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Statement: Just 6 percent of Americans say Russia is the country's most important issue, yet the story receives "75 percent of the coverage" in the media.
Speaker: kellyanne conway
About the speaker: Kellyane Conway is a White House counselor to President Donald Trump. Previously, she was a Republican strategist and pollster who served as campaign manager for Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Date: July 22, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration;economy;health care;jobs;foreign policy
Context: Fox News interview
Fact-check justification: Conway said just 6 percent of Americans say Russia is the country’s most important issue, yet the story receives "75 percent of the coverage" in the media. A credible national poll found that six percent of Americans listed the U.S.-Russian relationship as the country’s most important issue. The question did not include any discussion of investigating whether Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election. At the same time, an analysis by a conservative research organization shows that network news on ABC, NBC and CBS have made the Russia story an integral part of their Trump coverage. But experts caution about reading too much into the network news analysis, which is limited in scope. And either way, Conway’s numbers are off by 20 percentage points. We rate this statement .
Statement: When the wind stops blowing, that's the end of your electric.
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: March 2, 2019
Location: national
Topics: climate change;energy
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "When the wind stops blowing, that’s the end of your electric." In virtually all cases, American energy consumers get their power from an interconnected grid, which pools together a portfolio of different generators. Practically speaking, just because the wind stops blowing in one place does not mean the whole grid goes down. Right now, renewables account for around 17 percent of total U.S. power. Experts say there are some legitimate practical and technological challenges associated with moving to a grid that relies much more heavily on renewable energy than our current system. But engineers are aware of the issues and many believe they are not insurmountable. We rate Trump’s statement .
Statement: A woman working full-time is paid 79 to 80 cents for every dollar a man is paid, and it's even less for women of color, and on average $11,000 per year is lost simply because she isn't a man.
Speaker: patricia farley
About the speaker: Patricia Farley is the First Vice President of the Democratic Women's Club of Florida. 
Date: March 14, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: jobs
Context: the Capitol
Fact-check justification: Farley said that a "woman working full-time is paid 79 to 80 cents for every dollar a man is paid, and it's even less for people of color, and on average $11,000 per year is loss every year simply because she isn't a man." Farley is citing common talking points that can be backed up by data from the U.S. Census Bureau. While her figures are accurate, a bulletproof number to illustrate the gender gap will always be murky because the difference in pay can be affected by the careers women and men choose and taking time off to take care for children. We rate this .
Statement: Says Jeb Bush "appointed a guardian for the fetus of a rape survivor.
Speaker: ultraviolet
About the speaker: UltraViolet describes itself as "a community of women and men, fighting to expand women's rights and combat sexism everywhere - from politics and government to media and pop culture."
Date: June 15, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: abortion
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Ultraviolet said Bush "appointed a guardian for the fetus of a rape survivor." Bush asked a judge in 2003 to name someone to act in the interests of the fetus of a mentally disabled woman raped in a group home. But the judge did not, because state law does not give a fetus the same protections as a person. An appeals court upheld the judge’s compliance with a 1989 Florida Supreme Court ruling. To be clear, Bush did not appoint anyone as a representative for the fetus, but he did want one. We rate the statement .
Statement: Fifty percent of workers ages 55 to 64 have "zero" money "in the bank as they enter retirement.
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: December 12, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;retirement;workers
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Sanders said 50 percent of workers ages 55 to 64 have "zero" money "in the bank as they enter retirement." His  is somewhat high, but doesn’t give a  impression. A widely respected government report says 41 percent of Americans 55 to 64 have no savings in common retirement accounts such as an IRA or a 401(k). It’s also worth noting that some in that group have other savings not in retirement accounts, though for many of them it’s less than $1,000. For a statement that is partially accurate but leaves out important details, our rating is .
Statement: Any legislative action that is taken now could very well be rendered completely null and void by the decision of the Supreme Court expected this June.
Speaker: bishop thomas tobin
About the speaker: Thomas J. Tobin has been the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence since May 31, 2005.
Date: March 27, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: lgbtq;marriage
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Bishop Thomas Tobin urged the General Assembly to delay consideration of any same-sex marriage legislation in Rhode Island because, "Any legislative action that is taken now could very well be rendered completely null and void by the decision of the Supreme Court expected this June." But the question of whether to allow same-sex marriage -- the topic of the bills being considered by the state legislature -- is not what the U.S. Supreme Court is considering. The court is looking at the constitutionality of laws intent on blocking same-sex marriage. That's a key difference. As a result, except for an unexpected decision by the court to allow same-sex marriage nationwide, approval of either General Assembly bill is not going to be affected by what the justices decide in June. We rule Tobin's statement .   (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: FUN FACT: West Virginia is home to zero billionaires.
Speaker: david gura
About the speaker: David Gura is a journalist with NPR. He previously worked with MSNBC, NBC News, Businessweek, and Marketplace.
Date: October 27, 2021
Location: west virginia
Topics: candidate biography;taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Gura said, "FUN FACT: West Virginia is home to zero billionaires." Forbes, the entity that most closely tracks the wealth of the richest Americans, wrote in April that Justice had recently fallen out of the billionaire’s club, and that the state has no other billionaires. And the most recent estimate by Forbes pegged Justice’s net worth at  over half a billion. So Gura’s statement is correct. We rate the statement .
Statement: The median income of a middle class family went down $2,100 from 2001 to 2007.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: October 20, 2011
Location: national
Topics: income;new hampshire 2012
Context: speaking at New Hampshire’s Plymouth State University
Fact-check justification: "Clearly median inflation adjusted income fell much faster during the recession (2007 to present)," Delay said. "But the fall in that indicator during a period of economic expansion (2000 to 2007) is very troubling. I don’t believe any other period of economic expansion saw a commensurate decline in median inflation adjusted income." Our ruling: Vice President Biden said the median income of the middle class dropped by $2,100 from 2001-07, and the numbers check out. We rate Biden’s  .
Statement: In the last decade, the average income of the bottom 90 percent of all working Americans actually declined. The top 1 percent saw their income rise by an average of more than a quarter of a million dollars each.
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: April 13, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;federal budget
Context: a speech at George Washington University
Fact-check justification: "In the same period they increased 17.7 percent ( $136,344 ) in the top 1 percent of the income distribution between the same years." If you look instead at the period between 2000 and 2008, Burtless said, real average income (before taxes) fell 7.7 percent in the bottom 90 percent of the income distribution, while it increased 3.4 percent in the top 1 percent of the income distribution between the same years. "This justifies the President’s statement on the direction of change in pre-tax incomes in the two groups, but I do not know how his staff calculated that the average income gain per person in the top 1 percent exceeded $250,000," Burtless said. It takes a careful selection of years (and not even a full decade at that), and a number of assumptions about income for Obama's statistic to hold up. We rate the president's  .
Statement: Two "Doomsday Planes" took flight because of President Donald Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 2, 2020
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "The US military stands ready to defend our country and its citizens," Seligman quoted the spokesperson as saying. "There’s no change to the readiness or capability of our armed forces. "  There is no substantive  that these aircraft were dispatched because the president was diagnosed with COVID-19. If such  emerges, we’ll reconsider our ruling. For now, we rate claims saying otherwise .
Statement: The Democrats' health care bill "gives a new Health Choices Commissioner the right to look at an individual's tax return to determine what medical benefits or subsidies that person qualifies for.
Speaker: concerned women for america
About the speaker: a conservative advocacy group
Date: October 28, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: the group's Web site
Fact-check justification: • Finally, this authority to review tax information isn't new. Under existing law, tax returns, or information from returns, can be shared with federal, state or judicial officials for many reasons, including:   — Social Security benefits, food stamps, unemployment benefits, and federal housing subsidies — Tracking down people who are behind in child support or are delinquent on their student loans — Various forms of Medicare benefits While we conclude that the CWA is partly right on this one, it has cranked up the hyperbole. Federal officials would be able to look at specific tax information, but they couldn't go through entire returns. And while officials would have the power to see private tax information, they would not be able to use it to decide what specific medical treatments someone would receive. So we find the group's  .
Statement: In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit new acts of terror.
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: December 1, 2009
Location: national
Topics: afghanistan
Context: a speech at the United States Military Academy
Fact-check justification: In fact, there are many questions surrounding the case, most notably who Zazi's co-conspirators might have been. The other two men arrested so far were charged with lying to investigators, not committing acts of terror. If a court had convicted Zazi, we would likely rate Obama's statement . The Justice Department is backing Obama's statement, but these men have not been convicted. Given that, we rate Obama's statement .
Statement: Mitt Romney "left Massachusetts $1 billion in debt.
Speaker: red, white and blue fund
About the speaker: The Red White and Blue Fund is a super PAC supporting Rick Santorum.
Date: February 24, 2012
Location: national
Topics: deficit;message machine 2012;state budget
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The ad says Romney "left Massachusetts $1 billion in debt." That is  or  in several ways. The Red, White and Blue fund cherry-picks the highest number from a range of estimates. Also, it was not a "debt."  It was just one projected shortfall for the upcoming year -- and one that ultimately didn't materialize. Like most states, Massachusetts must have a balanced budget every year. And in keeping with that requirement, Patrick, the incoming governor, submitted a balanced budget within a few months. We rate the  .
Statement: Clackamas County Commissioners "approved a re-negotiated agreement to lower the county's contribution to TriMet's Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail project to $19.9 million from $25 million.
Speaker: clackamas county commission
About the speaker: The five-member Clackamas County Board of Commissioners govern the county.
Date: August 23, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: county budget;county government;debt;transportation
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: It did not. The county’s financial contribution to TriMet for the new Orange line is now $22.6 million, much of which will be financed by borrowing. The in-kind contributions come from money the county will now forgo or must spend to meet its obligations. Those are real dollars. We find the statement to be .
Statement: There are no similar clips of Newt Gingrich talking about how ineffective President Bush was in trying to control North Korea.
Speaker: lawrence o'donnell
About the speaker: Lawrence O'Donnell is the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word. He was formerly the chief of staff for both the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance and the Committee on Environment & Public Works in the 1990's. He is also an actor, and has been executive producer of the television shows The West Wing and Mister Sterling. O'Donnell blogs at the Huffington Post as well. In the past, O'Donnell has described himself as a socialist.
Date: April 6, 2009
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;pundits
Context: an appearance on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: O'Reilly had not even asked specifically about North Korea. Later on the program Gingrich endorsed Bush's decision not to have one-on-one talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il. But still, in the above exchange, Gingrich went out of his way to suggest Bush was too weak with respect to North Korea. So there are at least two instances of Gingrich critiquing Bush's approach to North Korea -- exactly what O'Donnell said did not happen. We find O'Donnell's  to be .
Statement: Says Leonardo DiCaprio gave Ukraine $10 million.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 5, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A story that has since been deleted on a blog called "Polish News" said that DiCaprio had "allocated" $10 million to support Ukraine, citing as a source the International Visegrad Fund , a donor organization based in Slovakia. But a spokesperson for the fund told publications that they weren’t aware of DiCaprio making such a donation.   Several news outlets, including the Independent , published the misinformation and have since corrected their reports. We found no original credible reporting that DiCaprio gave $10 million to Ukraine.   We rate this  .
Statement: I won the majority of the Republican vote in both New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: January 24, 2008
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: Boca Raton
Fact-check justification: But when the schedule moves to states like Florida, where primaries are closed to independents, his need for Republican support becomes critical. The exit polls show that McCain didn't lose among Republicans in either state. When you factor in a margin of error, both are statistical ties. But what McCain said was that he "won the majority" of Republicans in those states, and we don't find any  that that's . We rule McCain's statement .
Statement: Those who fail to buy health insurance under "Obamacare" face the threat of jail time.
Speaker: bob marshall
About the speaker: Bob Marshall, a Republican, respresents the 13th District -- parts of Prince William and Loudoun counties -- in the House of Delegates. He was first elected in 1992 and serves on the Finance, Counties CIties and Towns, and Science and Technology committees.
Marshall ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate seats in 2008 and 2012.
Marshall was born in Takoma Park, Md. He earned an associates degree from Montgomery College, Montgomery County, Md., in 1965, a bachelor's degree from Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, N.C., in 1969, and a master's degree from California State University, in 1991. Before and during his time in the state house, he has worked for the American Life League, a nonprofit Catholic group that opposes abortion.
Date: December 13, 2010
Location: virginia
Topics: health care
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: That’s not . Marshall references an exchange that took place over a year ago, well before the law was approved. At that time, imprisonment was a possibility, but not in the legislation that was enacted.   It is  for Marshall, no novice in public affairs, to insist otherwise. We rate his  .
Statement: The military has spent $500 million enforcing the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy regarding gays and lesbians in the military.
Speaker: joe morrissey
About the speaker: Joe Morrissey, D-Richmond, was elected to the Virginia Senate in 2019. He previously represented the Richmond area in the House of Delegates from 2008 to 2014 as a Democrat and in 2015 as an Independent.
He was the Commonwealth's Attorney for Richmond in 1989 to 1993. Morrissey, an attorney, was disbarred in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in 2001 due to unethical and inappropriate behaviour. His license was revoked by the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board in 2003. He was reinstated to the bar in 2011, but his license was revoked again in 2018.
Morrissey received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Virginia in 1979 and a law degree from Georgetown University Law School in 1982.
Date: February 2, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: military
Context: a floor speech
Fact-check justification: The Williams Institute at UCLA and the Palm Center at UCSB both believe the actual costs were higher. Williams put its most recent estimate at $555.2 million. Neither Williams nor the Palm Center had complete access to military records on recruitment and spending. Morrissey’s figures are certainly reasonable. But because of the difference between the GAO figures and the figures from other groups, we rate his  at .
Statement: John Kitzhaber is the only pro-choice candidate in the race for governor.
Speaker: planned parenthood pac
About the speaker: Planned Parenthood's political action committee in Oregon is Planned Parenthood Advocates for Choice.
Date: October 6, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: abortion
Context: a campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: He has the endorsement of Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon, which traditionally endorses Democrats. And when he was governor, he vetoed a 1999 bill that would have required physicians to notify parents before providing abortion care to minors. Planned Parenthood PAC’s statement ignores critical facts. The  is .    Comment on this item.
Statement: In 2020, "250,000 ballots were manufactured" in Georgia and "Biden was given win" by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger
Speaker: the gateway pundit
About the speaker: The Gateway Pundit is a conservative website.
Date: July 22, 2022
Location: georgia
Topics: national;elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: The Gateway Pundit wrote that in 2020, "250,000 ballots were manufactured" and the Georgia secretary of state, Raffensperger, improperly awarded the state to Joe Biden.  The article relies on unofficial results released the morning after Election Day to suggest a criminal intervention on Biden’s behalf. What really happened was that the total number of ballots for Biden grew as they were counted, flipping the state’s electoral votes from Trump to Biden. This is not a sign of "manufactured" ballots; it is a sign that it takes time for election officials to lawfully count all ballots. Raffensperger followed the law in certifying those final results. We rate this statement ! RELATED : Trump’s  distortion about Georgia’s voter rolls RELATED : All of our fact-checks about Georgia RELATED : All of our fact-checks about elections RELATED : Georgia’s David Perdue said elections were stolen from him and Trump. !