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Statement: We (Trump University) have an 'A' from the Better Business Bureau.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: February 28, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;corrections and updates;education
Context: comments on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Trump said about his entrepreneur institute that "we have an ‘A’ from the Better Business Bureau." Literally speaking, that is . The Better Business Bureau gives the program no rating today because it’s no longer a going concern. Trump University had an A at some point. The Better Business Bureau doesn't release details of its past ratings, but it did say Trump's program had ratings that ranged from A+ to D-. What we do know, from several published reports and archived Web pages, is that the university had a D in 2010 and under its new name, had ratings ranging from C to B, with no ratings after March 2014. Trump’s  is literally  and also ignores the university’s lower Better Business Bureau scores. We rate it . Update: This fact-check was updated on Feb. 29 to include information from the Internet Archive and on March 3 to add information about the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative.
Statement: There's talk in Congress now about basically confiscating your private 401(k) or IRA plan and rolling it into Social Security to strengthen Social Security.
Speaker: william howell
About the speaker: William Howell, R-Falmouth, represents the 28th District, which is comprised of parts of Fredericksburg and Stafford County, in the Virginia House of Delegates. He was first elected as a delegate in 1987 and was named speaker of the house in 2003.
He earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Richmond and a law degree from the University of Virginia. He is a former director of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce and former president of the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Date: November 13, 2010
Location: virginia
Topics: retirement
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: We can’t find a single story in a national newspaper that warns of confiscation. AARP, the nation’s largest lobby for seniors with a reported 40 million members, says it "hasn’t heard anything about it at all." The web sites reporting government seizure efforts cite statements and reports that, in fact, make no such suggestion. And it gets even more  when Howell, himself, says he knows it’s not going to happen. We rate his  .
Statement: The nation as a whole has created jobs at a rate that is two times the rate that we have created jobs here in Wisconsin under Gov. Walker.
Speaker: mary burke
About the speaker: Burke is a former Trek Bicycle executive and former Wisconsin Commerce Department secretary who announced on Oct. 7, 2013 that she would seek the Democratic nomination for governor in Wisconsin in the fall 2014 election against incument Republican Gov. Scott Walker. She lost to Walker on Nov. 4, 2014. She is a school board member in Madison, Wisconsin.
Date: October 28, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Annual growth rates in the United States in 2011, 2012 and 2013, and into early 2014 ranged from 1.2 to 2 times larger than Wisconsin’s. The high point was from September 2011 to September 2012, when the rate was twice that of Wisconsin. Our rating Burke claimed that "the nation as a whole has created jobs at a rate that is two times the rate that we have created jobs here in Wisconsin under Gov. Walker." Wisconsin lags behind the nation significantly, but for the most part quite not as badly as Burke says, based on the last year and on results from most of Walker’s term. We rate the  .
Statement: We have developed a wind industry (in Washington state) from zero to $6 billion in 12 years.
Speaker: jay inslee
About the speaker: Jay Inslee is the governor of Washington. He was elected as governor in 2012. From 1993 to 1995, Inslee represented Washington’s 4th Congressional District. He represented Washington’s 1st Congressional District from 1999 to 2012. While representing the 1st district, he served on the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Inslee received his bachelor’s degree in economics and a J.D. from Willamette University School of Law. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in August.
Date: March 10, 2019
Location: national
Topics: climate change;energy
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Inslee said, "We've developed a wind industry from zero to $6 billion in 12 years." His figure is backed up by the American Wind Energy Association and federal pricing data from the Department of Energy. The vast majority of Washington’s wind energy capital was invested over a 12-year period, from 2002 through 2014. It's worth noting that Inslee became governor only in 2013. The statement is accurate but needs additional information. We rate this .
Statement: If Biden becomes president and cannot complete his term, Harris will become president, and Pelosi will become vice president.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 9, 2020
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: But Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, wouldn’t become vice president. Instead, Harris would choose the new vice president, and the House and Senate would vote on her choice.   The poster may be confused by the Presidential Succession Act , which says that if both the president and vice president die or are incapacitated, the speaker of the House is next in line to become president. Some people believe the Presidential Succession Act is unconstitutional , but that’s for another day. This post rates .
Statement: Rick Scott says he supported in-state tuition for Dreamers while Charlie Crist was against it.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: October 21, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;education
Context: a CNN debate
Fact-check justification: Scott said he supported in-state tuition for "dreamers" while Crist was against it. There’s some  to that , but the reality is that both candidates have flip-flopped on the issue, manking such a clear-cut comparison problematic. In reality, Scott was against in-state tuition for "dreamers" in 2011 but came for it in 2014. Crist opposed it in 2006 but voiced his support during this current campaign. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: For African-Americans between the ages of 17 and 20, "the real unemployment rate … is 51 percent.
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: July 6, 2015
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;race and ethnicity
Context: Portland, Maine
Fact-check justification: Sanders said that for African-Americans between the ages of 17 and 20, "the real unemployment rate … is 51 percent." His terminology was off, but the numbers he used check out, and his general point was correct -- that in an apples-to-apples comparison, African-American youth have significantly worse prospects in the job market than either Hispanics or whites do. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: Says Joe Biden called ANTIFA "courageous Americans.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 5, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims that Biden said, "Antifa are courageous Americans." Biden didn’t say that. He spoke broadly about "courageous" people who stood up to white nationalists during the 2017 Charlottesville rallies, and didn’t specifically call out, mention or praise antifa.  We rate this .
Statement: Teens are "more likely to be hospitalized with myocarditis" from the COVID-19 vaccines than to be "hospitalized with COVID.
Speaker: peter mccollough
About the speaker: Peter McCollough is an American cardiologist.
Date: December 6, 2021
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a podcast
Fact-check justification: McCullough claimed that teens are at greater risk of being hospitalized with myocarditis from the COVID-19 vaccine than because of COVID-19 itself. There have been nine confirmed deaths related to the vaccine and those came from a rare blood clot disorder tied to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Post-vaccine deaths reported to VAERS do not mean they were caused by the vaccine. There is a rare risk of myocarditis from the vaccines in children and teens, but the benefits of the vaccine vastly outweigh the risks, multiple health authorities say. We rate this  .
Statement: 20,000 Kansans lost their health insurance because of (Obamacare).
Speaker: pat roberts
About the speaker: Pat Roberts of Kansas was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996. He previously served as a U.S. Congressman, elected in 1980.
Date: October 1, 2014
Location: national
Topics: health care;message machine 2014
Context: a Web video
Fact-check justification: Roberts said, "20,000 Kansans lost their health insurance because of (Obamacare)." There’s no official information to corroborate Roberts’ . Several thousand Kansans received notices that their insurance plans could not be renewed because they did not comply with Obamacare standards, but the notices were retracted about a month later. Meanwhile, about 57,000 Kansans obtained insurance on HealthCare.gov. If the state follows the national trend, roughly half of these people were uninsured before the law. We rate Roberts’  .
Statement: Says Raphael Warnock "ran over his wife" and was "arrested for obstructing an investigation into child abuse.
Speaker: erick erickson
About the speaker: Erick Erickson is the host of a conservative radio talk show based in Atlanta.
Date: November 13, 2020
Location: georgia
Topics: candidate biography;crime;punditfact
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Erickson said Warnock "ran over his wife" and was "arrested for obstructing an investigation into child abuse." Police found no  that Warnock ran over his wife’s foot with his car during an argument in March 2020. In 2002, Warnock and another minister were arrested for interfering with law enforcement officers who were trying to interview youth camp counselors about child abuse allegations at the camp, which was run by a church where Warnock was the pastor. Warnock said he was asserting that lawyers should be present. The charges were later dropped at the request of a prosecutor, who said there had been miscommunication and that both ministers had been "very helpful" later in the investigation. Erickson’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: ...the earth moves closer to the sun every year – you know the rotation of the earth. We're moving closer to the sun.
Speaker: scott wagner
About the speaker: PA State senator and gubernatorial candidate
Date: March 28, 2017
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: climate change
Context: a State Impact article
Fact-check justification: The Earth technically does move closer to the sun every year as part of its revolution around the sun, but it then moves back. That revolution is not related to the rotation of the Earth, and as experts point out, the Earth isn’t on average moving closer to the sun. That movement closer to the sun, scientists say, wouldn’t have an impact on climate change, and one scientist even called the  "." Also, there’s no  to suggest human body heat is at all related to global climate change. We rate the  .
Statement: When it comes to urgency on passing a budget repair bill, "there's no rush on this thing" because the fiscal year doesn't end until June 30, 2011.
Speaker: jon erpenbach
About the speaker: Jon Erpenbach is a Democratic member of the Wisconsin state Senate. He was elected to a Madison-area district in 1998.
Date: February 17, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: labor;state budget
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: And the bill is reliant on a debt plan that apparently must be approved within days. The PolitiFact definition of  is "the statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression." That’s our rating of Erpenbach’s statement, . (Editor's note: After this item was published, Lang clarified his statement to say Medicaid money would run out to April or May. Also, on Feb. 24, 2011, Gov. Scott Walker put the projected date as "mid-May.")
Statement: When SACS came back to the DeKalb County School District to give a midterm review, we got straight A's.
Speaker: michael thurmond
Date: October 3, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: education
Context: a community meeting
Fact-check justification: But it also notes the significant work that is left to do, and it questions whether the school board and district leadership can successfully complete it. And most important, the district remains on probation until another monitoring visit at the end of the year. An A means exceeding standards – that’s not what the district is doing. It’s making progress, which isn’t an A in anyone’s book. We rate Thurmond’s  .
Statement: $50,000. That's what every child owes today because Washington politicians have run up a huge spending tab and left our kids the bill.
Speaker: frank guinta
About the speaker: Frank Guinta is a Republican Congressman from Manchester who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010. In New Hampshire, he served two terms as a Manchester city alderman, two terms as a state representative, and two terms as mayor of Manchester.
Date: August 21, 2012
Location: new hampshire
Topics: debt
Context: a television ad, “Future.”
Fact-check justification: Guinta’s terminology is clouded. Children alone aren’t paying for the debt, and they certainly don’t owe any money today. But, taking a step back, as the Congressman tries to illustrate the weight of the debt, his numbers are on target as long as they are spread across the entire population, at this moment in time. To pay off the debt, each person in the country, including children,would have to pay an average of $50,810 -- slightly above Guinta’s $50,000 figure. We rate his  .
Statement: I released the most extensive financial review of anybody in the history of politics. … You don't learn much in a tax return.
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 6, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;transparency;taxes
Context: an interview with ABC News
Fact-check justification: Trump said that he has "released the most extensive financial review of anybody in the history of politics. … You don't learn much in a tax return." Trump did release an extensive (and legally required) document detailing his personal financial holdings. However, experts consider that a red herring. Unlike all presidential nominees since 1980, Trump has not released his tax returns, which experts say would offer valuable details on his effective tax rate, the types of taxes he paid, and how much he gave to charity, as well as a more detailed picture of his income-producing assets. Trump’s statement is . We rate it .
Statement: We ... sold the state airplanes as I had promised.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: March 8, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: state budget
Context: his State of the State speech
Fact-check justification: Powerful Senate budget chief J.D. Alexander has questioned the sale of the planes, saying they first needed the consent of the Legislature. You can read the specifics of  Alexander's  here. But on the merits of Scott's , he's right. The planes are long gone. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says that President Barack Obama said an attack on Syria "was going to be a pinprick.
Speaker: marco rubio
About the speaker: Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016 and then dropped out and won re-election to the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former Speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Date: September 16, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: foreign policy;military
Context: the CNN GOP presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Rubio claimed Obama said an attack on Syria "was going to be a pinprick." In reality, Obama said the exact opposite of that, stating several times that a U.S. military response to Syria’s use of chemical weapons on its citizens would involve a significant show of force. While the president’s full strategy was somewhat unclear, at the debate Rubio echoed Obama’s own past statements that the U.S. military was not built for small-scale engagements that could be characterized as "pinpricks." We can pop Rubio’s talking point here. We rate his statement .
Statement: We supported the first new nuclear power plant in three decades.
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 23, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: energy;government regulation;nuclear;regulation
Context: Miami
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "We supported the first new nuclear power plant in three decades." He is right that it’s been that long since a new nuclear reactor has been licensed. However, because it takes so long to construct nuclear power plants, the most recent plant actually opened in 1996. The experts we spoke with, both those who support nuclear power and those who oppose it, said that Obama’s statement was largely accurate, given that the last time a nuclear reactor received federal approval was 1978. And, his administration has so far supported the recent approval of new reactors in Georgia with $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees. We rate Obama’s statement .
Statement: Says Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Democratic lawmakers are "granting free tuition to illegal immigrants while closing Excelsior Scholarship applications to citizen students.
Speaker: robert ortt
About the speaker: Robert Ortt, a Republican, is the minority leader of the New York state Senate. Previously, he served as mayor of North Tonawanda.
Date: July 20, 2020
Topics: immigration;education
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Ortt said that Cuomo and Democratic lawmakers are "granting free tuition to illegal immigrants while closing Excelsior Scholarship applications to citizen students." This is a  distinction. The Excelsior Scholarship application shutdown affected both undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens equally. Individuals covered by the state’s DREAM Act -- could still seek clearance to apply for tuition assistance during the Excelsior Scholarship’s closure, but they could not be awarded financial aid as long as the scholarship’s website was closed. We rate Ortt’s statement .
Statement: Says President Barack Obama carried Congressional District 13 "by 8.2 points in 2008 and 5.6 points in 2012.
Speaker: george will
About the speaker: George Will is a conservative columnist syndicated by the Washington Post.
Date: February 6, 2014
Topics: elections;punditfact
Context: a "Washington Post" column
Fact-check justification: Will wrote that Obama carried the 13th Congressional District "by 8.2 points in 2008 and 5.6 points in 2012." He was using countywide election returns. Using returns from the actual congressional district show a much smaller margin of victory for Obama in both presidential elections. Obama carried the district by about 4 points in 2008 and about 1.5 points 2012. We rate Will’s statement .
Statement: Says there are "ample means" to "tell when someone is a Christian in the Middle East ... by name, by where they're born, their birth certificates.
Speaker: jeb bush
About the speaker: Jeb Bush was a Republican candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He served two terms as the governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is also the brother of former President George W. Bush and the son of former President George H.W. Bush. 
Date: November 24, 2015
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;religion
Context: New Hampshire
Fact-check justification: Bush said there are ample ways to determine if a Middle Eastern refugee is a Christian and suggested that names, birthplace and birth certificate would be key. The experts we reached agreed that there are many ways to verify that a person is a Christian, but they warned that it would be far more complicated than Bush presented. For many Christians, neither their names nor where they were born confirms their religion. A birth certificate could prove helpful, but if one doubted its authenticity, a more arduous verification task lies ahead. Based on what the experts said, Bush misrepresented the power of the indicators he mentioned and the effort needed to go beyond them. We rate this statement .
Statement: U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., "and his fellow Democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: May 18, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: In a reference to the nation’s debt limit, the National Republican Congressional Committee said Wisconsin Rep. Ron Kind and 59 other House Democrats "went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out." It’s  House Democrats including Kind backed measures that contributed to the debt, but so did House Republicans. And the debt is a result of tax cuts as well as various spending measures, and both Democrats and Republicans supported such measures. PolitiFact Ohio rated the Republican committee’s  . We do, too.