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Statement: Under the Obama plan . . . all the health care in this country is eventually going to be run by the government.
Speaker: tom coburn
About the speaker: Tom Coburn is a former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma and a physician.
Date: March 4, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview on the Fox News Channel
Fact-check justification: That may be Sen. Coburn's opinion on what could happen, but it's definitely not part of Obama's plan. And Coburn was very specific in saying that "under the Obama plan, all the health care in this country is eventually going to be run by the government." That gives the  impression that Obama is promoting a government-run health care system. He's not. We rate Coburn's statement .
Statement: David Beckham's soccer stadium would get a "special tax deal that lets them off the hook for $2 million in taxes every year for 30 years.
Speaker: miami seaport alliance
About the speaker: The Miami Seaport Alliance formed in 2014 in response to David Beckham's proposal to build a soccer stadium at PortMiami. Royal Caribbean Cruises is a key player in the alliance which opposes the stadium proposal for the port site.
 
Date: May 14, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: sports;state budget;taxes
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: The alliance’s ad says Beckham’s soccer stadium would get a "special tax deal that lets them off the hook for $2 million in taxes every year for 30 years." The ad correctly cites the numbers, though it omits some caveats: Beckham could get at least $2 million every year for 30 years, in the form of a sales tax subsidy. But it’s not an automatic slam dunk, since Beckham would have to apply for it. Though Beckham’s star power certainly influenced legislators to add soccer to the list of eligible franchises, it’s not a "special tax deal" exclusively for Beckham’s project. The main point of this statement is largely correct: Beckham is poised to get at least $2 million a year in rebates from the sales tax. We rate this  .
Statement: Less than two years ago, we made a commitment to repay the U.S. . . .taxpayers in full, and today we made good on that promise.
Speaker: sergio marchionne
About the speaker: Sergio Marchionne is CEO of Chrysler and partner Fiat SpA.
 
Date: May 24, 2011
Location: national
Topics: corporations;financial regulation;regulation
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: The government has now gotten most of its money back, but not all of it. Not yet anyway. We rate the  . UPDATE: The original version of this article mentioned Canadian taxpayers in the quotation. But since we are focusing on U.S, contributions, the reference to Canada was removed from the statement.
Statement: Says that, as a Supreme Court justice, Greg Abbott found that a company whose vacuum cleaners were sold door to door "had no responsibility" in the hiring of a salesman who raped a customer.
Speaker: wendy davis
About the speaker: Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth attorney, was initially elected to the Texas Senate in 2008. She was the 2014 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, giving up a shot at winning re-election to the Senate.
Date: August 7, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;criminal justice;legal issues;crime
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: In her ad, Davis said Abbott held that a company whose vacuum cleaners were sold door to door "had no responsibility" in the hiring of a salesman who raped a customer in her home. Then-Justice Abbott said the manufacturer had no duty, to be precise. But this  fails to include the substantive detail that Abbott, unlike the court majority, considered most significant an existing agreement between the manufacturer and distributors explicitly giving full responsibility for such hirings to the distributors who, Abbott implied, had control over checking the background of applicants. We rate this  as .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Elderly people were "beat up by a BLM hate group" for being white.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 22, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The organization found a report about the incident by Volksblad, a South African newspaper, but said no information about the attacker was given. The woman pictured in the bottom right shows 75-year-old Renske Cowan in October 2010 — three years before the Black Lives Matter movement began   — when she was beaten by an intruder in her home in Primrose, Germiston South Africa, according to an Africaans news website . We weren’t able to track down the other photographs, and while the news stories didn’t identify the women as farmers, their photos, along with the others in the post, have appeared in collections of images that  to show attacks on farmers in South Africa. None of the photographs were identified as being from the United States or connected to members affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement outside of unsourced social media posts. We rate this .
Statement: I did not support the war in Iraq … The record shows that I'm right.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: September 26, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;history;iraq;foreign policy
Context: a presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "I did not support the war in Iraq … The record shows that I’m right." The record does not support Trump’s repeated assertions that he opposed the war prior to the 2003 invasion. Around the time of the invasion, Trump’s comments were few and far between, not to mention vague. In 2002, asked if America should go to war, he said, "I guess so." Less than three months before the invasion, Trump said the president should be more focused on the economy, but he didn’t specifically speak against launching an attack. He didn’t voice full-throated opposition until almost a year and a half after the invasion. We rate this  .
Statement: Says the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency brought coyotes into the state "to try to keep the deer population down.
Speaker: frank niceley
About the speaker: Frank Niceley, a farmer and businessman, serves a state House district that covers parts of Knox and Jefferson Counties. He is chairman of the state's House Agricultural Committee.
Date: February 1, 2012
Location: tennessee
Topics: agriculture;animals
Context: a House Conservation and Environment Committee meeting
Fact-check justification: In relying on an unsubstantiated urban myth (or shall we say a "rural myth" in this case?) Niceley broke what should be a cardinal rule of public speaking -- make sure there is some shred of  to a  you are making. This one has been debunked before elsewhere and deserves to be again. When questioned, Niceley fell back to the history of red wolves, but even that displayed a misunderstanding of what actually was a federal program that experts said was unsuccessful. Niceley’s statement is definitely a real howler -- .
Statement: Says Adam Sandler said "Mormons are some of the most decent people I've ever come across.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: August 23, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: Internet posts
Fact-check justification: We’ve already seen another version of this story that attributed the same quotes to Matthew McConaughey . More are sure to come. Be aware that links you see about celebrity news may be fabricated, especially if they mention a smaller location. It’s a friendly sentiment, but Sandler didn’t say these things. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says George Soros is "funding the chaos" in Minneapolis via his Open Society Foundations.
Speaker: candace owens
About the speaker: Candace Owens is a conservative commentator, author and host on the Daily Wire. She formerly worked as a spokeswoman for Turning Point USA. She started Blexit, an effort to get black voters to leave the Democratic Party. She previously co-founded the website Degree180.
Date: May 28, 2020
Topics: civil rights
Context: a Tweet
Fact-check justification: Owens’ tweet that Soros was "funding the chaos" in Minneapolis through Open Society Foundations is unproven. She continued to  that the foundation had paid protesters after Open Society Foundations denied it on Twitter.  There is no  that Soros or the foundation had given any grants to organizations that funded and organized "the chaos" in Minneapolis. We rate this  .
Statement: Says President Donald Trump's "effort to roll back regulations means that Big Ag now gets to inspect its own pork" and "they decided to stop testing for E. coli.
Speaker: tulsi gabbard
About the speaker: Tulsi Gabbard is a representative of Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District. Elected to the office in 2012, Gabbard is the first Samoan-American and first Hindu member of the U.S. Congress. She was re-elected in 2014, 2016 and 2018. Gabbard has also been in active service for more than the past 10 years and has served in the Hawaii Army National Guard. Gabbard received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Hawaii Pacific University. In 2019, she announced she is running for the Democratic nomination for president.
Date: April 8, 2019
Location: national
Topics: government regulation;public health;regulation
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Gabbard tweeted, "Trump’s effort to rollback regulations means that Big Ag now gets to inspect its own pork - & they decided to stop testing for E. coli." The Trump administration is advancing a proposal that has been in development for decades. Some consumer advocacy groups are concerned that the changes will create safety risks. The proposal allows hog plants to opt-in to a new inspection system, under which plant workers (and not federal regulators) would sort animals for inspection. However, sorting is not the same as inspecting. The food safety agency would still be the one inspecting hogs. The proposal eliminates a requirement that plants test carcasses for generic E. coli, testing that’s done to track sanitation and process control. But the government would still require monitoring of process control and recommends other testing that experts said would be a greater food safety measure. (Establishments could also choose to continue testing for E. coli.) Overall, Gabbard’s tweet is  and doesn’t tell the whole picture. We rate it .
Statement: An image shows an "all aboard the Trump train" truck crashed into a bridge.
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: July 12, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a viral image
Fact-check justification: A local news website in May 2015 published additional photos of the accident that showed the damage to the truck — which could be seen bearing the words "On the road to success, there are no shortcuts" — from other angles. Using those photos, PolitiFact geolocated the crash to a bridge at the intersection of Mamaroneck and Halstead avenues in Mamaroneck, New York. The edited version of the image, purporting to show "all aboard the Trump train" written on the truck’s trailer, first surfaced in 2018, according to reverse image searches . It circulated again in 2020 as social media users mocked former President Donald Trump, Snopes reported . We rate this viral image .
Statement: Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's "actions are directly responsible for killing at least 15,000 jobs.
Speaker: brett hulsey
About the speaker: Democrat Brett Hulsey of Madison, the owner of an energy and environmental consulting firm, was elected to the Wisconsin Assembly in 2010. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the Aug. 12, 2014 Democratic primary for governor.
Date: October 18, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs;state budget
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: The estimates, however, don’t tie the spending reductions to actual job losses and take a very narrow -- some would say wrongheaded -- view of how the economy works. Hulsey’s claims of perhaps a few thousand jobs not being created because of actions taken by Walker regarding high-speed rail and wind energy have some merit.   But his  that the state budget killed 1,000 jobs appears to be off altogether. In sum, Hulsey isn’t close to demonstrating that actions taken by Walker are directly responsible for killing at least 15,000 jobs. We rate his statement .
Statement: The 9/11 terrorists' friends, family, girlfriends in the United States "were sent back for the most part to Saudi Arabia. They knew what was going on. They went home, and they wanted to watch their boyfriends on television.
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: December 15, 2015
Location: national
Topics: terrorism
Context: Las Vegas
Fact-check justification: Trump said that people close to the 9/11 hijackers -- friends, wives and girlfriends -- had knowledge of the pending attacks and were flown back to the Middle East so that they could "watch their boyfriends on television." Trump provided no . The 9/11 Commission investigation found that 13 of the 19 attackers were unmarried. Only two had wives, a third had a girlfriend, and none of those women were in the United States immediately before the attack. The commission further found  that the hijackers had cut ties with their families. There is no substance behind the statement. We rate this  .
Statement: When you look at the nearly 150 men and women who have served us on the Texas Supreme Court, more than half of them had zero prior judicial experience.
Speaker: rick green
About the speaker: Green, a former Texas state representative from Dripping Springs, was a 2010 candidate for the Texas Supreme Court.
Date: March 25, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;legal issues
Context: a YouTube video
Fact-check justification: And if you remove from the UT list the 22 justices who served only during the Republic of Texas, the percentage of those without prior judicial experience drops to 37 percent. For the Supreme Court list, the percentage would be 38 percent. The verdict? No matter how we sort the numbers, they show that the majority of high court justices had prior judicial experience. We rate Green's statement as .
Statement: In labor negotiations with city employees, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett "demanded concessions that went beyond those mandated" by Gov. Scott Walker's collective bargaining law
Speaker:  afscme
About the speaker: AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is the largest public employee and health care workers union in the United States.
Date: April 7, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: city budget;labor
Context: a letter to members
Fact-check justification: Our conclusion AFSCME said that in labor negotiations, Barrett "demanded concessions that went beyond those mandated" by Walker’s bill severely curtailing collective bargaining. Barrett didn’t "demand" concessions. There’s a kernel of  in that Act 10 didn’t mandate fiscal concessions beyond pension and health insurance, but in reality it dictated that employers could make many of the kinds of changes Barrett proposed in the AFSCME talks. We rate the union’s  . (You can comment on this item on the Journal Sentinel's main website by clicking here .)
Statement: Says Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that "if he has a nuclear weapon he will use it to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. He will use it against the United States of America.
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: November 22, 2011
Location: national
Topics: israel;foreign policy;nuclear
Context: Washington, D.C
Fact-check justification: She paraphrased Ahmadinejad as saying, "He has said that if he has a nuclear weapon he will use it to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. He will use it against the United States of America." Ahmadinejad has said some tough things about the United States and Israel, but we find no  that he has said he would use a nuclear weapon against either country. In fact, he has maintained Iran has no interest in building one. We rate this  .
Statement: Photos show "an IRS agent training class.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 16, 2022
Topics: taxes;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The notorious gangster Al Capone, for example, was investigated by the division, then called the Intelligence Unit, and later convicted on tax evasion charges. More recently, criminal investigation agents have been part of a task force tracking down the assets of Russian oligarchs.      We rate claims that these photos show an IRS agent training class . RELATED: Video misleads about size of IRS, audits and armed agents RELATED: Kevin McCarthy’s   about an army of 87,000 IRS agents
Statement: F.ight BREAKS as C.omer SHUTS UP Biden's lawyer with B0MBSHELL.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 27, 2023
Location: national
Topics: congress;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: I would argue that denying the American people the substance of Hunter Biden’s laptop story … was . You got photos and text messages of Hunter Biden committing multiple felonies, which was never actually — there were no criminal charges. Must be nice," Timmons said.   There wasn’t a punch to be seen. The  that this video showed a fight break out is !
Statement: The average time someone used to hold a share of stock back in the '60s was eight years. Now, the average time is four months.
Speaker: mark warner
About the speaker: Mark Warner, a Democrat, has represented Virginia in the U.S. Senate since 2009. He serves on the Banking, Budget, Commerce and Intelligence committees. He is the honorary co-chairman of the Forward Together PAC.
Warner gave the keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Warner previously served as governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006. He also ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1996. Before public office, Warner was an early investor in the cell phone business, co-founded the company that became Nextel.
Warner was born in Indianapolis, Ind., and grew up in Illinois and Connecticut. Warner graduated from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He received a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass.
Date: June 19, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: corporations;economy;wealth
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Warner said, "The average time someone used to hold a share of stock back in the ’60s was eight years. Now, the average time is four months."   The gist of Warner’s statement is undeniable: The average holding period for stocks has eroded greatly during the past 56 years. The specifics of Warner’s statement, however, need a little elaboration. Estimates by Credit Suisse jibe with Warner’s  that shares, on average, now are held for four months. The World Bank estimates the holding period now is about eight months. So we rate Warner’s statement .
Statement: Under the previous administration it was … $100 to fill a car. American energy has delivered. Now it's $60. That's $40 you have in your pocket … that you wouldn't have.
Speaker: ryan zinke
About the speaker: Ryan Zinke is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Montana's at-large congressional district.
Date: February 23, 2018
Location: national
Topics: economy;energy;gas prices
Context: a panel at the conservative CPAC conference
Fact-check justification: Zinke said, "Under the previous administration it was … $100 to fill a car. American energy has delivered. Now it's $60. That’s $40 you have in your pocket … that you wouldn’t have." The only 40 percent drop in the recent data occurred on Obama’s watch, meaning that Trump’s policies couldn’t have influenced it. On Trump’s watch, the price of gasoline has actually risen by 10 percent. We rate the statement .
Statement: Under Gov. Romney's definition ... Donald Trump is a small business.
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 3, 2012
Location: national
Topics: debates;small business;taxes
Context: Denver
Fact-check justification: Obama said that "under Gov. Romney's definition ... Donald Trump is a small business." But any tax cuts Trump would get from Romney would have nothing to do with whether he’s a small business or not. We rate Obama’s  .
Statement: We created a flat tax in the state of Utah.
Speaker: jon huntsman
About the speaker: Jon Huntsman was the governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009. He served as ambassador to China from 2009 to 2011. He is a Republican candidate for president in 2012. 
Date: August 11, 2011
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: Ames, Iowa
Fact-check justification: (It's worth noting that both groups fault Huntsman for increases in state spending that occurred under his watch.)      While we gave Huntsman a  for his previous statement, most of our downgrade stemmed from our criticism of his  that his policies "cut income taxes by 30 percent." The system he and the Legislature enacted in Utah wasn’t a pure flat tax, since taxpayers may still make adjustments for certain financial factors. But it is a flatter tax, and it includes one major defining factor of a flat tax -- a single rate for all income groups. On balance, we rate his  .