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Statement: ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was "released by Obama in 2009.
Speaker: jeanine pirro
About the speaker: Jeanine Pirro joined the Fox News Channel in 2006 and currently serves as a legal analyst as well as the host of "Justice with Judge Jeanine." She unsuccessfully ran for attorney general in New York in 2006 as a Republican.
Date: June 14, 2014
Topics: iraq;terrorism;punditfact
Context: a broadcast on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Pirro said that Obama released the current head of ISIS from government custody in 2009. The Defense Department said that the man now known as Baghdadi was released in 2004. The  that Baghdadi was still in custody in 2009 appears to be the recollection of an Army colonel who said Baghdadi’s "face is very familiar." Even if the colonel is right, Baghdadi was not set free; he was handed over to the Iraqis who released him some time later. But more important, the legal contract between the United States and Iraq that guaranteed that the United States would give up custody of virtually every detainee was signed during the Bush administration. It would have required an extraordinary effort to have held on to Baghdadi and there is no  that he was on anyone’s radar screen, assuming that he was in custody at all in 2009. The U.S.-Iraq agreement drove the release of thousands of detainees in 2009, but Obama had nothing to do with that. We rate the  .
Statement: A photo showing young children saluting troops was captured in Ukraine in 2022.
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 25, 2022
Topics: foreign policy;facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: social media posts
Fact-check justification: Social media posts  that a viral image, which shows two young children holding hands and saluting troops, was captured in Ukraine in 2022. But the photo traces back to 2016. We rate these posts .
Statement: 8% of the votes cast" in Michigan's Aug. 4 primary, 864 mailed ballots, came from dead voters. "NOTHING TO SEE HERE!!!
Speaker: donald trump jr.
About the speaker: Donald Trump Jr. is the son of President Donald Trump and his former wife Ivana Trump.
Date: August 15, 2020
Location: michigan
Topics: elections
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Donald Trump Jr. claimed that the 846 ballots that were rejected because the voter was dead accounted for "8% of the votes cast." These 846 ballots were not fraudulently cast by someone assuming the identity of a dead person. They were cast by living voters who died before Election Day. These ballots accounted for nearly 8% of the total number of rejected ballots in the state’s August primary. They accounted for about 0.03% of the total votes cast. None of the rejected ballots were counted toward the final results. We rate this  .
Statement: Ballots are "mailed unconstitutionally" to every voter in Colorado.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: October 22, 2022
Location: colorado
Topics: elections
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post said that ballots are "mailed unconstitutionally" to every voter in Colorado. Colorado’s constitution says elections must be conducted by ballot, but it does not specifically address voting by mail. State law dictates procedures for voting by mail. The practice is secure and has been used in Colorado for years. It has not been found to be unconstitutional.  We rate this  . PolitiFact staff writer Amy Sherman and researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report. RELATED : Midterm elections: What does history say? And what could make 2022 different? RELATED: Not all results will be known on election night 2022. That’s normal RELATED: The facts of a fair US election have only gotten stronger since Capitol attack
Statement: Nearly 40 percent of his McAllen-area constituents suffer from obesity.
Speaker: eddie lucio, jr.
About the speaker: Brownsville native Eddie Lucio, Jr., was first elected to the Texas Senate in 1990, after serving two terms in the Texas House of Representatives.
Date: November 18, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: poverty;public health
Context: remarks at Southern Obesity Summit
Fact-check justification: Lucio said nearly 40 percent of his McAllen-area constituents suffer from obesity. McAllen’s metropolitan statistical area in 2012 had 38.5 percent obesity among adults, according to the Gallup-Healthways study. A state survey that year suggested that nearly 45 percent of the region’s residents were obese. We rate Lucio’s statement as .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says Ted Cruz said, "When gays stayed hidden we had no mass shootings; we had no public nudity. Society was polite. Now anything and everything goes and I blame them.
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 16, 2015
Topics: lgbtq;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: He does not mention gay people, mass shootings or public nudity. The original Facebook page had an About section that says the page "is for entertainment purposes" and is "primarily satire and parody with a mix of political memes and messages." However, the meme that’s reappeared on social media three years later does not have this disclaimer attached. Cruz didn’t blame public nudity or mass shootings on gay people. We rate this  .
Statement: Says that in 2007, "Oregon ranked 25th -- or 7th from the bottom -- in percentage of children with untreated decay compared to 32 other states with similar data.
Speaker: oregon health authority
About the speaker: The Oregon Health Authority is a state agency that includes the public health division.
Date: April 24, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: children;public health
Context: a draft report
Fact-check justification: The Oregon Health Authority has no official position on the city water measure, although public health officials there clearly favor fluoridating water. But we don’t think this was the most responsible way to put perspective on Oregon’s untreated decay percentages. The agency could have run in its 2007 report all the percentages for the 32 states, clearly citing the years and without designating a ranking. In its 2012 report, writers should have deleted the phrase: "Oregon ranked 25th – or 7th from the bottom." The statement is .
Statement: Says President Donald "Trump orders 13 Obama deep state operatives arrested for treason.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: August 6, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a fake news blog post
Fact-check justification: Sanders, the White House press secretary, didn’t say those words. An identical version of this article showed up a few days earlier on another website Land of the Free . World Politics Now has a revealing About page. It looks like this: Enough said. This  rates .
Statement: Nancy Pelosi being 'escorted' out of a restaurant, drunk again!
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 31, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: #FactCheck : Madam Speaker doesn’t even drink alcohol!" We’ve rated  other claims that alleged Pelosi was kicked out of a benefit for children after drinking too much. This Facebook post about her being escorted out of a restaurant, "drunk again," is not any more truthful. We rate it !
Statement: Says that as president, Barack Obama has not gone to the Texas-Mexico border
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: April 25, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: immigration;children;foreign policy;government regulation
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Walker said that "unlike this president, I've actually gone to the (Texas) border." Obama certainly hasn’t been a frequent visitor, but as president he did go to the border once, in May 2011 to give a speech on immigration reform. We rate Walker’s statement . To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page . More on Scott Walker For profiles and stories on Scott Walker and 2016 presidential politics, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Scott Walker page .
Statement: Says his "patents in ultrasound have revolutionized modern medicine.
Speaker: george flinn
About the speaker: George Flinn is a former Shelby County commissioner whose Flinn Broadcasting owns several radio stations. He has spent millions running for various offices, including a failed bid for mayor of Shelby County and, in 2010, a failed bid for the Republican nomination in the 8th Congressional District.
Date: July 5, 2012
Location: tennessee
Topics: health care
Context: a campaign TV commercial
Fact-check justification: If the technologies are being employed in medicine to demonstrative salubrious effect, it isn’t because they are his patents because the patents have not yet been granted. When contacted initially, the campaign indicated it was eager for us to examine the  but did not provide the kind of supportive documentation that would establish its veracity. Instead, the documentation establishes the application for patents. But Flinn’s commercials flatly  he his patents in ultrasound technology revolutionized modern medicine, when the record shows he he only applied for patents several months after this congressional campaign was under way. That kind of deliberate deception of voters earns this  a !
Statement: (Pfizer) says do not breastfeed. Baby formula shortages everywhere. Gates promotes brand new artificial breast milk technology. All within less than a 2 week period. …Nothing to see here.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 17, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: But the shortages are linked to supply chain problems that began during the COVID-19 pandemic, plus the recall of some formula that led to a manufacturing plant shutdown. Finally, the post claimed that "Gates promotes brand new artificial breast milk technology," and also implies a link to current baby formula shortages. A startup company called BIOMILQ that makes artificial breast milk received $3.5 million from an investment fund co-founded by Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. But the company says it’s still three to five years away from getting a product to market. We rate this  .
Statement: The federal "limousine fleet has increased by 42 percent since Barack Obama took office.
Speaker: mark neumann
About the speaker: Mark Neumann is a developer and home builder from Nashotah. He was a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Wisconsin in 2012. He ran for governor in 2010 and formerly represented southern Wisconsin in Congress.
Date: November 9, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: deficit;federal budget
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Neumann said the federal limousine fleet "has increased by 42 percent since Barack Obama took office." Figures from the agency that tracks federal vehicles indicate the number of limos is up. But the agency says its record keeping is such that it doesn't know how many limos there are, and won't be able to calculate any level of increase under Obama until January 2012. We rate Neumann's statement .
Statement: Obama "said (the individual mandate) wasn't a tax.
Speaker: sarah palin
About the speaker: Sarah Palin was the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008. She is also the former governor of Alaska and the author of  Going Rogue: An American Life. Sarah Palin's previous experience includes leading the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and serving as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
Date: June 28, 2012
Location: national
Topics: health care;pundits;taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Palin is correct that Obama "said (the individual mandate) wasn't a tax." It’s right there in the video. We rate the statement . UPDATE : BuzzFeed has collected videos of Obama administration officials being asked about whether the individual mandate was a tax.
Statement: The EPA was asked about an environmental citation for the city landfill in Nashua, N.H. but "didn't know" why it was cited.
Speaker: newt gingrich
About the speaker: Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Date: January 8, 2012
Location: national
Topics: environment;government regulation;new hampshire 2012
Context: Concord, N.H
Fact-check justification: : Gingrich said the EPA cited a Nashua landfill without knowing its reason for doing so. The landfill  made a "watch list" for an outdated action, but it was not cited or fined for any violation by the EPA for being on the list. We rate his  .
Statement: Says "we are going to sell this house and use the proceeds to stabilize rates.
Speaker: nick fish
About the speaker: Nick Fish is Commissioner-in-Charge of the Portland Housing Bureau and Portland Parks and Recreation.
Date: August 13, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: water
Context: a statement on the Portland Water Bureau website
Fact-check justification: Managers this year used about $5.8 million of the fund’s $20.6 million to stabilize monthly water bills that otherwise would have increased more than the 3.6 percent jump that took effect July 1, Huyhn said. PolitiFact appreciates Fish’s making the best of the political haunted house he inherited from Leonard, but any effect the sale of the Water House will have on water rates is going to be a tiny drop in a very large bucket. Further, the fact that those proceeds will represent a one-time-only infusion blunts any effect even more. Money from the Water House’s sale will have no ability to stabilize water rates. We find his statement .
Statement: House Republicans required the use of Styrofoam cups in House cafeterias that are "part of Koch Industries.
Speaker: jim moran
About the speaker: Rep. Jim Moran, D-8th, was first elected in 1990 to represent a district covering Falls Church, Alexandria, Arlington County and part of Fairfax County.
He serves on the Appropriations Committee and is the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, as well as serving on the Defense Subcommittee.
Moran previously served as the mayor of Alexandria from 1985 to 1990.
Moran was born in Buffalo, N.Y. He graduated from College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., in 1967, and received a master of public administration from the University of Pittsburgh in 1970.
Date: May 28, 2011
Location: virginia
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: And even that decision was based on a recommendation by Democrats. Next, the company the vendor chose, WinCup, is not at all related to Dixie or Koch Industries, and is in fact a competitor. The fact that the man who owns WinCup once worked for a company that was bought by Koch Industries is irrelevant. Moran must have been wearing a tin foil hat on the day he came up with this one. !
Statement: For Cabinet posts, "I have the best voting record against Trump nominees of anyone else running for president
Speaker: kirsten gillibrand
About the speaker: Kirsten Gillibrand is a senator from New York. Gillibrand was appointed as senator in 2009 to fill Hillary Clinton’s vacated seat, as Clinton became U.S. Secretary of State under Barack Obama. Gillibrand won a special election in 2010 to retain her senate seat and won re-elections in 2012 and 2018. From 2007 to 2009, she served as the representative of New York’s 20th Congressional District. Gillibrand received a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law. In 2019, she ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in August.
Date: March 18, 2019
Location: new york
Topics: voting record
Context: a town hall
Fact-check justification: Gillibrand has sought to distinguish herself from the field of Democratic candidates for president by stating her voting record against Trump’s Cabinet nominees is stronger. She has voted against 27 of his nominees, while Warren and Sanders have opposed 26. Booker and Harris voted against Trump Cabinet nominees 25 times, and Klobuchar voted against them 17 times. We rate Gillibrand’s statement .
Statement: In Florida, it's not illegal for an immediate family member of state officials to prosper from legislation supported by a spouse.
Speaker: broward county medical association
About the speaker: The association represents 1,500 allopathic and osteopathic physicians of all specialties in Broward County, Florida.
Date: April 2, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: ethics;health care;legal issues
Context: an e-mail regarding Gov. Rick Scott
Fact-check justification: The medical association's resolution criticizes Scott for a conflict of interest, but its e-mail announcing the resolution concedes it is not illegal in Florida for an immediate family member of a state officer to prosper from legislation supported by their spouse. So back to our question: Is it legal? Provisions in Chapter 112 of the Florida Statutes allow state lawmakers to vote on issues that might benefit family members so long as they disclose the relationship after the vote. Scott may propose health-care legislation and budgets and appoint health-care officials, but he's not a lawmaker. Solantic clinics benefit from doing routine medical work paid for through state programs, such as Medicaid or workers' comp exams, but Scott has said repeatedly that Solantic will not officially do business with the state. "From the point of view of complying with the strict definition of the law, he appears not to have violated any of the provisions,"  Herron said. "But, as everyone has noted, there may be a higher standard than a legal standard to be held to." The legal standard is the one we're fact-checking. We rate this  .
Statement: In 31 states, decent child care costs more than college tuition.
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 23, 2014
Location: national
Topics: children;education;families
Context: a speech at the White House Summit on Working Families
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "In 31 states, decent child care costs more than college tuition." He’s chosen a statistic that originated in a wide-ranging survey of child care costs (albeit one published by an advocacy group). However, Obama has cherry-picked the most dramatic statistic of four presented in the report, allowing him to say 31 states, rather than as few as 10. He also ignores uncertainty about how federal aid and tax credits would affect the comparison. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: The Bush administration's latest plans for troop withdrawal from Iraq by 2011 are "more or less the same time frame I announced two years ago.
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 21, 2008
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: Chester, Va.
Fact-check justification: We'll agree that the 2011 date could be "more or less" the timeframe that Obama has proposed. But we don't see much similarity between the new 2011 withdrawal date and what Obama advocated two years ago. It's closer to what he began advocating a year ago. Obama stretches the timeline a little bit here in a way that's not supported by the facts, though we'll grant that Obama was calling for a general withdrawal two years ago and John McCain was not. So we rate Obama's statement .
Statement: In Chicago, school is never canceled" because of winter weather.
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: January 28, 2009
Location: national
Topics: education
Context: a meeting with business leaders
Fact-check justification: They opened two hours late. But Obama's daughters, Malia and Sasha, attend the private Sidwell Friends School, which canceled classes. Most school districts in the Washington suburbs also closed. Obama is right that snow days are amazingly rare in Chicago — there haven't been any in the last decade — but we'll cruelly ding him for saying "never." .
Statement: A photo of Pete Buttigieg in a military uniform without visible patches shows that "he is a fraud.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 12, 2020
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Pete Buttigieg A U.S. Navy official told PolitiFact that Buttigieg could have been working in an environment in which patches were not authorized for some reason. So we asked the Buttigieg campaign for more information. "When they went into bazaars on Fridays they had to remove all forms of identification, such as patches," said Chris Meagher, national press secretary for Buttigieg’s campaign. The Facebook posts are  and make a  . We rate them !