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Statement: Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America.
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: November 20, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: corporations;jobs;technology
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Most of Apple's products are produced and assembled in China.   Our Ruling Trump said: "Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America. "  The Flextronics plant in Austin that Trump toured on Wednesday has produced Mac Pro computers since 2013. Earlier this year, Apple planned to shift assembly of the computer from Austin to China, but decided to keep operations in Austin after the Trump administration agreed to exemptions on import tariffs on goods from China needed for the computer. We rate this  .
Statement: This is the year Florida becomes a majority minority state.
Speaker: alan grayson
About the speaker: Alan Grayson was initially elected to Congress in 2008, then defeated for re-election in 2010. He was elected again to Congress from a different district in 2012. He lost the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Florida in 2016.
Date: October 26, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: census;race and ethnicity
Context: a speech to the Florida Democratic Party
Fact-check justification: Grayson said, "This is the year Florida becomes a majority minority state." The state is inching closer to majority-minority status, but in 2012, non-Hispanic whites still accounted for about 57 percent of Florida’s population. Based on our research and interviews with the experts, it’s highly unlikely -- one expert said impossible -- that Florida will become minority-majority next year. It’s possible that it may not happen for many more years. A University of Florida study projects it won’t happen before 2040. There are a variety of factors that could speed up or slow down that process, but we found no  to support Grayson’s  that Florida will become majority-minority this year. We rate this  .
Statement: Roy Moore takes the military vote, pulls ahead by 5,000 votes
Speaker: defense-usa
About the speaker: Defense-usa.xyz posts fake news.
Date: December 15, 2017
Topics: elections;fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: That means that even if all of the overseas and provisional ballots were cast for Moore -- an unlikely scenario -- that would not add up to enough to change the outcome of the race since Jones had a lead of more than 20,000 votes. The state is expected to certify the election results on Dec. 28. A spokesman for the Secretary of State’s office said that the final results are not significantly different from the unofficial numbers from election night but will include slight increases for both candidates due to the late-counted military and provisional ballots. The viral post saying Moore pulled ahead of Jones thanks to overseas and provisional ballots is not accurate. We rate this  .
Statement: On the day the House voted on the climate change bill, "there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the House, which is standard. It wasn't even written.
Speaker: rush limbaugh
About the speaker: Rush Limbaugh is a conservative radio talk show host. His website describes him as "America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy."
Date: June 29, 2009
Location: national
Topics: environment;energy;pundits
Context: his radio show
Fact-check justification: As Sullivan said, every component of the final version was in the chamber from the start, available for members to read. The final House bill, the one that was sent to the Senate on July 6, included all those changes; two documents effectively became one. So we give Limbaugh a .    Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: Black Lives Matter, who are attacking law enforcement officers" -- Barack Obama "had them to the White House.
Speaker: sean duffy
About the speaker: Sean Duffy is a Republican member of the U.S. House, representing Wisconsin's 7th District in the northwestern part of the state. The former Ashland County district attorney was elected In November 2010, taking the seat previously held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Dave Obey of Wausau.
Date: November 17, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: civil rights;criminal justice;crime
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification:  . ➤  Says Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has "ties to the Muslim Brotherhood."  . ➤  "Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have left us with $19 trillion in debt."  .
Statement: Says Mike Gallagher's plan "would cut Social Security benefits for two-thirds of seniors.
Speaker: tom nelson
About the speaker: In 2022, Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. He was the Democratic nominee running in 2016 for the U.S. House seat held by Republican Reid Ribble. He has served as the Outagamie County executive since 2011. In 2010, Nelson won the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor but lost in the general election. Nelson served in the Wisconsin Assembly from 2004 to 2010, and the last two years was the Assembly majority leader.
Date: September 1, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: retirement;social security;taxes
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: That’s support for Biggs’ approach to Social Security, but it’s short of Gallagher proposing a plan to change Social Security that explicitly cuts benefits for two-thirds of the beneficiaries. Our rating Nelson said: "Mike Gallagher’s plan would cut Social Security benefits for two-thirds of seniors." Gallagher has not made a proposal on Social Security that would cut the benefits of two-thirds of the recipients. However, he has praised a proposal that would make those cuts, saying he is most influenced on Social Security by the proposal’s author. We rate the statement .
Statement: The U.S. Geological Survey increased Yellowstone volcano eruption threat level to "high
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: October 29, 2018
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "In a nutshell, this whole ‘bumped Yellowstone’s volcano threat to high’ thing is a massive job of misreporting," Poland said in an email. "The threat level for the caldera system is rated as ‘high’ in a report that was issued by USGS. That report updates an initial report from 2005, in which Yellowstone was also rated ‘high.’ ... Nothing has changed" We rate this statement .
Statement: Says Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., "voted to raise the Social Security retirement age on us.
Speaker: martha robertson
About the speaker: Martha Robertson is a legislator in Tompkins County, N.Y., who is running to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Reed in a district that covers New York state's Southern Tier.
Date: August 12, 2014
Location: national
Topics: social security
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: In an ad, Robertson said Reed "voted to raise the Social Security retirement age on us." That’s a stretch. While the Cooper-LaTourette budget proposal was based on the Simpson-Bowles report, which did support an increase in the retirement age, the actual measure considered by the House (and voted for by Reed) was significantly more vague on that point. Meanwhile, even if you agree that Reed was effectively voting for a retirement-age increase, it’s an exaggeration for the ad to say that such a hike was "on us," since a large majority of the district would not have been affected by a policy that was only designed to take effect in 2050. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: Dr. Phil and other celebrities are endorsing CBD gummies.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 31, 2022
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: We reached out to the Dr. Phil show and didn’t immediately hear back. However, in February 2021 both he and Dr. Oz appeared on TMZ Live to warn people not to fall for scams using their names to sell CBD and that they don’t endorse CBD products.   Oz told TMZ Live that he tested some of the products sold online that falsely  to have his endorsement and that a lab testing showed high lead levels. Buyer beware. We rate claims that celebrities are creating, selling or endorsing this product .
Statement: The federal tax code has "loopholes that are giving incentives for companies that are shipping jobs overseas.
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: October 3, 2012
Location: national
Topics: debates;jobs;taxes
Context: the first presidential debate
Fact-check justification: President Obama said there are "loopholes that are giving incentives for companies that are shipping jobs overseas." Independent analysts agree that firms with international operations can take advantage of tax loopholes that domestic firms can not. The value of these is in the billions. Such tax laws might not be the deciding factor for companies to locate in foreign countries, but they make that choice more lucrative. We rate the statement .
Statement: At the State of the Union address, Democrats, "even on positive news … were like death and un-American. Un-American. Somebody said, 'treasonous.' I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not?
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 5, 2018
Location: national
Topics: legal issues
Context: a speech near Cincinnati
Fact-check justification: Trump said that at the State of the Union address, Democrats, "even on positive news … were like death and un-American. Un-American. Somebody said, ‘treasonous.’ I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not?" There’s a good reason why not: Declining to applaud the president doesn’t come anywhere near meeting the constitutionally defined threshold of treason, which in any case can’t occur except in wartime. Rather, legal experts agree that it is a clear case of constitutionally protected free speech. We rate the statement .
Statement: Young women today in metropolitan areas" who are childless and single are out-earning childless, single young males.
Speaker: genevieve wood
About the speaker: Genevieve Wood advances policy priorities of The Heritage Foundation as senior contributor to The Foundry.
Date: April 8, 2014
Topics: income;jobs;women;punditfact
Context: comments on CNN
Fact-check justification: Wood said, "Young women today in metropolitan areas, for example, who are childless, single young women are actually outperforming males in that same category all over the country." The statement tracks back to a credible analysis of 2008 Census Bureau data that looks at median incomes in metropolitan areas -- a fact that Wood ignores. But she gets most of the other details correct, and while the information is now six years old, we were unable to track down more recent research to confirm or disprove the point. Finally, we should note that this comparison holds  because childless, single young women tend to have more education and qualify for higher paying jobs. Wood’s statement is accurate but needs clarification. We rate it .
Statement: Even the WHO has conceded that the (SARS- CoV-2) virus … is no more dangerous than the common flu, with an infection fatality rate of 0.14%.
Speaker: reiner fuellmich
About the speaker: Reiner Fuellmich is a lawyer.  
Date: December 30, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: We found other estimates for the infection fatality ratio and rate to vary, and we noted one as low as 0.15%. But scientists warn that the infection fatality rate can be influenced by the availability of testing, the age of the population, socioeconomic conditions, and other factors.   Fuellmich was  about the WHO making a favorable comparison between the coronavirus and the flu, and his infection fatality rate estimate was lower than those in many published studies. His statement suggests a level of certitude that the WHO has never conceded. We rate this  .
Statement: Says "massive floods" led to Legionnaires' disease outbreaks at the Quincy Veterans' Home.
Speaker: bruce rauner
About the speaker: Bruce Rauner was elected governor of Illinois in 2014. He became the first Republican governor in the state in 12 years upon his inauguration in January 2015. The gubernatorial campaign was Rauner's first foray into politics. He previously had been a principal at the private equity firm GTCR in Chicago.
Date: June 12, 2018
Location: illinois
Topics: public health;veterans
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: While speaking to state employees and lawmakers about Illinois’ budgetary priorities, Rauner claimed "massive floods" led to a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that hit the Quincy Veterans’ Home during his first year in office. His administration was unable to cite any analysis specific to Quincy to demonstrate that link, and federal health experts who have investigated the Quincy situation have made no such connection, either. More to the point, criticism of the governor in respect to Quincy centers not on what led to the initial Legionnaires’ outbreak but how slow his administration was to respond while seniors were sickened and many died. The governor’s statement appears to be an effort to deflect blame. Rauner’s Act-of-God claims about the source of Legionnaires’ are unverified and off-point. For that, we rate his statement .
Statement: Says that in Illinois, "fewer than 20% of those actually deported have been charged with any serious crime.
Speaker: richard durbin
About the speaker: Dick Durbin in the senior U.S. senator from Illinois and the Democratic majority whip.
Date: October 22, 2019
Location: illinois
Topics: immigration;crime
Context: remarks at a committee hearing
Fact-check justification: Durbin said that in Illinois, less than 20% of immigrants who are deported "have been charged with any serious crime." Limited federal backs that up, but it comes with a few caveats — most notably the fact that the available count includes all individuals who departed from Illinois at the time of their deportation. That means they may have resided and been arrested in a state other than Illinois before leaving the country. We rate Durbin’s  .  — 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.
Statement: The government is "monitoring SMS texts for dangerous misinformation about COVID vaccines.
Speaker: joe rogan
About the speaker: Joe Rogan is the host of "The Joe Rogan Experience," a Spotify podcast. He is also a comedian and color commentator for UFC.
Date: July 20, 2021
Topics: pundits;technology;privacy issues;facebook fact-checks;punditfact
Context: a podcast episode
Fact-check justification: In a conversation about privacy and living in "a surveillance state," Rogan said, "They are monitoring SMS texts for dangerous misinformation about COVID vaccines." Rogan’s vague references to "they" and "SMS texts" could have left some listeners with the  impression that the government is snooping on all text messages that Americans send and receive, including private messages.  That’s not the case. The effort he alluded to comes from the Democratic National Committee, which is alerting companies that facilitate bulk text messaging to reports about mass text messages that spread misinformation in violation of their terms of service. The government is not involved, and no messages are being screened. The statement leaves out context that could give a different impression. We rate Rogan’s statement .
Statement: Pope Francis kissing the hands of David Rockefeller & John Rothschild.
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: April 19, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The photo was taken in 2014, when Pope Francis visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem.   The man standing next to Grynfeld is Moshe Ha-Elion, another Holocaust survivor. Pope Francis was also photographed holding his hand .   Reuters reported at the time that the pope was introduced to six survivors of Nazi concentration camps that day, and he slowly kissed the hand of each one.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: President Obama has "stopped using the phrase 'war on terror.'
Speaker: tim pawlenty
About the speaker: Tim Pawlenty is the former governor of Minnesota, having served two terms in office from 2003-2011.
Date: January 11, 2011
Location: national
Topics: homeland security;terrorism
Context: his book, "Courage to Stand: An American Story"
Fact-check justification: But he never attaches the words "Islamic" to those phrases. And neither has Obama. As Obama and members of his administration have repeatedly explained, this is a very conscious decision to be more precise about the enemy, al-Qaida and other terrorist affiliates and not to feed into the al-Qaida message that America is somehow at war with Islam. You may agree or disagree with Obama's word choices, or with Pawlenty's, but Pawlenty is correct about Obama's deliberate decision not to use the phrases "war on terror" or "radical Islamic terrorism." We rate his statement .
Statement: Says the Republican Party platform says "pull back even more of the rules on campaign finance reform, get rid of McCain-Feingold" while the Democratic Party platform says "we want to find a way to put more fair rules on campaign finance reform.
Speaker: cory booker
About the speaker: Cory Booker is a senator from New Jersey. He was first elected to the Senate in 2013, making him the first African-American senator from New Jersey and the first African-American elected to the Senate since Barack Obama in 2004. Booker served as mayor of Newark from 2006 until 2013. He has a bachelor's degree in political science and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University, an honors degree in United States history from The Queens College as a Rhodes Scholar and a J.D. from Yale Law School. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and suspended his campaign in January 2020.
Date: September 5, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: campaign finance
Context: an interview with #waywire
Fact-check justification: Booker said that the Republican party platform says "pull back even more of the rules on campaign finance reform, get rid of McCain-Feingold" while the Democratic party platform says "we want to find a way to put more fair rules on campaign finance reform." Booker is right about the gulf between Democrats and Republicans on campaign finance. The GOP platform states: "we support repeal of the remaining sections of McCain- Feingold." The Democratic platform says: "we support campaign finance reform, by constitutional amendment if necessary." That’s straightforward enough for us. We rate this statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Domino's Pizza is giving each person who shares a Facebook post "a coupon valid for 2 large pizzas.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 22, 2019
Topics: food;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The real Domino’s Pizza Facebook account was created Jan. 10, 2008. Also, the company isn’t turning 50.   "We’re nearly 60!" Domino’s spokesperson Jenny Fouracre told us in an email.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Just last year, over 5,000 refugees came to New York state, and 94 percent settled outside of New York City.
Speaker: sean ryan
About the speaker: Sean Ryan is a Democrat and a member of the New York state Assembly from Buffalo.
Date: March 1, 2017
Location: new york
Topics: immigration
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Ryan said, "Just last year, over 5,000 refugees came to New York State, and 94 percent settled outside of New York City." Department of State figures, collected during the refugee vetting process, support Ryan’s point. The numbers closely match data from both the federal fiscal year and the calendar year. We rate his  as .
Statement: Says U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland "voted to keep the shutdown going.
Speaker: gwen graham
About the speaker: Gwen Graham lost the Democratic primary for governor in Florida in 2018. She won Florida's second district seat in the U.S. House in 2014 and served for one term. She is the daughter of former Florida Gov. Bob Graham.
Date: September 25, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: federal budget
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: Graham said Southerland "voted to keep the shutdown going." The ad refers to an Oct. 16, 2013, no vote Southerland cast against a bipartisan Senate bill that funded the government and ended the shutdown. By the time it reached the House floor, it was clear to lawmakers that their vote would effectively be deciding whether to end the shutdown or not. If more Republicans had joined Southerland in voting no, the shutdown would have continued. Regardless of Southerland’s personal feelings about a shutdown, Graham is focusing her attack on his vote -- and his vote was a clear "no" to ending the shutdown. We rate the  .
Statement: Red Alert: Major Signs of Voter Fraud Uncovered In Ohio.
Speaker: americanjournalreview.com
About the speaker: A site associated with fake news. 
Date: August 8, 2018
Location: ohio
Topics: elections
Context: an article
Fact-check justification: The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it . Correction Aug. 22, 2018: After we published this item, we heard from Eggers that his point wasn't accurately covered in this fact-check. As a result, we added additional information from Eggers and clarified the point of this fact-check, which was a suggestion made by some bloggers that Ohio's voter rolls were a sign of voter fraud.