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Statement: Says Craig Huey called Planned Parenthood a "murder mill.
Speaker: janice hahn
About the speaker: Janice Hahn is a Democratic Los Angeles City Councilwoman and is running to be a U.S. Congresswoman from California.
 
Date: June 7, 2011
Location: national
Topics: abortion;medicare
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: But he's standing by it, because it's on his website." Gilliard said you won't hear Huey using that phrase, but "he's fine with it. It was on his site." It remains to be seen whether linking Palin to an opponent can be an effective political strategy (much as many tried to tie Republican presidential candidates to George W. Bush in the 2008 campaign) but as for the  that Huey called Planned Parenthood a "murder mill," it's on Huey's website, and he stands by it. We rule the ad's claims .
Statement: Says Ted Kennedy met "with the KGB in order to beat Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Speaker: greg gutfeld
About the speaker: Greg Gufeld is a co-host on the Fox News program The Five.
Date: July 15, 2017
Topics: congress;foreign policy;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of the "Greg Gutfeld Show"
Fact-check justification: Gutfeld said that Kennedy met with the KGB in order to defeat Ronald Reagan in 1984. There is certainly  that Kennedy attempted to meet with Soviet officials, but it was with the approval of the Reagan White House. The validity of a specific KGB memo saying Kennedy wanted to de-escalate tensions with Moscow over a U.S. plan to install nuclear missiles in Western Europe is widely questioned. But more to the point, Gutfeld reached one conclusion that doesn’t add up. There is no  of Kennedy "meeting with the KGB." The  Gutfeld used on screen doesn’t support that contention. We rate this  .
Statement: Says that after she declared her candidacy for Congress, "the redistricting process was manipulated to allow incumbent politicians to guarantee their re-election.
Speaker: nina turner
About the speaker: Nina Turner is a state senator from the 25th Senate District in Cleveland. She joined the Ohio Senate in September 2008 after serving on Cleveland City Council. She also served in the administration of former Cleveland Mayor Michael White. In addition to her duties in the Ohio Senate, she teaches at Cuyahoga Community College.
Date: December 30, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: elections;redistricting
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: But that was  with the September map, as well. And some incumbents were aided by changes in the map. But it’s also  that those changes may have heightened the challenge for others.    Those are critical facts that could give the listener a different impression. On the -O-Meter, we rate Turner’s statement .
Statement: Teacher pay has increased under Republican leadership every year for the past 5 years.  In fact, even according to the national teacher's unions own rankings, NC ranked number 2 in the U.S. for fastest rising teacher pay 2016-2017.
Speaker: michael lee
About the speaker: Michael Lee is a Republican member of the NC State Senate
Date: August 28, 2018
Location: north carolina
Topics: education
Context: Tweet
Fact-check justification: Teachers did get a salary increase in each of the past five years under Republican leadership. However, despite the "Held Harmless" statute, teachers who reach 25 years of experience or more today would not make as much as they would have in 2013-14. That’s the main wrinkle in Lee’s . North Carolina ranked second in fastest-rising teacher pay in 2016-17, though the ranking wasn’t consistent over the years. We rate this  . This story was produced by the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, a partnership of McClatchy Carolinas, the Duke University Reporters’ Lab and PolitiFact. The NC Local News Lab Fund and the International Center for Journalists provide support for the project, which shares fact-checks with newsrooms statewide.
Statement: Says Joe Biden "has effectively ordered a shutdown of ICE, halting virtually all deportations, everyone, murderers, everybody, no more.
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, 2021
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: a CPAC speech
Fact-check justification: Biden has not closed down ICE; the agency’s divisions are still operating. Biden’s administration established new deportation priorities and ordered a temporary pause on certain, not all, deportations. People convicted of serious crimes such as murder and who threatened public safety are a deportation priority under Biden’s administration. We rate Trump’s  . RELATED : Fact-checking claims about deportations in Biden's first month
Statement: Health reform eliminates co-pays, deductibles, and other costs for preventative care and provides for free annual wellness checkups starting next year.
Speaker: jane kidd
About the speaker: Jane Kidd is chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia.
Date: June 10, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: health care
Context: an op-ed.
Fact-check justification: Indoor tanning salons will have to pay an excise tax under the new law. That cost will likely be passed on to customers, Gleckman said. But the overwhelming majority of retired seniors will find that free preventive services are just that. Free. We rate this  .
Statement: The price tag amounted to nearly $4,200 for every man, woman and child in the state.
Speaker: steve lonegan
About the speaker: The former mayor of Bogota in Bergen County, Steve Lonegan is the New Jersey director of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group. Lonegan ran unsuccessfully in 2005 and 2009 for the Republican nomination for governor.
 
Date: December 18, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: debt;weather
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Lonegan said in a news release that the "price tag" for $60 billion in aid requested by Obama "amounted to nearly $4,200 for every man, woman and child in the state." Price tag implies cost. That calculation is only correct if it’s based on New Jersey’s damages of $37 billion, an amount Lonegan didn’t mention in his news release. A $60 billion aid package would amount to $6,801 for every New Jerseyan. Further, the nation would share in the cost of an aid package, not just those in the Garden State, bringing the per-person cost to less than $200. Since there is an element of  to Lonegan’s , we rate this statement . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: There are currently 6 million jobs available in this country that are due in part to the skills gap.
Speaker: ivanka trump
About the speaker: Ivanka Trump is an American businesswoman and the daughter of and assistant to President Donald Trump.
Date: June 12, 2017
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;workers
Context: an interview on "Fox & Friends"
Fact-check justification: Many of these job openings will be due to happenstance rather than structural problems with the skills gap. Trump said, "There are currently 6 million jobs available in this country that are due in part to the skills gap." The number she cites is correct, and she’s right to say that the skills gap plays a role. Economists warn against overestimating the role played by the skills gap in all 6 million job openings, both because other factors play a role (such as the image gap) and because the skills barriers posed are often more modest than having to earn an academic degree or to obtain specialized training. We rate her statement .
Statement: More than 10 years of free trade "has brought a $2 billion per day trade deficit.
Speaker: sherrod brown
About the speaker: Sherrod Brown is a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Ohio. He won his first elected office to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1974. He later served as Ohio secretary of state and was elected to Congress in 1992. He first joined the U.S. Senate in 2007.
Date: November 11, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;trade
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Brown, who has authored a book on what he calls the "myths of free trade," derives his figure from the ITC, and while the ITC cautioned us that the official balance-of-trade measure actually comes from Commerce, it is  that some authorities regard even the outlying ITC numbers as perfectly fine to use in certain circumstances. Yet even if we were to put those numbers aside and only use the Commerce Department numbers, Brown’s figures were close to the mark before the recession. This year is not the best year to measure the normal effects of trade, and no one can predict the future; perhaps the trade deficit will stabilize at a lower number such as $500 billion a year, or $1.36 billion a day.   Perhaps it won’t. But based on the historical trends, regardless of which data source is used, we say Brown’s  is .
Statement: The government will "go out and buy my breast pump for my babies.
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: February 15, 2011
Location: national
Topics: health care;women;taxes
Context: an interview on "The Laura Ingraham Show"
Fact-check justification: It’s a catchy sound bite, but like a lot of sound bites, it’s not so accurate. The government will not buy you a breast pump. Rather, it will now allow you to treat money you spend on the pumps as a deductible medical expense. Bachmann's statement suggests a large government program to purchase and provide the devices when in fact the government is actually treating them as tax-deductible, like countless other things.   We rate her statement .
Statement: In comparing mass shootings, "France had a higher casualty rate in one year than the entire two administrations of Barack Obama.
Speaker: dana loesch
About the speaker: In 2017, Dana Loesch became an NRA spokeswoman. Loesch is a conservative talk show host and commentator. She broadcasts from Dallas, Texas.
Date: February 25, 2018
Location: national
Topics: terrorism;guns
Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Loesch said that in one year, mass public shootings caused more deaths and injuries in France than in the United States throughout the entire Obama administration. Loesch failed to mention that the year she had in mind was 2015, the bloodiest France has seen at the hands of terrorists. So the stat relies on extreme cherry-picking (by Loesch, not the underlying report behind her talking point). Criminologists and terrorism experts gave several reasons why the differences between mass shootings and terrorism matter, and those differences are enshrined in American law and policy. Separating out the terrorism casualties in both countries, the numbers show that mass shootings during the Obama years caused about 40 times more deaths and injuries than in France in 2015. We rate this  .
Statement: People Of Color May Be Immune To The Coronavirus Because Of Melanin.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 22, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Melanin — a natural pigment that gives color to skin and eyes — does not offer increased protection against coronavirus. We rate the statement .
Statement: I do provide universal health care.
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: November 15, 2007
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: Las Vegas, Nev.
Fact-check justification: Obama is betting that his plan will get costs low enough that many of the estimated 47-million uninsured will sign up without a mandate, and a mandate will come later. So is it fair for Obama to call his plan "universal"? Well, not really. Even if you buy his argument that his plan will create the market conditions to make health care universally available, nothing in his plan guarantees it. We rate his  .
Statement: Says U.S. Senate rival Tammy Baldwin wants a "completely government-controlled" health care system that goes "far beyond 'Obamacare'" and is "a Medicare system for all.
Speaker: tommy thompson
About the speaker: Tommy Thompson, a Republican, was a 2012 candidate for the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin. He served as governor of Wisconsin from 1987 until 2001, when he left office to become President George W. Bush's secretary of health and human services. He previously spent 20 years in the Wisconsin Assembly. Thompson briefly ran for president, withdrawing in 2007.
Date: August 15, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;government regulation;medicare;public health
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: But she did go on to say she wanted to go further than the reform law does: "I was for a single-payer plan and that isn’t, as we know, what we ended up with, but I also think what we ended up with was incredible progress for the American people." Our rating Thompson said Baldwin wants a "completely government-controlled" health care system that goes "far beyond 'Obamacare'" and is "a Medicare system for all." Baldwin hasn’t hasn’t advocated for socialized medicine. But she has pushed "Medicare for all" legislation and she supports single payer and the public option, government elements that go beyond Obama’s reform law.    On balance, we rate Thompson’s statement .
Statement: Taxpayers even footed the bill for Perry's trip to a bachelor party in Las Vegas.
Speaker: kay bailey hutchison
About the speaker: Kay Bailey Hutchison, initially elected to the U.S. Senate in 1993, did not seek re-election in 2012. She ran for governor in 2010, losing the Republican nomination to incumbent Rick Perry.
Date: February 7, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: ethics;transparency;transportation;taxes
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: And while there, Perry attended a dinner for his son. But Hutchison's statement in the video suggests that state money paid for Perry's personal travel and that his sole purpose of visiting Sin City was to party — neither of which is accurate. We rate Hutchison's  as . Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: Sunny Hostin of "The View" admitted to voter fraud.
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: November 8, 2022
Location: new york
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat  news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.) Hostin lives with her family in Westchester County , New York, where the law specifies that voters can designate someone on their absentee ballot application to "pick up and deliver your ballot. "  A representative for Hostin told Reuters and The Associated Press that she and her son followed the law and that "she was the designated person he assigned to drop off his completed absentee ballot. "  We rate claims that Hostin admitted to vote fraud !
Statement: Says CNN's Wolf Blitzer was wrong to say that "the wealthiest Americans, they pay the most in taxes already -- 50 percent of Americans don't even pay any federal income tax.
Speaker: debbie wasserman schultz
About the speaker: Debbie Wasserman Schultz became the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in 2011 and resigned in July 2016. The Florida Democrat was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 after serving in the state senate. She represents Congressional District 23 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Date: September 12, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: taxes
Context: an interview before the CNN/Tea Party Express presidential debate
Fact-check justification: During a back-and-forth between Blitzer and Wasserman Schultz, Blitzer said that "the wealthiest Americans, they pay the most in taxes already -- 50 percent of Americans don't even pay any federal income tax." Wasserman Schultz responded by saying "that's actually not ." But both of Blitzer's points are valid. About half of tax filers pay no federal income tax at all, and the wealthiest Americans -- though they may have a lower rate than they did in the 1950s -- still pay a huge chunk of federal income taxes. We rate Wasserman Schultz's  .
Statement: Trump margin of 'defeat' in 4 states occurred in 4 data dumps between 1:34-6:31 AM. Statistical anomaly? Fraud?
Speaker: rand paul
About the speaker: Rand Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky elected in 2010. He ran for president in 2016 before dropping out to seek re-election to the Senate. Paul is a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist. His father is Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate and a former member of Congress from Texas. 
Date: November 29, 2020
Location: georgia
Topics: elections;wisconsin;michigan
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Because of a high number of absentee ballots and the time it takes to process them, election officials warned before Election Day that complete, unofficial results from all jurisdictions would not be available on Election Night. There is no credible basis to Paul’s . We rate it ! RELATED : Fact-checking  claims about the 2020 election This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: Only fools, or worse, are saying that our money losing Post Office makes money with Amazon. THEY LOSE A FORTUNE, and this will be changed.
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 2, 2018
Location: national
Topics: debt;federal budget
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump tweeted, "Only fools, or worse, are saying that our money losing Post Office makes money with Amazon. THEY LOSE A FORTUNE, and this will be changed." Amazon isn’t causing the United States Postal Service to lose a fortune. In fact, it’s contributing to its biggest growth sector, package delivery. Deals like the one with Amazon brought in $7 billion in fiscal year 2017. While we don’t know the deal USPS crafted with Amazon, we know it’s not losing money. A 2006 law codified profitability into law, and an independent regulatory commission that reviews their deals annually gave it a green light on March 29. That said, it’s possible that the Postal Service could be charging Amazon more for package delivery and therefore get a better deal. That still doesn’t mean USPS is losing a fortune. We rate this  .
Statement: Barack Obama's Columbia University ID says he was a foreign student and went by "Barry Soetoro.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 13, 2013
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;obama birth certificate
Context: multiple posts
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post makes  claims about a Columbia University ID that shows Obama was a foreign student who went by the alias "Barry Soetoro." The post wants you to believe Obama isn’t really an American citizen. But the ID, and the birther narrative behind it, is not valid. Obama stopped using his stepfather’s last name when he was 10. Columbia University didn’t even start using these types of IDs until the mid 1990s, long after Obama graduated. The ID is a pretty bad Photoshop job. We rate the  ! Editor's note: This article has been updated to correct the name of Columbia University spokesman Robert Hornsby.
Statement: Says Mitch McConnell pushed "the Wall Street bailout through the U.S. Senate" and called it "the Senate at its finest.
Speaker: matt bevin
About the speaker: 46-yearold investment manager.
Date: August 6, 2013
Location: national
Topics: financial regulation
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Bevin said that McConnell pushed the Wall Street bailout through the Senate. The record shows that McConnell actively supported emergency government intervention in the financial markets and spoke openly of playing a key role in crafting compromise legislation. However, to say that he pushed the bill through the Senate downplays that other political leaders, including the Republican president and the party’s presidential nominee, also pressed to get the measure passed. The ad also ignores that in January 2009, there was a second bailout funding vote and on that one, McConnell voted no. Still, McConnell worked hard to get the initial bailout through the Senate. We rate the  .
Statement: 80 to 85 percent of my campaign funds go to donations to various organizations throughout the City of Providence.
Speaker: john lombardi
About the speaker: John J. Lombardi has been a Providence City Councilman, representing the 13th Ward, since 1984. He served as Council president from 1999-2006 and briefly took over as mayor after Vincent J. "Buddy" Cianci resigned in 2002. A lifelong Providence resident, Lombardi works as a lawyer. He ran for mayor in 2010.
Date: August 24, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: campaign finance;candidate biography
Context: a WPRI Channel 12 debate
Fact-check justification: But his statement at the debate that he donates 80 percent to 85 percent is simply . Lombardi may have been joking, as he maintains, or perhaps he just made an unfortunate exaggeration that in a less politically charged time may have gone unnoticed. Speaking on camera during the debate, he didn't say he was speaking in jest, nor did he crack a smile or do anything else to suggest he wasn’t serious. What he did was lead voters to believe he deserved credit for a level of charity that was, at best, greatly exaggerated. .
Statement: Says the Obama administration plans to ban all weapons for U.S. citizens through international treaties.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: November 27, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: foreign policy;guns
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: The chain email says the administration plans to ban all weapons for U.S. citizens through international treaties. We found no  of such plans, instead consistent indications to the contrary. This chain email is also so off target, it’s . !