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Statement: Minneapolis "city government preemptively informed the Target Center that it would be responsible for $530,000 in security and other costs" related to a Trump rally, "more than 26 times the estimated security costs for a 2009 Target Center health care rally held by President Barack Obama.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: October 7, 2019
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance;city budget;city government
Context: a statement to the press
Fact-check justification: The Trump campaign said that the Minneapolis "city government preemptively informed the Target Center that it would be responsible for $530,000 in security and other costs" related to a Trump rally, "more than 26 times the estimated security costs for a 2009 Target Center health care rally held by President Barack Obama." A letter from AEG to the Trump campaign cites the $530,000 estimated costs. An article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press paraphrased the Minneapolis police chief at the time stating that the costs would be $20,000 for an Obama rally. We rate this  .
Statement: Says "No, I don't benefit, I don't benefit" from his tax proposal.
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 27, 2017
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: an interview with reporters
Fact-check justification: Referring to his tax proposal, Trump said, "No, I don't benefit. I don't benefit." Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns makes it impossible to quantify exactly how much he would personally benefit from his policy proposals. But what is known about Trump’s past patterns of taxation and his income and wealth holdings strongly suggest that at least three proposed changes -- to the alternative minimum tax, to the tax on "passthrough" income, and to the estate tax -- would benefit Trump or his family either immediately or down the road. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says Donald Trump tweeted, "Danny DeVito supports baby murder.
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 25, 2019
Topics: abortion;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: That’s because on Nov. 17, conservative Carmine Sabia actually tweeted "Danny DeVito supports baby murder" above the photo of DeVito and Ruffalo. Searching for "Danny DeVito supports baby murder" online, we couldn’t find any instances of Trump tweeting or saying that. We didn’t unearth it searching Trump’s Twitter account, either. And such an online skirmish would certainly draw media attention, but looking in the Nexis news archives for stories about "Danny DeVito" and "Donald Trump" and "baby murder," we found none. We rate this post .
Statement: The public option is not funded with public money. It's funded with private insurance premiums.
Speaker: diana degette
About the speaker: Diana DeGette is a Democratic congresswoman from Colorado.
Date: November 9, 2009
Location: national
Topics: abortion;health care
Context: the 'Rachel Maddow Show'
Fact-check justification: So DeGette is right and she's . In the long-term, the public option is meant to be self-sustaining. But first, it will require a big chunk of of public money to get started. We give her a .
Statement: Schumer and Pelosi sneak funding into COVID bill.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 8, 2021
Location: national
Topics: stimulus;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a post on Trending Politics
Fact-check justification: Trending Politics said Schumer and Pelosi snuck money into the COVID-19 relief bill to solve their own problems back home.  The bill sends billions to New York and millions to San Francisco. But that was never any secret. The legislation has $350 billion for state, tribal and local governments, and Republicans have vigorously opposed that for many months. The Trending Politics article failed to mention the billions flowing to Republican-led states and congressional districts. We rate this  .
Statement: Says HJM 20 "was the only bill not assigned to a House committee.
Speaker: oregon catalyst
About the speaker: An online politics blog that skews Republican and conservative.
Date: July 17, 2013
Location: oregon
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The other two bills mentioned above similarly did not get their first reading until July 1 or later. We asked Dan Lucas, the man behind Oregon Catalyst, to weigh in but he declined to comment. In an online post, Oregon Catalyst lambasted Kotek for not advancing HJM 20, saying it was the only bill not assigned to a committee. In fact, it was one of the three; rare but not unique. We rate this  .
Statement: Trump welcomes Jamaica as a U.S. territory
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 16, 2017
Location: national
Topics: fake news
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The fourth-largest island in the Caribbean is in fact located about 90 miles south of Cuba. The country does not require visas for visits under six months, but it does require passports from U.S. citizens and permanent residents. The rumor dates back to February of this year, when Mediamaxzone.com reported falsely that the Jamaican prime minister had hinted Jamaica would become a U.S. territory. While it has been circulating for a while, it’s time we shed light on this hoax. We rate it !
Statement: A Republican proposal changes Medicare for those under age 55 so that they will  "participate in the same kind of health plan that members of Congress do.
Speaker: mike pence
About the speaker: Mike Pence is the former vice president of the United States. A Republican, Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012. Pence previously served for 12 years as a congressman from Indiana representing the Sixth Congressional District; he was first elected in 2000. During his time in the U.S. House of Represenatives, he served as House Republican Conference chairman and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee. Pence was born in Columbus, Ind. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 from Hanover College and a law degree in 1986 from Indiana University. After accepting Donald Trump's offer to be running mate, Pence ended his 2016 campaign to be re-elected as Indiana governor. 
Date: April 10, 2011
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;federal budget;health care;medicare;this week - abc news
Context: an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
Fact-check justification: We should emphasize that Ryan’s Medicare proposal is only a broad outline right now, and there are many unanswered questions about it. But what we do know about it strikes us as fundamentally different from the kind of employer-provided health insurance that members of Congress receive. At a minimum, the premium supports will not keep pace with the historic record of rapidly increasing health care costs. Additionally, seniors make significantly less income than members of Congress and will likely not have the same options to buy more expensive plans. And, finally, they will not the same protection against rising costs that "Fair Share" provides members of Congress. We rate Pence’s statement . Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/1cb004d0-c238-4451-80ba-373db17dc6f7
Statement: Oil companies ...currently have 68-million acres that they're not using.
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: October 7, 2008
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: Nashville, Tenn
Fact-check justification: Sometimes companies don't renew leases if their early work leads them to believe adequate reserves of oil or gas don't exist. Obama's statement suggests that "non-producing" acreage where drilling is permitted is land that oil companies are ignoring. That is simply not . Years of exploration and federal permitting must be completed before leased land yields oil or gas. As a result, we find Obama's  to be .
Statement: For now, we are still below average in the metro region.
Speaker: francis kung'u
About the speaker: Francis Kung'u is the director of DeKalb County department of Watershed Management.
Date: May 19, 2010
Location: georgia
Context: a presentation
Fact-check justification: Could that be why DeKalb's rates are lower? Perhaps, said Sally Bethea, executive director of the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, a group that has monitored Atlanta's efforts to fix its sewer system. "They may have not yet made the kinds of investments Atlanta has made," she said. If you focus solely on the larger counties or all 16 governments that DeKalb studied, the numbers do show DeKalb's rates for the average customer are below the metro average. We rate the county's  as .
Statement: Virginia is "headed towards another surplus this year, unlike most states.
Speaker: bob mcdonnell
About the speaker: Bob McDonnell is the Republican governor of Virginia until January 2014. McDonnell was elected over Democratic state Sen. Creigh Deeds.
McDonnell previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2006 and as state Attorney General from 2006 to 2009.
McDonnell graduated from the University of Nortre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., with a bachelor's degree in 1976. He then served in the U.S. Army on active duty from 1976 to 1981 and in the reserves until 1997, retiring as a lieutenant colenel. He received a master's degree in business adminsitration from Boston University in 1980 and a master's and law degree from Regent University, Virginia Beach, in 1989.
Date: May 13, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: In June, NASBO reported that overall tax revenues were coming in over estimates in 22 states. Even with a surplus, Virginia will be working for years to make up for contributions it withheld from the state pension fund to balance the budget during the recession. The state has also relied on federal stimulus dollars that will not be available in the future. So it’s reasonable to question whether the state is really in the black. For that reason, we rate the governor’s statement .
Statement: Says Dan Patrick has "called immigration into Texas an invasion" and "said immigrants coming into Texas bring 'third-world diseases.'
Speaker: battleground texas
About the speaker: Battleground Texas, a political action committee, was announced in early 2013 as an effort to help Democrats win statewide races in Texas.
Date: June 10, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;crime;public health
Context: an interview on Bloomberg TV
Fact-check justification: The Battleground Texas activist said Patrick has "called immigration into Texas an invasion" and Patrick has "said immigrants coming into Texas bring ‘third-world diseases.’" This year and earlier, Patrick referred to illegal immigration as an invasion that he wants to stopper. In 2006, he was quoted as saying illegal immigrants bring third-world diseases to the state. Both claims have weaknesses, but we're not judging Patrick's veracity here. The Democratic group's statement is .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: James Clapper Flips On Live TV, Admits Obama Behind Entire Russia Witch Hunt! (Video)
Speaker: americanjournalreview.com
About the speaker: A site associated with fake news. 
Date: July 20, 2018
Topics: fake news;legal issues;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The headline on an article from AmericanJournalReview says, "James Clapper Flips On Live TV, Admits Obama Behind Entire Russia Witch Hunt! (Video)." In the video the article references, Clapper said Obama tasked intelligence officials to assess threats after the CIA concluded Russia meddled in the 2016 election. Obama requested the threat assessment in December 2016 and the special counsel wasn’t appointed until May 2017. The article inaccurately conflates these two events.   It’s  to say Clapper "flips" in his statement. He is referring to a different aspect of the Russian investigation than the article suggests. We found no change of position from Clapper. We rate this  .
Statement: The tuitions in Virginia colleges...have doubled -- 100 percent -- in the last 10 years.
Speaker: bob mcdonnell
About the speaker: Bob McDonnell is the Republican governor of Virginia until January 2014. McDonnell was elected over Democratic state Sen. Creigh Deeds.
McDonnell previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2006 and as state Attorney General from 2006 to 2009.
McDonnell graduated from the University of Nortre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., with a bachelor's degree in 1976. He then served in the U.S. Army on active duty from 1976 to 1981 and in the reserves until 1997, retiring as a lieutenant colenel. He received a master's degree in business adminsitration from Boston University in 1980 and a master's and law degree from Regent University, Virginia Beach, in 1989.
Date: November 30, 2010
Location: virginia
Topics: education
Fact-check justification: Nelson said things could have been worse were it not for the almost $275 million state colleges and universities received from the 2009 Stimulus Act. Now, let’s review: McDonnell’s  that Virginia tuition has doubled in the last 10 years is 100 percent  using the average. If we look individually at each of the state’s four-year schools, it’s still . Only if we include Richard Bland, the state’s only two-year junior college, is it not entirely  to say that all state colleges and universities have doubled tuition, but even then it’s off just a tad. So we find the  to be .
Statement: The Department of Homeland Security is "the only federal department not funded for this entire fiscal year" by Congress.
Speaker: lloyd doggett
About the speaker: Rep. Lloyd Doggett was initially elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994.
Date: January 26, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: congress;federal budget;homeland security;terrorism
Context: oped commentary
Fact-check justification: Doggett said Homeland Security is "the only federal department not funded for the entire year" by Congress. That was so as of when Doggett spoke in January 2015. Congressional Republicans were attempting to tie funding through the fiscal year to a repeal of Obama’s 2014 announcement the administration intended to shield some unauthorized immigrants from deportation. We rate the statement .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Iowa has "the highest high-school graduation rate in the country.
Speaker: kim reynolds
About the speaker: Kim Reynolds, a Republican, has served as governor of Iowa since 2017.
Date: January 14, 2020
Location: iowa
Topics: education
Context: the Condition of the State address
Fact-check justification: Reynolds, Sinclair and additional Iowa politicians said Iowa has the nation’s highest graduation rates in the U.S. National data confirms these statements and shows a steady increase in Iowa’s graduation rates since 2011. Graduation rates among minority populations in Iowa are relatively low compared to those of other states, however, and none surpassed 85 percent in 2016-17. We rated the  of leading the nation in education as .
Statement: Sen. Sherrod Brown "has chosen to side with Washington bureaucrats and fringe extremists in the attacks on our natural resources.
Speaker: josh mandel
About the speaker: Josh Mandel, a Republican from Lyndhurst, is a Marine veteran who served two tours in Iraq. He served as Ohio treasurer from 2011 to 2019.  Before that, he was a state representative from the 17th Ohio House District. He unsuccessfully challenged Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown in the 2012 US Senate race. Mandel is running for the GOP nomination for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat in 2022.
Date: December 2, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: environment;energy
Context: a newspaper column
Fact-check justification: And Mandel said Brown sided with "Washington bureaucrats," when the woman making the call was in Ohio. Her boss who signed off was in Wisconsin. Political criticism is fair game. But it’s a stretch to equate a national forest supervisor in Southeast Ohio and her boss in Wisconsin as Washington bureaucrats. And when rhetoric gets  -- when a public official running for office implies that an Ohio mayor, county commissioners, a major university president and a federal forest supervisor are fringe extremists -- PolitiFact Ohio has one rating for it: !
Statement: Hacked emails "revealed that Hillary Clinton & pals are involved in sex trafficking children.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 6, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A conspiracy theorist who piggybacked on these claims and said  of a "pedophile sex ring" had emerged. The theory has spawned other misinformation. We’ve looked into claims that the FBI confirmed  of a "huge underground Clinton sex network," that Clinton was on trial for allegedly torturing and killing a 10-year-old girl on camera, that an explosion in Beirut over the summer was linked to human trafficking by Clinton — they’re all .   Four years since Pizzagate became a well-known word, there is still not  to back up the idea that Clinton is sex-trafficking children.   We rate this post .
Statement: Says "millions of dollars in tax breaks" were paid for "by busting unions, cutting BadgerCare, and raising taxes on the poor and the middle class, thanks to Elizabeth Coggs' help.
Speaker: we are milwaukee
About the speaker: We Are Milwaukee, which is registered with the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board as a political committee, says it works for "social and economic justice."
Date: July 30, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corporations;message machine 2012;state budget;taxes
Context: a campaign flyer
Fact-check justification: The Walker-GOP budget cut spending on schools, local governments and public workers' benefits to meet the two-year shortfall -- which was more than $3 billion. Indeed, it would have taken more than 3,000 tax breaks at $1 million each to "pay for" the cuts. Our rating We Are Milwaukee said "millions of dollars in tax breaks" were paid for "by busting unions, cutting BadgerCare, and raising taxes on the poor and the middle class, thanks to Elizabeth Coggs' help." The idea that some $1 million in tax breaks over a two-year period supported by Coggs and most other Assembly Democrats needed to be paid for by some $3 billion in budget cuts is  and . .
Statement: The American Academy of Pediatrics "supports banning guns.
Speaker: marion hammer
About the speaker: Marion Hammer is a past president of the National Rifle Association and Executive Director of Unified Sportsmen of Florida. She lobbies Florida legislators on gun issues.
Date: February 22, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: children;guns
Context: comments before a state Senate committee
Fact-check justification: We found no  that the academy supports an outright ban on all guns. But the academy does say that "firearm regulation, to include bans of handguns and assault weapons, is the most effective way to reduce firearm-related injuries." It also voiced support for Chicago's handgun-ban law. We think Hammer could have been slightly more clear in making her case to the Legislature. We rate her  .
Statement: Alabama is operating government on the lowest amount of tax revenue of any state in the nation.
Speaker: sue bell cobb
About the speaker: Sue Bell Cobb is the former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice. The Democrat is running for Alabama governor in 2018.
Date: April 24, 2018
Location: national
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: Democratic debate for governor
Fact-check justification: Cobb said, "Alabama is operating government on the lowest amount of tax revenue of any state in the nation, which is why we’re lagging behind our sister southern states." Alabama indeed fell last in per-capita tax collections for state and local taxes. It ranked toward the bottom in other measurements of government revenue, not the very bottom. With that additional information, we rate this statement .
Statement: The middle class can be defined to include those with income between roughly $20,000 and $60,000.
Speaker: oregon business association
About the speaker: The Oregon Business Association is made up of more than 300 businesses. It seeks to provide bipartisan, statewide business leadership to ensure Oregon's continued economic competitiveness.
 
Date: December 9, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: income
Context: the OBA's 2014 Work Plan
Fact-check justification: We’re still not certain -- and neither are most economists, as indicated by Mathur’s email reply -- but we do think the term has its economic limits. And those limits don’t extend anywhere near the official poverty range, as the business association’s $20,000 does. The association’s upper end of $60,000 is much more solid, though, landing well above the median income level for all Oregon tax filers and roughly in the middle of Oregon income levels. We also need to allow for households with two wage-earners -- one with two people earning $20,000 each, for example, could more realistically be considered part of the middle class. Splitting the difference between a dubious low level and a sound high one, we rate the  .