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Statement: Kill a White on Sight" appears on Black Lives Matter/Antifa flyers.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 22, 2020
Topics: civil rights;crime;race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Ashland Police Department said: "The  was unfounded.   But we are monitoring. "  We didn’t get replies from the mall or the Medford Police Department.   A statement attributed to Kailee Scales, managing director of Black Lives Matter Global Network, said it "did not release any flyer with the ‘kill a white on sight, their silence is violence,’ nor was it posted or shared on any of our social accounts. "  Without  that the flyers were produced by Black Lives Matter or Antifa, we rate the statement .
Statement: Phoenix, Arizona, I'm told, is now the No. 2 kidnapping capital in the world, right behind Mexico City.
Speaker: david dewhurst
About the speaker: David Dewhurst, the former state land commissioner, was initially elected lieutenant governor of Texas in 2002. He lost his 2012 bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate and lost his bid for re-nomination in 2014.
Date: June 11, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;crime
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: However, we couldn't find reliable around-the-planet  to confirm that only Mexico City experiences more of them. In fact, experts advise that such rankings can't be made based on available information. If they could, they speculate, other cities would prove to have more kidnappings than Arizona's capital. Punch line: Nothing confirms Phoenix as No. 2 in kidnappings worldwide. We'll revisit this turf if compelling  surfaces, but for now Dewhurst's statement is .
Statement: China is "practicing how to blow up our satellites.
Speaker: marco rubio
About the speaker: Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016 and then dropped out and won re-election to the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former Speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Date: February 4, 2016
Location: national
Topics: china;foreign policy;military;space
Context: Manchester, N.H
Fact-check justification: Rubio said China is "practicing how to blow up our satellites." For years, China has been pursuing technologies that can be used to destroy satellites (as well as legitimate things). In fact, the Chinese destroyed one of their own satellites in 2007, in a move that was roundly condemned internationally. While the United States and Russia have also been developing similar technologies, and in one case destroyed an actual satellite, that doesn’t undercut Rubio’s statement. We rate it .
Statement: We had a debate on whether 'ObamaCare' was the way to go to fix up health care and the American voters said no -- emphatically.
Speaker: jim sensenbrenner
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., has served in Congress since 1979. He represents a district covering Milwaukee suburbs.
Date: January 16, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care
Context: an interview after a town hall meeting
Fact-check justification: Also, numerous polls after the November election indicated that voters had one issue foremost in their mind: the economy. Of four fresh looks at how Americans feel about repealing health care reform, his staff chose one -- Rasmussen’s poll of likely voters -- that supported his position. But that sentiment is not shared by the public at large, according to multiple other polls. And in the Rasmussen poll, the percentage strongly supporting repeal has fallen. We rate Sensenbrenner’s statement .
Statement: Says Jake Tapper said Allahu Akbar was a "beautiful phrase" after a terrorist attack in New York.
Speaker: sebastian gorka
About the speaker: Sebastian Gorka is a former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump.
Date: November 1, 2017
Topics: pundits;religion;punditfact
Context: an appearance on 'Hannity'
Fact-check justification: Gorka claimed Tapper said Allahu Akbar was a "beautiful phrase." What Tapper actually said was that the phrase is used "under the most beautiful of circumstances" by Muslims, and not just by radicals committing terrorist acts. Gorka misquoted Tapper and ignored the larger context of his comment. We rate this statement !
Statement: Says the Japanese military did not invade the mainland United States after Pearl Harbor because "they know that almost every home had guns and the Americans knew how to use them.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 9, 2019
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says the Japanese military did not invade the mainland United States after Pearl Harbor because "they know that almost every home had guns and the Americans knew how to use them." Four experts told us there is no  that Japan ever seriously considered such an invasion and that military limitations, not Americans armed with hunting weapons, were the reasons why. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says "Marco Rubio didn't show up" for a vote on his own bill on sanctions against Hezbollah.
Speaker: patrick murphy
About the speaker: Patrick Murphy won his first seat in 2012 for the U.S. House of Representatives representing District 18 in Florida. Murphy lost a U.S. Senate race against Marco Rubio in 2016. 
Date: August 1, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: foreign policy;voting record
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Murphy’s ad said that Rubio "didn’t show up" for a vote on his own bill on sanctions against Hezbollah. Some may perceive it as embarrassing for Rubio to have missed that moment on the floor to chase donors instead, but on the substance, Murphy’s assertion is distinctly . The bill in question passed under unanimous consent, a commonly used Senate procedure in which individual senators’ votes are not tallied, and in which most senators -- even bill sponsors and co-sponsors -- are not typically in the chamber. The statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so we rate it .
Statement: Says Kelli Ward "called for restraint in fighting terrorism.
Speaker: defend arizona
About the speaker: Defend Arizona is a political action committee. The conservative group says it stands for lower taxes, limited government, a strong military and secure borders.
Date: August 11, 2018
Location: arizona
Topics: terrorism
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: A Defend Arizona ad said Ward, "called for restraint in fighting terrorism." In a 2016 radio interview, Ward said "restraint and realism" needed to be brought back into U.S. foreign policy in the fight against terrorism, but Ward’s comment did not stop there. She also said the U.S. had to be willing to decimate ISIS, not just curb or control its activities. Defend Arizona’s ad contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: New Jersey is the only state in the union that spent less on higher education than it did at the beginning of the decade.
Speaker: tom kean jr. 
About the speaker: Tom Kean Jr. is the Republican leader in the New Jersey State Senate. He represents parts of Morris, Somerset and Union counties.
Date: October 17, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: education
Context: an interview with reporters at William Paterson University
Fact-check justification: "New Jersey is the only state in the union that spent less on higher education than it did at the beginning of the decade," said Kean. That’s not . Kean’s spokesman said he intended to refer to the two-year period between fiscal years 2006 and 2008, but over the last decade, the raw numbers show appropriations for higher education in New Jersey have increased. Spending levels per student have decreased over the last decade. But data shows New Jersey is one of dozens of states to cut funding by that measure. We rate this statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says as GOP was picking a convention city, "I recommended Ohio.
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: July 18, 2016
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: an interview on Fox News with Bill O'Reilly
Fact-check justification: Trump said he liked having the convention in Cleveland and that he had recommended Ohio. It’s possible that he put in a good word for either Cleveland or Cincinnati (both are in Ohio), but there’s no record of him saying anything about either one. He was not a candidate when Cleveland was picked in 2014, and he made no public statement at the time. The Trump campaign hasn’t published any  of an early recommendation, nor could we find any in a Nexis search. Plus, a member of the site selection committee has no recollection of Trump having voiced a preference. The selection of Cleveland was conducted by the party in 2014, when it wasn’t known who would ultimately win the nomination. We rate Trump’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/44939ce5-14be-4a28-8aa9-24b69bd5f3e9
Statement: Says the number of spoiled coronavirus vaccines in North Carolina is "very small ... in the tens.
Speaker: mandy cohen
About the speaker: Mandy Cohen, secretary of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, was appointed by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.
Date: January 21, 2021
Location: north carolina
Topics: coronavirus
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Cohen said the health department is receiving reports of "very small numbers of vaccine waste … but it’s very few, like in the tens of doses." The health department provided clarity on Cohen’s remarks a day later.  It’s fair to say the rate of vaccine spoilage is "very small" — a tenth of 1%. However, it was  for Cohen to say the number was "in the tens." The total number was 1,280. We rate this  .
Statement: Says a new state report "confirms" that red-light cameras "lead to more accidents, more injuries and greater cost.
Speaker: michael doherty
About the speaker: Michael Doherty is a Republican state Senator representing parts of Warren, Somerset and Hunterdon counties. He previously served in the state Assembly from 2002 to 2009.
Date: November 28, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: transportation
Context: an op-ed on NorthJersey.com
Fact-check justification: In an op-ed, Doherty claimed a new state report "confirms" that red-light cameras "lead to more accidents, more injuries and greater cost." The senator’s  accurately reflects the overall findings at the 24 locations where cameras had been operational for at least a full year by the end of 2011. But Doherty failed to mention how there’s been a overall reduction in crashes and costs at the two locations with two years of data. Also, Doherty doesn’t heed the report’s repeated warnings to not draw any final conclusions. We rate the statement . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Over 10 years, (extending tax cuts for the wealthy) would add less to the deficit than Obama added with the stimulus in one year.
Speaker: george will
About the speaker: George Will is a conservative columnist syndicated by the Washington Post.
Date: September 12, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;pundits;this week - abc news;taxes
Context: a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour''
Fact-check justification: But he overplayed his hand by suggesting that Obama obligated more in one year than the tax-cut extensions would cost over 10. Hearing Will's formulation, we think a listener would be led to believe that the stimulus is vastly more expensive than the Bush tax cuts, when in fact it is not. We rate Will's  .    Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: Chemical weapons have been used "probably 20 times" since the Persian Gulf War.
Speaker: ted yoho
About the speaker: Ted Yoho has represented Florida's 3rd district in the U.S. House of Representatives since his election in 2012. He has practiced as a veterinarian.
Date: September 4, 2013
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;military;terrorism
Context: an interview on Fox Business Network
Fact-check justification: Yoho said chemical weapons have been used "probably 20 times" since the Persian Gulf War. If you count confirmed chemical weapons attacks by governments since 1990, then the answer is zero. Using looser definitions and a longer time frame gets Yoho to or beyond 20. Even if you don’t count the earlier Iraqi attacks that fell outside of Yoho’s stated time line, it’s possible to get to 20 attacks by counting the pre-Aug. 21 incidents in Syria, the use of chlorine gas by insurgents, the Tokyo subway attack and the Moscow theater rescue. Still, experts told PolitiFact that loosening the definition of what counts as an attack doesn’t make it an apples-to-apples comparison. Yoho talked about enforcement of an international agreement against chemical weapons, but he’s only correct when he uses a definition of chemical attacks that has nothing to do with that international understanding. We rate his  .
Statement: Says personal-injury trial lawyers "have provided over 80 percent of the funding for the Texas Democratic Party for over a decade.
Speaker: sherry sylvester
About the speaker: Sherry Sylvester is communications director of Texans for Lawsuit Reform, which favors litigation limits.
Date: December 2, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: campaign finance;legal issues
Context: an opinion column
Fact-check justification: Sylvester wrote that for over a decade, personal-injury trial lawyers have accounted for over 80 percent of the Texas Democratic Party’s contributions. When we inquired, she pegged the percentage at 75 percent--what we found as well. So the published percentage is an exaggeration, though certainly trial lawyers have been dominant party benefactors. On another front, this statement failed to clarify that the share of lawyer contributions bounced around year to year. That is, personal-injury attorneys didn’t consistently account for over 80 percent of party receipts. We rate the  as .
Statement: The merger of Georgia State University and Georgia Perimeter College will make GSU one of the largest universities in the nation, with more than 54,000 students.
Speaker: gsu alumni association
About the speaker: this is the politifact silouhette
Date: January 13, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: education
Context: mass email
Fact-check justification: Revelations about the shortfall initially hurt the college’s credit rating. But it has since bounced back and recently been upgraded. Our conclusion: The merger of Georgia State University and Georgia Perimeter College will make the state’s largest university, as plans exist now. It also would make the combined university one of the largest in the nation. We rate the alumni association’s statement .
Statement: The vast majority of people that got insurance under President Obama's Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, got it through Medicaid.
Speaker: rand paul
About the speaker: Rand Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky elected in 2010. He ran for president in 2016 before dropping out to seek re-election to the Senate. Paul is a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist. His father is Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate and a former member of Congress from Texas. 
Date: January 15, 2017
Location: national
Topics: health care;medicaid;poverty
Context: an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Paul said the vast majority of people that got insurance under Obamacare got it through Medicaid. About 20 million people gained coverage and about 14.5 million of those were under Medicaid or CHIP. But a sizeable fraction of that 14.5 million were eligible before the Affordable Care Act took effect. One estimate said about a quarter of them were previously eligible. Another estimate put it as high as half. There is some guess work behind all the reports. Medicaid might account for slightly more than half of those who gained coverage. Most people wouldn’t say that amounts to the vast majority, but it is likely still the majority. We rate this  .
Statement: Diamond and Silk pundit died from COVID-19
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: January 24, 2023
Location: north carolina
Topics: coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Twitter users claimed Hardaway died from complications caused by COVID-19. We found no confirmation that she caught the virus, and her death certificate makes no mention of it. With no verifiable  to support this rumor, we rate it .
Statement: (George) Soros Provides Migrants With Prepaid Debit Cards To Fund Illegal Journeys
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 5, 2018
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: Soros spokesman Michael Vachon said in an email the  is . MasterCard and the philanthropist "have been in discussions about joint investment opportunities," he said. "None has reached fruition so far." Without that connection, this debit card  is overdrawn. We rate it .
Statement: Says that since he took office, "there have been no large-scale attacks on the United States.
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: May 23, 2013
Location: national
Topics: homeland security;foreign policy;terrorism
Context: Washington, D.C
Fact-check justification: Obama said that since he has taken office, "there have been no large-scale attacks on the United States." Two attacks on Obama’s watch that might qualify as "large scale" -- the Fort Hood shootings and the Boston Marathon bombing. They caused substantially fewer deaths than the biggest terrorist attacks of recent years, and they are believed to have been carried out by "lone wolf" attackers with limited connections to large-scale terrorist networks. But where to draw the line between small, medium and large attacks is open to interpretation. Obama's formulation is plausible, but not the only one. We rate it .
Statement: Facebook said that if you support the NRA you will get kicked off.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 2, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The NRA’s Facebook page , followed by more than 4.7 million people, is active.   And in September 2020, when USA Today looked into the , a spokesperson for Facebook said it was "not " and that support for the NRA doesn’t violate the company’s community standards. Facebook also told AFP in July 2020 that the  was  .   While we found other Facebook posts claiming that the company would ban NRA supporters from the social media platform, we found no credible  of this in news coverage or anywhere else.   We rate this post .
Statement: Since 1990, production of metals in the U.S. has held roughly constant, but the number of people employed in the industry has fallen steadily.
Speaker: noah smith
About the speaker: Noah Smith is a columnist for Bloomberg View. He was previously an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University. He also blogs at Noahpinion.
Date: March 7, 2018
Topics: economy;jobs;punditfact
Context: a Bloomberg View column
Fact-check justification: Smith wrote, "Since 1990, production of metals in the U.S. has held roughly constant, but the number of people employed in the industry has fallen steadily." His numbers are solid, and experts agree that automation has done significant harm to employment levels in the metal industry. We rate the statement .
Statement: For decades, Madigan kept property taxes high and made a fortune helping cronies like Pritzker dodge them.
Speaker: bruce rauner
About the speaker: Bruce Rauner was elected governor of Illinois in 2014. He became the first Republican governor in the state in 12 years upon his inauguration in January 2015. The gubernatorial campaign was Rauner's first foray into politics. He previously had been a principal at the private equity firm GTCR in Chicago.
Date: October 1, 2018
Location: illinois
Topics: taxes
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: A recent Rauner ad stars puppets that declare "for decades, Madigan kept property taxes high and made a fortune helping cronies like Pritzker dodge them." That  suggests Madigan, the powerful House speaker, took action as a lawmaker to ensure Illinois property taxes remain some of the nation’s highest. For support, Rauner’s campaign said Madigan has kept property taxes high by "consistently" opposing legislation to provide property tax relief, even though Madigan’s record says otherwise. The  also ignores the reality that state lawmakers play no direct role in the assessment process, which takes place at the local level. There is a glimmer of  in the ad’s contention that Madigan is a partner in a law firm that conducts property tax appeals work for those who can afford it, including a Pritzker-owned company. And it’s a lucrative business because property taxes are extraordinarily high in Illinois. But skyrocketing property taxes are part of a long and bipartisan legacy in Springfield of foisting the lion’s share of public school funding on to local property tax payers. The responsibility for that phenomenon is broadly shared by decades of governors and lawmakers, Madigan included. We rate the ad’s  .
Statement: Democrats like to blame Republicans on (low vaccination rates). Well, the biggest group in most states are African Americans who have not been vaccinated. The last time I checked, over 90% of them vote for Democrats.
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: August 19, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: In an attempt to blame vaccine hesitancy on Democrats, Patrick said on Fox News that the biggest group of unvaccinated people in most states is African Americans. He later clarified his statement, saying that he was referring to vaccination rates, not total populations.   His on-air statement is . Black people aren’t the largest group of unvaccinated people in any state. But his revised statement, that vaccination rates among the Black population lag behind that of other racial groups, is correct.   Nonetheless, Patrick’s underlying  — that Black communities are driving the current surge — is not supported by . We rate this  .