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Statement: Says Beto O'Rourke's campaign "told Texas VFW to remove their American flag" because O'Rourke has "an aversion to the American flag and symbols of patriotism.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: September 7, 2018
Topics: patriotism;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: There are also numerous photos and videos on social media of him speaking in front of the American and Texas flags from other events this summer. It’s not unreasonable to assume, as Dry did, that the people who asked to "take down" the American flags at the Aug. 25 rally were from the O’Rourke campaign. But it is an assumption, and furthermore it’s not clear why they were asking: It’s possible they wanted to move them to another location or feature them in some other way. We can say that the campaign definitely does not show an "aversion" to the flag or to patriotic symbols, as it has used them in many other settings. We rate this  .
Statement: The Milwaukee County executive can sell the public "museum, the airport and the zoo" -- all on his own, without County Board approval
Speaker: chris larson
About the speaker: Chris Larson, a Milwaukee Democrat, was elected to the Wisconsin state Senate in November 2010. A former member of the Milwaukee County Board, he is a candidate for Milwaukee County executive in 2016.
Date: November 22, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: animals;county government;legal issues;state budget;transportation
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: However, such sales would need the OK of at least one other person -- either the elected county comptroller or a real estate expert appointed by elected municipal officials who lives in the community where the land is located. We rate Larson’s statement . More on Milwaukee County In Milwaukee County, juveniles arrested for car theft "get sent immediately home, because under the point system in juvenile court" on holding suspects, "a stolen car gets zero points."  . In Context : Which black people did Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke call uneducated, lazy and morally bankrupt?
Statement: When you have unemployment below 4% and inflation above 4%, recession always follows within two years.
Speaker: lawrence summers
About the speaker: Lawrence Summers is a former director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama. Previously, he served as president of Harvard University and as secretary of the treasury under President Bill Clinton.
Date: June 17, 2022
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: an interview with Barron's
Fact-check justification: Summers said, "When you have unemployment below 4% and inflation above 4%, recession always follows within two years." His prediction of a future recession is well-supported by economic theory and common sense, and it may come to fruition.  However, his statements in the media go beyond that: They seek to elevate a prediction based theory into an empirical certainty based on lived history. He’s saying that if the current unemployment and inflation rates meet an ironclad threshold, a recession is historically guaranteed. A big reason why the likelihood of a recession is 100% under these conditions is that these conditions almost never occur. During the nearly half-century from 1970 to 2018 — the part of the data set that is most similar to today’s economy — there was not a single example of Summers' stated conditions occurring. That’s not much of a basis for this sweeping formula. We rate his statement .
Statement: Sarah Huckabee Sanders dressed up as KKK member on Halloween in 1993.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: October 22, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: An image circulating on Facebook purports to show White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders dressed in a Klu Klux Klan robe. A Facebook caption to the newly surfaced image said, "The problem is not whether this photo is real or not -- it's that no one would be surprised in the slightest if it IS real." It’s definitely not. We rate it !
Statement: Putin decimates another adrenochrome warehouse in Ukraine.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: February 18, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The same site wrote separately that Putin intercepted a shipment of adrenochrome bound for the United States. We rated that ! A recent real report by Yale University researchers in collaboration with a U.S. State Department program to hold Russia accountable found that the country’s government "is operating a systematic network of at least 40 child custody centers for thousands of Ukrainian children, a potential war crime," NPR reported .   The researchers said they’ve verified at least 6,000 Ukrainian children detained by the Russian government and believe there are thousands more.   We rate claims that Putin destroyed an adrenochrome warehouse in Ukraine !
Statement: Congress includes 36 people accused of spousal abuse, 84 arrested for drunk driving in the past year, 71 with terrible credit and more.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 18, 2014
Location: national
Topics: congress;ethics;crime
Context: a Facebook meme
Fact-check justification: A Facebook meme says Congress includes 36 people accused of spousal abuse, 84 arrested for drunk driving in the past year, 71 with terrible credit and more. These accusations appear to be fabricated. The statistics come from an article written 15 years ago, and the original source, Capitol Hill Blue, has removed the original article from its website. Congress’ record isn’t blemish-free, by any means, but these statistics have no basis in fact. We rate this meme !
Statement: Says his views on reparations for slavery are the same as Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's.
Speaker: bernie sanders
About the speaker: Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
Date: January 24, 2016
Location: national
Topics: income;race and ethnicity;poverty
Context: comments on "Meet the Press."
Fact-check justification: Sanders said he opposes reparations "for the same reason that Barack Obama has and the same reason, I believe, that Hillary Clinton has." The reason, he said, is the need to focus instead on addressing current economic problems in the black community by improving education, providing jobs and addressing poverty. That is basically what Obama and Clinton has suggested in lieu of reparations. It’s worth noting that Sanders previously suggested that reparations were politically impractical and divisive. Obama and Clinton have not made comments to this effect. In 2007, Obama said reparations could be used an excuse not to do more for African-Americans. We rate Sanders'  .
Statement: Quotes George Washington as saying "it is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 11, 2019
Topics: corrections and updates;fake news;history;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Posts on social media attribute a questionable quote to Washington about the impossibility of governing "a nation without God and the Bible." After searching several databases and archives of Washington’s works, we find no  he ever said this. Additionally, the leading George Washington scholars say they don’t believe he did, or even would, say it.  We rate this quote . Correction , July 17, 2019: "Paulding’s Life of Washington" by James Kirke Paulding reads, "It is impossible to govern the universe without the aid of a Supreme Being." An earlier version of this post contained a typo in that passage; it has been updated. The ruling remains unchanged.
Statement: The COVID vaccine "has been proven to have negative efficacy.
Speaker: ron johnson
About the speaker: Ron Johnson is a Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin. A businessman and accountant, Johnson defeated Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in the 2010 election. He is seeking re-election in 2016.
Date: April 24, 2023
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;public health;coronavirus
Context: Public appearance
Fact-check justification: Johnson claimed that the COVID-19 vaccines have "been proved to have negative efficacy."  The studies his office sent as  measured vaccine effectiveness, not efficacy, which are two different terms.  But even a generous interpretation of his statement shows it’s still off base. Although protection against infection waned with the arrival of the omicron variant, the vaccines’ effectiveness was meant to measure how well they protected against severe disease and death, and that level of protection remains robust.  And even that waning protection doesn’t mean that being vaccinated causes a person to be at higher risk of contracting the virus, experts said.  We rate this  .
Statement: Says Barack Obama promised to halve the deficit in his first term.
Speaker: matt mackowiak
About the speaker: Matt Mackowiak, former press secretary to U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, lives and works in Washington and Austin. He frequently comments on politics and government.
Date: December 1, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: deficit;economy
Context: an opinion column
Fact-check justification: After making his pledge, Obama said the budget he would soon propose "will look ahead 10 years and will include a full and honest accounting of the money we plan to spend and the deficits we will likely incur. To start reducing these deficits, I've committed to going through our budget line by line to root out waste and inefficiency." Obama went on to say he was intent on restoring pay-as-you-go budgeting and also ending the "payments to agribusiness that don't need them and eliminate the no-bid contracts that have wasted billions in Iraq. We'll end the tax breaks for companies shipping jobs overseas," he said, "and we'll stop the fraud and abuse in our Medicare program." We rate Mackowiak’s statement .
Statement: Louisiana's film incentives program is so big "they actually shot an upcoming film initially titled 'Don't Mess With Texas' in New Orleans!
Speaker: paul stekler
About the speaker: Paul Stekler, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, chairs the University of Texas Department of Radio-Television-Film.
Date: January 24, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: an oped column
Fact-check justification: Stekler said Louisiana’s film incentives program is so big, "they actually shot an upcoming film initially titled ‘Don’t Mess With Texas’ in New Orleans!" Louisiana has a strong incentives program and a chase movie set in Texas was filmed there; its makers are primed to receive incentive aid. However, we see no confirmation Louisiana’s incentives explain why the movie was shot on the not-Texas side of the Sabine. We rate this partly proven statement .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger "to investigate himself over voter fraud.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 5, 2022
Location: georgia
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The Post noted that Raffensperger told the National Desk that his office had received the ballot harvesting tip from a group called  the Vote, but that the organization "does not allege the ballots delivered by couriers were fraudulent. "  "Those are still lawful ballots," Raffensperger said, "but they’ve just been handled fraudulently with, obviously, the ballot harvesting." What he didn’t say? That he’s going to investigate himself over voter fraud.   We rate that  .
Statement: Says Donald Trump "wants to keep big government in charge" of federally-owned land.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: February 18, 2016
Location: nevada
Topics: environment
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Cruz says that Trump wants to keep "big government" in charge of Nevada’s public lands. Trump has answered questions on public land management twice. He has not advocated for transferring ownership, but he has focused on cutting bureaucratic red tape. Cruz  Trump's position slightly by saying Trump favors "big" government. We rate the ad's statement  .
Statement: Under the Affordable Care Act, "some people were gaming the system" by paying "for nine months of insurance, get 12 -- the other three for free.
Speaker: greg walden
About the speaker: Greg Walden is a U.S. representative from Oregon. He is leading the transition as Republicans take power in the 112th Congress.
Date: March 7, 2017
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a oress conference
Fact-check justification: Walden said, "One of the issues we found is that some people were gaming the system" by paying "for nine months of insurance, get 12 -- the other three for free." A nine-month loophole exists, and experts say it’s fair to assume that some people might be exploiting it. But among the universe of people who have purchased insurance under the law, the percentage doing so is almost certainly small. Meanwhile, Walden’s assertion frames it as a certainty that the intention is to game the system, when in fact the study cited by his office didn’t probe that as a motivation. We rate the  .
Statement: 8 years of the Clintons, major losses for Democrats across the nation.
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: February 1, 2008
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: a flyer sent prior to Super Tuesday
Fact-check justification: Many of the Democratic losses came in the 1994 election cycle, when voters dealt a stunning rebuke to Clinton's first-term policies and put Republicans in control of both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years. But the GOP began to lose congressional seats in the 1996 and 1998 elections, while Clinton still was in office. And just months after he departed, the Senate shifted back to Democratic control after Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords switched his affiliation from Republican to Independent. While it's  that Democrats suffered major losses in 1994, they recouped some of those seats before Clinton left office. We find the  to be .
Statement: Manufacturing wages today in America on a per-hour basis are actually a bit lower than average wages in the economy as a whole.
Speaker: steven rattner
About the speaker: Steven Rattner is a former adviser to President Barack Obama who now appears as an economic analyst on MSNBC's Morning Joe.
Date: March 30, 2014
Topics: economy;jobs;poverty;punditfact
Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Rattner was careful on This Week to single out data for per-hour wages when he argued manufacturers are not paid as much as the rest of workforce. His  relies on the most recent data for production workers in the manufacturing industry, who earn about $1 less than the average of their private-sector counterparts. However, factoring in supervisors shows manufacturers make 41 cents more per hour. Adding benefits gives manufacturers more of an edge. We won’t take sides and say what dataset we think is best. What we can say is that Rattner makes an accurate point by one measure. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: Doctors in the Netherlands "ordered" to euthanize "citizens with autism and other minor disabilities, even if the patient does not currently express any desire to die.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 26, 2023
Topics: health care;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook video claimed that doctors in the Netherlands were being ordered to perform euthanasia on patients with autism or other minor ailments, regardless of whether the patient currently wants to die. Although a recent study showed that some patients cited autism or an intellectual disability as their main cause of suffering when requesting euthanasia, the Netherlands’ law clearly states that a patient must consent to euthanasia and that doctors do not have to perform the procedure. We rate the  .
Statement: We need filibuster reform, and I've always been very clear about that.
Speaker: cheri beasley
About the speaker: Cheri Beasley, a former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, is running for U.S. Senate.
Date: October 19, 2021
Location: north carolina
Context: a Q&A session
Fact-check justification: Beasley said "We need filibuster reform, and I’ve always been very clear about that." Beasley’s quote makes it seem like, prior to her October commitment to eliminate the filibuster, she had come out fully in favor of some kind of reform.  From May through July, she said she’d "take a look at" or "think about" eliminating the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. Based on the information PolitiFact NC has reviewed and Beasley’s campaign has provided, it wasn’t until September that Beasley’s campaign explicitly said she would "carve out" the filibuster to support voting rights and would "consider" broader reforms. Her statement contains an element of  — she has consistently said there should be no barriers to passing voting rights legislation. But it ignores critical facts that would give a different impression — she didn’t specify her stance on filibuster reform until September. And only in October did she clearly state "we absolutely must have filibuster reform." We rate the  that she has always been clear about that .
Statement: In April 2009 "the Democrats were in control, and the congressional (approval) rating was 40 percent.
Speaker: nancy pelosi
About the speaker: Rep. Nancy Pelosi represents a district in California. She served as speaker of the U.S. House January 2019-2021. Formerly the speaker of the House from 2007-11, Pelosi served as the House minority leader from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2019.
Date: November 9, 2011
Location: national
Topics: polls and public opinion
Context: an interview with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show"
Fact-check justification: Strictly speaking, Pelosi’s : Congressional approval didn’t hit 40 percent during the month of April 2009. Polls taken that month averaged just under 32 percent. But the rating did exceed that benchmark twice within the 13 polls taken in March, April and May 2009. On balance, we rate her statement .
Statement: One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office.
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: March 26, 2011
Location: national
Topics: energy;oil spill
Context: a speech at the Conservative Principles PAC Conference
Fact-check justification: But that's not what she said. She said: "One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office." It's not even close, and the  is  . .
Statement: We need to pass a carbon tax to stop climate change. Break up the Wall Street banks. And stop the government spying on innocent Americans. Cory Booker doesn't support any of these ideas.
Speaker: rush holt
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Rush Holt is a Democrat representing New Jersey's 12th district.
Date: August 5, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: environment;financial regulation;government regulation;privacy issues
Context: a Democratic primary U.S. Senate seat campaign TV ad
Fact-check justification: Holt said in a TV ad, "We need to pass a carbon tax to stop climate change. Break up the Wall Street banks. And stop the government spying on innocent Americans. Cory Booker doesn’t support any of these ideas." Booker hadn’t taken a position on those issues by the time the ad had aired, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t support or reject them. It simply means he hasn’t taken a position thus far. But let’s look at the flip side, too. Without knowing where Booker stands on these issues, New Jerseyans can legitimately question whether he supports a carbon tax, breaking up Wall Street banks and ending domestic spying. That lack of context is what makes Holt’s  partially accurate, and why we rate Holt’s  . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Obama says his bill "reduced welfare rolls nearly 80 percent.
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: June 30, 2008
Location: national
Topics: poverty
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: But Lewis said he did not disagree with Bouman's estimate. Gary MacDougal, former chairman of the Illlinois Republican Party and the chairman of the Illinois Governor's Task Force for Human Services Reform, downplays Obama's role in the bill and agreed with Bouman that there were other significant factors in the decline besides the state law. He said the most important factor was the governor's reorganization of state agencies, and he said the booming economy of the 1990s was also "very helpful" in the decline. So the Obama ad is right about the size of the decline, but is reaching too far by taking credit for it. We find this  .