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Statement: Says Joe Biden said voting by mail is a way to "fundamentally change this country," contradicting past statements by Barack Obama and Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Speaker: republican national committee
About the speaker: The Republican National Committee is the national arm of the Republican Party.
Date: May 8, 2020
Location: florida
Topics: corrections and updates;elections
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: An RNC video says Joe Biden said voting by mail is a way to "fundamentally change this country," contradicting past statements by Barack Obama and Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The RNC video only includes snippets of statements by Obama and Wasserman Schultz to leave viewers with a  impression that they were bashing voting by mail in general, and that wasn’t the case. Obama and Wasserman Schultz were talking about voting by mail in a narrow set of circumstances: a controversial proposal to redo the presidential preference primary in Florida in 2008. There is no  that overall either Democrat was broadly critical of voting by mail as an option in elections. The portion of the video about Biden also omits context. The video quotes him stating "we have an incredible opportunity to not just dig out of this crisis but to fundamentally change this country," before launching into the video’s theme that Democrats want to use mail-in balloting to "radically change" American elections. But Biden wasn’t talking about elections, he was talking about protecting workers amid the pandemic. This video includes actual quotes by these three Democrats, but lacks context to explain their remarks. This video rates . UPDATE, May 15, 2020: We received a statement from the RNC after publication. It does not affect the rating of the fact-check.
Statement: Just look at what the FBI director said about her (Hillary Clinton) — her misconduct  is a disgrace and embarrassment to our country.
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 11, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;criminal justice;legal issues;negative campaigning;public service;technology
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "Just look at what the FBI director said about her (Hillary Clinton) — her misconduct  is a disgrace and embarrassment to our country." The Trump campaign indicated Comey said it during his news conference. He didn't. He said her actions were careless, but he didn’t call them a disgrace or an embarrassment or the equivalent. It's possible that Trump was trying to convey two different thoughts, urging people to look up the FBI director's comments and the "disgrace and embarrassment" comment was supposed to be his own characterization. But that's not how it comes across, both when spoken and in the transcript. With that in mind, we rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/b1a6a5e7-b27c-496b-a3cd-73f65def2f05
Statement: Sherrod Brown "voted six times to raise his own pay.
Speaker: josh mandel
About the speaker: Josh Mandel, a Republican from Lyndhurst, is a Marine veteran who served two tours in Iraq. He served as Ohio treasurer from 2011 to 2019.  Before that, he was a state representative from the 17th Ohio House District. He unsuccessfully challenged Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown in the 2012 US Senate race. Mandel is running for the GOP nomination for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat in 2022.
Date: October 2, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: congress;message machine 2012;voting record
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: As PolitiFact Ohio has noted previously, legislators frequently face the dilemma of having to vote against something they might normally support because it is included in wide-ranging legislation that also has other provisions they cannot support. In the case of these cited procedural votes, all involved broad pieces of legislation. None were focused purely on the pay raise issue. The Mandel ad claimed that Brown voted six times to raise his own pay. On the -O-Meter, that  rates .
Statement: Texas actually leads in the number of (Confederate) monuments removed.
Speaker: brandon creighton
About the speaker: Republican Brandon Creighton serves as a Texas Senator representing District 4, which includes Conroe.
Date: May 7, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: history
Context: the Texas Senate
Fact-check justification: Creighton said, "Texas actually leads in the number of monuments removed." Creighton’s  was based on an active study from the Southern Poverty Law Center of monuments, memorials and other symbols to the Confederacy that have been removed or are still standing. The study showed that Texas, which is among the states with the most Confederate symbols to start with, has removed more symbols and monuments than any of the 32 states with such symbols. We rate this  .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing.
Statement: Says neither President Barack Obama nor Mexico President Felipe Calderon "have been on the border to see what's happening to the citizens of Mexico, and for that matter the citizens of Texas.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: March 2, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: immigration
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: As for whether Obama is "right for not visiting the border," that’s a separate question, Shirk said, adding that the answer depends on whether the "situation and the (status) of border residents today (is) more important" than other issues on the nation’s agenda. To our inquiry about Obama’s border travels, White House spokesman Adam Abrams declined comment. We didn’t hear back from Perry and failed to connect with Calderon’s office. Perry’s statement appears to be accurate per Obama, but it’s unmoored regarding Calderon. We rate it .
Statement: The Clinton Foundation is a charity where President and Secretary Clinton and their daughter, they take no salary, they get no money from it, they take no personal benefit from it.
Speaker: hilary rosen
About the speaker: Hilary Rosen is a Democratic strategist and pundit who appears frequently on CNN.
Date: August 24, 2016
Topics: candidate biography;ethics;punditfact
Context: "The Diane Rehm Show"
Fact-check justification: Rosen said, "The Clinton Foundation is a charity where President and Secretary Clinton and their daughter, they take no salary, they get no money from it, they take no personal benefit from it." Rosen’s  is correct on its face. The Clintons do not take any sort of paycheck, bonus or fees from the Clinton Foundation. It is possible the foundation has boosted the Clintons’ public image since Bill Clinton left office, and this has helped them command hefty speaker fees and book advances, and it’s also given them extra opportunities to mingle with the global elite. But they may have gotten these benefits even without the Clinton Foundation. Their celebrity primarily comes from their track record in politics. We rate her  .
Statement: Western Europeans "can fly in the United States without even having a visa.
Speaker: michael mccaul
About the speaker: Michael McCaul was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004.
Date: January 11, 2015
Location: national
Topics: terrorism
Context: an interview on CBS "Face the Nation"
Fact-check justification: McCaul said that Western Europeans can fly to America without a visa. That is accurate. However, while a visa is not required, European travelers must fill out an application. This is the start of a digital record that allows officials to sift through a variety of databases that can flag suspicious people. To date, the experts we contacted and the research we read spoke to a set of strategies that have so far been effective at reducing the risk of European terrorists entering the country. We rate the  .
Statement: Like me, Scott Walker opposed the 1998 transportation bill and the $9 billion of wasteful spending.
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: September 10, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;message machine 2010;taxes
Context: a radio ad for the Scott Walker gubernatorial campaign
Fact-check justification: And Bader suggested that because Sensenbrenner was Walker’s congressman, he would have supported Sensenbrenner’s position. That’s all as much of a reach as the original move by Walker to tie Neumann to Pelosi. So far the only information on the record from the time shows Walker supported at least a portion the bill. It’s possible that more  will surface to back up Sensenbrenner’s  that Walker joined him in opposing the bill. But for now we rate it .
Statement: The tax policies of George W. Bush "created a dynamic effect of high growth.
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: September 27, 2015
Location: national
Topics: economy;taxes
Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Jeb Bush said the tax policies of George W. Bush "created a dynamic effect of high growth." The definition of "high," of course, is relative, but if you look at the most directly comparable examples -- the past five presidents’ records in average, annual, inflation-adjusted growth in gross domestic product -- George W. Bush ranked fourth among the five presidents, and trailed the two strongest presidents in this regard, Clinton and Reagan, by a particularly wide margin. (Reagan’s policies included both tax cuts and tax increases.) Bush has so far maintained a lead over Obama, although Obama’s tenure is not finished yet. Still, it’s always worth noting that a president’s impact on the economy is not all-encompassing. Overall, though, the  doesn’t show that high growth occurred in the wake of the Bush tax cuts. We rate the  .
Statement: The president said he's going to bring in 250,000 (Syrian and Iraqi) refugees into this country.
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: October 19, 2015
Topics: immigration;foreign policy;terrorism;punditfact
Context: a segment of Fox News' "Hannity"
Fact-check justification: Hannity said, "The president said he’s going to bring in 250,000 (Syrian and Iraqi) refugees into this country."   Hannity says his number represents a three-year figure of the total number of refugees the United States is expected to admit worldwide. But that’s all lost on the viewing audience, who gets no idea of the time frame and would reasonably think he’s talking about only refugees from Syria and Iraq. From 1980-2008, the United States has accepted around 83,000 refugees a year. The Obama administration has said it will accept around 70,000 refugees in Fiscal Year 2015 and is saying it will accept 85,000 refugees in Fiscal Year 2016 and 100,000 in Fiscal Year 2017. Over those three years, that’s about 6,000 refugees more than the recent annual average. Overall, Obama is asking the country to take in an additional 45,000 refugees in 2016 and 2017. Most, but not all, of those additional refugees will come from Syria. Hannity’s  rates !
Statement: A video shows the Russian warship Moskva exploding.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: April 14, 2022
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: a TikTok post
Fact-check justification: The Norwegian Navy blasted one of its own decommissioned ships with a missile as part of a military exercise meant to test out new weaponry. The same video was published online in 2013 by CNN , Military.com , and South West News Service , a British news agency. "That is some serious Scandinavian firepower right there," CNN’s John Berman said in a June 2013 TV segment that played the footage. "That’s the Norwegian Navy blowing up one of its own ships to test out a new long-range stealth missile." We rate this miscaptioned TikTok post .
Statement: This is the same (farm) bill we voted on a few weeks ago, with the exception of one or two sentences.
Speaker: john boehner
About the speaker: John Boehner of Ohio is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was formerly the Republican minority leader from 2007-2011, and was the majority leader briefly prior to that.
Date: July 11, 2013
Location: national
Topics: agriculture;federal budget
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Boehner said, "This is the same bill we voted on a few weeks ago, with the exception of one or two sentences." He’s off on the numbers: interest groups identified several changes to the bill, including an entire section. But more to the point, he downplayed the substance of those changes, which not only repealed old law but made new programs permanent — which some Democratic lawmakers and a range of policy groups argued was a serious difference that called for open debate. It’s  changes didn’t affect many sentences in the 600-page bill. But that obscures a different reality, in which those sentences had a significant impact on the legislation. We rate Boehner’s  .
Statement: If Jeff Bezos' net worth reaches $1 trillion, "he could literally end world poverty and give everyone $1 billion and he will still have $91.5 billion left.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 14, 2022
Topics: corrections and updates;facebook fact-checks
Context: a photo on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed that if Bezos’ net worth reached $1 trillion, "he could literally end world poverty and give everyone $1 billion and he will still have $91.5 billion left." This math doesn’t work out. If Bezos shared his wealth of $149.5 billion equally across the globe, each person would receive about $19. We rate this  ! CORRECTION, Sept. 19, 2022: This fact-check has been updated to fix the numerical version of $7.9 quintillion. The rating is unchanged. RELATED: A  about distributing Jeff Bezos’ billions gets the math
Statement: The United States Senate — Democrats and Republicans — (voted) to keep our government open.
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: September 27, 2013
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;health care
Context: remarks at the White House
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "The United States Senate — Democrats and Republicans — acted responsibly by voting to keep our government open." The president has a point that 25 Republicans backed a procedural motion to proceed to the bill itself. But experts said that when analyzing Obama’s comment, it’s more important to note that not a single Republican ultimately voted "to keep our government open" when the chamber took up the bill itself. We rate the  .
Statement: Nearly 100,000 people get shot every year. That's 270 people a day and 87 dead.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 21, 2012
Location: national
Topics: guns
Context: on the Internet
Fact-check justification: The numbers in the Facebook post are close to accurate, as long as you make one major assumption -- that suicides count as "get(ting) shot." We think that assumption is debatable, but there is no question that at least 100,000 people did die or become injured from firearms. On balance, we rate this  .
Statement: Ida B. Wells refused to give up her seat 71 years before Rosa Parks did. At age 33, she owned the first African American newspaper in Chicago, the Chicago Conservator. Why do you never hear about her? Because she was a Republican.
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: July 19, 2019
Topics: corrections and updates;history;facebook fact-checks
Context: post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post gets these things right: Wells refused to give up her seat 71 years before Rosa Parks did, and she owned the first African American newspaper in Chicago in her early 30s. But the post also said that people never hear about Ida B. Wells because she was a Republican. That’s not .  Wells ran for a seat in the Illinois Senate as an independent but she was the child of Republicans and supported Republicans. African Americans were largely partial to the Republican Party during Reconstruction. Historians note it’s not the Republican Party of today, though it bears the same name.  Though Wells may not have received enough credit for her journalism and activism through much of history, the record shows that she hasn’t been invisible. When she was overshadowed at points in history, it doesn’t appear that it was due to her political affiliation but rather that she was writing in detail about lynching at a time when the African American voice and experience, and especially the African American female voice and experience, was devalued in a society dominated by white men. Today, Wells has several namesakes and markers to her legacy. McFerren suspects she gets the most attention of her contemporaries of the 1800s. We rate this Facebook post as . Correction , Aug. 7, 2019: The husband of Ida B. Wells, Ferdinand Barnett, was appointed assistant state's attorney in Illinois. An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that her father, James Wells, was appointed.
Statement: The proposed Gogebic iron ore mine is "just up the hill" from the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore caves along Lake Superior.
Speaker: al jazeera america
About the speaker: Al Jazeera America is a cable news network that launched in the U.S. in 2013.
 
Date: June 14, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: environment;energy
Context: a documentary
Fact-check justification: Our rating Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines program about the Gogebic mine states that the proposed mine site is "just up the hill" from the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore caves. That statement, and the way footage from the caves is interwoven with scenes from the mine site, leaves the unmistakable impression that the mine would be close to the caves. But it’s more than 50 miles from the caves to the mine site. And Al Jazeera officials pledged to edit out the  statement after we asked about it. We rate the  .
Statement: Speaker Gingrich has said that we ought to get rid of our child labor laws.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: December 7, 2011
Location: national
Topics: education;labor;poverty
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Romney said, "Speaker Gingrich has said that we ought to get rid of our child labor laws." We found that Gingrich has proposed some unconventional changes to child labor legislation, which he called "truly stupid." Specifically, he said that kids younger than 14 growing up in poverty should be allowed to work as a means of elevating themselves. But he also clarified that children shouldn’t hold mining or industrial jobs. While Gingrich appears to be in favor of easing age restrictions on working, he has given no indication that he wants to "get rid of" many other provisions, such as those that prohibit kids from working in certain dangerous occupations. On balance, we rate Romney’s statement .
Statement: The various people who have, in fact, committed terrorist acts in this country, from 9/11 on, none of them came from any of the seven countries that are the subject of the president's executive order.
Speaker: jerrold nadler
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Jerrold "Jerry" Nadler represents New York's 10th Congressional District. The district includes The district includes Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Morningside Heights, Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, Soho and Wall Street, as well as the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park and Kensington. Nadler is a Democrat.
Date: January 28, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: a CNN interview
Fact-check justification: Nadler said, "The various people who have, in fact, committed terrorist acts in this country, from 9/11 on, none of them came from any of the seven countries that are the subject of the president's executive order." Experts on terrorism tell us that since 9/11 no one in the United States has been killed in a terrorist attack by someone from the seven countries for which Trump’s executive order temporarily suspends admission. Those countries are Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. But there have been at least three non-deadly cases in which the perpetrator was connected to Iran or Somalia. Nadler’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it .