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Statement: Suggests Trump urged sick people to get out and vote during COVID-19 pandemic
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: April 4, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The clip was filmed about a month before the Nov. 8, 2016, presidential election at a campaign rally in Henderson, Nevada.    The 2020 general election date is Nov. 3.   We reached out to Trump’s 2020 campaign for comment but did not hear back. The clip is authentic but posts sharing it now leave the impression that Trump said this during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, and is referring to people who have been diagnosed with the virus. That’s .
Statement: Says Wisconsin measures have "prevented the death of at least 300 Wisconsinites, and perhaps as many as 1,400 lives.
Speaker: tony evers
About the speaker: Tony Evers, a Democrat, was elected Wisconsin governor in November 2018. His term begins in January 2019. Evers has served as the Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction, a non-partisan position, since 2009. He previously worked as a teacher and school district administrator.
Date: April 21, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;public health;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Evers said his "Safer at Home" plan "prevented the death of at least 300 Wisconsinites, and perhaps as many as 1400 lives." This  lines up with projections made by DHS, and experts say it’s in line with what other models projected as well. And Evers was smart to cite a wide range of possible outcomes, since we have no way of knowing precisely how this theoretical future would have played out. But any  like this is based on a hypothetical scenario of how COVID-19 might have progressed in Wisconsin without the array of government limitations and changes in personal behavior we’ve seen in recent months.  And Evers stated this as a knowable fact rather than an estimate. With that missing context in mind, we rate this .
Statement: Unfortunately, since Mr. Foster's been mayor ... there are less people employed in the city of St. Petersburg than there were prior to his taking office.
Speaker: rick kriseman
About the speaker: Rick Kriseman is a state representative representing parts of Pinellas County. He was first elected in 2006.
Date: October 15, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: jobs
Context: a Tampa Bay Times/mayoral debate
Fact-check justification: University of Central Florida economist Sean Snaith agreed. "At the city level, especially St. Petersburg, little places like that are just slots in the overall economic cycle," Snaith said. "They’ve just got to ride what’s happening. They’re not going to be able to buck global and national swings that are just incredibly dramatic as they were in this cycle." We rate his statement .
Statement: Rabbi taken hostage in Texas synagogue is "anti-Zionist" who may have known gunman.
Speaker: michael savage
About the speaker: Michael Savage is a conservative radio commentator, and host of "The Michael Savage Show," which is syndicated in over 300 U.S. markets. He is also the author of 25 books, including four New York Times bestsellers.
Date: January 17, 2022
Topics: terrorism;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Savage described a Texas rabbi a "leftist, anti-Zionist" who may have known the gunman who took him and his congregants hostage on Jan. 15. Rabbi Cytron-Walker has made statements both critical and in support of the Israeli government. But there is no  that he meets the definition of an anti-Zionist, according to the ADL. Cytron-Walker indicated in interviews with CBS and NPR that he did not know the gunman — and a spokesperson for the rabbi said he let the man in the building because "he thought a human being was in need." Police and news reports so far also indicate the gunman was a stranger to Cytron-Walker. Authorities are still investigating the Jan. 15 event. Based on public information available at this time, we rate this  .  PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: The Libertarian Party "is the third-largest political party in the U.S.
Speaker: libertarian party of broward county
About the speaker: The Libertarian Party of Broward County is affiliated with the national Libertarian Party and the Libertarian Party of Florida. The party advocates for free markets, civil liberties and non-intervention.
 
Date: August 22, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: elections
Context: the Libertarian Party of Broward website
Fact-check justification: The Libertarian Party in Broward said on its website that the Libertarian Party "is the third-largest political party in the U.S." Quantifying the number of Libertarians is tricky; some states don’t track the affiliation. As for those officially registered with the Libertarian Party, it’s about 326,000. Some state-based parties -- most notably the Independence Party in New York and the American Independent Party in California -- have more people registered to their party than that, though. We rate this  .
Statement: Says the difference between her and Barack Obama is "about 35 years of experience.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: February 13, 2008
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: Robstown, Texas
Fact-check justification: Although we find here that she is largely correct when she says she has 35 years of experience in politics, she has failed to include Obama's experience in her calculation. By our count, Obama, who is 14 years younger than Clinton, has about one year running a voter-registration project, three years as a community organizer, four as a full-time attorney handling voting rights, employment and housing cases, and 12 years in the Illinois Senate and U.S. Senate. That's a total of 20 years in public policy matters. So the difference between Clinton and Obama is really 15 years. We rate her  .
Statement: The Georgia House passed a bill that "makes it a misdemeanor to give food or water to voters waiting in line.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 2, 2021
Location: georgia
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Facebook posts state that the Georgia House passed a bill that "makes it a misdemeanor to give food or water to voters waiting in line." HB 531, which passed the House March 1, bans giving food and drinks to electors within 150 feet of a building where people are voting, within any polling place or within 25 feet of any voter standing in line. A violation is considered a misdemeanor.  We rate this  . RELATED: Fact-checking  attacks on the HR 1 voting rights bill
Statement: Says Gov. Scott Walker made "draconian cuts" to public safety budgets that put police officers at "greater risk of harm.
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 24, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: city budget;city government;crime;public safety;state budget
Context: a website alert
Fact-check justification: Our rating Barrett said Walker’s budget moves included "draconian" budget cuts to public safety and put officers at risk. There are clearly some reductions in some departments, but neither Barrett nor key union and police officials point to any drastic cutbacks. There are no current statewide numbers on officer cuts, and the mayor offered no examples either. So far, it looks like local officials -- who ultimately control what to cut -- have protected police from big harm. We rate Barrett’s statement .
Statement: In Oregon, students are skipping math class to learn about the Bible.
Speaker: hemant mehta
About the speaker: Hemant Mehta is a Chicago-area public-school teacher and editor of Friendly/Atheist.com.
Date: March 11, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: education;religion
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: An Oregon law passed in 1965 does let children out of school for weekly religious instruction. Under ORS 339.420, hundreds of students are receiving anywhere from two to five hours of religious instruction a week, depending on their age. We also found that at least some of the students who miss classes for religious study are missing math class, with their parents’ permission. We rate Mehta’s  . Return to OregonLive.com/politics to comment on our ruling.
Statement: We know from the social science that children do best with a mom and a dad.
Speaker: tony perkins
About the speaker: Tony Perkins is president of the Washington-based Family Research Council. He was a former Louisiana state legislator and a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in 2002.
Date: October 12, 2014
Topics: civil rights;families;race and ethnicity;lgbtq;marriage;punditfact
Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Perkins said that based on social science, we know "that children do best with a mom and a dad." The research cited on the website of Perkins’ group, the Family Research Council, does not provide any support. It relies on books rather than peer-reviewed research, it quotes selectively or mischaracterizes from the work it cites, or at best, challenges the quality of the methodology behind findings that go against its position. In contrast, we found recent peer-reviewed social science research that finds that at the very least, children of lesbian parents do as well as other children. We rate Perkins’  .
Statement: Wall Street comes out en masse with its money against House Democrats every election.
Speaker: nancy pelosi
About the speaker: Rep. Nancy Pelosi represents a district in California. She served as speaker of the U.S. House January 2019-2021. Formerly the speaker of the House from 2007-11, Pelosi served as the House minority leader from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2019.
Date: January 31, 2017
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance;financial regulation
Context: a town hall on CNN
Fact-check justification: Pelosi said, "Wall Street comes out en masse with its money against House Democrats every election." She has something of a point if you only consider the last three election cycles. However, it’s important to note that in each of those cycles, the Republicans have held the majority in the House. When the Democrats were in control -- including two cycles in which Pelosi herself was speaker -- Wall Street has sent the majority of its money to House Democrats. We rate her statement .
Statement: Says "30,000 veterans in North Carolina have no health insurance.
Speaker: roy cooper
About the speaker: Roy Cooper, a Democrat, is the governor of North Carolina. Previously he was the attorney general, a state senator and a state representative.
Date: January 30, 2019
Location: north carolina
Topics: medicaid
Fact-check justification: It’s possible those numbers have fluctuated since then. With that in mind, we rate this  . This story was produced by the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, a partnership of McClatchy Carolinas, the Duke University Reporters’ Lab and PolitiFact. The NC Local News Lab Fund and the International Center for Journalists provide support for the project, which shares fact-checks with newsrooms statewide. To offer ideas for fact checks, email  [email protected] .
Statement: Ambassador Susan Rice Tribunal, Gavin Newsom indicted.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 22, 2021
Location: california
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The website has a history of publishing  claims, including that Hillary Clinton was hanged at Guantanamo Bay, which we rated  . One article shared in the video claims the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps used powers under the Insurrection Act to indict Newsom after finding he "betrayed his oath of office" by imposing mask mandates and taking "bribes and kickbacks." The other article claims the same office convicted Rice on charges "of high treason and sentenced her to death for her participation in a 2017 scheme to defame" Trump "by falsely and knowingly linking his campaign to baseless allegations of Russian collusion." There is no  for either part of the . Like many of the other claims we have rated from this site, this post, too, gets a !
Statement: Nearly 40,000 new jobs have been created in the last year due to the new wells . . . right here in Ohio.
Speaker: ohio oil and gas association
About the speaker: The Ohio Oil & Gas Association is a trade association with more than 3,300 members. It represents people involved in the exploration, production and development of crude oil and natural gas resources. Its members include contractors, oil field service and supply companies, manufacturers, utilities, refineries, accountants, attorneys, consultants, bankers, geologists, geophysicists, petroleum engineers, insurance agents and representatives, trade schools and other members of the education community, royalty owners, landowners, and college students. 
Date: April 10, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: energy;jobs
Context: a TV/internet ad
Fact-check justification: And the words matter. The IHS report itself makes clear that there is a difference between jobs that are "created" by the industry -- which, in a generous reckoning, would encompass direct and indirect jobs -- and jobs that are "supported," which would be all of the 21,020 induced jobs. That’s an important distinction that the ad ignores, and it accounts for more than half the jobs that the ad claims. So the association has misrepresented its own industry’s study with compounded exaggerations. The -O-Meter says !
Statement: We don't get any of that information" from the federal government on who refugees are, where they come from and how long they are likely to stay.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: December 23, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: immigration;homeland security;foreign policy;terrorism
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Walker has a point in that, after vetting the refugees and approving their entrance to the United States, the federal government does not provide lists of the names of those individuals to states. But that’s something of a red herring -- states don’t get lists of other people who are legally in the United States and are generally free to move about and reside wherever they want. Data on the numbers of refugees, where they came and where they settle is available -- and Wisconsin state government has refugee services workers who coordinate with private agencies in the settlement of refugees. As for Walker’s point about length of stay, it doesn’t really fit, given that refugees fleeing their homeland generally are settling in the United States permanently. For a statement that has an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, our rating is .
Statement: We have had an increase of 67 percent (in) the number of children taken into state custody since 2014.
Speaker: jeremiah samples
About the speaker: Jeremiah Samples is deputy secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. Previously, he served as director of health policy for the West Virginia Office of the Insurance Commissioner.
Date: February 28, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: children;drugs
Context: testimony before the West Virginia state Senate
Fact-check justification: Samples said, "We have had an increase of 67 percent (in) the number of children taken into state custody since 2014." Samples’ office acknowledged that he had misspoken on the year; he should have said 2013. Using that year along with the data officially submitted by the state, he’s correct about the 67 percent increase. This rise, and the rise in other related data on the state’s foster care system, far outstrips the increase seen nationally. We rate this statement .
Statement: The Chamber of Commerce says new carbon regulations will kill "244,000 jobs a year" and cost average families "$1,200 a year.
Speaker: ed gillespie
About the speaker: Ed Gillespie is a Republican strategist who currently runs the firm Ed Gillespie Strategies. He served as counselor to former President George W. Bush. Gillespie has announced he will run for Virginia governor in 2017. He narrowly lost a 2014 bid for the U.S. Senate to Democrat Mark Warner.
Date: June 2, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: environment;climate change;economy;regulation
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Gillespie, during a visit to coal country, said new EPA "regulations on carbon emissions will kill, according to the Chamber of Commerce, 244,000 jobs a year, every year, for the next 15 years and will cost the average family of four $1,200 a year on higher energy costs." Gillespie refers to a May 28 chamber study that wrongly assumed the White House would set a benchmark of reducing carbon emissions by 42 percent before 2030 -- a standard that the report said could only met by requiring the construction of natural gas plants with expensive carbon capture capabilities. The regulations, released June 2, actually put forward a 30 percent reduction within that timeframe. The chamber says its estimates do not apply to the goals as announced. There was opportunity for Gillespie to realize the chamber’s assumptions were unreliable. Five days before his comments, the EPA announced that carbon capture would not be part of its upcoming proposals. Gillespie not only continued to use numbers from the report, he overstated some of them. We rate his statement .
Statement: A bodyguard of a high-ranking Democrat in Congress fired the shot that killed Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 11, 2021
Location: national
Topics: congress;criminal justice;elections;facebook fact-checks;jan. 6
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: But claims that the officer worked for Schumer or Pelosi are contradicted by the Capitol Police. They say that the person who fired the shot was not assigned to any Congress member’s security detail. We rate this post . RELATED: ​​ Fact-checking Donald Trump on there being 'no reason' for shooting Ashli Babbitt
Statement: Sanctuary cities such as Philadelphia refuse to cooperate with the federal government in locating suspected terrorists who are in their custody and are in the country illegally.
Speaker: pat toomey
About the speaker: Pat Toomey is a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, having won election to his seat in 2010 by defeating Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak. Toomey occupies the seat formerly held by Sen. Arlen Specter, to whom he narrowly lost in the 2004 Republican U.S. Senate primary.
Date: June 27, 2016
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: immigration;terrorism
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: They reject Toomey’s statements that imply officials in the city don’t work with the feds in cases of terrorism, as Kenney’s sanctuary city policy applies only in cases involving undocumented immigrants not convicted of violent crimes. Last year, DHS didn’t report bringing any suspected terrorists into custody solely based on his or her immigration status. But there isn’t anything in Philadelphia’s existing executive order carving out an exception for suspected terrorists who haven’t been charged with a violent crime, and the Obama administration has urged the city to reconsider that stance. It’s the city’s word vs. language in the order. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton "wants to have open borders.
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: October 19, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security;human rights;crime;foreign policy
Context: the third 2016 presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Trump said that Clinton "wants to have open borders." Although she wants to make it easier for some undocumented immigrants to stay here, she has repeatedly said she supports border security, so Trump is exaggerating when he says she wants open borders. In a brief speech excerpt from 2013, she called for "a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable." Clinton has said she was talking about clean energy, but we can’t fully evaluate her remarks to a bank because we don’t have the full speech. We rate this statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/c16e4a7b-33dc-4d39-a1ff-c739d65bf3a9
Statement: Democrats "don't want money" to go to the Florida Panhandle for Hurricane Michael aid
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: May 8, 2019
Location: florida
Topics: congress;federal budget;natural disasters 
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said Democrats "don’t want money" to go to the Florida Panhandle for Hurricane Michael aid. His swipe appears to a reference to the Senate Democrats’ April 1 vote against a GOP version of disaster aid, because Democrats wanted more money for Puerto Rico. But Trump omits that Senate Democrats voted in favor of their own version that included money for Florida and other areas hit by disasters. Also, the Democratic-led House passed a bill months ago. Trump also omits his own role in the delays, including his critical comments about Puerto Rico and his recent request to add money for the border wall. We rate this statement .