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Statement: We are giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries every year to make the (childhood obesity) epidemic worse.
Speaker: dennis kucinich
About the speaker: Dennis Kucinich is running in the Democratic primary for governor of Ohio in 2018. Kucinich was elected to Congress in 1996. He previously served as a member of the city council and as mayor in Cleveland, the city where he was born in 1946. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Case Western University. He has been married since 2005 to Elizabeth Harper. He was married twice before and has one child. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 25, 2008.
Date: November 10, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: consumer safety;food safety;health care;taxes
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Eliminating the tax deduction would reduce the number of overweight children by 5 to 7 percent, it said,  and banning advertising to children would prompt an even larger reduction. So where does that leave us on Kucinich’s assertion?    Childhood obesity is a serious topic and the congressman may be nobly intentioned. But dollar figure he uses is shaky at best and his description of the money as taxpayer dollars is . That’s why we rate Kucinich’s  as .
Statement: Rather than work to secure the border, (Marco Rubio) supported Obama's amnesty plan for illegal immigrants.
Speaker: carlos beruff
About the speaker: Carlos Beruff is a Bradenton developer running for U.S. Senate. His company, Medallion Homes, operates in Manatee and Sarasota counties. He has never held an elected office, but then-Gov. Charlie Crist in 2009 appointed him to the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport Authority, the Southwest Florida Water Management board and the State College of Florida board. Gov. Rick Scott reappointed him to all three positions and in 2015 picked Beruff to lead his hospital commission. 
 
Date: July 5, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: immigration
Context: a statement to press
Fact-check justification: Beruff said, "Rather than work to secure the border, (Rubio) supported Obama’s amnesty plan for illegal immigrants." Beruff is flat-out  about Rubio’s efforts to secure the border and misleads when he calls the 2013 bill "amnesty." Rubio co-authored the 2013 bill (which was the work of the Senate, not from the White House) that included extensive border security measures such as more border patrol agents and fencing. It’s an exaggeration to call that bill amnesty because while it included a path to citizenship, undocumented immigrants had to pass multiple hurdles. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/2b5d15eb-219c-49e5-bb33-afe4e7152e65
Statement: When Washington liberals wanted to take away our guns, Chet said no.
Speaker: chet edwards
About the speaker: Chet Edwards is a former state senator from Waco who was initially elected to the U.S. House in 1990. He was among individuals described in press accounts as under consideration by then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama to be the 2008 Democratic nominee for vice president. He lost the 2010 general election to Republican Bill Flores.
Date: September 17, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: message machine 2010;guns
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Where does that leave us? Edwards makes a case that he’s steadfastly opposed efforts to impose gun controls. However, none of his cited measures would "take away" anyone’s weapons. It’s overblown claims like this that keep the -O-Meter in business. His statement is .
Statement: Says Patrick Morrisey's "family's firm was paid $500,000 to lobby AGAINST Trump's last Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.
Speaker: west virginia democratic party
About the speaker: The West Virginia Democratic Party is the official Democratic organization in the Mountain State.
Date: July 10, 2018
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance;legal issues;supreme court
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The West Virginia Democratic Party tweeted that Morrisey’s "family’s firm was paid $500,000 to lobby AGAINST Trump’s last Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch." The firm Denise Morrisey worked for did lobby for Planned Parenthood against Gorsuch’s confirmation. However, the tweet  key aspects of the relationship. Capitol Counsel is affiliated with Denise Morrisey but not the family as a whole, and the firm was not paid nearly as much as the $500,000 the tweet alleged. We rate the statement .
Statement: In the last two years, we have reduced the deficit by $2.5 trillion.
Speaker: harry reid
About the speaker: Harry Reid is a former U.S. senator from Nevada. He served as the Democratic minority leader in the U.S. Senate immediately prior to leaving office.
Date: March 19, 2013
Location: national
Topics: deficit;federal budget
Context: a Senate floor speech
Fact-check justification: Reid said, "In the last two years, we have reduced the deficit by $2.5 trillion." There has been some deficit reduction in recent years, but Reid's makes it sound much larger than it actually is. The $2.4 trillion number represents a projection of what is expected (but not guaranteed) to happen in the future over a 10-year period. It is not deficit reduction that has already been banked over the past two years. We rate the statement  .
Statement: My husband and I have never gotten a penny of money from the farm.
Speaker: michele bachmann
About the speaker: Michele Bachmann, first elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, represents the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota. She was reelected in 2008. Previously, she served in the Minnesota State Senate. Prior to that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children, live in Stillwater, Minn., and own a mental health care practice.
Date: June 26, 2011
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Either Bachmann reported something that didn't need to be disclosed or she got money from the farm at the same time it was benefiting from crop subsidies. Perhaps, as Friedly said, Bachmann won't see her first penny until she draws down the assets of the limited partnership. If that's the case, and it's a matter of delayed earnings, we still think it would be  for Bachmman to  she hasn't made any money from the farm. Unless or until Bachmann steps forward to explain the discrepancy between her financial disclosure statements and her public pronouncements, we have to rely on the disclosures, which say she received at least $32,501 in income. So we rate her  as .
Statement: The Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China, "threatens global public health.
Speaker: alcee hastings
About the speaker: Alcee L. Hastings is a Congressman for Florida's District 20, which includes parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties. Hastings, a former federal judge, was first elected in 1992.
Date: May 16, 2016
Topics: global news service;animals;public health
Context: a House resolution
Fact-check justification: Hastings said in his resolution that the dog meat festival in Yulin, China threatens global public health. No  backs that up. A leading expert at the World Health Organization dismissed the idea, both for the festival in particular, and the practice of eating dog meat in general. Peer-reviewed studies in China find little connection between the dog meat trade and rabies. There may be other reasons to condemn the festival, but the risk it poses to public health globally is not one of them. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton takes "tens of millions of dollars from countries that hate women, that disrespect women, that throw gays off of buildings.
Speaker: kellyanne conway
About the speaker: Kellyane Conway is a White House counselor to President Donald Trump. Previously, she was a Republican strategist and pollster who served as campaign manager for Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Date: October 23, 2016
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;terrorism
Context: comments on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Conway said Clinton "takes tens of millions of dollars from countries that hate women, that disrespect women, that throw gays off of buildings." Conway is talking about donations the Clinton Foundation has taken from U.S. allies is the Middle East for humanitarian project. Her statement is exaggerated and muddles a few facts. Clinton, as a political candidate, cannot take donations from foreign countries. The Clinton Foundation has accepted $18 million to $40 million from countries that have treated women and gays harshly. The latest gifts came in 2014 and are not current as Conway implies. Furthermore, there’s no  that these countries have thrown gays off of buildings. Conway may have been thinking of ISIS, which has not and cannot donate to the Clinton Foundation. We rate her  .   https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/c14ef1a9-d846-49f6-91ed-f91803faf001
Statement: (George) LeMieux never requested a single earmark and pushed to ban them all.
Speaker: george lemieux
About the speaker: George LeMieux is a former U.S. Senator from Florida. He was appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist in 2009 to fill the unexpired term of Sen. Mel Martinez and served until January 2011.
Date: May 10, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: federal budget
Context: a Web ad
Fact-check justification: LeMieux makes the distinction that he never personally requested earmarks (while Nelson certainly has). But again, we think it's worth noting that the appropriations bills LeMieux voted in favor of were stuffed with dozens of Florida earmarks -- costing hundreds of millions of dollars -- that were requested by his Republican predecessor, Martinez. LeMieux has put himself out front on the issue of reining in earmarks, taking a stand early in 2010 calling for a complete ban. And LeMieux may not buy that Nelson has found religion on earmarks, but Nelson was among only a half dozen Democrats in the Senate who also voted for the earmark moratorium. We think that's a lot of missing context, and so we rate the  .
Statement: When I started in Ohio it was terrible. Now, we're getting bipartisan support for our bills. And that's called leadership.
Speaker: john kasich
About the speaker: John Kasich is the governor of Ohio. A Republican and a former congressman, he defeated Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in 2010 and was reelected in 2014. He ran for president in 2016.
Date: June 3, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: bipartisanship
Context: an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Fact-check justification: Furthermore, the Democratic shutouts for Kasich have dropped off sharply in his second year. However, Kasich appears to have overstated the Democratic opposition to his initiatives when he came into office in 2011. It is  that almost all Democrats opposed his state budget, and no Democrats voted for the controversial rewrite of Ohio’s collective bargaining laws, but at least some Democrats supported most of the other initiatives sought by Kasich in 2011. We find that to be additional information that puts Kasich’s statement into a clearer context. On the -O-Meter, Kasich’s statement rates .
Statement: If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us.
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 5, 2020
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: a White House speech
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us." At the time of Trump’s comments the process of counting legal ballots continued in a handful of states with close races. Election experts say that local election officials are proceeding by following their state laws to count and verify ballots. There is no  that proper counting of legal votes automatically means Trump wins. And there is no  of widespread counting of illegal votes or any scheme by Democrats to steal the election. We rate this statement !
Statement: Blake Masters "wants to pass a national ban on abortion.
Speaker: mark kelly
About the speaker: Mark Kelly is a U.S. Senator from Arizona. Kelly is a retired astronaut and husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., who was injured in a January 2011 shooting. The couple founded advocacy group Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Date: August 5, 2022
Location: arizona
Topics: abortion;government regulation;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Kelly said Masters "wants to pass a national ban on abortion." Masters repeatedly backed a federal personhood law, which is often viewed as a near or total ban on abortion, during his GOP primary. He was often vague about when during a pregnancy a ban would take effect, saying Congress should set the cutoff. Masters softened his position after winning the Republican nomination, though he still supports a federal ban. Now, he is saying he would ban abortion nationally only during the third trimester. Kelly’s statement is accurate but needs clarification. We rate it .
Statement: We're the worst state in the country at moving people from welfare to work.
Speaker: catherine hanaway
About the speaker: Catherine Hanaway is a Republican candidate for governor of Missouri. She previously served as speaker of the the state House and later as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Date: March 17, 2016
Location: missouri
Topics: welfare
Context: a Republican gubernatorial debate
Fact-check justification: Catherine Hanaway called Missouri the worst state in the country at moving people from welfare to work Her source was a report by the conservative Heartland Institute. But that report assigned grades based on a state's TANF policies, not the percentage of people leaving TANF for employment. By that measure, according to federal statistics, Missouri isn't the worst state, it's the best in the country. The numbers may be a bit imprecise, but they more than show Missouri far from last place. We rate Hanaway's statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/5169521d-26e2-4093-93a5-9211091966cf
Statement: According to recent reports, a group of death panels organized under Obamacare ordered their first execution.
Speaker: americannews.com
About the speaker: AmericanNews.com is a website of undetermined origin. 
Date: September 2, 2014
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an article
Fact-check justification: The chain email claimed that Dorothy Zborknak was ordered executed by an Obamacare death panel. We ruled on this topic five years ago, but we’ll repeat it again:  Death squads are not a part of the Affordable Care Act, and you can still catch Dorothy on Golden Girls reruns most nights. We rate this  !
Statement: Muslim immigrants were responsible for 11,000 of 13,000 knife attacks in London in the past 12 months.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: February 4, 2019
Topics: immigration;crime;religion;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "At the very minimum," he continued, "it’s  because the date of posting means it would be impossible for the fact to be verified as any  would have to be based on convictions, which take a long time to occur." Where does that leave us? We could find no data showing that Muslim immigrants are responsible for most knife attacks in London. A spokesman for the city’s police service denied that the  was , and academics we reached out to concurred. The burden of proof is on the Facebook post, and discovering no  to corroborate its , we rate this statement .
Statement: Middle-class income rose to a record level in 2017 as the strong economy lifted the fortunes of more Americans.
Speaker: west virginia republican party
About the speaker: The West Virginia Republican Party is the official Republican state party organization in West Virginia.
Date: September 29, 2018
Location: west virginia
Topics: economy
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The West Virginia Republican Party said that "middle-class income rose to a record level in 2017 as the strong economy lifted the fortunes of more Americans." According to the U.S. Census Bureau, median household income did rise to a record high in 2017 of $61,372. The party is on far less certain ground when it credits Trump, who, like any president, deserves some -- but hardly all -- credit for the economy’s performance on his watch. Looking solely at the numbers, though, the statement is accurate. We rate it .
Statement: These people that we were going to deport for good reason ended up becoming citizens. Ended up becoming citizens. And it was 800. And now it turns out it might be 1,800, and they don't even know.
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 26, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: a presidential debate at Hofstra University
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "These people that we were going to deport for good reason ended up becoming citizens. Ended up becoming citizens. And it was 800. And now it turns out it might be 1,800, and they don't even know." Trump’s statement accurately references a CNN report that at least 1,800 people who had deportation orders had become naturalized U.S. citizens. An Inspector General report found that old paper records hadn’t been transferred to modern digital databases. There are a few details worth noting. An ongoing review found that about 100 cases identified in the Inspector General’s report were actually not granted citizenship. And, having a previous final deportation order does not always make an individual ineligible for naturalization. Trump’s statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, we rate it .
Statement: Facebook is creating these #firstborn and #secondborn challenges so the IRS can confirm who y'all claiming on them taxes as dependents.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 17, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: However, we found no  to support the claims that this challenge was planted by Facebook and the IRS or by a pedophile.   "Historically," the New York Times reported in March , "internet challenges have taken hold when people have some time on their hands to get creative — usually during the summer." If  emerges that this first-born challenge is related to nefarious or IRS activity, we’ll revisit this fact-check. But in the meantime, there’s nothing to support the creative claims people are making about it.   We rate these posts .
Statement: We reduced abortion. We increased adoptions by 135 percent.
Speaker: rudy giuliani
About the speaker: Rudy Giuliani is the former mayor of New York City. He was born in Brooklyn in 1944 and previously served as a federal prosecutor, as well as an associate attorney general under President Reagan. He graduated from Manhattan College and earned a law degree from New York University Law School. He has been married since 2003 to Judith Nathan and was married twice before. He has two children, Andrew and Caroline. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 30, 2008.
Date: December 12, 2007
Location: national
Topics: abortion
Context: Johnston, Iowa
Fact-check justification: But here, they're trying some creative math to boost the number to 133. So, we find that while he's got his numbers right on abortion rates, it's a stretch for the abortion-rights mayor to take credit. We also find he has inflated the adoption figures by getting fancy with his math. It's worth saying again that to arrive at the "135 percent" increase in adoption rates the Giuliani campaign had to change the way it had been calculating those rates just a few months ago. We find his overall  .
Statement: Ted Nugent killed in hunting accident.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 28, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: Internet posts
Fact-check justification: Our contact with the supposed creator of TheLastLineOfDefense.org, a person who says his name is Zeke Wilekenmeyer, did not reply to our email seeking comment on the ruse. Nugent’s assistant, Linda Peterson, did reply to PolitiFact’s questions about the stories, sending a two-word email that read, " news." It’s apparent Nugent was not killed, nor did he perpetrate his own death hoax. The only real news about him recently is his trip to the White House on April 19. We rate the statement !
Statement: Says she "called for addressing risks of derivatives, cracking down on subprime mortgages and improving financial oversight" early on in the financial crisis.
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 13, 2015
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;economy;financial regulation
Context: Manhattan
Fact-check justification: Clinton said she "called for addressing risks of derivatives, cracking down on subprime mortgages and improving financial oversight" early on in the financial crisis. The crisis hit a peak in summer 2008, though it started to gain traction in 2007. Clinton began addressing the subprime mortgage issue in her appearances in March 2007. Later that year, she took on derivatives. She also proposed specific plans for solving these problems and increasing oversight of financial institutions. Her statement is accurate, and we rate her  .