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Statement: Says Joe Biden wants to "defund the police.
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 7, 2020
Topics: criminal justice;race and ethnicity;public safety
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said Biden wants to "defund the police." Biden did not have this position when Trump made this , and his campaign’s website does not list defunding the police as part of "Joe’s vision." Biden and his campaign have since said Biden does not support defunding police but does support reform. We rate Trump's statement .
Statement: Says state Senate candidate "Monk Elmer voted to exceed the (school district property tax) spending caps.
Speaker: american federation for children
About the speaker: The American Federation for Children is an interest group focused on education issues, including supporting school choice and voucher initiatives.
Date: October 27, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;message machine 2010;taxes
Context: a direct mail campaign piece
Fact-check justification: In a key state Senate race, the American Federation for Children reached for a great headline and issue to use against Democratic candidate Monk Elmer. They reached all the way to Kimberly, Idaho, which is about 1,641 miles away from the home of Monk Elmer back in Kimberly, Wis. That’s about as far as that  is from the . And that makes the  . .
Statement: I doubled my African-American poll numbers. We went from 11 to 22 in one week.
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: May 4, 2018
Location: national
Topics: polls and public opinion;pop culture
Context: the NRA convention
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "I doubled my African-American poll numbers. We went from 11 to 22 in one week." Even if you take the Reuters poll at face value, Trump misstated the results. The poll showed Trump’s support doubled among African-American men only, not African-Americans of both sexes. In terms of the poll’s accuracy, Reuters’ own polling chief said the sample size was too small to reliably indicate Trump is enjoying a favorable shift in public opinion among black men. The poll’s reliability is also questionable given online respondents opted-in to the survey, which is less reliable than using a randomly-generated sample. We rate this .
Statement: Of the 20 bills [Rep. David] Cicilline has sponsored in his three years in office, not a single one has advanced past the embryonic committee stage.
Speaker: ian prior
About the speaker: Ian Prior,  who was campaign manager for Republican congressional candidate Brendan Doherty in 2012, is the Northeast regional spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Date: January 14, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: bipartisanship;congress;voting record
Context: a Providence Journal commentary
Fact-check justification: Ian Prior said, "of the 20 bills [Rep. David] Cicilline has sponsored in his three years in office, not a single one has advanced past the embryonic committee stage." In fact, one did. In addition, 4 of the 10 amendments Cicilline offered passed. Prior’s point is that legislators in a minority party have no influence. That's  to some degree. But he is ignoring other  of influence that a member of Congress can wield, including amendments to Republican bills. Because his statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details, we rate it   . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: CNN aired a video of a toddler running away from another toddler with the headlines "Terrified toddler runs from racist baby" and "Racist baby probably voted for Trump.
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 18, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump tweeted a video that suggests CNN aired  information about the relationship between two toddlers. The video is doctored. CNN did not air the headlines that appear in the clip. We rate this !
Statement: The Obama administration "was successful in rushing a massive spending bill through Congress in just two days — after which it sat on the president's desk for three days, while he was away on vacation.
Speaker: thomas sowell
About the speaker: Thomas Sowell is an author and columnist, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Date: September 8, 2009
Location: national
Topics: economy;health care;pundits
Context: Investor's Business Daily
Fact-check justification: Obama did spend that weekend in Chicago to celebrate Valentine's Day with first lady Michelle Obama, but the bill had not been formally presented to him, contrary to Sowell's  that it was sitting on his desk. (Sowell did not respond to an e-mail from PolitiFact.) Congress acted quickly on the stimulus bill — after all, the purpose was to rapidly pump money into the economy — but it took far longer than the two days that Sowell claimed. And Obama signed the bill the day after he received it, not three days later as Sowell claimed. We rate his  .
Statement: Clean energy employs "more than half a million Californians. That's nearly ten times more the number of coal mining jobs that exist in the entire nation.
Speaker: kevin de león
About the speaker: Kevin de León is a Democrat from Los Angeles. He is a member of the California Legislature.
Date: May 31, 2017
Location: california
Topics: climate change;energy;jobs
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification:   – 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. Capital Public Radio's  Insight program  discussed this fact check and a separate national fact check on June 6, 2017. Listen to the discussion below:  UPDATE: As reported by the national PolitiFact.com on June 5, 2017, the coal industry "has long chafed at the BLS’ definition of coal-sector jobs. Terry Headley, the director of communications for the American Coal Council, said that coal employment numbers compiled independently by states are typically much larger than what BLS has found, perhaps because many states use broader definitions of who should be counted."
Statement: China has been stealing our manufacturing, costing Wisconsin almost 90,000 jobs.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 4, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: china;economy
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: America First Action on Facebook said China has cost Wisconsin almost 90,000 jobs. The state has in fact lost around 90,000 manufacturing jobs since the early 2000s. While this shift in the number of jobs can be partially attributed to the trade deficit with China, experts say that is not the only factor. Our definition of  is "the statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression." That fits here.
Statement: Biden did not win legally.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 11, 2020
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232. Biden also won the popular vote by more than 7 million.   We rate this post . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: Ukrainians altered this street sign to tell Russian troops to go "f---" themselves.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 26, 2022
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The announcement includes the image of the altered road sign. "Let's help them go straight to hell," the agency wrote in the post. "Ukravtodor urges all road organizations, territorial communities, local government authorities to immediately start dismantling nearby road signs." The agency told PolitiFact in an email that its Facebook post is legitimate, but the sign was photoshopped to encourage people. We rate posts that say this is a real sign in Ukraine .
Statement: Over the last four years, 53 percent of black wealth has just disappeared.
Speaker: donna brazile
About the speaker: A longtime Democratic political consultant and campaign manager for Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign. Currently a political commentator for CNN and frequent commentator on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Date: August 21, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;race and ethnicity;pundits;this week - abc news
Context: a comment on 'This Week with Christiane Amanpour'
Fact-check justification: She should have simply repeated the word "wealth." We're rating Brazile's statement, "Over the last four years, 53 percent of black wealth has just disappeared." That is the percentage that the Pew report found, based on data collected by the U.S. Census. But the years in question were 2005 to 2009. So we deduct one notch off the -O-Meter and rate Brazile's statement .
Statement: In America our own (central bank digital currency) system is going to be launching July 1. It's called the FedNow payment system.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: April 6, 2023
Location: national
Context: a TikTok video
Fact-check justification: The difference is that a central bank digital currency would be a liability of the Federal Reserve rather than commercial banks.   The Federal Reserve said central bank digital currency, if implemented, would not replace paper currency and that protecting the privacy of consumers is critical. Experts have told PolitiFact that current U.S. laws do not allow the kind of surveillance and control that the video claims the government would possess with a central digital bank currency system. We rate the  that, "In America our own (central bank digital currency) system is going to be launching July 1. It’s called the FedNow payment system," .
Statement: Trump in the White House!
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 17, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The audio that can be heard in the actual video hedges more than the headline, saying that unnamed sources reported that Trump was at the White House and that he landed there in Marine One, the helicopter that carries the president of the United States.   But the president of the United States is Joe Biden, who was photographed at the White House himself on Nov. 17 shortly before leaving on Marine One to fly to Joint Base Andrews. Biden returned to the White House that same day , and his daily schedule for Nov. 18 showed events throughout the White House .   There is no  to support the  that Trump was at the White House.   We rate this  !
Statement: Says Donald Trump "was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said back in 2006, 'Gee, I hope it does collapse because then I can go in and buy some and make some money.'
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: September 26, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy;history;housing;regulation
Context: a Presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Clinton said Trump was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. While Trump did not welcome the tragedy of foreclosures for millions of Americans, he did speak optimistically about the opportunities the overall situation created for an investor such as himself. Clinton’s statement leaves out that nuance, but in large measure, it matches Trump’s words. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/22c6df0a-1ffe-421d-b06a-b6c208a27038
Statement: Says Joe Heck "voted to shut down the government.
Speaker: catherine cortez masto
About the speaker: Catherine Cortez Masto was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2016 in Nevada. She previously served two terms as Nevada's Attorney General.
Date: October 14, 2016
Location: nevada
Topics: voting record
Context: a Nevada U.S. Senate debate
Fact-check justification: Cortez Masto claimed that Heck "voted to shut down the government." Heck did vote for many pieces of legislation that technically would have funded the government, but the political reality was that all of those proposals were doomed to fail because they sought to undo at least part of the Affordable Care Act. Heck was cagey on his support for a "clean" spending bill throughout the shutdown, but did break from the majority of his party and joined with Democrats in voting for the spending bill that ended the shutdown. Because Cortez Masto is oversimplifying the issue and how Heck voted, we rate her statement as . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/373aadb6-21d8-45b1-bf07-a44bc13a55f9
Statement: Says "Lucy McBath voted to release criminals from prison. Murderers, rapists.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: September 22, 2020
Location: georgia
Topics: congress;criminal justice;crime;coronavirus
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: A campaign ad claims that "Lucy McBath voted to release criminals from prison. Murderers, rapists."  McBath voted for a coronavirus relief package that would have allowed for the home confinement of some prisoners with health issues or near the end of their sentence. That bill does not rule out murderers and rapists explicitly, but it says prisoners deemed to be a risk for violence are ineligible for home confinement. We rate this statement . ​
Statement: For NATO exercises, "we don't have enough of our own hardware and equipment even for training purposes. So the Brits are spotting us choppers.
Speaker: jeb bush
About the speaker: Jeb Bush was a Republican candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He served two terms as the governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is also the brother of former President George W. Bush and the son of former President George H.W. Bush. 
Date: November 18, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: foreign policy;military
Context: a speech at the Citadel
Fact-check justification: Bush said, for NATO exercises "we don’t have enough of our own hardware and equipment even for training purposes. So the Brits are spotting us choppers." The U.S. Army in Europe has used military equipment of allies as part of NATO obligations. However, Bush omits that the U.S. military has been cutting back in Europe since the Cold War, so cuts over eight years are nothing new. Experts say the equipment sharing isn’t as problematic as Bush makes it seem because the military is working with allies as part of NATO. With those caveats, we rate this  .
Statement: Barack Hussein Obama will ... force local authorities to allow Occupy protesters to live in parks.
Speaker: government is not god pac
About the speaker: Government Is Not God is a political action committee for social conservatives founded in 1992 by William J. Murray who is currently the chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition. The mission of Government Is Not God - PAC is the election to Congress of men and women who hold conservative beliefs on both moral and economic issues.
Date: September 23, 2012
Location: national
Topics: occupy wall street
Context: a newspaper ad
Fact-check justification: An ad from GINGPAC claimed, "Barack Hussein Obama will move America to force local authorities to allow Occupy protesters to live in parks." There’s a First Amendment right to peaceably assemble, but local governments are generally allowed to enforce time and place restrictions on those gatherings. An expert from the First Amendment Center told us he saw no  that the president was interested in changing the law and we found no  of that in our searches. To the contrary, we found  of the administration supporting current law. And a president can’t overturn a Supreme Court decision, anyway. !
Statement: There have been no hearings" on a criminal justice bill being considered in the Senate.
Speaker: tom cotton
About the speaker: Tom Cotton, a Republican, was elected to the House of Representatives in 2012 from a district in Arkansas.
Date: November 16, 2018
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;criminal justice;legal issues;crime
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Cotton said that "there have been no hearings" on a criminal justice bill being considered in the Senate. Cotton’s point is . He ignored years of congressional debate and hearings on the general topics of the bill, as well as the consideration and bipartisan passage of largely similar bills at the House committee level, by the full House, and by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Multiple hearings were held on earlier versions of the current bill in previous congresses. In addition, the bill which would undergo floor debate if it were to be cleared for a vote. We rate the statement . UPDATED, Nov. 21, 2018, 10 a.m.: This story has been updated to include a comment from Cotton's office. The rating remains the same.
Statement: CDC admits old 'science' was wrong" on COVID-19 quarantine guidance.
Speaker: duey stroebel
About the speaker: Stroebel is a property developer and manager from Cedarburg who was elected to the state Assembly as a Republican in 2011. He was elected to the state Senate in 2015, where he represents District 20.
Date: December 3, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: public health;science;coronavirus
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Our rating Stroebel claimed the CDC admitted it was  about its previous recommendation that people who were exposed to the virus should quarantine for 14 days.   But they adjusted the guidance because scientists learned more about its contagious period, and because they wanted to make it easier for people to stay home. A 14-day quarantine is still their recommended route, if people can make it work. The CDC guidance remains in place, so it wasn’t "," and there was no admission. We rate Stroebel’s  .
Statement: In voting by mail, "hundreds of thousands of ballots have been rejected for defects and millions more end up missing or in landfills.
Speaker: j. christian adams
About the speaker: J. Christian Adams serves as President and General Counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation. He is also the founder of the Election Law Center, PLLC. He served from 2005 to 2010 in the Voting Section at the United States Department of Justice. 
Date: June 3, 2020
Topics: elections;coronavirus
Context: a House judiciary hearing
Fact-check justification: Adams said in voting by mail "hundreds of thousands of ballots have been rejected for defects and millions more end up missing or in landfills." Adams was referring to the outcome of mailed ballots during the past four general elections. Mail-in ballots rejected for defects represent  a very small share of the ballots issued, about 1 percent. Adams’  that "millions more end up missing or in a landfill" is  in implying that they were mishandled. He is referring to ballots that were mailed to voters and then ultimately ended up in a category that the federal government calls "unknown." Election experts said it’s  to call these ballots missing — they represent voters who ultimately didn’t cast a ballot. This  has an element of , but leaves out important context that could give a different impression. We rate this  .
Statement: One out of every two kids who are graduating college right now can't find a job.
Speaker: republican jewish coalition
About the speaker: The Republican Jewish Coalition is a group that seeks to serve as "bridge between the Jewish community and Republican leaders."
Date: June 18, 2012
Location: national
Topics: economy;message machine 2012
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The ad claims that "one out of every two kids who are graduating college right now can't find a job." That’s not quite right -- according to Sum’s research, about a quarter of recent college grads literally can’t find a job, while another quarter have found a job, but one that doesn’t require a college degree. Still, the actual statistic does support the ad’s point -- that the employment picture for college grads is grimmer than at any time in more than a decade. We rate the  .
Statement: National polls have "never predicted who will be president from our party. Carter was in the single digits a few months before caucuses. Bill Clinton was. Obama — 20 points behind in the national polls roughly.
Speaker: cory booker
About the speaker: Cory Booker is a senator from New Jersey. He was first elected to the Senate in 2013, making him the first African-American senator from New Jersey and the first African-American elected to the Senate since Barack Obama in 2004. Booker served as mayor of Newark from 2006 until 2013. He has a bachelor's degree in political science and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University, an honors degree in United States history from The Queens College as a Rhodes Scholar and a J.D. from Yale Law School. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and suspended his campaign in January 2020.
Date: January 9, 2020
Location: national
Topics: polls and public opinion;iowa
Context: public comments
Fact-check justification: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama trailed in national polls before becoming the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee and later became president. Only Walter Mondale, Al Gore and Hillary Clinton led early Democratic Party national polls before the Iowa caucuses since 1972 and none went on to become president. Booker was correct about this. We have ruled Booker’s statement as .
Statement: No city in the state can quarantine itself without state approval.
Speaker: andrew cuomo
About the speaker: Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, was elected to his first term as governor of New York in 2010.
Date: March 17, 2020
Location: new york
Topics: coronavirus
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: We reached out to Cuomo and de Blasio’s press offices but did not hear back.   However, de Blasio said in an interview on Wednesday morning with TODAY on NBC that any shelter in place order would need to be done in cooperation with the state.   "It’s only a decision we would make with the state of New York, of course," de Blasio said.   Our ruling  Cuomo said that cities do not have the power to order quarantines without state approval.   Based on the powers of the state to override local orders contained in state Executive Law and in Cuomo’s recent executive order, we rate his  .