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Statement: It begins. Wisconsin Assembly votes to remove electoral votes from Biden.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 26, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says that Wisconsin state legislators voted to remove electoral votes from President Joe Biden. That didn’t happen. A state lawmaker who disputes Biden’s 2020 victory in Wisconsin introduced a privileged resolution seeking to recall electoral votes from Biden. By Assembly rules, privileged resolutions must either be taken up immediately or referred to a committee. It was referred to the Rules Committee. There was no vote. The chair of the committee called the resolution "illegal" and unconstitutional and said he has no plans to move it forward. We rate this  . Staff researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: Says "$3 trillion in offshore money... is coming back into the economy" because of the GOP tax bills.
Speaker: chris ruddy
About the speaker: Chris Ruddy is the CEO of Newsmax, a conservative news website.
Date: December 3, 2017
Topics: economy;taxes;punditfact
Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
Fact-check justification: Ruddy said that $3 trillion in offshore money could come into the American economy under the Republican tax bills. That assumes that all of that money is overseas and readily available. Neither assumption is accurate. A 2011 Senate study found that a bit under half of offshore profits are already in the United States in the form of bank accounts or investments in bonds or stocks. Investment firms and independent researchers generally agree that the fraction hovers around 40 to 45 percent of all overseas profits. The consensus is that a change in tax law would not inject a flood of new money into the economy because it is already here. A large portion of the other half is tied up in actual projects in businesses overseas. Ruddy’s notion that $3 trillion is sitting there available for use falls wide of the facts. Some portion would be freed up, but not more than that. We rate this  .
Statement: Barack Obama won't even use the term 'war on terrorism.'
Speaker: sean hannity
About the speaker: Sean Hannity is a conservative political commentator and hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, as well as two television shows on the Fox News Channel. In a 2013 interview Hannity said that he is a “registered Conservative” and ”not a Republican, though people often mistake me for one.” Hannity has authored three books.
Date: November 9, 2009
Location: national
Topics: iraq;military;pundits
Context: his Fox News program
Fact-check justification: Rather, we just wanted to see if Hannity was right that Obama won't use the term "war on terrorism." And except in a couple of instances where he used the phrase "war on terror," Obama has generally employed different words. And it's deliberate, as he has explained on several occasions. Obama provides nuanced explanations for his word choices, and you may agree or disagree with them, but the bottom line is that Obama has chosen not to use the phrase "war on terrorism." And so we rate Hannity's statement .
Statement: A news report quoted Alec Baldwin saying, "How about I just f----- shoot the both of ya?
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: October 22, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: "  "We didn’t report it or write it and we have no reason to believe it is remotely ," Maddaus said.   We reviewed archived snapshots of the story — 36 had been taken using the Wayback Machine as of about 5 p.m. on Oct. 22 — and none included the quote in the Instagram post. We also couldn’t find any credible source elsewhere online quoting Baldwin as saying this, though it did appear on the website 4chan, where disinformation is often shared .   Baldwin tweeted a statement on Oct. 22 saying he had "no words" to convey his shock and sadness about "the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours. "  We rate this post .
Statement: Carly Fiorina, she's against banning assault weapons.
Speaker: barbara boxer
About the speaker: Barbara Boxer is California's junior senator.
Date: October 15, 2010
Location: national
Topics: message machine 2010;guns
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The NRA said it endorses her because she "opposes re-enacting the Clinton gun and magazine ban." In ruling on the statement "Carly Fiorina, she's against banning assault weapons," we find it compelling that she opposed the 1994 ban and that the NRA said she told them she would oppose re-enacting it. Is it possible some sort of new compromise bill might win Fiorina's support? It's possible, but there's little to indicate that's likely. Based on her previous opposition and the NRA endorsement, we rate Boxer's statement .
Statement: Clinton's former pastor convicted of child molestation.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 25, 2008
Location: national
Topics: religion
Context: a posting on the Obama campaign blog.
Fact-check justification: Indeed, it doesn't take much Internet searching to find that there's no connection with the political Clinton, a fact that the Obama campaign was quick to acknowledge. Mike Kilian, managing editor of the Observer-Dispatch, said he was amazed that so many people could have such a big misunderstanding with so few facts. He said, "Any fourth grader could read those stories and know there is nothing to do with Bill or Hillary." As for the  by the bloggers and the chain e-mails, we find it isn't just . It's  .
Statement: The DNC says McCain flip-flopped on whether the Iraq War would be easy.
Speaker: democratic national committee
About the speaker: The Democratic National Committee is the national organization of Democrats.
Date: February 14, 2008
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: a Web video
Fact-check justification: (see Politifact "McCain Trying to Have it Both Ways on Iraq" and "One man sacrificed for his country…") Yes, McCain predicted it would be an easy war and that Americans would be greeted by the Iraqis as liberators. And yes, neither has proven  over the long run. But Hussein's regime was toppled relatively quickly and McCain advocated early on that the U.S. needed more troops and resources to prevent just such an entrenched insurgency as has come to pass. And so, in that context, we rate the DNC's comment just .
Statement: I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke [in March 2007], and told them this is something we have to deal with, and nobody did anything about it.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: October 7, 2008
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: Nashville, Tenn
Fact-check justification: So Obama is right that he wrote the letter. Saying Bernanke and Paulson didn't do anything about it sounds harsh, but it is a rough approximation of what happened. But Obama's letter was largely confined to the problems of low-income homeowners who were losing their homes. It was not an early warning on the economic collapse of '08. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says Joe Biden "had 308,000 military people dying because you couldn't provide them proper healthcare in the military.
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: September 29, 2020
Location: national
Topics: veterans
Context: the first 2020 presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Trump said that 308,000 military people died on Biden’s watch because he "couldn’t provide them proper health care in the military." Trump’s number is . The report behind the figure includes people long dead who might never have applied for VA benefits and who might not have been in the military at all. We rate this  .
Statement: When housing and transportation costs are combined, Atlanta's cost of living -- typically perceived as relatively low -- ranks as 7th worst out of 51 metros nationally.
Speaker: citizens for transportation mobility
About the speaker: Citizens for Transportation Mobility is an advocacy group that supports a 1 percent sales tax to pay for transportation projects in Georgia.
Date: April 16, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: transportation
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Metro Atlanta is the 16th-most-expensive, according to H+T index data.    Sixteen out of 51 isn’t great. And it reinforces the group’s overall point that transportation costs significantly add to the cost of living in metro Atlanta. But it’s not as bad as Citizens for Transportation Mobility said. It earns a .
Statement: In 2006, Charlie Crist opposed in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.
Speaker: republican party of florida
About the speaker: The Republican Party of Florida represents Republicans in Florida.
Date: April 10, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;education
Context: an email
Fact-check justification: The Republican Party of Florida said in an email, "In 2006, Charlie Crist opposed in-state tuition for illegal immigrants." The attack doesn’t mention the fact that Crist now supports in-state tuition for immigrants here illegally. But the statement about 2006 is correct: We found two newspaper articles that stated Crist, who was running as a Republican for governor, opposed in-state tuition for Dreamers. We rate the statement .
Statement: The CBO found that the House Republican health care plan would lower premiums by "up to about 10 percent" and, for purchasers in the individual market, "those cost savings could even be higher.
Speaker: charles boustany
About the speaker: Dr. Charles Boustany is a heart surgeon and a Republican congressman from Louisiana.
Date: February 25, 2010
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a comment at the president's health care reform summit
Fact-check justification: When we contacted Boustany's office, a spokesman argued that this caveat makes the statement , given the congressman's use of the word "could." “Rep. Boustany highlighted CBO’s analysis that the House Republican plan would likely lower premiums by 10 percent, and could be even more ," wrote press secretary Rick Curtsinger in an e-mail. We take his point, but we still think this part of Boustany's comment is somewhat . CBO acknowledges that savings above 10 percent could happen for those in the individual market, but the agency's best estimate is that the reductions will be generally smaller than 8 percent, much less 10 percent. We find this .
Statement: If Congress does not pass the renewal of the payroll tax cut before the end of the year, nearly 160 million working families will see their taxes go up by roughly $1,000.
Speaker: charlie gonzalez
About the speaker: Charlie Gonzalez, who represented a San Antonio U.S. House district through 2012, was a lawyer in private practice from 1972 to 1982, a Municipal Court judge, and a county court at law judge from 1983 until 1987.  He was a district judge from 1989 to 1997.
Date: December 13, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: jobs;taxes
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Gonzalez’s  overstates the households that would benefit from extending the tax cut -- by about 40 million. Also, his warned-of $1,000 tax increase is based on an average; actual results for each working family would vary widely. We rate his statement . UPDATE, Feb. 16, 2012: This article has been updated to clarify that the projection cited by the Center for American Progress applied to President Obama's unsuccessful proposal to reduce the payroll tax by 3.1 percent.
Statement: Over the course of two months, Tony Evers refused to remove (Curtis Schmitt Jr.) from the (state's veterans) Board despite having the authority to do (so).
Speaker: kevin nicholson
About the speaker: Republican Kevin Nicholson, a former Marine, announced in July 2017 that he would run in 2018 for the seat held by U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis. He is a business consultant who lives in Delafield, Wis.
Date: March 28, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: legal issues;crime;veterans
Context: Fundraising email
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  Nicholson claimed "Over the course of two months, Tony Evers refused to remove (Schmitt) from the Board despite having the authority to do (so). "   But the Evers administration says they made several unsuccessful attempts to get Schmitt to leave voluntarily — their only option without a taxpayer complaint and a hearing. Nicholsons letter itself, two months after news broke, was what would have been enough to trigger a formal removal process. We rate this  .
Statement: If Arizona were a country, it'd be the eighth largest incarcerator in the world.
Speaker: julie gunnigle
About the speaker: Julie Gunnigle is a 2022 candidate for Maricopa County attorney.
Date: September 15, 2022
Location: arizona
Topics: criminal justice
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Gunnigle said, "If Arizona was a country it’d be the eighth largest incarcerator in the world." The numbers back her up. Arizona incarcerated 868 people per 100,000 residents in state prisons, local jails, federal prisons and other systems of confinement, making it eighth of all U.S. states and the world. Although Arizona is eighth in the world by Prison Policy Initiative, other agencies measure incarcerations rates across different times and with different methodologies. Therefore, finding any one definitive number is difficult. We rate this  .
Statement: Illinois suffered 1,652 overdose deaths in 2014 ... of which 40 percent were associated with heroin. Illinois is ranked number one in the nation for a decline in treatment capacity between 2007 and 2012, and is now ranked the third worst in the country for state-funded treatment capacity.
Speaker: richard durbin
About the speaker: Dick Durbin in the senior U.S. senator from Illinois and the Democratic majority whip.
Date: July 20, 2016
Location: illinois
Topics: drugs
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Durbin said, "Illinois suffered 1,652 overdose deaths in 2014 ... of which 40 percent were associated with heroin. Illinois is ranked number one in the nation for a decline in treatment capacity between 2007 and 2012, and is now ranked the third worst in the country for state-funded treatment capacity." The drug overdose figure Durbin uses came from provisional data provided to the senator by the CDC. In 2014, drug overdose deaths totaled 1,705, or 1,700 if using statistics from IDPH, which tend to be more accurate. As for the other figures, the percent increase from 2010 is slightly more than 32 percent, and drug overdose deaths in 2014 that were associated with heroin is about 42 percent. But as IDPH notes, tracking overdose deaths involving heroin cannot be reliably determined as counties’ coroners did not specifically test for heroin prior to 2013. We don’t see these discrepancies as an attempt to mislead in making his case for heroin and prescription opioid addiction treatment legislation he is advocating. If anything, it underscores the growing epidemic that’s not only gripping Illinois, but the rest of the country. We rate Durbin’s  .
Statement: Says that as a judge, she has "presided over more than 10,000 cases.
Speaker: rebecca dallet
About the speaker: Rebecca Dallet, a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, was a prosecutor in the Milwaukee County district attorney's office for 11 years before being elected to the court in 2008. In 2017, she announced she would run in 2018 for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Date: January 19, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;criminal justice;legal issues
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: For a statement that is accurate, without any significant information missing, our rating is .    Screnock says Tim Burns and Rebecca Dallet "have openly criticized laws signed by Governor Walker that they disagree with and are campaigning as activists who will implement their policies from the bench." Our rating:  . Burns says he is "one of America's leading consumer lawyers." Our rating:  .
Statement: Photos show Target is pushing "evil agenda" on kids.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 12, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The New York Times used one Pumpkin Empress image and identified the artist as Holly Alvarez in an interactive story about how to spot AI-generated images. In fall, as Halloween approaches, you may see some spooky displays or themed clothing for sale at your local Target. But the retailer is not filling the aisles with satanic-themed clothing and displays to target children, as a TikTok video claims. Those images were generated by an artist using AI. The  is .
Statement: Putin Interference Could Give Courts Legal Right to Make Hillary President.
Speaker: usa snich
About the speaker: USA Snich is a website and aggregator.
Date: December 11, 2016
Topics: elections;fake news;legal issues;punditfact
Context: a web post
Fact-check justification: USA Snich posted an item headlined, "Putin Interference Could Give Courts Legal Right to Make Hillary President." This urgent headline is based on a novel legal theory that a constitutional scholar casts doubt upon, and that its own creator acknowledges is extremely unlikely to win the support of the jusicial system. Meanwhile, the text of the USA Snich article doesn’t even address the substance of the legal argument outlined in the headline, and in so doing, it leaves out any sense that the author offered his own series of caveats about the legal theory’s applicability. We rate the USA Snich headline . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/9632f68e-3085-4aa4-a587-bd626c917e73
Statement: Eight in 10 people this year can find plans for $75 a month or less.
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: November 1, 2017
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "Eight in 10 people this year can find plans for $75 a month or less." The video was only talking about an average of 80 percent of less than 3.7 percent of the American population, or the people currently enrolled on HealthCare.gov. This is already a highly self-selected group, as participation in the exchanges declines dramatically as subsidy eligibility decreases. It ignores a majority of the American population because they are enrolled elsewhere, and a large portion of those who could but choose not to use the site because they don’t qualify for subsidies. While enrollees' eligibility for plans under $75 has increased by 9 percentage points from last year, the people who qualify for subsidies hasn’t changed. We rate this statement .
Statement: The Machinists Union does not (support the USMCA trade deal). And every environmental organization in this country (also) opposes it.
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: January 14, 2020
Location: iowa
Topics: environment;labor;trade
Context: comments at a presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Sanders is correct in saying the Machinists Union does not support the USMCA trade deal, although some major unions support it.   Not every single environmental group in the country opposed USMCA — some had no position. But most of the major groups were opposed, including 10 organizations with 12 million combined members who urged Congress not to support the USMCA. We were unable to find any major environmental group that endorsed the deal.   We rate Sanders’ statement .
Statement: Unemployment in Texas has risen over two percentage points with Rick Perry as governor.
Speaker: john currie
About the speaker: John Currie, longtime chairman of the Passaic County Democratic Party, became chairman of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee in June 2013. 
John Currie was elected to the Paterson Branch NAACP Board from 1996 to 2004. During his tenure, he served as first Vice-President from 1998 thru 2001. He has served on the United Way of Passaic and Bergen County for many years. According to a biographical entry on the committee's website, Currie has been employed by Hawthorne Chevrolet for more than 30 years; he serves as its Corvette manager.
Date: September 9, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a guest blog post
Fact-check justification: Currie said unemployment has risen more than two percentage points during Perry’s governorship. This is supported by cherry-picking the latest available Texas jobless rate, 6.5 percent for July 2013, and comparing it to the 4.2 percent rate in January 2001, Perry’s first full month as governor. But this delivers an incomplete picture given that the state’s jobless rate bounced around through the 12-plus years. One can also note, for instance, that the 2013 monthly rates have been lower than the Perry-era high of 8.3 percent in early 2010. Also, the Texas rate has trailed the national rate for more than six years. Finally, it’s not reasonable to blame (or credit) a governor for a state’s unemployment rate. How an economy fares is not determined by the state’s chief elected official. We rate this  as . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.