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Statement: Says Sri Kulkarni attended "notorious desert drug parties" and was arrested for cocaine.
Speaker: congressional leadership fund
About the speaker: The Congressional Leadership Fund is a super PAC exclusively dedicated to protecting and strengthening the Republican Majority in the House of Representatives.
Date: September 25, 2020
Topics: congress;drugs
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: An ad released by a Republican super PAC claims that Sri Kulkarni was arrested for cocaine possession and attended "notorious desert drug parties." Overall, these claims are partially accurate. Kulkarni was arrested for cocaine possession. But the arrest was 23 years ago when Kulkarni was 18. He pleaded guilty, but the charge was later dismissed.  The notorious desert drug party is, in fact, a music festival called Burning Man. The Congressional Leadership Fund is taking a small fact — that Kulkarni attended the festival — to make an unproven assertion that Kulkarni is reckless. We rate these claims . ​
Statement: The number of new illegal immigrant families who have crossed the border so far this year already exceeds the entire total from 2015.
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 21, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: In a speech at the Republican convention
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "The number of new illegal immigrant families who have crossed the border so far this year already exceeds the entire total from 2015." Many would understand it as calendar year and by this metric, Trump is . However, Customs and Border Protection reports apprehension data by fiscal year. And by that measure, he has a point. On balance, we rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/9186c898-10a9-4cc6-8a23-56096417e9d7
Statement: A grand jury trial begins into crimes against humanity" involving a fabricated coronavirus pandemic.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 6, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: The video does not depict actual legal proceedings. Fuellmich said it is a "grand jury proceeding by the Peoples’ Court of Public Opinion," and that it is only modeled on grand jury proceedings. Fuellmich has filed several pandemic-related lawsuits against scientists and politicians, but the lawsuits have not been accepted by courts. The notion that the coronavirus pandemic is fabricated is part of an effort to deny or downplay the virus and is unsubstantiated. We rate this  !
Statement: Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "was fired from 'Hot Dog On A Stick' in 2008 — for incompetence.
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: March 8, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post claims that Ocasio-Cortez was fired from Hot Dog on a Stick for incompetence. We found no  to support that . The business’s parent company doesn’t have a record of someone with her name working there and we discovered no news reports or credible online posts to corroborate the Facebook post’s . The person in the photo doesn’t look like Ocasio-Cortez, and her name tag says Stephanie. The photographer who took the picture confirmed that he identified her as someone named "Stephanie" when he shot the image. We rate this Facebook post !
Statement: Virginia's economic growth "has stalled at less than 1% per year for eight years.
Speaker: glenn youngkin
About the speaker: Republican Glenn Youngkin was elected Virginia's governor in November 2021. He defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who was governor from 2014 to 2018.
Youngkin was reared in Richmond and Virginia Beach and won a basketball scholarship at Rice University, where he earned an engineering degree. He earned a MBA from Harvard University. Youngkin worked 25 years at the Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm based in Washington with $230 billion in assets. He retired in 2020 as CEO after taking the company public. His net worth is estimated at $254 million, according to The Washington Post.
Youngkin's 2021 campaign for governor is his first bid for public office.
Date: January 17, 2022
Location: virginia
Topics: economy
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Democrats point out that CNBC has named Virginia " America’s Top State for Business " for two straight years. Youngkin said Virginia’s economic growth "has stalled at less than 1% per year for eight years." He’s a little low. The state’s inflation-adjusted GDP has grown by about 1.3% over the last eight years. We rate Youngkin’s statement .
Statement: Everything I have said (on the campaign trail) has been factually accurate.
Speaker: bill clinton
About the speaker: Bill Clinton was president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He is married to Hillary Clinton, the 2016 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
Date: February 7, 2008
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: Portland, Maine
Fact-check justification: What Obama actually said was "I think it's fair to say the Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10, 15 years, in the sense that they were challenging conventional wisdom." Read our extended analysis on Clinton's charge here . We rate it . And it's not just us: The Washington Post's Factchecker blog awarded the former president two Pinocchios for the same statements we looked at about Obama. So we find Clinton's superlative — "everything I have said has been factually accurate" — to be .
Statement: Hitler "didn't kill 6 million Jews" and "the Holocaust is not what happened.
Speaker: kanye west
About the speaker: Kanye West is an award-winning rapper/producer.
Date: December 1, 2022
Topics: race and ethnicity
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Film footage from their April 1945 tour of Ohrdruf in Germany is still available today, among other publicly shared photographs and footage. Physical  from the genocide is also displayed at numerous Holocaust museums, including the train cars that were used to take people to concentration camps and the clothing and shoes of the people who were killed.   Visitors look at the shoes of Jewish people who were killed by the Nazis on March 15, 2005, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial​ museum in Jerusalem.  (AP) We rate Ye’s claims about Hitler and the Holocaust !
Statement: Under President George W. Bush, "the national debt went from $5 trillion to $12 trillion.
Speaker: richard durbin
About the speaker: Dick Durbin in the senior U.S. senator from Illinois and the Democratic majority whip.
Date: June 22, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;history
Context: a Senate floor speech
Fact-check justification: That's a 38 percent increase over two years. Looked at another way, the debt under Bush went up $4.357 trillion over eight years, while it has gone up under Obama by $3.801 trillion in two years. Republicans and Democrats will continue to fight over whether spending, wars, entitlement expansions and tax cuts under Bush or spending, wars, entitlement expansions and tax cuts under Obama are a bigger reason for the growing debt. But we believe Durbin's floor statement was off by about $2 trillion. So we rule his statement .
Statement: As governor, I've stood up to ... the big oil companies.
Speaker: sarah palin
About the speaker: Sarah Palin was the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008. She is also the former governor of Alaska and the author of  Going Rogue: An American Life. Sarah Palin's previous experience includes leading the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and serving as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
Date: August 29, 2008
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: Dayton, Ohio
Fact-check justification: "In general, it's business as usual for oil companies in Alaska." Palin has supported the controversial idea of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and has sued the federal government to oppose listing the polar bear as an endangered species, which would curtail energy development. But she didn't  to have opposed big oil companies on everything — she merely claimed to have stood up to them. And that she did, with respect to taxes, Point Thomson leases and the North Slope pipeline. We find her  to be .
Statement: An Environmental Protection Agency regulation that goes into effect Jan. 1, 2012, regulates dust.
Speaker: herman cain
About the speaker: Herman Cain is an author, columnist and talk radio host. Cain, a former pizza franchise CEO, ran for president as a Republican in 2012.
Date: September 22, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: environment
Context: a Republican presidential debate
Fact-check justification: So, Cain does have a point. The EPA does regulate dust under the Clean Air Act. But Cain’s language was very specific, and now that the dust has settled in the wake of the Republican debate, it’s clear his specifics were . Dust is regulated, but not at all in the way that Cain described. We therefore rate his statement .
Statement: Says Tim Kaine "actually tried to raise taxes by about $4 billion.
Speaker: mike pence
About the speaker: Mike Pence is the former vice president of the United States. A Republican, Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012. Pence previously served for 12 years as a congressman from Indiana representing the Sixth Congressional District; he was first elected in 2000. During his time in the U.S. House of Represenatives, he served as House Republican Conference chairman and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee. Pence was born in Columbus, Ind. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 from Hanover College and a law degree in 1986 from Indiana University. After accepting Donald Trump's offer to be running mate, Pence ended his 2016 campaign to be re-elected as Indiana governor. 
Date: October 4, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: candidate biography;debt;deficit;history;taxes
Context: the 2016 Vice Presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Pence said that when Kaine was governor, "He actually tried to raise taxes by about $4 billion." Pence was referring to three unsuccessful tax hikes proposed by Kaine. Two of them, in 2006 and 2008, were for transportation. The third, in 2009, was to raise general funds for the state. Added up, they come to $4 billion in proposed tax hikes and fees. There’s a couple of issues, however. Kaine’s 2009 income tax hike was offset by a $650 million cut in the state’s car tax. So the net annual cost of all three tax and fee proposals was $3.35 billion. Secondly, Pence’s math double counts Kaine’s unsuccessful efforts to raise taxes for transportation. On the whole, we rate Pence’s statement .
Statement: A poll conducted in Egypt revealed that 80 percent of Egyptians oppose receiving foreign aid from the United States.
Speaker: barry hinckley
About the speaker: Barry Hinckley ran an unsuccessful race, as a Republican running, for the U.S. Senate in Rhode Island in 2012. A graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, he is the founder and former president of Bullhorn Software in Boston. He is also an aviator and has raced sailboats professionally.
Date: September 14, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: federal budget;foreign policy
Context: a story on 630WPRO.com
Fact-check justification: Barry Hinckley, in raising questions about whether the United States should be giving foreign aid to countries such as Egypt, said that 80 percent of Egyptians oppose receiving foreign aid from the United States. A Gallup poll taken in February shows that he's right in the ballpark. We rate his statement as  . (Get updates from PolitiFact Rhode Island on Twitter: @politifactri . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: From 2000-10, U.S. manufacturing employment shrank by a third after holding steady for 30 years.
Speaker: alex mooney
About the speaker: Alex Mooney is a Republican representing a U.S. House district in West Virginia.
Date: March 25, 2018
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a Wall Street Journal op-ed
Fact-check justification: Mooney wrote that "from 2000-10, U.S. manufacturing employment shrank by a third after holding steady for 30 years." Mooney’s statistic is accurate in raw numbers. The one caveat is if you measure manufacturing employment as a percentage of the population — which accounts for significant population growth over that period — you can see a steady decline going back decades. Manufacturing’s footprint in the labor market shrank consistently, and by more than half, during the period he cited. We rate the statement .
Statement: I certainly supported Barack Obama and Joe Biden. ... I was there both times for them.
Speaker: michael bloomberg
About the speaker: Michael Bloomberg was mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013. The billionaire co-founded Bloomberg LP, a financial information and media company, in 1981. On Nov. 24, 2019, he announced his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president and dropped out on March 4, 2020.
Date: February 26, 2020
Topics: elections
Context: a CNN town hall
Fact-check justification: I was there both times for them." In 2008, Bloomberg defended Obama against attacks that he was anti-Israel, but Bloomberg did not endorse a presidential candidate that cycle. In 2012, he endorsed Obama’s re-election in a post that mixed in criticism of his record. Bloomberg’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it .
Statement: Says "11 straight years of no major hurricanes striking land" in the United States "bores a hole right through the whole climate change argument.
Speaker: rush limbaugh
About the speaker: Rush Limbaugh is a conservative radio talk show host. His website describes him as "America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy."
Date: October 5, 2016
Topics: climate change;punditfact
Context: a radio show broadcast
Fact-check justification: Limbaugh said the fact that the United States went 11 straight years without major hurricanes "just bores a hole right through the whole climate change argument." It doesn’t. There are several major flaws in his line of reasoning. First, looking only at major hurricanes that hit the United States ignores storm activity around the world. Second, storm frequency does not strictly correlate with rising temperature. Third, many other data points prove that climate change is real. Limbaugh’s argument is  and . We rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/827d3cf9-63b0-4f4c-8da5-4dbef2a5204f
Statement: Says that "over a 45-minute period that we had the press conference" on the coronavirus on March 13, 2020, the stock market set "an all-time record.
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 14, 2020
Topics: economy;coronavirus
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Trump said that "over a 45-minute period that we had the press conference" on the coronavirus on March 13, 2020, the stock market set "an all-time record." The Dow Jones Industrial Average registered its largest-ever point gain on March 13, with gains accelerating during Trump’s news conference. But that occurred one day after the Dow’s biggest point decline ever, and the gains were wiped out the next trading day.  Trump’s statement is partially accurate, but leaves out important details. We rate this .
Statement: Because of Obamacare, "over the last two years, health care premiums have gone up -- it's true -- but they've gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years.
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 3, 2012
Location: national
Topics: debates;health care
Context: Denver
Fact-check justification: Obama said health care premiums have gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years and suggested it was because of the Affordable Care Act. He mistakenly referred to premiums, not all health care spending for 50 years. The historical data for premiums is generally consistent with his , but they only go back 14 years. He also vastly exaggerated the impact of his health care law on the costs. Experts say that's due to the recession, not the law. We rate his  .
Statement: In 1968, a full-time worker earning minimum wage, could actually support a family of three above the poverty line. Today, that same worker would earn less than the poverty line for a family of two.
Speaker: virginia interfaith center for public policy
About the speaker: The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy is a nonpartisan coalition of faith communities seeking to create progressive public policy.
Date: February 4, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: families;poverty;workers
Context: a hearing
Fact-check justification: There’s a slight snag in the first part of the Virginia Interfaith Center’s  that, in 1968, a full- time minimum wage earner could support a household of three above the poverty line. The wage was bifurcated then. The majority earning $1.60 an hour could support a family of three, but a small group of workers qualifying for $1.15 an hour would have lived below the poverty line The second part of the center’s  -- that a full-time worker today could not raise a family of two on the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour -- holds up. Clearly, the buying power of the minimum wage has decreased in recent decades. The center tried to illustrate that point with a statement that is accurate but needs a little clarification. So we rate its  .
Statement: Jason Carter supports using Georgia tax dollars to promote Obamacare
Speaker: republican governors association
About the speaker: the gubernatorial campaign arm of the Republican Party.
Date: May 29, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: health care
Context: In a television ad
Fact-check justification: Mischaracterizing his stance isn’t hard to do when he won’t give clear answers to the policy questions on voters’ minds. In summary, though, it is still a stretch to conclude that Carter’s objection to one anti-Obamacare bill translates into support for spending state taxpayer money on the law. PolitiFact could not find any specific tax increase that Carter supported as a state senator, shoring up his office’s claims that it would be out of the norm for him to vote in favor of a measure if he believed it would increase taxes. But because Carter’s stance has been so fuzzy, it opens the door for interpretation about what he really believes. We rate the GOP  as .
Statement: It's been 14 years since a president or a vice president or a member of their family has not gone and attended at least an event at the Olympics.
Speaker: candy crowley
About the speaker: Candy Crowley is the host of CNN's "State of the Union."
Date: February 9, 2014
Topics: sports;punditfact
Context: comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Crowley said "a president or a vice president or a member of their family" has attended every Olympic games since 2000. That is accurate. In fact, the tradition goes back 16 years to 1998. We rate Crowley’s  .
Statement: Black cats in Vietnam are being killed and consumed as a COVID-19 cure.
Speaker: south west news service
About the speaker: South West News Service describes itself as a “UK- and US-based news and media content agency."
Date: April 24, 2020
Topics: animals;public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a news story
Fact-check justification: The driver said the meat was being taken to Hanoi for consumption, according to the report. But the report contains no suggestion the meat was being used for treatment of coronavirus. When we reached out to South West News Service about the source of the information, the agency told PolitiFact that "shortly after publication, we identified a number of issues with this story and pulled it from our service. We received new information which led us to doubt the widespread nature of the claims the charity had made on this issue." We rate this  .
Statement: People on pot "shoot each other ... stab each other ... strangle each other, drive under the influence, kill families.
Speaker: nancy grace
About the speaker: Nancy Grace is a former prosecutor and legal analyst who hosts her own show on HLN.
Date: January 14, 2014
Topics: drugs;crime;punditfact;marijuana
Context: a segment on 'Nancy Grace'
Fact-check justification: Grace said, people on pot "shoot each other ... stab each other ... strangle each other, drive under the influence, kill families." Yes, you can find individual cases to back up each of Grace's points, but Grace suggested pot drives people generally to commit violent acts, and there's no  of that. Behavioral science experts we consulted stressed using marijuana has consequences. But a hard turn toward violence, including shooting each other and killing families, isn’t one of the direct effects from using the drug for most people.  We rate Grace’s  .
Statement: It was Dan Sullivan who wrote a bill to cut Alaskans out of those decisions" about where they can hunt and fish.
Speaker: put alaska first pac 
About the speaker: Put Alaska First is a political action committee supporting Democratic Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska.
Date: June 2, 2014
Location: national
Topics: environment;congress;elections;government regulation;negative campaigning
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: "If you are a hunter, and you hunt a popular state-owned tract of land, the commissioner can hand that land over to a developer without a public hearing and without adhering to existing laws and (regulations), under HB 77," said Jim Lottsfeldt, Put Alaska First senior adviser. Our Ruling: Put Alaska First PAC said in a television ad that Sullivan "wrote a bill to cut Alaskans out of" decisions about where citizens can hunt and fish. As commissioner of natural resources, Sullivan did indeed push legislation to limit the public's ability to review and comment on development proposals. However, the ad glosses over a few complicating issues, including the stated goal of the proposal, and suggests, rather speculatively, that hunters could be affected. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate this  .