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Statement: President Obama's health care law says "when you sell your house now you have to pay a 3.8 percent tax.
Speaker: vincent "buddy" cianci
About the speaker: Vincent "Buddy" Cianci is a talk-radio host and ex-convict who spent more time serving as mayor of Providence (21 years from 1975 to 2002) than anyone in the city's history. He is the author of "Politics and Pasta: How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Advised a President, Dined with Sinatra, Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived to Tell the Tale." He was defeated in the 2014 mayoral election when he ran as an independent.
Date: July 11, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: health care;housing;income;taxes
Context: a question to a candidate
Fact-check justification: We gave this  a  when it was a chain e-mail making the rounds earlier this year . It got a  when it first surfaced , in 2010. It has been debunked by other fact-checking organizations as well. Yet Cianci repeated this wild misrepresentation of one aspect of the new health-care law no fewer than four times in 45 seconds. Perhaps he and Gemma, a successful businessman, make enough money to qualify for the tax if they sold their homes at a hefty profit. But for the vast majority of Rhode Islanders, suggesting that this tax applies to them is nonsense. There may be no stains on Cianci's jacket, but there's a blaze in his britches. We rate his   ! (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Joe Biden was the first president in 100 years to unsuccessfully sing the alphabet song.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: March 16, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: "I had just hit a blinker and my ass was fried man, I mean, I didn’t know p comes before q like when the f--- did that happen? This is some bulls---." Presidents aren’t required to undergo annual health exams, or publicize the results of those exams, but it’s become customary since then-President Richard Nixon did, In February, the White House physician said Biden received his first physical exam in a year and a half and declared him a "healthy, vigorous 80-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency. "  As you might expect, we found no  to support the  that a White House staffer is tapped to choose any day in a president’s term to get the commander in chief to sing the alphabet song, nor that Biden was the first president in 100 years to fail.   We rate that  !
Statement: Texas now has the second-highest high school graduation rate in the country. And it has the highest graduation rate for African Americans and Hispanics.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: June 4, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: education
Context: his declaration for president
Fact-check justification: Perry said: "Texas now has the second-highest high school graduation rate in the country. And it has the highest graduation rate for African Americans and Hispanics." Almost: In 2012-13, per federal statistics, Texas ranked No. 3 in overall graduation rates and No. 1 for its African American and Hispanic rates. Then again, comparing graduates to the number of ninth graders enrolled three years earlier, Texas in 2011-12 had an 82 percent "averaged freshman graduation rate," tying with four states and trailing 21 states. We grade this  .  – 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: President Trump sanctioned Russia. President Biden gave them a pipeline.
Speaker: kayleigh mcenany
About the speaker: Kayleigh McEnany is an on-air commentator for Fox News and former White House press secretary under President Donald Trump. She was previously a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee and a pro-Trump pundit on CNN.
Date: February 8, 2022
Topics: energy;infrastructure;foreign policy;military
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: McEnany said, "President Trump sanctioned Russia. President Biden gave them a pipeline." This sets up a dubious dichotomy between what Trump and Biden have done to oppose the pipeline. Both presidents maneuvered with difficulty to oppose a project in which they had no official role and could only use indirect leverage. Trump did sanction Russia, although his friendliness to Putin sent contrary signals. Biden continued and extended sanctions, but he has also sought flexibility with sanctions as part of diplomatic negotiations. Only a tiny percentage of the pipeline remained to be finished by the time Biden took office; most of it was built on Trump’s watch. We rate the statement .
Statement: Trump Removing Marines From the Navy.
Speaker: vet tv
About the speaker: Vet TV was founded by Donny O’Malley, a humorist and YouTube celebrity. According to his bio, O’Malley was a Marine infantry officer for almost six years, serving in Asia and Afghanistan and reaching the rank of captain. The project dubs itself “the Comedy Central of the military.”
Date: May 23, 2017
Topics: fake news;military;punditfact
Context: a web page
Fact-check justification: They fought as sharp-shooters or with bayonets in ship-to-ship encounters, made up landing parties, guarded the captain, and enforced discipline when needed. In mutinous situations they almost always stayed loyal to the captain, and for that reason, and because they enforced ship discipline such as executions and floggings, they were usually hated by sailors. Some of that mutual enmity, driven by rivalry and respect, endures today." O’Malley did not reply to an inquiry sent through his website. We rate the Vet TV statement that Trump is removing the Marines from the Navy as .
Statement: Says Mandela Barnes "supported a 20% increase in the gas tax.
Speaker: ron johnson
About the speaker: Ron Johnson is a Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin. A businessman and accountant, Johnson defeated Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in the 2010 election. He is seeking re-election in 2016.
Date: September 26, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;gas prices;taxes
Context: TV ad
Fact-check justification: Johnson claims that Barnes "supported a 20% increase in the gas tax." Although the Evers administration — and, by association, Barnes — supported an 8-cents-per-gallon increase in 2019, the plan also called for the elimination of the minimum markup on fuel, which had the potential to decrease the price at the pump by 14 cents.  Our definition of  is a statement that is "partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context." That’s our rating for this one.
Statement: Says unemployment would be at 10 percent if people who have quit looking for work were included in federal labor force calculations.
Speaker: rob portman
About the speaker: Rob Portman was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He is a former Republican congressman who also was a U.S. trade representative and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George H.W. Bush.
Date: February 3, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: The extra 3 million people that Portman counts as unemployed is an estimate -- one that includes all people but not participating in the workforce as unemployed. That’s something BLS cautioned against. That Portman opted to use an estimate, rather than one of the many alternative unemployment indicators that BLS calculates, undermines his assertion that the 10 percent unemployment rate is a "more accurate gauge of the current jobs environment," than BLS numbers. Those are important details needed to evaluate his . On the -O-Meter, Portman’s  rates .
Statement: Said he is the only Democratic candidate for state attorney general who has "represented the entire state of Georgia.
Speaker: rob teilhet
About the speaker: Rob Teilhet is a Democratic candidate for Georgia Attorney General.
Date: June 5, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a candidate questionnaire
Fact-check justification: Teilhet said he has talked on the campaign trail about the oath of office directing representatives to serve the interests of the state. "Maybe that would have been a little tighter [to say in the questionnaire]," Teilhet said. We agree that Teilhet would have been better served if he said he represented the "interests" of the state. As even Hooks said, Teilhet's statement is "broad." We rate Teilhet's statement as .
Statement: When it comes to taking cuts in tough budget times, Wisconsin "state workers haven't had to sacrifice.
Speaker: club for growth
About the speaker: The Club for Growth is an anti-tax group.
Date: February 18, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: labor;state budget
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Their  as it relates to health and pension benefits -- the focus of Walker’s proposal -- is pretty much on target. But pay is also part of the equation -- a big part -- and on that score state workers took 3 percent pay cuts in the form of furloughs, among other wage-related cutbacks. On the -O-Meter, the definition of  is a statement that "contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression." That fits. And that is our rating of the ad’s "no sacrifice" .
Statement: Says she "stood up to" Gov. Scott Walker on tax cuts "for wealthy corporations" while her congressional opponent voted with Walker.
Speaker: kelda helen roys
About the speaker: Kelda Helen Roys, a Madison Democrat, was elected to the Wisconsin Assembly in 2008 and served until 2012. In 2012, she lost to Mark Pocan in the race for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives. She is running for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2018. An attorney, Roys is the former executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin, which supports abortion rights.
Date: July 9, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;jobs;state budget;taxes
Context: news conference remarks
Fact-check justification: Pocan did vote for two bills that potentially could help large corporations cut their tax bills, so she is partially on target. But she leaves out important details that change the picture. Pocan opposed a much bigger-ticket tax break bill in the same session, and the two he backed helped small businesses as well as large corporations. What’s more, two-thirds of Democrats in the Assembly backed the bills -- and Roys herself is a past supporter of one of the programs. We rate her  .
Statement: Says unlike Tim Kaine, who "invested" in education, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence "slashed education funding.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: July 23, 2016
Location: national
Topics: education;state budget
Context: Miami, Fla
Fact-check justification: Clinton said that unlike Tim Kaine, who "invested" in education in Virginia, Mike Pence "slashed education funding" in Indiana. The clear implication from Clinton’s statement is that Pence cut education in Indiana while Kaine grew it in Virginia. That sends voters an  message. Pence made various individual cuts and investments in education, but overall state spending has increased every year in his term so far. Kaine made notable investments in certain educational projects as Virginia’s governor, but state education spending shrunk overall throughout his term. However, this was primarily because the recession caused massive budget shortfalls. We rate Clinton’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/d903da3f-8806-47e1-9b6e-b4d423291fe7
Statement: Here, we have Thanksgiving, we have Christmas, we have the 4th of July. Every year in Iran, they celebrate Death to America day.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: March 11, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: history;foreign policy;nuclear
Context: an interview with Hugh Hewitt
Fact-check justification: Cruz said that every year, Iran has a holiday like Thanksgiving, Christmas and the 4th of July called Death to America Day. Every year, demonstrations in Tehran mark the Nov. 4 anniversary of students taking over the U.S. embassy in 1979 and taking hostages. But that date doesn’t appear to be akin to the special American days Cruz singled out. In fact, it’s not a holiday on the calendar at all nor is it formally designated Death to America Day. We rate this , which has a strand of  but ignores critical facts, . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/1d8e2d9a-3a10-42bf-98da-9231275df481    – The statement contains an 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: The vaccination campaign" increased COVID-19 deaths by 175% in one year.
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: September 29, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: A viral image claimed that "the vaccination campaign" increased COVID-19 deaths by 175% in one year. It reaches that conclusion by comparing death figures for Sept. 28, 2021, and the same day a year earlier, before vaccines were available. The  uses a flawed comparison to reach a conclusion for which it provides no . According to the CDC, unvaccinated people are 11 times more likely to die from COVID-19, and no  has established that the COVID-19 vaccines have caused any deaths. We rate the post .
Statement: Says California has a top income tax rate of 13.3% "and people aren't leaving.
Speaker: quentin fulks
About the speaker: Quentin Fulks is the president of Think Big Illinois, an advocacy group that supports replacing Illinois' flat income tax with a graduated rate structure, among other causes.  He is also the chairman of Vote Yes for Fairness, a group campaiging in favor of a constitutional amendment in the November 2020 election that would permit the state to institute graduated rates.
Date: February 25, 2020
Location: illinois
Topics: taxes
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Saying he did not see a connection between individuals leaving a state and higher tax rates, Fulks pointed to California’s 13.3% top rate and said, "people aren’t leaving." His office clarified he was only referring to people subject to that top rate. Based on the context of his remarks, that makes sense. The research on millionaire migration in California after the state’s top tax rate in 2012 is mixed. For instance, a Stanford report highlighted by Fulks’ office found a small number of millionaires did leave after the tax was hiked. However, it also notes the net migration of millionaires to the state remains positive. We rate Fulks’  .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Charlie Crist "supported Biden's agenda to defund the police.
Speaker: republican party of florida
About the speaker: The Republican Party of Florida represents Republicans in Florida.
Date: August 24, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: criminal justice;race and ethnicity
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Crist did vote for the measure, but it did not aim to "defund the police." ​ The ad included an interview where Crist said he supported a plan in St. Petersburg to hire a unit of social workers to respond to nonviolent calls. The city's police department said the move ultimately increased their budget.   Neither Biden nor Crist supports defunding the police. We rate the ad's  .
Statement: Says Austin is "creating more jobs than any other city in the country.
Speaker: steve adler
About the speaker: Attorney Steve Adler won election as mayor of Austin in December 2014, drawing 67 percent of the vote in a December 2014 runoff. He was sworn in Jan. 6, 2015. He sought re-election in 2018.
Date: May 8, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: an interview on KLBJ-AM
Fact-check justification: Adler told the morning radio hosts that Austin is creating more jobs than any other U.S. city. To the contrary, federal figures show the five-county Austin metropolitan area (not Austin alone) trails some other U.S. metros including the No. 1 Midland area for its pace of jobs gained and it lags more than 25 metro areas in raw jobs gained. It would be accurate to say the Austin area lately has enjoyed greater percentage job gains than other metro areas of 1 million residents or more. We rate this Adler  .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, "we lost thousands of plants.
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: September 20, 2018
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;trade
Context: an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity
Fact-check justification: Trump said that since NAFTA, "we lost thousands of plants." That's actually an understatement. The United States lost 80,000 plants since then. Not all can be blamed on NAFTA, but even if only a fraction of them can be, Trump has a point. We rate the statement . Editor's note, Sept. 24, 2018:  PolitiFact has joined an effort with other North American fact-checkers to examine statements about trade and tariffs. Poynter.org is documenting the project ; see its report for links to other fact-checks.
Statement: We've now gained private sector jobs 12 months in a row.
Speaker: tim kaine
About the speaker: Tim Kaine is a U.S. senator representing Virginia, elected to the Senate in 2012. He was the 2016 Democratic nominee for vice president.
Kaine was governor from 2006 to 2010, lieutenant governor from 2002 to 2006, mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001, and city councilman of Richmond beginning in 1994. He was also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011.
Kaine was born in St. Paul, Minn. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1979 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983. He took a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Catholic missionary in Honduras, becoming fluent in Spanish.
 
Date: February 19, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner
Fact-check justification: Speaking as an advocate of the president and his party’s policies, Kaine presented private sector job growth in the best possible light. But it is important to remember that the economy has recovered just 20 percent of the private sector jobs lost in 2009. Kaine said private sector jobs have been created for "12 months in a row." He was close, but missed the bull’s eye. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says Bill Clinton "spent $3 billion and got nothing. And (North Korea) started making nuclear weapons a day later.
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: June 12, 2018
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;nuclear
Context: Singapore press conference
Fact-check justification: Trump said Clinton "spent $3 billion and got nothing. And (North Korea) started making nuclear weapons a day later." The money that went toward North Korea as part of the Agreed Framework, negotiated by Clinton in 1994, amounted to approximately $400 million. The rest of the $1.3 billion the United States has spent on North Korea  went toward food aid. North Korea’s nuclear capabilities were curbed for almost a decade, experts told us, tempering Trump’s  that the deal accomplished "nothing." There's an element of  in that money changed hands and North Korea found another way to get nuclear bomb material. But the specifics Trump offered are overblown and . So we rate this  .
Statement: Said his mother had to fight with health insurance companies for treatment because of a pre-existing condition.
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 11, 2009
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;health care
Context: New Hampshire
Fact-check justification: Normally, we steer clear of fact-checks about politicians' families or claims that are less than timely. But Obama used the anecdote to make a case for a significant change in the law that affected the national health care system. We find Scott's reporting and the New York Times story to be compelling  that he got a crucial detail , and the White House did not dispute that. His mother was fighting for insurance payments as she was dying, but for disability insurance, not health insurance, as her son said he remembered. So we rate his statement .