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Statement: In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept
Speaker: anthony scaramucci
About the speaker: Anthony Scaramucci briefly served as President Donald Trump's communications director. He started his career at Goldman Sachs and went on to found the global investment firm SkyBridge Capital. He most recently served on Trump's transition team.
Date: July 26, 2017
Location: national
Topics: ethics;legal issues;crime
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The Justice Department did not respond. Our rating Scaramucci called the leak of his financial disclosure form a felony in a tweet that he later deleted. He was  in calling the publishing of his form a leak, as it was a public document provided to the Politico reporter by the Export-Import Bank after the required 30 days of his filing. Even if it had been provided earlier, though, experts told us the leak of financial disclosure information wouldn’t be considered a felony, unless someone had hacked the system to obtain it. We rate this statement .
Statement: As a state senator in Illinois, Obama made sure women got equal pay for equal work.
Speaker: michelle obama
About the speaker: Michelle Obama is the wife of Barack Obama and the former First Lady of the United States. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School and has worked for the Mayor of Chicago and the University of Chicago. Michelle and Barack Obama have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: August 25, 2008
Location: national
Topics: workers
Context: her address at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: Still, there are enough details to reach a reasonable conclusion. Obama was an early co-sponsor of the legislation, and his appearance for the bill signing supports the contention that he considered it a priority. Obama helped pass a law that expanded equal-pay protections, though that doesn't necessarily guarantee equal pay. Although he wasn't the architect of the policy, he was more than a bit player. Michelle Obama's statement is .
Statement: We know that more than half of Hillary Clinton's meetings while she was secretary of state were given to major contributors to the Clinton Foundation.
Speaker: mike pence
About the speaker: Mike Pence is the former vice president of the United States. A Republican, Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012. Pence previously served for 12 years as a congressman from Indiana representing the Sixth Congressional District; he was first elected in 2000. During his time in the U.S. House of Represenatives, he served as House Republican Conference chairman and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee. Pence was born in Columbus, Ind. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 from Hanover College and a law degree in 1986 from Indiana University. After accepting Donald Trump's offer to be running mate, Pence ended his 2016 campaign to be re-elected as Indiana governor. 
Date: October 16, 2016
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: comments on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Pence said, "We know that more than half of Hillary Clinton's meetings while she was secretary of state were given to major contributors of the Clinton Foundation." Pence inaccurately described an Associated Press report. The report found that of 154 meetings Clinton took with private individuals over about half of her time as secretary of state, 85 were with people who had donated to the foundation. But the analysis leaves out thousands of meetings Clinton took, including every time she met with employees of both U.S. and foreign governments. It also only covers part of her time as secretary of state. We rate Pence's   .
Statement: There hasn't really been a lot of net growth in the federal workforce when you compare it to say, 1990.
Speaker: gerry connolly
About the speaker: Gerald E. “Gerry” Connolly, a Democrat, has represented Virginia's 11th Congressional District in Congress since 2009. The district encompasses Fairfax County, Prince William County, and Fairfax City in Northern Virginia.
Connolly serves on the House Budget Committee, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
He is the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, which covers many key issues relating to Northern Virginia’s workforce and economy.  Connolly also serves on the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation, and Regulatory Affairs.  He is a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa and also serves on the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.  
Connolly is vice-chair of the New Democrat Coalition, co-chairing its Technology, Education and Entrepreneurship Task Force, chair of the Smart Contracting Caucus, co-chair of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Caucus, co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on U.S.-Turkey Relations and Turkish Americans, co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Korea, and co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Taiwan.  
 Connolly received a B.A. in Literature from Maryknoll College in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and a M.A. in Public Administration from Harvard University in 1979.
After graduating from Harvard, Connolly spent 10 years on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he handled numerous issues including oversight of international economic issues and policies concerning the Middle East and the United Nations.
 Connolly also worked in the non-profit and private sectors for organizations and companies involved in international trade, regulatory matters, and research.
Date: December 21, 2010
Location: virginia
Topics: jobs
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Connolly says the the size of the federal government's workforce has not grown much since 1990, when George H.W. Bush was President. Based on the official numbers he sources, he’s safe.    But there are two definitions of "federal workforce": 1) Public servants working directly for the government and earning benefits, or 2) Light’s version: "everyone who gets their paycheck directly from Uncle Sam or through contracts and other purchasing vehicles." Even accepting that the interview was based on the former definition and Connolly’s statement is  on its face, it ignores the $500 billion gorilla pounding on the Capitol dome: the increased use of government contractors, which has allowed the number of federal bureaucrats to decline. Connolly’s  is accurate but incomplete, therefore we find it .
Statement: Everywhere that we have more citizens carrying guns, crime is less. There's a study showing that where states have open carry or concealed carry, but particularly open carry, the crime is down 25 percent.
Speaker: dan patrick
About the speaker: As a Houston state senator, Dan Patrick won election as lieutenant governor of Texas in November 2014 after earlier defeating incumbent David Dewhurst for his party's nomination. Patrick also has hosted a daily talk show on AM700 in Houston.
Date: January 3, 2016
Location: national
Topics: crime;guns
Context: an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Patrick said, "There's a study showing that where states have open carry or concealed carry, but particularly open carry, the crime is down 25 percent." It’s possible that Patrick is referencing a disputed study by gun rights advocate John Lott and getting some details . Lott’s study shows a 25 percent decrease in murder and violent crime across the country from 2007 to 2014, as well as a 178 percent rise in the number of concealed-carry permits. Those two trends may be correlated, but experts say there’s no  showing causation. Further, gun laws may have little to nothing to do with rates of falling crime. We rate Patrick’s  .
Statement: Video shows Queen Elizabeth II "feeding Africans like chickens.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 8, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "  Around the time the film was made, Paul Doumer was appointed governor general of Indochina. He later served as president of France. Madame Doumer was his wife. As India Today reported , Veyre traveled the French colonies in Vietnam, shooting photographs and movies for the French government to exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle.  Posts that  this  video shows Queen Elizabeth II feeding children like animals are . We rate them .
Statement: I'm the only person on this stage who has worked actively just last year passing, along with Russ Feingold, some of the toughest ethics reform since Watergate.
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 30, 2007
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Context: Philadelphia, Pa
Fact-check justification: However, it was not that bill, but another one, sponsored by Majority Leader Harry Reid and introduced five days earlier on Jan. 4, 2007 that eventually became law. Obama was not a cosponsor, but he did successfully offer an amendment concerning lobbyist disclosure and the bill included some elements from the one he had introduced the previous year. Obama, as well as Biden, Clinton and Dodd all voted for it. In the House, Kucinich also voted for it. And so, given that Obama had some help with ethics reform, we rate his statement .
Statement: The CDC actually put together a document to discuss putting high risk people into camps to 'shield' low risk people from them.
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: August 9, 2021
Location: national
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a Twitter post
Fact-check justification: "  Owens tweeted that the CDC "put together a document to discuss putting high risk people into camps to ‘shield’ low risk people from them," and she likened it to "1930s Germany." The CDC did not recommend putting people who are at high-risk for COVID-19 into "camps." It published a document that explored a concept called "shielding" that researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre explored as a means to contain COVID-19 spread among people who already live in settings such as refugee camps. The CDC’s analysis of the research highlighted several challenges with the concept and noted that there was "no empirical " regarding whether it would even be effective at curbing COVID-19 deaths. We rate this  .
Statement: Say Jeffrey Epstein is not dead.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: August 10, 2019
Topics: criminal justice;fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: multiple posts on Facebook
Fact-check justification: Bloggers and Facebookers are saying that Epstein is still alive. U.S. corrections officials announced his death. The New York City medical examiner performed an autopsy. The U.S. Attorney General, federal prosecutors and an Epstein lawyer have said he is dead. To think otherwise requires that scores of officials with direct observation of Epstein’s death are either fooled or complicit. This  is .
Statement: Says Fran DeWine's made-from-scratch dinner rolls are a delicious favorite in a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker: mike dewine
About the speaker: Mike DeWine, the Ohio attorney general, won the Republican primary for governor in May 2018 and is running in the general election in November. Previously he was one of Ohio's U.S. senator's, lieutenant governor and a member of the General Assembly.
Date: November 20, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: families
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: We rate his  of deliciousness as . We’re sharing the recipe for Fran DeWine’s Favorite Rolls above. They would certainly enhance any holiday leftovers. You can find the others in his news release . Happy Thanksgiving.
Statement: Shands Hospital of Gainesville Florida has confirmed its first case of coronavirus.
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: March 1, 2020
Location: florida
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Gainesville is in Alachua County.    Shands Hospital in Gainesville is part of the the University of Florida Health medical network. A spokesman for UF Health did not immediately return PolitiFact’s call about the Facebook post.   But a member of UF Health’s communications team responded directly to the Facebook post saying he could "state we have no cases of the 2019 novel coronavirus to date." We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Think about parents who show up at school board meetings. By this DOJ, they're called domestic terrorists.
Speaker: tim scott
About the speaker: Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican senator, announced he is running for president in May 2023. He joined the Senate in 2013. Scott was previously elected to the Charleston County Council, the South Carolina House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives.
Date: June 18, 2023
Topics: criminal justice;education;terrorism
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: This  is . In 2021, Garland directed the FBI to address the rise in criminal conduct against school board members and develop protocol in partnership with local leaders in order to handle threats. The memo did not use "domestic terrorist" to describe parents at school board meetings and noted that "spirited debate" is protected by the Constitution. A Trump-appointed judge also ruled that Garland did not apply this label to parents. We rate this statement .
Statement: Actually, I won Wisconsin.
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 5, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;states
Context: Rally
Fact-check justification: At a Georgia rally, President Trump said "Actually, I won Wisconsin."  There is a preponderance of , including Election Day tallies and a partial recount, illustrating exactly the opposite -- that challenger Biden is the winner in Wisconsin.   Meanwhile, there is no  to support the  that Trump won Wisconsin. The , on its face, is . Therefore, we rate it .
Statement: A ban on earmarks greatly weakens the authority Congress has over spending, to the benefit of the executive branch.
Speaker: dave obey
About the speaker: Dave Obey, a Democrat, is a former member of the U.S. House. He was first elected in 1969 and did not seek reelection in 2010. Obey, who represented northwestern Wisconsin, served as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
Date: November 18, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget
Context: a statement to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Fact-check justification: The legislative branch would still have power but might have to find new ways to exercise it on occasion. But critics of a ban correctly point out that earmarks have been not only for local congressional projects but important tools used on larger policy questions. As they note, congressional authority has slipped -- and a blanket approach to banning earmarks could further tip the scales to the administration. Depending on where you sit, the glass is half full or half empty. We rate Obey’s  .
Statement: No one on my staff has ever been charged with a crime.
Speaker: tom barrett
About the speaker: Tom Barrett served as the 44th mayor of Milwaukee from 2004 until 2021. The mayoral position is non-partisan. A member of the Democratic Party, he was previously elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly (1984–1989), Wisconsin Senate (1989–1993) and U.S. House of Representatives (1993–2003).
Barrett lost bids for governor in 2002, 2010 and in the 2012 recall race against Gov. Scott Walker. He was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg on Dec. 23, 2021.
Date: May 31, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: city government;crime
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: However, in making the , Barrett made no such distinction. Our rating Barrett said flatly "no one on my staff has ever been charged with a crime." His receptionist was charged in 2010 with battery and was convicted. We rate Barrett’s statement . (You can comment on this item on the Journal Sentinel website .)
Statement: Prince Harry and Meghan "have finally signed the divorce papers.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 16, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) A video in the Facebook post claims to offer up juicy details, such as that Harry is back in England while Meghan stays in the United States with the couple’s two children, but it does not provide any credible  that any of this is actually .   While there has been gossip in the past that the couple could "be headed for divorce," as Page Six said in March 2021 after Meghan’s estranged half sister claimed that "maybe" Harry was "already questioning it," but we found nothing to corroborate this .   There are plenty of articles and blog posts about the couple, but nothing about a divorce.   We rate this post .
Statement: Says his GOP challenger, Doug MacGinnitie, "hadn't voted in a Republican primary for almost 20 years until 2008.
Speaker: brian kemp
About the speaker: Brian Kemp, a Republican, was elected governor of Georgia in 2018. Previously, he served as secretary of state.
Date: July 5, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: voting record
Context: a Cobb County Republican Party breakfast speech June 5
Fact-check justification: They added that typically, Kemp does specify in speeches and campaign e-mails that he is talking about state Republican primaries, not national ones. Yet Kemp's speech in Cobb was not a one-time misstep. His campaign has made the same   over and again. A flier and list titled "Doug MacGinnitie's Documented Lies" his own campaign e-mailed to PolitiFact Georgia contained the same accusation. We rule Kemp's statement .
Statement: My opponent wants to abolish" law enforcement.
Speaker: mariannette miller-meeks
About the speaker: Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, was elected in 2020 to represent Iowa's 2nd Congressional District.
Date: September 8, 2021
Location: iowa
Topics: criminal justice;crime
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  Miller-Meeks said Bohannan wants to abolish law enforcement. She supports her statement with  The Washington Free Beacon  article and her explanation that where someone puts their money reflects their values. The donation, however, was to a bail and bond project, not a law enforcement abolishment plan. Bohannan has made statements on the Iowa House floor and in an op-ed, saying she supports law enforcement, which  PolitiFact  finds to be more relevant than the 2019 Facebook donation to the Prairielands Freedom Fund.   For these reasons, we rate the  that Bohannan supports abolishing law enforcement .
Statement: Says President Trump has ordered the military to take over "major corrupt cities" to stay in office and that U.S. citizens will receive emergency alerts on their devices.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 13, 2021
Location: national
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Viral social media posts say Trump has ordered the military to take over "corrupt major cities" in order to stay in office and that U.S. citizens will receive emergency alerts on their devices. The rumor was created by known conspiracy theorists and has no basis in . Military and federal communications officials both rejected the claims and Trump signaled he would support a peaceful transition to a "new" administration. We rate it ! RELATED : Fact-checking claims about the Insurrection Act, martial law after Capitol riot
Statement: Forty years ago ... about half of congressional districts were genuinely competitive. Today, only about 10 percent of House races on Cook Political Report are listed as 'toss-ups' or 'lean' to one party.
Speaker: john barrow
About the speaker: U.S. Rep John Barrow represents Georgia's 12th Congressional District.
Date: May 17, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: bipartisanship;history
Context: an op-ed
Fact-check justification: Congressional districts do appear to be getting more partisan, according to other data Jacobson has compiled. But this trend does not appear to be related to redistricting, he said.    Half of Barrow’s statement is accurate and the other half isn’t. Barrow’s assessment of Cook Political Report numbers is on target, but House races four decades ago were not as competitive as he recalled. We therefore give Barrow a .
Statement: There's no demonstrable evidence they (after-school programs that feed kids) are helping kids do better at school.
Speaker: mick mulvaney
About the speaker: In December 2018, President Donald Trump named Mick Mulvaney as his acting chief of staff. In 2017, Trump nominated Mulvaney to direct the Office of Management and Budget, and he was confirmed shortly after. Before, he served as the new U.S. Congressman for South Carolina's 5th District from 2010-2017. Mulvaney grew up in the Carolinas and went to Georgetown University. He attended law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later did additional course work at Harvard Business School.
His professional background includes law and real estate.
Date: March 16, 2017
Location: national
Topics: education;federal budget;food
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Mulvaney said that there is no  that federally funded afterschool programs that feed students help kids do better in school. Two studies from two of the largest states, California and Texas, found modest but positive impacts on test scores. They also found other gains, such as better attendance at school and better odds of moving up to the next grade. Mulvaney made a strong assertion that there is no  of gains. There is, even if test scores only rise a little bit. We rate this  .