Trump's tax plan, given to the wealthy and big corporations, would rack up $30 trillion in debt.
Speaker: tim kaine
About the speaker: Tim Kaine is a U.S. senator representing Virginia, elected to the Senate in 2012. He was the 2016 Democratic nominee for vice president.
Kaine was governor from 2006 to 2010, lieutenant governor from 2002 to 2006, mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001, and city councilman of Richmond beginning in 1994. He was also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011.
Kaine was born in St. Paul, Minn. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1979 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983. He took a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Catholic missionary in Honduras, becoming fluent in Spanish.
 
Date: July 27, 2016
Location: national
Topics: debt;taxes
Context: Philadelphia
Fact-check justification: Kaine said that independent analysts "found Trump's tax plan, given to the wealthy and big corporations, would rack up $30 trillion in debt." Kaine is on pretty solid ground with the substance of his assertion, but he’s cherry-picked the biggest figure of several that were available. We rate his statement Half  .
Statement: Jill Biden implied the COVID-19 pandemic was planned.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 28, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post shows Biden appearing to say that the pandemic was planned. The post takes her statements out of context to present a  narrative. The full remarks show she was referring to vaccine research.  We rate this  .
Statement: Halliburton defrauded American taxpayers of "hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq.
Speaker: arianna huffington
About the speaker: Arianna Huffington founded the liberal news website Huffingtonpost.com, which she sold to AOL in 2011 for $315 million. In 2003, she unsuccessfully ran for governor of California.
Date: June 6, 2010
Location: national
Topics: corporations;legal issues;military;pundits;this week - abc news
Context: an interview on "This Week."
Fact-check justification: Certainly there have been hundreds of millions of dollars that Halliburton's KBR attempted to charge the government that have been denied. Government audits of KBR's work in Iraq will likely continue for some time, and we do not expect a final accounting on these fronts anytime soon. Huffington glossed over some of these points in her back and forth with Liz Cheney. There's also much  that makes us believe that hundreds of millions of dollars were lost to waste and inefficiency, not deceitful fraud. So we rate Huffington's statement .
Statement: There is "$500 billion of unspent COVID money" that can be rescinded.
Speaker: nikki haley
About the speaker: Nikki Haley announced on Feb. 14, 2023 that she is running for president in the Republican primary. Haley was the governor of South Carolina 2011-2017 and then served as President Donald Trump's ambassador to the UN in 2017 and 2018.
Date: April 10, 2023
Topics: federal budget;coronavirus
Context: Salix, Iowa
Fact-check justification: Haley said there is "$500 billion in unspent COVID money" that could be rescinded. Haley’s campaign didn’t say how she reached that figure, but USASpending, an online funding federal government spending tracker, shows that about $430 billion was unspent as of Jan. 31. However, a Government Accountability Office webpage said the majority of that sum has been allocated. Estimates about how much remains unspent and unallocated range from $70 billion to $90 billion. The statement is partially accurate because more than $400 billion in COVID-19 relief funds remain unspent. But it leaves out the critical detail that the  majority of the funding has been allocated and would therefore be hard to rescind. We rate it .
Statement: Says "For the first time in our state's history, the Pride flag has been raised at our State Capitol!!
Speaker: gavin newsom
About the speaker: Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California in 2018. He is the state's former lieutenant governor and served as mayor of San Francisco. He is a Democrat.
Date: June 18, 2019
Location: california
Topics: civil rights
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The raising in 1990 went through protocols, was sanctioned and announced ahead of time in a Bay Area newspaper. Newsom acknowledged in a subsequent statement that this "piece of our state’s history deserves to be called out and recognized." Even so, we rate his initial  .    –  The statement is not accurate. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says J.D. Vance said, "People who voted for Trump voted for him for racist reasons.
Speaker: club for growth
About the speaker: The Club for Growth is an anti-tax group.
Date: April 26, 2022
Location: ohio
Topics: elections;race and ethnicity;ad watch
Context: an attack ad
Fact-check justification: A Club for Growth Action ad said Vance had said, "People who voted for Trump voted for him for racist reasons." In the full interview from which those words were drawn, Vance allowed that some people voted for Trump for racist reasons, but he said most people voted for Trump for his policies on jobs. Vance rejected the idea that racism played much of a role in Trump’s win. The edited version of Vance’s words gave a very different spin than what he actually expressed. We rate this  .
Statement: There is no clinical evidence that vaccinating healthcare workers protects patients.
Speaker: seiu
About the speaker: SEIU is the Service Employees International Union. It represents 2.1 million health care and public services workers.
 
Date: March 5, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: health care;labor;public health;unions
Context: a lawsuit
Fact-check justification: SEIU Healthcare Employees Union, District 1199, said in its lawsuit that "there is no clinical  that vaccinating healthcare workers protects patients." That’s an unequivocal statement. But in fact, researchers found such  and published their findings in peer-reviewed studies in respected medical journals. The fact that other researchers disputed the  doesn’t mean the  doesn’t exist. We’ll leave it to the scientists to fight over how conclusive the  is. But our judges rule this   . (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: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg "has been arrested.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 6, 2023
Location: new york
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We also found no news reports about Bragg’s arrest, an event that would draw broad media coverage. Meanwhile, Bragg has good reason to travel with a security detail (The Brunswick News has a photo of him being escorted by one March 22). Federal law enforcement officers have been "tracking a surge of violent threats" against Bragg, Time reported , including a typewritten death threat enclosed with white powder. Claims Bragg was arrested are unfounded. We rate this post !
Statement: Under the Obama administration, we are drilling and producing more domestic energy supplies than we ever had before.
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: October 9, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: environment;economy;energy
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Langevin may have thought he misspoke, but he actually had the larger trend right. What he got  was the suggestion that the Obama administration was responsible when, in fact, the role of any administration in such matters is usually limited. Because the statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context, we rate it  . (Get updates from PolitiFact Rhode Island on Twitter: @politifactri . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Says Marco Rubio "was for immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship before he was against it.
Speaker: debbie wasserman schultz
About the speaker: Debbie Wasserman Schultz became the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in 2011 and resigned in July 2016. The Florida Democrat was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 after serving in the state senate. She represents Congressional District 23 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Date: January 23, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: immigration
Context: Fort Lauderdale
Fact-check justification: Wasserman Schultz said that Rubio "was for immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship before he was against it." The 2013 Senate bill which Rubio co-sponsored to overhaul our immigration system included a pathway to citizenship for certain illegal immigrants, albeit one with significant hurdles. After that died, Rubio said he still favored immigration reform, but that it’s only chance was through piecemeal bills. In his book, Rubio outlined specific steps for illegal immigrants to obtain legal status, and after many years eventually pursue citizenship.   There is a kernel of  to Wasserman Schultz’s , though, because some immigration advocates say Rubio’s piecemeal approach greatly reduces the chance that Congress would ever get to the point of addressing residency and citizenship. We rate this  .
Statement: Greg Abbott "has campaigned with a sexual predator who has bragged about having sex with underage girls.
Speaker: wendy davis
About the speaker: Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth attorney, was initially elected to the Texas Senate in 2008. She was the 2014 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, giving up a shot at winning re-election to the Senate.
Date: September 19, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: corrections and updates;ethics;crime;sexuality
Context: the Rio Grande Valley
Fact-check justification: Davis said Abbott "has campaigned with a sexual predator who has bragged about having sex with underage girls." Davis didn’t mention Nugent’s name, but she’s right the former rock star, who stumped for Abbott this year, has talked about sexual escapades with much younger women. Then again, we found no confirmation of Nugent explicitly saying his victims were underage. Also, Davis’ statement could have given debate viewers the misimpression Nugent is a convicted sex offender, which isn’t so. We rate the  .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.