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Statement: I know that Hillary on occasion has said — just last year said this (NAFTA) was a boon to the economy.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: January 21, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: Myrtle Beach, S.C
Fact-check justification: Since announcing her candidacy, Clinton has, in fact, tried to distance herself from some of the free-trade policies her husband's administration pursued and repeatedly expressed concern and skepticism about the benefits of globalization. In June 2007, she said NAFTA had some positive effects "but unfortunately it had a lot of downside." And at a debate in December 2007, she announced her intention to review and reform NAFTA if she were elected. Obama implies Clinton views NAFTA as an unqualified success, but more importantly, he attributes words to her that only appear in a newspaper summary of the issues. We judge his statement to be .
Statement: Subsidies for oil and gas companies make up 88 percent of all federal subsidies. Just cutting the oil and gas subsidies out would save the U.S. government $45 billion every year.
Speaker: keith olbermann
About the speaker: Keith Olbermann is the host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.
Date: July 6, 2010
Location: national
Topics: energy;federal budget;oil spill;pundits;taxes
Context: a comment on MSNBC's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann'
Fact-check justification: We all misread it. The buck stops here so I apologize for passing on the  info to you. "Cutting oil and gas subsidies would save $45 billion, but that's over 10 years, not in the one year we reported. So, our apologies again -- and our thanks to PolitiFact.com which brought this to light and guessed correctly that we misread the report, and our thanks to them for only rating our report "" rather than their other option '.'"
Statement: There is "a situation in this country where you're nearing 50 percent of people who don't even pay income taxes.
Speaker: eric cantor
About the speaker: Eric Cantor is a former congressman who represented Virginia's 7th District from 2001 to 2014. He rose to House minority whip in 2009 and House majority leader in 2011. Cantor was upset by Dave Brat in the 2014 GOP primary for congress. He is now vice chairman and managing director of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank.
 
 
 
Date: April 27, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: taxes
Context: an appearance on CNBC's "Squawk Box"
Fact-check justification: But popular lower and middle income breaks like earned income tax credits, child credits and mortgage interest deductions do get a majority of the population off the hook.    So let’s look back. Cantor acknowledged the need for eliminating certain tax loopholes and deductions while also pointing out that "we also have a situation in this country where you're nearing 50 percent of people who don't even pay income taxes." Not only are we nearing that situation, but as the Joint Committee on Taxation pointed out shortly after Cantor’s statement, we moved beyond it. So we find the Majority Leader’s statement .
Statement: The so-called defense minister of the People's Republic of Donetsk ... actually posted a bragging social media posting of having shot down a military transport. And then when it became apparent it was civilian, they pulled it down from social media.
Speaker: john kerry
About the speaker: John Kerry is the secretary of state. He previously was a senator from Massachusetts and the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 2004.
Date: July 20, 2014
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;military
Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Kerry said, "(Strelkov) posted a bragging social media posting of having shot down a military transport. And then when it became apparent it was civilian, they pulled it down from social media." We know that a post appeared on Strelkov’s social media profile bragging about shooting down a transport plane close to the MH 17 crash site. In a subsequent post, Strelkov said the information passed along came not from him directly, but from militia members on the scene. He said the information was unofficial and . It’s impossible to know with certainty Strelkov's role in the post, or when the post was pulled, but we do know that the posts come from within the separatist movement -- as Strelkov himself said. The  is largely on Kerry's side, though there are some points that are unclear. We rate his statement .
Statement: Close to half of the children" in California are "at or near poverty," when you consider cost-of-living.
Speaker: gavin newsom
About the speaker: Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California in 2018. He is the state's former lieutenant governor and served as mayor of San Francisco. He is a Democrat.
Date: September 10, 2018
Location: california
Topics: housing;poverty;the 2018 california governor's race
Context: a campaign speech
Fact-check justification: Democratic candidate for governor Gavin Newsom recently claimed "close to half of the children" in California are "at or near poverty," when you consider the state’s cost-of-living. A July 2018 report by the Public Policy Institute of California backs up Newsom’s statement. It accounts for cost-of-living in each region of the state and found 45.8 percent of the state’s children live at or near poverty. Another report, the U.S. Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, also confirms the . Newsom’s statement is supported by credible reports and includes necessary context. We rate his  .   – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says "between 6 and 20 bicycles can be parked in the space required by one car.
Speaker: earl blumenauer
About the speaker: Earl Blumenauer is the Democratic representative for Oregon's 3rd Congressional District. He was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1996. He started in politics in the Oregon Legislature in 1972, where he served three terms. In 1978, he was elected to the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners, where he served for eight years before being elected to the Portland City Council in 1986. He was a city commissioner for 10 years.
Date: September 24, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: transportation
Context: an article on his website
Fact-check justification: Those won’t be showing on city streets anytime soon. City policies allow only one-tier corrals, and businesses that already pay the city $2,600 to install one seem unlikely to want to pony up more. Blumenauer’s office does cite a study with a footnote leading to another study that says 10 to 20 bikes can fit into a single parking spot. The congressman’s website also gives a range of 6 to 20 bikes, while 12 can commonly fit in corrals. So we find his statement .
Statement: Bay Area liberals have given more to Jon Ossoff's campaign than people in Georgia.
Speaker: congressional leadership fund
About the speaker: The Congressional Leadership Fund is a super PAC exclusively dedicated to protecting and strengthening the Republican Majority in the House of Representatives.
Date: May 22, 2017
Location: georgia
Topics: campaign finance
Context: an attack ad
Fact-check justification: The Conservative Leadership Fund is running an ad that says "Bay Area liberals have given more to Jon Ossoff's campaign than people in Georgia." In fact, based on data available through mid April, people in Georgia have given Ossoff twice as much money as people in the Bay Area. The one trace of accuracy is that Bay Area donors outnumber Ossoff’s Georgia donors, but the ad failed to describe the donations in those terms. We rate this  .
Statement: Georgia still has one of the richest programs in terms of scholarships for students to go to college.
Speaker: nathan deal
About the speaker: Nathan Deal is running for Georgia governor in 2010.
Date: March 2, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: education
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Georgia is one of the top five states in terms of awarding grants and scholarships. NASSGAP’s Ballmann believes that won’t change. Being in the top five certainly qualifies it as "one of the richest," as the governor said. We rate Deal’s  as .
Statement: On financial reform, there is "a million dollars being spent, per congressman, in lobbying expenses on this issue. (The) industry has four lobbyists per member of the House and Senate working on this.
Speaker: lawrence summers
About the speaker: Lawrence Summers is a former director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama. Previously, he served as president of Harvard University and as secretary of the treasury under President Bill Clinton.
Date: April 4, 2010
Location: national
Topics: corporations;ethics;regulation;this week - abc news
Context: an interview on "This Week."
Fact-check justification: (The) industry has four lobbyists per member of the House and Senate working on this." There may be cases in which the financial sector did not spend the entirety of its $455 million in lobbying money strictly on financial regulation during 2009, or examples when some of its 2,597 lobbyists did not work financial regulation. But it's clearly one of the industry's top issues. And the analysis here is based on public records and disclosures. So we rate Summers' statement .
Statement: I'm running the second-largest county district attorney's office … at 1985 staffing levels.
Speaker: ismael ozanne
About the speaker: Wisconsin Democrat Ismael Ozanne has been the Dane County district attorney since August 2010, after being appointed by then-Gov. Jim Doyle. Running unopposed, he was elected to a four-year term in 2012. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the Aug. 12, 2014 primary election for state attorney general. 
Date: June 7, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: county government;criminal justice;crime
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: We found there are currently 58 non-prosecutors in the DA’s office -- paralegals, investigators, secretaries and others -- which is 41 percent more than the 41 support staff in 1985. O ur rating Ozanne said: "I’m running the second-largest county district attorney’s office … at 1985 staffing levels." The Dane County district attorney’s office has a full-time-equivalent of 27.85 prosecutors, just slightly more than the 26 in 1985, but it also regularly utilizes special prosecutors to fill temporary vacancies. And the office has 41 percent more support staff than it did in 1985. We rate Ozanne’s statement .
Statement: Civil war erupts in Sweden as irate Swedes burn nine Muslim refugee centers to the ground
Speaker: pipo news
About the speaker: Pipo News is a website that posts fake news.
Date: November 11, 2017
Topics: immigration;fake news;religion;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: But of the 10 countries, Sweden had the lowest percentage that viewed refugees from Syria and Iraq as a major threat. Pipo News’ headline states "civil war erupts in Sweden as irate Swedes burn nine Muslim refugee centers to the ground." The story uses a  photo of an unrelated fire and portrays the situation in Sweden as a war, which is a gross exaggeration. There have been multiple fires at Muslim sites, but there is no  that a civil war has erupted as nine Muslim refugee centers burned to the ground. We rate this headline as .
Statement: Taxpayers spent $70,000,000 to develop this drug ( remdesivir).
Speaker: public citizen
About the speaker: Public Citizen is a government watchdog that represents consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts.
Date: June 29, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: drugs;health care;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Since the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health are funded through federal taxes, these three payments add up to what Public Citizen claimed.   Our ruling  Public Citizen wrote that taxpayers paid $70 million to develop remdesivir.   Three separate projects from agencies that are funded by taxpayer dollars, adding up to $70 million, have commenced since 2015.   We rate the  .    window.gciAnalyticsUAID = 'PMJS-TEALIUM-COBRAND';
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Statement: CDC Director Robert Redfield says healthy people should NOT wear masks.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: September 17, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: While Redfield did say in February that healthy people should not wear masks, the CDC reversed course months ago and since early April has recommended that healthy people wear face coverings. This Instagram post wrongly frames his comments from February as if he currently believes that healthy people shouldn’t wear masks.  This was published online the same day that Redfield said masks are the most effective tool Americans have in the fight against COVID-19 — muddying the waters for people seeking clear, current information.  Redfield says that healthy people should wear face coverings.  We rate this Instagram post .
Statement: When President Bush took office in 2001, he inherited a $236 billion budget surplus, with a projected 10-year surplus of $5.6 trillion. When he ended his term, he left a $1.3 trillion deficit and a projected 10-year shortfall of $8 trillion.
Speaker: david axelrod
About the speaker: David Axelrod is a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama. He is now an analyst for NBC News.
Date: January 15, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: the Washington Post
Fact-check justification: His overall point is correct that the government was enjoying a substantial surplus when Bush took office and had a big deficit when he departed. Specifically, Axelrod is right about the surplus Bush began with, and the projected surplus at that point. Axelrod is very close on the deficit at the end of Bush's presidency, but there are two different ways to measure the 10-year projection when Bush left office. The CBO's estimate is $5 trillion lower than the White House numbers, though economists don't quibble with the White House methodology. So given that discussion, we'll take Axelrod down a notch to .
Statement: White busses marked 'Soros Riot Dance Squad' spotted in Michigan: It's official, the riots are staged.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 2, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Carol Bell, the company’s director of safety, told us that the buses in the image belong to Golden Limousine. Every day, she said, they’re used as shuttles for Amazon employees, and in the evenings they fuel up at the gas station pictured in the photo. But they don’t say "Soros Riot Dance Squad." Bell sent us a screenshot of a Facebook post featuring the same photo of the buses without those words added to the image.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Says President Trump's Oct. 31 rally in Butler, Pa., drew over 57,000 people.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 1, 2020
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Facebook posts  that Trump’s Oct. 31 rally at the Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport drew 57,000 people. We could find no official tally, but estimates from police, local news outlets and bus operators put the number of attendees between 10,000 and about 15,000. Without  to support it, we rate this post . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: A gay man who survived #orlando hate crime can STILL show up to work in FL tomorrow and have his boss fire him simply because he is gay.
Speaker: clay aiken
About the speaker: Former American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken is a singer, songwriter and activst who made an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. House seat in North Carolina's second congressional district in 2014.
Date: June 12, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: human rights;lgbtq;states;workers
Context: a posting on Twitter
Fact-check justification: Aiken tweeted, "A gay man who survived #orlando hate crime can STILL show up to work in FL tomorrow and have his boss fire him simply because he is gay." That is generally  across the state, because gays and lesbians lack protection from employment discrimination under state law and under federal law. However, 19 Florida cities often offer protection to gay workers, including the city of Orlando. Another 10 counties also offer protections. We rate Aiken’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/7e41f675-9288-4071-bbb7-5510906aa369
Statement: Video shows Joe Biden sleeping at the Arab Conference in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: July 18, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Biden appears starting around the 20:12 mark, and although he does at points have his head bowed and his eyes lowered, he keeps shifting positions, moving his hands and raising his head and eyes. He appears to simply be listening, not sleeping.   One of the posts also draws from footage of Biden delivering a speech at the summit. Unless he was doing something akin to sleepwalking with his eyes open, he was awake. We rate these posts .
Statement: Democratic Party candidates for the state Assembly "actually received 200,000 more votes statewide" than their Republican counterparts in the 2012 election
Speaker: sandy pasch
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Rep. Sandy Pasch, D-Whitefish Bay, has served in the state Assembly since being elected in 2008. In 2011, she announced she was running in a recall election against state Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills.
Date: December 29, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections
Context: a radio address
Fact-check justification: That’s a big switch from two years earlier, in 2010, when it was Democrats who sat out more races. In fielding so many candidates, Democrats might have been hoping to goose turnout in other races, said Mordecai Lee , a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee political scientist elected five times as a Democrat in the state Assembly and Senate in the 1970s and 1980s. Our rating Pasch, citing Democratic Party research based on unofficial and preliminary vote data, claimed that "Assembly Democratic candidates actually received 200,000 more votes statewide" despite Republicans winning more than 60 percent of the seats. The final, certified election results showed a 174,000 edge for Democrats, despite the fact they won only 39 seats. We think that her statement rates a .
Statement: Too many" tattoos "on visible body parts" keep some applicants out of the military.
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: December 1, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: military
Context: a 'Wall Street Journal' CEO Council event
Fact-check justification: Bush said that among the reasons applicants are rejected by the military -- in addition to being obese or not passing the test -- is that some have "too many tattoos" on visible body parts. Since the Army updated its tattoo policy earlier this year, 2,919 applicants could not proceed due to tattoos. Other branches of the service also have restrictions on types and locations of tattoos that keep some applicants out of the military. We rate this  .
Statement: Many of the countries in question (in Trump's travel ban) don't even have a U.S. embassy there to help us vet.
Speaker: john kelly
About the speaker: John Kelly is President Donald Trump's chief of staff. He previously served in the Trump administration as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. 
Date: May 28, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: a Fox News interview
Fact-check justification: Though refugees from areas of conflict are also often vetted at U.S. embassies in other countries, Hing said. Our ruling  Kelly said, "Many of the countries in question (in Trump’s travel ban) don't even have a U.S. embassy there to help us vet. "  Trump’s revised executive order aimed to temporarily suspend entry of nationals from Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The United States does not have an embassy in at least four of those six countries. We rate Kelly’s statement .
Statement: Any government-run 'public' plan ... creates an entitlement that will cost another $1 trillion over the next 10 years.
Speaker: ginny brown-waite
About the speaker: Ginny Brown-Waite is a former Republican congresswoman from Brooksville in Florida’s 5th Congressional District. She halted her re-election campaign in April 2010 citing health reasons.
Date: August 24, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a mailing
Fact-check justification: Waite says that "Any Government-Run 'Public' Plan ... Creates an entitlement that will cost another $1 trillion over the next 10 years, on top of the trillions the government is already planning to spend on health care." But, to be clear, the overall health bill is not a "government-run 'public' plan. The public aspect is just a part it, which people can choose to participate in or not. She also offers a confusing way to explain the cost of the health care reform bill, and we want to be clear that $1 trillion includes all aspects of the bill. So we rate her statement .
Statement: Florida "passed a law where former felons can now vote. We've had more ex-felons register as Republicans than Democrats.
Speaker: jared kushner
About the speaker: Jared Kushner is a senior White House adviser and President Donald Trump's son-in-law.
Date: April 1, 2019
Location: florida
Topics: civil rights;constitutional amendments;elections
Context: an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Kushner said Florida "passed a law where former felons can now vote. We've had more ex-felons register as Republicans than Democrats." The state said it did not have data showing a partisan breakdown of ex-felons who registered to vote since Amendment 4 took effect Jan. 8. Past research shows that black ex-felons heavily lean toward the Democratic Party while nonblack voters lean, but less heavily, to the Republican side, with many also choosing no party affiliation. We rate statements based on available data, and so far there isn’t any to backup Kushner’s statement. We rate this  .