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Statement: If you were in the military before 2002 you get an additional $1,200 a year, ($100 per month) in Social Security. But you have to ask for it and almost no one knows about it.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 31, 2021
Topics: military;social security;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: Many people who served in the military from 1940 to 2001 are eligible for extra wage credits that are added to the earnings record used to calculate monthly Social Security payments. But the extra credits do not necessarily result in higher monthly Social Security payments. The amount of the credit depends on when the person served in the military and for how long. And for veterans who served from 1968 to 2001, it’s applied automatically. We rate the  .
Statement: The COVID-19 pandemic was planned, and a 2019 simulation called Event 201 was a rehearsal for it.
Speaker: pitbull
About the speaker: Pitbull is an American rapper and singer. 
Date: September 25, 2020
Location: national
Topics: pop culture;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: The family of viruses known as coronaviruses are common, and some types in addition to COVID-19 have also been serious, including SARS in 2002 and MERS in 2012. In 2020, Pitbull suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic was planned and that a 2019 simulation called Event 201 was a rehearsal for it.   Event 201 was a real event held in 2019, but it did not predict or plan for the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a preparedness exercise to help global leaders respond to future pandemics. We rate this  .
Statement: Legendary Actor Sidney Poitier: Donald Trump might become 'The Greatest Of All Time.' 
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: May 15, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: We searched for the comments in Google and Nexis and found no  that Poiter made that statement. In fact, we couldn’t find any remarks of Poitier saying anything about either political party in a credible news source. What we do know about Poitier is that he was appointed ambassador of the Bahamas to Japan for 10 years and was awarded the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President Barack Obama. Yet, there is still no  that the actor made that statement. We rate this story .
Statement: Says of Georgia, "for four years in a row, we are the No. 1 state to do business in.
Speaker: casey cagle
About the speaker: Casey Cagle, a Republican, is the lieutenant governor of Georgia
Date: June 22, 2017
Location: georgia
Topics: economy;jobs;small business
Context: a meeting with small business owners
Fact-check justification: Cagle, talking about his state of Georgia, said, "for four years in a row, we are the No. 1 state to do business in." A well-regarded business magazine, Site Selection , has listed Georgia as its best state for business for the past four years. But that’s just one publication’s ranking; others offered different ratings, and it’s impossible to say that one methodology is the perfect one. Cagle's statement is partially accurate. We rate it .
Statement: Last year, handguns killed 48 people in Japan, 8 in Great Britain, 34 in Switzerland, 52 in Canada, 58 in Israel, 21 in Sweden, 42 in West Germany and 10,728 in the United States.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 15, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: crime;government regulation;guns
Context: an internet message
Fact-check justification: A Facebook posting reported,  "Last year, handguns killed 48 people in Japan, 8 in Great Britain, 34 in Switzerland, 52 in Canada, 58 in Israel, 21 in Sweden, 42 in West Germany and 10,728 in the United States." The numbers are wildly out of date. They also omit important context, such as population size or a country's cultural attitudes toward the acceptability of violence and gun use. The list also tends to focus on Western well-to-do countries. But the phenomenon reported in the illustration is correct. The odds of being murdered by a gun in the United States is far in excess of the risk seen in the countries named in the Facebook posting, and in the newer illustration developed by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. For those reasons, we rate the statement  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.) (The second paragraph of our ruling was modified after publication to clarify that cultural attitudes toward violence influence a country's gun-related murder rate.)
Statement: Senator Menendez said he would spend our money wisely. But our annual national deficit climbed from $250 billion a year to $1.6 trillion on his watch.
Speaker: joseph kyrillos
About the speaker: Joseph Kyrillos, Jr. is a Republican state senator representing part of Monmouth County. The former chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee, Kyrillos is running in the November 2012 general election for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Robert Menendez.
Date: February 1, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: deficit;federal budget
Context: a speech at his campaign kickoff
Fact-check justification: During his campaign announcement, Kyrillos criticized Menendez by saying "our annual national deficit climbed from $250 billion a year to $1.6 trillion on his watch." His numbers are slightly off, because the highest annual deficit during Menendez’s tenure in the Senate was about $1.4 trillion in fiscal year 2009. Menendez bears some responsibility for the large deficits by supporting various measures such as the stimulus and TARP. But experts told us the recession largely contributed to the deficits, and both parties are to blame for increased spending. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Republicans in Congress refuse to list a single tax loophole they are willing to close.
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: April 3, 2012
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;taxes
Context: remarks to the Newspaper Association of America
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "Republicans in Congress refuse to list a single tax loophole they are willing to close." House Republicans have said they want to handle tax changes through the Ways and Means Committee, and the plan’s top proponent, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, said he would limit deductions and exemptions for people who report higher incomes. But without more details on eliminating exemptions, it’s impossible to know if the tax plan will substantially reduce tax revenues or not. It’s also not possible to know what all the implications are for taxpayers. We rate Obama’s statement .
Statement: First, he said he would leave residual forces in Iraq, and now he says he wouldn't.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: October 12, 2007
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Fact-check justification: Based on that statement, it seems Richardson doesn't consider Marines guarding an embassy to constitute a residual force. But Richardson's web site www.getourtroopsout.com states that Richardson would leave "zero" troops in Iraq. His campaign didn't respond to a question on the embassy issue. Based on the 2006 Hardball interview, though, Richardson seems to have genuinely changed position on residual forces. And that's the charge that Biden is making.
Statement: Says rabid animals from other states carry "different strains of rabies" that Florida "vaccines and serums don't affect.
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: April 2, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: animals
Context: a committee hearing
Fact-check justification: Hammer claimed rabies strains carried by animals in other states "are entirely different from Florida's, and our vaccines and serums don’t affect those other strains of rabies." Her  about vaccines was rebutted by veterinarians and disease experts. Even more, she admitted not fleshing out her talking points before the committee meeting. We rate her  .
Statement: Since we took office, we have been outpacing the nation in job growth.
Speaker: eric greitens
About the speaker: Eric Greitens, a combat veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, founded The Mission Continues, a Missouri-based non-profit that helps returning veterans. He won his race for Missouri governor as a Republican in 2016. He resigned on May 29, 2018 after he was charged with felony computer tampering and faced allegations related to an extramarital affair.
Date: August 23, 2017
Location: missouri
Topics: economy
Context: a Facebook Live
Fact-check justification: Greitens said, "Since we took office, we have been outpacing the nation in job growth." Missouri did outpace the national average in job growth from January to June in 2017. However, Missouri’s jobs have been on a steady uphill climb since 2014, long before Greitens took office. And although Greitens has passed multiple laws affecting employment and businesses, these bills did not go into effect until Aug. 28. So there is no  that the continued job growth in Missouri is because of his management. Even Greitens’ press secretary didn’t provide information on how exactly Greitens has increased job growth except employment numbers. When asked for further examples on how the governor has created 37,200 jobs, Briden did not return request for comment.  We rate this  .
Statement: Gun homicide is down 49 percent in the past 12 years.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 16, 2014
Location: national
Topics: guns
Context: a meme on social media
Fact-check justification: The social media meme said that "gun homicide is down 49 percent in the past 12 years." The gun homicide rate is actually down by 49 percent over the past 17 years, but this seemingly minor  betrays a significant misunderstanding of how rates have fluctuated over the past two decades. During the past dozen years, gun homicide rates have been largely static; their big decline  came in the years before the meme even started counting. The meme is not just ; it’s a distraction from what actually happened. We rate the  .
Statement: I have never sued a nun — any nuns.
Speaker: xavier becerra
About the speaker: Xavier Becerra is California's attorney general and a Democrat. Previously, he was member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Date: February 24, 2021
Location: california
Topics: health care;legal issues;religion;women
Context: statements at a confirmation hearing
Fact-check justification: Becerra said, "I have never sued a nun — any nuns." As California attorney general, Becerra did not initiate a lawsuit against the Little Sisters of the Poor. However, the lawsuit he did initiate, which targeted the federal government, involved an issue on which the Little Sisters had long been a litigant — and after a court allowed the Little Sisters to intervene as a defendant in the case, Becerra continued to litigate directly against them in court. We rate the statement .
Statement: When news broke that Ferguson 18-year-old Michael Brown was a suspect in a robbery, "MSNBC practically went off the air for a while to have behind-closed-doors meetings to figure out how to deal with this new revelation.
Speaker: rush limbaugh
About the speaker: Rush Limbaugh is a conservative radio talk show host. His website describes him as "America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy."
Date: August 15, 2014
Topics: criminal justice;transparency;punditfact
Context: comments on his radio show
Fact-check justification: Nor did it go to break after showing frames from the video police alluded to. And certainly MSNBC never aired an extended commerical or infomercial as Limbaugh's statements suggest. Though when exactly the entire surveillance video was released is hard to say, MSNBC was one of the first news outlets to air it. After, MSNBC did not go to commercial break and had pundits discuss the video on air until a live press conference began. We rate Limbaugh’s  .
Statement: Nevada Republicans "didn't do one single thing to cut spending" in 2015.
Speaker: danny tarkanian
About the speaker: Danny Tarkanian is a Republican candidate for Nevada's 3rd Congressional District. The son of legendary UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, Danny Tarkanian has mounted several unsuccesful bids for office over the past decade, including runs for U.S. Senate and Nevada Secretary of State.
Date: February 9, 2016
Location: nevada
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: an interview on Ralston Live
Fact-check justification: Tarkanian says that the Republican-controlled Legislature "didn’t do one single thing to cut spending" in the face of historic tax increases. Taken straightforwardly, Tarkanian’s  isn’t  — lawmakers shaved off around $150 million in spending between the last two budgets, and approved several bills designed to rein in entitlement spending over the long run. There’s a sliver of  in Tarkanian’s follow-up, as Republican legislative leadership generally stuck with less severe changes to major state spending drivers like collective bargaining and public employee retirement than what was prefered by more conservative groups and legislators. But to say lawmakers didn’t do anything to address spending isn’t accurate. We rate his statement as .
Statement: Says Washington state has "consistently ranked in the top five in the Forbes list of best states to do business — ahead of Texas.
Speaker: chris gregoire
About the speaker: Chris Gregoire is the 22nd governor of the state of Washington.
 
Date: November 21, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a Seattle Times article
Fact-check justification: So has Washington consistently come ahead of Texas on the Forbes list? Washington has ranked in the top five states to do business in four of the five years the publication has been in the ranking business. Texas has landed on that list twice, besting Washington both times. Since 2007 Washington has "consistently" ranked in the top five states business-wise, pushing ahead of Texas for three of the past four years. We rate Gregoire's statement as .
Statement: Says the Medicaid fraud rate in Virginia was "fact-checked" and found to be "0.47 percent.
Speaker: terry mcauliffe
About the speaker: Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, was elected governor of Virginia on Nov. 5, 2013. He received 47.8 percent of the vote in defeating Republican Ken Cuccinelli, who came in at 45.2 percent. Robert Sarvis, a Libertarian, finished a distant third with 6.5 percent.
McAuliffe's inaguration as Virginia's 72nd governor is scheduled on Jan. 11, 2014.
McAuliffe, a wealthy businessman and noted political fundraiser, was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and chairman of Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2008. In 2009, McAuliffe unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Virginia governor.
McAuliffe was born in Syracuse, N.Y., on Feb. 9, 1957. He has a bachelor's degree from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. McAuliffe has lived in Fairfax County for more than 20 years, is married and has five children.
 
Date: March 27, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: health care;medicaid
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: McAuliffe said the state has a fraud rate of 0.47 percent and that PolitiFact Virginia had verified that figure. A spokesman for the governor said McAuliffe made an innocent  in saying we found the statistic to be correct. In fact, we had never looked at the figure until now, and a number of experts told us that the governor erred in interpreting it as a fraud rate. The 0.47 is a computation of the percentage of Medicaid bills that were paid in 2012 for services that Virginians were ineligible to receive. Some of those errors resulted from deceit and some were simply caused by clerical errors. Neither the state nor the federal government offer a standard measurement of Medicaid fraud because much of the abuse is undetected. So the governor comes up empty. We rate his statement .
Statement: We won. We won in a landslide. This was a landslide.
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: January 6, 2021
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: a speech on the Ellipse outside the White House
Fact-check justification: In a speech to his supporters on a violent day in Washington, Trump said he won the 2020 election "in a landslide." That’s  . He didn’t win at all, let alone in a landslide. Biden won the presidential election with 306 electoral votes, to Trump’s 232. All 50 states and the District of Columbia have certified their votes, which Congress will formally tally before Biden’s inauguration. None of the 62 lawsuits that Trump and his allies filed after Election Day has proved that voter fraud affected the election outcome. Federal agencies and state election officials have repeatedly said there is no  of widespread fraud. Trump’s  is ! RELATED: A note to our readers who think President Trump won
Statement: Science is "very certain" that the measles vaccine doesn't cause autism.
Speaker: megyn kelly
About the speaker: Megyn Kelly is a journalist with NBC News. Previously, she was a journalist at Fox News and hosted "The Kelly File" on weeknights. 
Date: February 2, 2015
Topics: public health;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of "The O'Reilly Factor"
Fact-check justification: Kelly said that the science on vaccine safety is certain today. The researchers we contacted said that as far as the science is concerned, certainty had been reached at least 10 years ago with the release of a major national study debunking the link between the measles mumps, rubella vaccine and autism. Five years ago, the British journal the Lancet retracted the original report that triggered the initial wave of fear. That decision was the final nail in the coffin of a discredited report. If anything, Kelly undersold her point about when scientists agreed that vaccination is safe. We rate the  .
Statement: Says a video shared to his social media shows vehicles with broken windows in a parking garage used by state agencies in Texas on "the same night the City of Austin voted to cut $150 million" from the police department.
Speaker: george p. bush
About the speaker: George Prescott Bush, formerly a corporate lawyer, won election as Texas land commissioner in 2014. He's renominated to seek a second term in 2018.
Date: August 13, 2020
Location: texas
Topics: city budget;city government;crime
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Bush shared a video to his Twitter account purporting to show damage to state-owned vehicles parked at a garage in downtown Austin on the same night the City Council voted to cut funding from the Austin Police Department. While we don’t know for certain when the video was taken, we do know that the damage was discovered by state law enforcement officers at five days before the vote on cuts to the police budget. Plus, Bush’s attempt to connect the damage with the Police Department is , as the parking garage is not within the Austin Police Department’s jurisdiction. The Texas Department of Public Safety discovered the damage and is conducting an investigation. We rate this  .
Statement: Before Congress, (Tom) Cotton got paid handsomely working for insurance companies and corporate interests.
Speaker: senate majority pac
About the speaker: Senate Majority PAC is a super PAC that works to elect Democrats to the U.S. Senate.
Date: March 28, 2014
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;corporations;health care
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: The Senate Majority PAC ad claimed, "Before Congress, Cotton got paid handsomely working for insurance companies and corporate interests." Cotton’s never worked for an insurance company, nor has he served as a consultant for one. We rate the statement .
Statement: The #irandeal ultimately would have guaranteed Iran a nuclear bomb capable of reaching the US.
Speaker: david rouzer
About the speaker: David Rouzer represents North Carolina's 7th Congressional district.
Date: May 8, 2018
Location: north carolina
Topics: iran;military;nuclear
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Rouzer tweeted that the Iran deal "ultimately would have guaranteed Iran a nuclear bomb capable of reaching the US." For one thing, the deal didn't promise Iran a nuclear weapon. In fact, language in the deal — and in the separate Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — bans Iran from possessing such a weapon. Experts acknowledge the deal didn't necessarily prevent Iran from getting the bomb — but said it made it more difficult. Further, Iran is currently limited to missile strikes within a 1,200-mile range, not nearly far enough to reach the United States. We rate this statement .
Statement: Hillary Clinton "agrees with (John McCain) in embracing the Bush-Cheney policy of not talking to leaders we don't like.
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: January 30, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: Denver
Fact-check justification: The question is, are you going to have direct talks, and does that enhance the prestige of the president of Iran?" It's not unreasonable to say that Clinton and McCain share a skepticism about having the president conduct face-to-face diplomatic meetings directly. But Obama strays badly in taking that shared view and equating it with what he calls "the Bush-Cheney policy of not talking to leaders we don't like." Clinton, who was asked about it directly, clearly says she would approach diplomacy differently than the Bush administration has. We find Obama's  .