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Statement: I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia.
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: October 16, 2018
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia." We found no  that Trump or the Trump Organization owns property in Saudi Arabia. However, Trump has profited handsomely from business dealings with Saudis dating back at least to the 1990s. Even during his presidency, Trump hotels continues to earn business from the Saudi government, reports show. In fact, Trump’s Washington hotel’s acceptance of payments from foreign governments — including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — is the basis on an ongoing lawsuit against Trump. We rate this .
Statement: The Obama administration left Trump with a "stockpile with a cupboard that was bare.
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: April 6, 2020
Topics: federal budget;natural disasters ;coronavirus
Context: a White House briefing
Fact-check justification: Trump said the Obama administration left him with a "stockpile with a cupboard that was bare." In one specific way, he has a point: N95 masks were depleted after the H1N1 outbreak in 2009, and experts warned years ago that the supply should have been replenished.  However, Trump made a sweeping generalization and exaggerated when he described the stockpile as a bare cupboard. The former director of the stockpile, just a couple of months before COVID-19 cases appeared in the U.S., described it as an $8 billion enterprise, with extensive holdings of many needed items. We rate this statement .
Statement: This (Independent Payment Advisory Board) board can ration care and deny certain Medicare treatments so Washington can fund more wasteful spending.
Speaker: pat boone
About the speaker: Pat Boone is the spokesperson for the 60 Plus Association, a conservative political group that focuses on older Americans.
Date: March 12, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: health care;medicare;retirement
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Boone said, "This IPAB board can ration care and deny certain Medicare treatments so Washington can fund more wasteful spending." Actually, the law specifically states that the board cannot ration care. The board doesn’t look at individual patients or deny individual treatments. Instead, it makes system-wide recommendations to rein in the future growth of Medicare spending, and it makes those recommendations within limited parameters. It also was created to stop runaway spending growth within the Medicare program itself, not to divert money to other budget items. We rate Boone’s statement .
Statement: MSNBC announced Trump won 2020 election.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 8, 2022
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: You’re aware that President Biden is in the White House." He is. He won the 2020 presidential election. And MSNBC did not report otherwise. We rate this post !
Statement: Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. had "52 months of ... uninterrupted job creation" and "revenues were at an all-time high in 2007.
Speaker: ed gillespie
About the speaker: Ed Gillespie is a Republican strategist who currently runs the firm Ed Gillespie Strategies. He served as counselor to former President George W. Bush. Gillespie has announced he will run for Virginia governor in 2017. He narrowly lost a 2014 bid for the U.S. Senate to Democrat Mark Warner.
Date: July 11, 2010
Location: national
Topics: economy;history;taxes
Context: an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press
Fact-check justification: That's high by historical standards but hardly a record. It only ties for 16th place going back to 1934, and within the 14-year stretch between 1996 and 2009 it only rises to 7th place. So if Gillespie's point is that Bush's tax cuts led to record revenues, they did -- for 2007 at least -- but that was a record aided by a the largest, non-recession economy in American history. Ultimately, Gillespie two comments are generally accurate, but they would have benefited from some additional historical context. We realize that this is not always possible during a fast-paced television show, so on balance, we rate his statement .
Statement: Says Baptist pastor Charles Stanley is selling CBD.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 10, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Both  news articles link to a site for a company that sells CBD products, and the page includes a form for customers to fill out and click "Rush my order." The Better Business Bureau shows a number of consumer complaints have been filed against the company. We tried calling a phone number listed for the company, but no one answered and its voicemail box was full. We also sent an email to the company asking about  news articles, but did not get an immediate response. We rate claims that Stanley is selling CBD .
Statement: Kari Lake called Trump the "fattest president since Taft" in a 2016 tweet.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: March 11, 2023
Location: national
Topics: arizona
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Meanwhile, shortly after Trump was declared the winner in 2016 (the same day of the supposed tweet about Trump’s weight), Lake shared her thoughts on Facebook. She wrote that, "Donald Trump just delivered a very solid victory speech. Sadly, I think many of the people who dislike him, and are upset, did not hear it. I hope it gets replayed tomorrow because I sense he wants to try to bring this country together after a difficult campaign." We rate claims that Lake tweeted in 2016 an insult about Trump’s weight .
Statement: Walmart employees receive "roughly $5,800" in public assistance per year.
Speaker: ed schultz
About the speaker: Ed Schultz is the host of the Ed Show on MSNBC.
Date: May 20, 2014
Topics: welfare;workers;punditfact
Context: a segment on "The Ed Show"
Fact-check justification: Schultz claimed taxpayers pay "roughly $5,800" per Walmart employee for social safety net programs. That’s a distortion of a narrowly written report that acknowledged its shortcomings. A 2013 analysis from House Democrats relied on several assumptions in attempting to address the situation of Walmart employees in Wisconsin. The $5,800 figure is inflated by including people who are eligible for Wisconsin’s version of Medicaid but not actually enrolled. The report cautions at many points not to accept its findings as representative of Walmart stores across the country, as eligibility requirements for various programs vary across states. None of this made it into Schultz’s on-air takedown of the country’s largest private-sector employer. Schultz’s statement contains an element of  but needs significantly more information to paint a fuller picture. We rate it .
Statement: Says Jerry Nadler said "God has no authority in the House of Representatives
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 26, 2021
Topics: congress;religion;facebook fact-checks
Context: an image
Fact-check justification: "Whenever a nation's laws no longer reflect the standards of God, that nation is in rebellion against him and will inevitably bear the consequences." Leaning into the constitutional separation of church and state , Nadler pushed back. "Mr. Steube, what any religious tradition describes as God’s will is no concern of this Congress," he said. That’s similar to what’s in the Facebook post, but it’s not a direct quote. We rate the post .
Statement: The majority last quarter of Sherrod Brown's campaign contributions came from outside of the state of Ohio.
Speaker: josh mandel
About the speaker: Josh Mandel, a Republican from Lyndhurst, is a Marine veteran who served two tours in Iraq. He served as Ohio treasurer from 2011 to 2019.  Before that, he was a state representative from the 17th Ohio House District. He unsuccessfully challenged Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown in the 2012 US Senate race. Mandel is running for the GOP nomination for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat in 2022.
Date: September 1, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: campaign finance;elections
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: Both candidates must raise millions more. Both will look for deep pockets throughout the United States. But Mandel was  on his specific . And if adding in one more quarter renders him sort-of right, a long history involving years of Brown elections renders Mandel . On the -O-Meter, Mandel’s statement is simply .
Statement: Right now, 50 percent of Florida students leaving high school cannot read at grade level.
Speaker: bill proctor
About the speaker: Rep. William L. "Bill" Proctor lives in St. Augustine and chairs the house education committee. He was elected to the House in 2004.
Date: January 6, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: education
Context: a newspaper article
Fact-check justification: Proctor said "Right now, 50 percent of Florida students leaving high school cannot read at grade level." The results for 10th grade reading FCAT show only 39 percent at grade level. Some additional students met that grade level mark through retests or by a sufficient score on the SAT or ACT, which would boost that 39 percent figure. Another way to measure Proctor’s  is by looking at the percentage who were deemed college ready for reading based on college entrance exams, and that figure was 55 percent for 2009-10. By both measurements, the figure is close to 50 percent. We rate this  .
Statement: Under a GOP bill on cash bail, "a large quantity of people who are accused of crimes, including anyone who even witnesses certain crimes, could now be detained and subject to bail.
Speaker: darrin madison
About the speaker: Darrin Brian Madison Jr. is an American justice activist and politician. He is a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Wisconsin's 10th Assembly district since January 2023.
Date: February 8, 2023
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;legal issues;crime
Context: News release
Fact-check justification: He’s right that widening the factors a judge can use to set cash bail for a defendant could result in more people being subject to bail – and in pointing out that the bill would also widen "violent crimes" to include crimes where violence has not yet occurred but is "potentially imminent. "   But his comment about people who witness certain crimes is  – first because witnesses can already be subject to bail, and second because it calls on an obscure section of the criminal code in which "intentionally" spectating is, in itself, a crime.   We rate a   when it is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context.   That fits here.
Statement: Says people can send Christmas cards to "a recovering American soldier" at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 20, 2019
Topics: fake news;military;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Now called "Holidays for Heroes," the American Red Cross effort is handled at the local level and includes other holiday activities that are not solely about mail. The organization’s website says the change "allows local Red Cross offices to identify and engage in a variety of activities that thank and recognize members of the military and veterans living in our communities. There is no longer a national Holiday Mail for Heroes P.O. Box to which cards are sent. Please contact your local Red Cross office for details." We rate this old rumor .
Statement: Says he "is the reason we do not pay a toll every time we pass over the bridge at MoPac and William Cannon.
Speaker: gerald daugherty
About the speaker: Gerald Daugherty won election to his previous seat as Precinct 3 commissioner for Travis County in November 2012.
Date: May 10, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: transportation
Context: a mailed campaign flier
Fact-check justification: Daugherty told us he overstated in claiming that he "is the reason we do not pay a toll every time we pass over the bridge at MoPac and William Cannon." He was an early and prominent opponent. But his  leaves out the many residents and public officials who spoke, lobbied and voted against the overpass toll and worked to find an alternative. No one person was the reason there’s no toll at the bridge. We rate his statement .
Statement: Sen. Raphael Warnock "voted with Biden to slash Medicare spending.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: September 16, 2022
Location: georgia
Topics: federal budget;medicare
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: The National Republican Senatorial Committee said that Warnock "voted with Biden to slash Medicare spending." This  is more than . The federal government would see its outlays reduced by about $300 billion as a result of a Medicare drug-price negotiation provision. However, that reduction wouldn’t represent cuts to Medicare beneficiaries. Rather, by leveraging Medicare’s market power, the government would be able to pay less to provide the same medicines, thus delivering the same level of benefits to people on Medicare. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson "wants to give a new $265,000 tax cut to millionaires like himself while raising taxes on the middle class.
Speaker: tammy baldwin
About the speaker: Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 6, 2012. She represented Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District from January 1999 to January 2013. She served as a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from January 1993 to January 1999. She was a Dane County supervisor from 1986 to 1994 and briefly served on the Madison Common Council, filling a vacancy, in 1986.
Date: August 17, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: message machine 2012;taxes
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: And the $265,000 figure is from calculations by a respected group. The impact is far less clear for the middle class. To establish a tax increase, the ad cites a report that assumes key, worst-case details about the Ryan plan and ignores that Thompson has specifically opposed scrapping some of the deductions. Baldwin’s ad draws a debatable conclusion about the middle class by splicing together two very different studies on the tax implications of the tax-rate cuts Thompson favors. We rate the  .
Statement: Malia Obama was "among 10 arrested in racist Antifa attack," and the cop who arrested her was "found dead under suspicious circumstances.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 9, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: blog posts
Fact-check justification: The Cambridge Police Department daily log , an overview of the department's daily calls for service, does not mention an attack involving 10 assailants, Antifa or any of the names listed in the  news article. The department’s News & Alerts page also does not have a post announcing the death of an Officer Patrick Farley, Malia’s  arresting officer. The photo of the police officer used in the Popular News Today  news article is not a photo of a person named Farley but a photo of Brad Miller, a former police officer in Arlington, Texas. Miller was in the news last year for shooting an unarmed teenager . We rate this narrative !
Statement: A lot" of Sen. Sherrod Brown's policies "reflect that interest in Marxism" and a fondness for communism.
Speaker: mike gibbons
About the speaker: Mike Gibbons is running in the 2022 Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Ohio. He also ran for the Senate GOP nomination in 2018. He was Ohio finance co-chair of Trump Victory, a joint committee of Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee in 2016.
Date: February 20, 2018
Location: ohio
Topics: candidate biography
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: In noting that Brown studied Russia as a college student, Gibbons said, "apparently he liked it, because a lot of his policies reflect that interest in Marxism." We found no  to suggest Brown supports Marxism or communism. Brown does favor American workers and opposes many free trade policies, but those are policy positions he shares with President Trump. We rate Gibbons’ statement .
Statement: Says that as Providence's mayor, David Cicilline said the city had a "world-class … school system. Not only did Providence not have a world-class school system but as measured, was amongst the last school system in the entire country.
Speaker: anthony gemma
About the speaker: Anthony Gemma is the former president and CEO of Gem Plumbing who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in the 1st District in 2010 and in 2012. He headed up his family's company from 2001 to 2008 when he left to start Mediapeel, a marketing firm. Gemma is also the co-founder and president of the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation.
Date: August 28, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: education
Context: a TV debate
Fact-check justification: Anthony Gemma, who is challenging David Cicilline in the Democratic primary for Rhode Island’s 1st District congressional seat, said the former Providence mayor had described the capital city’s school system as world class when, in fact, "not only did Providence not have a world-class school system but as measured, was amongst the last school system in the entire country." We’ve already cited why Gemma was  about the "world-class" remark. Concerning the schools, neither state nor federal education officials know of any national school-district ranking that would have placed the city’s school system among the worst in the country. And Gemma didn’t provide any. For those reasons, we rate his statement a world-class .
Statement: They passed the flu off as COVID-19, and "they're going to do the same thing with monkeypox and shingles.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 21, 2022
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook video claimed that authorities are going to pass off shingles cases as monkeypox cases, and that they did that with the flu and COVID-19. But that’s not what happened with the flu and COVID-19. Flu cases did drop during the pandemic, but not because cases were mistaken or passed off as COVID-19. Mitigation measures during the pandemic and a record number of flu vaccines distributed explain the drop, the CDC said. Shingles and monkeybox both have blistering skin rashes, but they look different. Testing for each virus is different, with monkeypox testing being a two-part process that requires confirmation from the CDC, something shingles tests do not. We rate this  .
Statement: U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson has voted for $7 trillion of our national debt!
Speaker: allen buckley
About the speaker: Georgia U.S. Senate candidate.
Date: July 13, 2016
Location: georgia
Topics: debt
Context: a campaign statement
Fact-check justification: Our ruling:     Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Allen Buckley proclaimed on his campaign website: "U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson has voted for $7 trillion of our national debt!" Isakson did indeed vote to raise the debt ceiling, so Buckley has a valid point. But the alternative would be risking a government shutdown. That said, Buckley also pointed at that Isakson voted for some of the very programs that bloated the debt in the first place. We rate his  .   https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/678c89f4-52af-4e46-a0c6-780d26e73caf
Statement: Military data from 2021 show military members experienced spikes of 300% in miscarriages, almost 300% in cancer diagnoses and 1,000% in neurological issues.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: January 28, 2022
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post said that miscarriages among military members were up 300% in 2021 over a five-year average, and that cancer diagnoses were up 300% and neurological disorders were up 1000%. However, the numbers used to compute the five-year average were greatly underreported, giving the  impression of a significant increase in 2021, a spokesperson for the Armed Forces Surveillance Division said. The database has been taken down to identify and correct the problem. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Donald Trump "said a woman should be punished for exercising her right to choose.
Speaker: barbara boxer
About the speaker: Barbara Boxer is California's junior senator.
Date: July 26, 2016
Location: national
Topics: abortion
Context: Philadelphia
Fact-check justification: Boxer said Trump "said a woman should be punished for exercising her right to choose." Trump did say something to this effect, but within a matter of hours, he clarified his comments. Trump said he meant doctors should be punished for providing abortions, not women who undergo the procedure. In rating this , we find Trump’s comments contradictory. Yes, he mentioned punishment, but his campaign retracted that statement. There’s no  this was a long-held position. Boxer’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details, so we rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/6e3732c3-0674-40c9-b479-b615b7a35c81
Statement: Says "the New York Times can write a story that they know is false" yet "they can't basically be sued.
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 28, 2016
Location: national
Topics: legal issues
Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Trump said "the New York Times can write a story that they know is " yet "they can't basically be sued." United States libel laws for public figures are indeed tilted toward media outlets and against plaintiffs. However, contrary to what Trump said, plaintiffs can always sue if they wish. And they can certainly win in the scenario Trump cited -- if the New York Times knowingly published something  and defamatory. Indeed, the seminal Supreme Court decision on this subject explicitly says that media outlets are not protected from libel suits if they knew something was  but published it anyway. We rate the statement .