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Statement: Joe Biden just told @Lawrence that as president he would veto Medicare for All if it passed both houses and came to his desk.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 9, 2020
Topics: health care;facebook fact-checks
Context: an interview on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: A viral tweet said, "Joe Biden just told @Lawrence that as president he would veto Medicare for All if it passed both houses and came to his desk." Biden’s response on MSNBC was not as definitive as the post made it seem. Biden replied that he "would veto anything that delays providing the security and the certainty of health care being available now." He said if it passed, he would want to look at the costs and the impact on the budget and taxes for the middle class. To put it another way, Biden only had critical words when asked about Medicare for All, but he didn’t bluntly state he would veto it. The statement is partially accurate but takes things out of context. We rate this statement .
Statement: The income of the top 1 percent nearly quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, but the typical family's incomes barely budged.
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: July 24, 2013
Location: national
Topics: economy;income
Context: Galesburg, Ill
Fact-check justification: Obama said "the income of the top 1 percent nearly quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, but the typical family’s incomes  budged." Calculations by the CBO, a highly credible agency, show an increase of 275 percent for the top 1 percent, which is pretty close to quadrupling. And for average households, income rose by comparatively modest amounts. We rate the  .
Statement: Lula's staff infiltrated and caused damage while the Brazilian Patriots cleaned up.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: January 8, 2023
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: And numerous heads of state have decried the violence while aligning themselves with Lula. We rate this  !   PolitiFact contributing reporter Luiz Romero contributed to this report. RELATED: Tucker Carlson’s unfounded  that Brazil’s election was rigged
Statement: Images show how climate change destroyed the Greenland ice sheet and harmed a polar bear from 2009 to 2019.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 12, 2022
Topics: environment;animals;climate change;science;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Greenland did lose a record amount of ice in 2019, but the loss recorded in satellite images was not what the post suggested. It’s not clear where or how the "after" photo was generated. In addition, the picture of the emaciated bear was taken in 2015, not 2019. Experts point out that while polar bears have been affected by climate change, there are other factors that could have contributed to the bear’s poor health. We rate this 10-year challenge .
Statement: Many just call him 'Lyin' Ted.' ... His TV ad about John Kasich? Lie! Stations had to pull it off the air.
Speaker: new day for america
About the speaker: New Day for America is a political action committee (super PAC) based in Ohio that supports former governor John Kasich for president.
Date: March 31, 2016
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance;candidate biography;elections;history;negative campaigning
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: So no illegal consultation is necessary to get them both on the same page, making it look like coordination.) Despite that legal separation, the New Day commercial specifically blames Cruz, giving him the ever-elongating nose and stating that if Cruz's lips are moving, he's lying. That makes New Day's TV commercial as  as the TV commercial it's complaining about. File this under "irony." And on the -O-Meter, we rate it .
Statement: Says Multnomah County libraries "are open 44 hours per week … the lowest of any library in the four-county region.
Speaker: libraries yes! committee
About the speaker: The Libraries Yes! Committee is an organization that advocates on behalf of the Multnomah County Library System.
Date: October 21, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: taxes
Context: a campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: And up in Washington’s Clark County, the main Vancouver Community Library is open 60 hours a week . We  also called the group responsible for the mailer and asked them about the statement. They sent us a slightly different group of numbers -- the average number of hours a library was open in each county. Their findings supported the same conclusion: Multnomah County library hours are the lowest in the four-county region. We find this statement .
Statement: Since the federal Violence Against Women Act was adopted in 1994, "cases of domestic violence have fallen by 67 percent.
Speaker: gwen moore
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore is a Democratic member of Congress, representing Wisconsin's 4th District, which primarily includes Milwaukee. Moore, who served in the state Legislature from 1989 to 2004, was elected to Congress in 2004.
Date: December 11, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;crime;women
Context: a letter to congressional leadership
Fact-check justification: Our rating U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore said that since the Violence Against Women Act was adopted in 1994, "cases of domestic violence have fallen by 67 percent." Her statement is generally on the money, though a bit dated. It also needs some clarification -- namely that there are factors in addition to the law that are linked to the decrease. We rate Moore’s statement .
Statement: In April, when asked how he would handle the COVID-19 pandemic, Tommy Tuberville "said he didn't have a clue" and after winning the Republican nomination in July, "he still said he didn't have a clue.
Speaker: doug jones
About the speaker: Doug Jones is the Democratic nominee in the U.S. Senate special election in Alabama.
Date: August 10, 2020
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Tuberville did say in March he "wouldn’t have a clue" about whether to make stimulus payments to Americans unemployed by the pandemic or to send them back to work. And in July, when asked what his approach to the pandemic would be, he said: "But I don’t know which way you go, at the end of the day, whether you’re right or , or anything that you do with this." Tuberville also has not laid out a plan for what he would do about COVID-19, but he has stated some positions, including that people should return to work and children should return to school. Jones’ statement is accurate, but needs additional information — our definition of .
Statement: NBC just fired Megyn Kelly before her new show begins.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 8, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: But TheLastLineOfDefense.org, which has been the source of several  news stories that we’ve previously checked , admits it makes up its stories. While there isn’t an indication on the post itself, TheLastLineOfDefense.org says on its About Us link that "all articles should be considered satirical and any and all quotes attributed to actual people complete and total baloney." There’s no such admission on USPostman.com, but the story is still made up. Kelly has not been fired from NBC. We rate this statement !
Statement: Says Andrew Gillum has presided over "the highest crime in Florida four years running.
Speaker: ron desantis
About the speaker: Ron DeSantis announced on May 24, 2023 that he is running for president in the Republican primary. DeSantis won the race for Florida governor in 2018 and 2022. DeSantis was first elected to Congress in 2012 and resigned in September 2018 to focus on his campaign. He represented Florida's 6th Congressional District which is south of St. Augustine and north of Orlando and includes Daytona Beach. DeSantis initially ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 but dropped out after Marco Rubio decided to seek re-election.
Date: September 23, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: crime
Context: CBS4 interview
Fact-check justification: DeSantis said Gillum has presided over "the highest crime in Florida four years running." DeSantis was referring to the crime rate in Leon County, in which Tallahassee represents most cases. Data shows that Leon County had the highest crime rate in Florida in recent years. DeSantis omits that the county’s crime rate in 2017 declined from 2016. A few cities had higher crime rates, but like Tallahassee, they draw a lot of visitors who aren’t included in the residential population. Experts and the FBI caution against using the statistics to compare jurisdictions because it fails to take into account unique characteristics, such as a high college student population or visitors. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says Connie Mack initially said he would have voted "yes" for the Paul Ryan budget plan, and then, "you said it was stupid and you would vote no. And then your folks corrected you, and you changed your position again, yes.
Speaker: bill nelson
About the speaker: Bill Nelson was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Florida in 2000. He lost re-election to Gov. Rick Scott in 2018. Nelson previously served in the Florida Legislature, Congress and as state Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner.
 
Date: October 17, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;federal budget
Context: a U.S. Senate debate
Fact-check justification: Nelson said of the second Ryan plan, "You were asked would you support it, since you missed it. You said yes. And then in a later interview, you said it was stupid and you would vote no. And then your folks corrected you, and you changed your position again, yes." If we start the timeline of Mack’s statements after he missed the vote March 29, we found Mack’s campaign said he would have voted yes, then he said it was a "joke", then his campaign said he meant the process was a joke and he would have voted yes. Then we find from late April through August Mack said a few times that he probably would have voted against it. But there was some consistency in Mack’s message: He criticized the Ryan plan for taking too long to balance the budget and promoted his faster-acting Penny Plan instead. Nelson omitted this part of Mack’s message. We didn’t find any time that Mack called the Ryan plan "stupid," but he did call it a "joke," which is similar. We also found that Mack landed on the conclusion that he would have voted no, while Nelson’s  ends with Mack deciding that he would have voted yes. Nelson is right that Mack kept changing his message about how he would have voted. But he omitted that Mack was consistent in arguing that the Ryan plan moves too slowly to balance the budget. We rate this  .
Statement: Says that in three legislative sessions, his proposals opening pre-kindergarten to all Texas 4-year-olds never got heard or voted out of committee.
Speaker: rodney ellis
About the speaker: Ellis, a former member of the Houston City Council, was initially elected to the Texas Senate in 1990. On his campaign website, he singles out his authorship of legislation affording state-funded college grants for needy students. He chairs the Senate Committee on Government Organization.
Date: May 14, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: children;education
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: But Perry vetoed that bill, saying the money should be spent instead on existing grants enabling select districts to expand half-day classes to full-day offerings -- serving "more students with greater needs," or 21,000 more students than would have been served under the vetoed proposal, the governor said. So how does Ellis’ statement shake out? He’s right that his proposals to open pre-K to all 4-year-olds never drew a hearing or advanced from committee. But a few efforts to expand eligibility for — or enhance — pre-K offerings have succeeded or won wide consideration. We rate his statement as .
Statement: The Clintons and Bushes were "involved in orchestrating the assassination of JFK Jr.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 19, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: That’s , and so is the suggestion in this Instagram post that she and others helped to assassinate him.   On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., then the founder and publisher of George magazine, was piloting a single-engine Piper Saratoga when it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean . His wife and his sister-in-law were also in the aircraft and killed alongside Kennedy.   The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the crash probably happened after Kennedy, who was inexperienced at flying his plane alone at night, became disoriented in haze .    We rate this post .
Statement: Nearly one in four people in their prime working years are not working.
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 4, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;workers
Context: Atkinson, N.H
Fact-check justification: Trump said that "nearly one in four people in their prime working years are not working." The actual percentage is 21.8 percent, so Trump’s phrasing is reasonable. Putting it this way does ignore that this number has declined steadily under Obama for the past six years, and it also ignores that it’s not that far from the all-time low. Still, economists agree that Trump is raising a legitimate concern, since even after six years of improvement, the percentage today remains worse than it was prior to the Great Recession, suggesting that it might represent a new, more worrisome "normal." We rate his  .
Statement: The "House-passed budget proposal could cut funding for programs that help keep local neighborhoods safe, slash more than $1.7 million in anti-terror funds for Ohio.
Speaker: sherrod brown
About the speaker: Sherrod Brown is a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Ohio. He won his first elected office to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1974. He later served as Ohio secretary of state and was elected to Congress in 1992. He first joined the U.S. Senate in 2007.
Date: March 7, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: criminal justice;federal budget;crime
Fact-check justification: Brown was correct, then, that Cleveland "could" lose "more than" $500,000. All of his claims were based on a House bill that the Senate is expected to change. But the House bill sets the stage for whatever happens next; for now, at least, it is the bill the Senate must work with. And Brown was careful to say it "could," not "would" when discussing all the proposed cuts. We rate his claims as .
Statement: As a state senator, he (Obama) even refused to support a measure to stop sex businesses from opening near schools or places of worship!
Speaker: focus on the family action
About the speaker: Focus on the Family Action is the lobbying arm of Focus on the Family, an organization founded by evangelical Christian Dr. James Dobson.
Date: March 26, 2008
Location: national
Topics: legal issues
Context: an article written by Tom Minnery
Fact-check justification: The vote came down 33 in favor; 15 against, with 5 voting "present." Because the bill needed 36 votes in favor — a three-fifths majority — it narrowly failed. Any implication that Obama's vote means that he supports sex businesses opening near schools or places of worship would be . But in Minnery's article, which has been widely circulated through chain e-mail, he states that Obama "refused to support" a bill that would have prohibited sex shops near schools and places of worship. That's .
Statement: In a lawsuit between private citizens, a Florida judge "announced the decision was going to be based on Islamic Law.
Speaker: adam hasner
About the speaker: Adam Hasner, R-Delray Beach, is a former Majority Leader for the Florida House of Representatives.
Date: March 20, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: legal issues;religion
Context: a speech before conservative activists
Fact-check justification: So back to the Hasner’s statement: In a lawsuit between private citizens, a Florida judge "announced the decision was going to be based on Islamic Law." The current case is still being played out in Hillsborough County District Court, and Judge Nielsen’s own written opinions show that Hasner is correct about the judge's reliance on Islamic Law in the case. However, the judge's point is that it's not simply a dispute between two private parties. The issue involves religious law, and the legal experts support Nielsen turning to that body of law to resolve it. Whether Nielsen's decision will stand up after review by Florida District Court of Appeal is still unknown. For now, we rate this  .
Statement: Herschel Walker misled about "personally treating 4,500 veterans per year," about "graduating from college" and about "working in law enforcement.
Speaker: democratic senatorial campaign committee
About the speaker: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee works to elect Democrats to the U.S. Senate.
Date: September 17, 2022
Location: georgia
Topics: candidate biography;ad watch
Context: ads
Fact-check justification: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee claimed that Walker misled about "personally treating 4,500 veterans per year," about "graduating from college" and about "working in law enforcement." Walker incorrectly said he treated 4,500 veterans. Walker did not graduate from college or work in law enforcement, contrary to his claims. ​​We don’t know what motivated Walker, but we know he has misrepresented his experience and credentials. We rate the  . RELATED: Fact-checking ads in the 2022 election campaigns RELATED: Raphael Warnock’s PolitiFact file RELATED: Herschel Walker’s PolitiFact file
Statement: The Mueller report was leaked.
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 1, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Anyone hoping for details about Mueller’s thoughts on allegations that President Donald Trump obstructed justice will be disappointed. The "report" makes no mention of the obstruction, Russia or even Trump. Instead, you’ll find the lyrics to "All Star," a 1999 song by the band Smash Mouth. We’ll let lead vocalist Steve Harwell sing us out. "Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb In the shape of an "L" on her forehead" We rate this post !
Statement: President Trump didn't say he'd go after a cultural site.
Speaker: mike pompeo
About the speaker: Mike Pompeo has served as the U.S. Secretary of State under President Donald Trump since April 2018. He was formerly the director of the CIA.
Date: January 5, 2020
Location: national
Topics: iran
Context: an appearance on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Pompeo said, "President Trump didn't say he'd go after a cultural site." On Twitter, Trump said the United States has "targeted 52 Iranian sites," including "some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture," that he would consider blasting if Iran were to retaliate for the U.S. airstrike that killed Soleimani in Iraq. He later repeated the threat while speaking to reporters. We rate Pompeo’s statement .
Statement: Now in half the homes in California, people speak a language other than English in their own homes.
Speaker: pat buchanan
About the speaker: Pat Buchanan is a conservative pundit who served as a senior adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. He was a host of CNN's Crossfire and ran for president in 1992, 1996 and 2000.
Date: May 5, 2016
Location: california
Topics: immigration
Context: an NPR interview
Fact-check justification: During a conversation on NPR, Pat Buchanan said "In half the homes in California, people speak a language other than English in their own homes." Looking at the numbers alone, he’s close to correct. But he fails to note that many of those who speak a foreign language at home also are fluent in English. He also omits the fact that only 19 percent of Californians, not half, are considered limited English speakers. Buchanan’s statement contains some element of , but in the context of his conversation, it wrongly implies that half the state does not speak English. It ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate his  . CORRECTION: This fact check has been corrected to show that English is the primary language in the United States. A previous version incorrectly stated it is the official language.   – The statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: In the mid 1990s, in our state, (Florida was) No. 1 in violent crime in America. ... The only concern I had was for the citizens of Florida, who were subjected to a violent crime every three minutes and 45 seconds.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: September 19, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: crime
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Crist said, "in the mid 1990s, in our state, we were No. 1 in violent crime in America. ... The only concern I had was for the citizens of Florida, who were subjected to a violent crime every three minutes and 45 seconds." Crist is correct on both factual claims. Florida led the nation in the rate of violent crimes per 100,000 population in the mid 1990s. And Florida did see a violent crime committed every three minutes and 45 seconds. In fact, for many years in the 1990s, a violent crime was committed even more often. We rate Crist’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/95fa7bae-0471-4b13-aa94-917cbebbda9f