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Statement: Democrats let him (cop killer Luis Bracamontes) into our country," and "Democrats let him stay.
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: October 31, 2018
Location: national
Topics: immigration;corrections and updates;homeland security
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump tweeted a video that said "Democrats let him (cop killer Luis Bracamontes) into our country," and "Democrats let him stay." The reality is that Bracamontes’ last illegal entry was under Bush, a Republican president. The majority of his time going undetected was also on the Republican watch, though some of it was on the Democrats’ watch, too. Democratic and Republican administrations deported Bracamontes, but also failed to keep Bracamontes out of the United States. We found no  that he was proactively allowed to stay. We rate this  . Clarification: Federal immigration enforcement was reorganized after 9/11, and subsequently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, received its current name. This report has been updated to remove references to the name ICE prior to 2003.
Statement: Hillary Clinton says she wants to, 'raise taxes on the middle class.'
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: August 4, 2016
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: a campaign video
Fact-check justification: The Trump campaign said, "Hillary Clinton says  she wants to, ‘raise taxes on the middle class.’ " According to the transcript, numerous reporters, experts and a computer program, Clinton said the exact opposite. We rate this statement !
Statement: Military spending cuts, known as the sequester, were President Barack Obama's idea.
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 12, 2013
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;military
Context: the Republican response to the State of the Union
Fact-check justification: Rubio said the defense cuts known that are part of sequestration were Obama’s "idea in the first place." That doesn’t tell the whole story -- particularly the fact that Obama does not favor these cuts. The White House proposed them as a means of driving the two sides to a compromise over the deficit, not as a real-world spending plan. Still, the idea did originate with Obama’s team. We rate Rubio’s statement .
Statement: Under the new Arizona immigration law, police can't stop someone to check their immigration status unless they think they see something illegal.
Speaker: john huppenthal 
About the speaker: John Huppenthal is the current Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction. He was formerly a state senator.
Date: April 26, 2010
Location: national
Topics: immigration;legal issues
Context: an interview on MSNBC's Hardball
Fact-check justification: The law says the police officer just needs "reasonable suspicion'' that the person is an alien who is unlawfully in the United States. The police are prohibited from using a profile based solely on racial or ethnic factors, but that standard can be sidestepped. In addition, some seemingly innocuous behaviors like getting in a car or making a gesture or nodding could be seen by a law officer as "reasonable suspicion" of the newly enacted prohibition against seeking work while in the United States illegally. The passage in the law citing racial profiling does provide some protection, as does the difficulty of defining a profile for illegal immigrants that could pass legal muster, but the law leaves open several possibilities for police questioning individuals without seeing or suspecting a specific crime.  So we rate Huppenthal's statement .
Statement: Of minimum wage workers in Rhode Island "only 14 percent serve as sole income earner for their family.
Speaker: mike stenhouse
About the speaker: Mike Stenhouse is the chief executive officer of the Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity, a conservative think tank. A Cranston, R.I., native, he is a former player for the Boston Red Sox, Minnesota Twins and Montreal Expos. Previously, he was executive director of the Ocean State Policy Research Institute. He has an economics degree from Harvard University, served as chairman for the 2010 Rhode Island Clean Slate campaign, and as vice president of the Board of Directors for Rhode Island Special Olympics.
Date: January 27, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Michael Stenhouse says only 14 percent of Rhode Islanders earning minimum wage or less are the sole earners for their families. Stenhouse was citing figures from an established research group that another research group, with an opposite political philosophy, found to be credible. The study he cited was based on an $8.25 wage, rather than Rhode Island’s $8 rate. But that’s not enough to make a big difference. We rule his   .
Statement: Says Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., is "known for doing nothing. … (Peters) skipped 84% of small business hearings (and) skipped 89% of hearings on China.
Speaker: john james
About the speaker: John James, a Republican, is running for Senate in 2020 against Democratic incumbent Gary Peters. James, a West Point graduate and Army combat veteran, ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 2018 against Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.
Date: August 26, 2020
Location: michigan
Topics: candidate biography;china;congress;small business
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: James said that Peters is "known for doing nothing. … (Peters) skipped 84% of small business hearings (and) skipped 89% of hearings on China." The percentages are accurate, but they are cherry-picked because they ignore multiple other measurements that indicate a high level of engagement by Peters in Washington, including recent influential committee assignments, a perfect record on floor votes, and high scores on effectiveness from independent academic analyses. We rate the statement .
Statement: We've lost 70,000 factories since China joined the World Trade Organization.
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: April 18, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: china;jobs;trade;workers
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: The latest U.S. Census figures, for 2014, produced two counts: 73,000, which supports Trump’s , and 61,000. And at least some of the losses can be attributed to increased trade with China. We rate the statement . More Trump As he prepared to visit Wisconsin, Trump’s record on the -O-Meter -- on statements fact checked since he’s been president -- shows roughly two-thirds of his statements have been rated near the bottom of the meter.
Statement: Says "there is no" COVID-19 virus.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 19, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: The WHO has declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic and global health emergency. On the advice of health officials, several countries — including France , Italy and Spain — have ordered nationwide lockdowns to prevent the spread of the virus. Coronavirus prevention measures  have caused  the plunge of global financial markets, as well as layoffs across the country. To  that the virus at the center of the pandemic does not exist, as the Facebook post does, is  and . We rate it !
Statement: The push for high-speed internet for rural areas, from the start, "was a Democratic thing.
Speaker: jon erpenbach
About the speaker: Jon Erpenbach is a Democratic member of the Wisconsin state Senate. He was elected to a Madison-area district in 1998.
Date: December 12, 2021
Location: wisconsin
Topics: bipartisanship;infrastructure;public service;technology
Context: TV interview
Fact-check justification: Erpenbach claimed pushing for better high-speed internet access was "a Democratic thing."  Democrats pushed a broad variety of potential solutions and called for funding early, but Republicans did float bills that could address parts of the problem, albeit market-driven approaches that experts say would leave places that are most expensive to reach uncovered. Today, both sides agree on the need for better broadband — just not quite how to get there.  And at the local level, experts say advocating for improved internet access is a grassroots effort, not a political one.  We rate his  .
Statement: Says "(Barack) Obama's mother-in-law charged with larceny and fraud.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 16, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: Internet posts
Fact-check justification: TheLastLineOfDefense.org report appears to acknowledge there is no pension for the first grandma (or at least not a legal one). Instead, the post unleashes outrage over Robinson’s alleged attempt to collect money not owed to her. What we have here is one  news website posting a contrived follow-up to another  news website’s  report. Robinson is not collecting a pension, and she hasn’t been charged with a crime for trying to collect a pension. We rate this  !
Statement: Small business confidence is at an all-time high.
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: January 30, 2018
Location: national
Topics: economy;polls and public opinion;small business
Context: his State of the Union address
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "Small business confidence is at an all-time high." The NFIB’s small-business survey set a high in 2017, when all months are averaged. So we rate his statement .
Statement: Every time the price of gasoline rises 1 cent, "it's a billion dollars out of our economy that goes to Saudi Arabia.
Speaker: tommy thompson
About the speaker: Tommy Thompson, a Republican, was a 2012 candidate for the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin. He served as governor of Wisconsin from 1987 until 2001, when he left office to become President George W. Bush's secretary of health and human services. He previously spent 20 years in the Wisconsin Assembly. Thompson briefly ran for president, withdrawing in 2007.
Date: March 23, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corrections and updates;economy;energy;iraq
Context: a campaign speech
Fact-check justification: So, even if Thompson had said Middle East instead of Saudi Arabia, his statement would be .) We rate Thompson’s  . (You can comment on this item on the Journal Sentinel's web site ) Editor's note:  On April 20, 2012 we revised this item to note that if the price of a barrel of oil rose by 42 cents, the U.S. would pay Saudi Arabia $501,900 more per day -- or slightly more than $183 million per year. The original wording, which said the U.S. would pay $501,900 more  per barrel  per day, was .
Statement: Says Kanye West scored "106 points against wheelchair basketball team.
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: June 6, 2019
Topics: disability;sports;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: After West did a "tomahawk slam dunk" that sent the basketball into a fictional seventh grader’s face, the (!) article quotes West as saying, "How do you like that? How do you like that? Sit before the great and powerful Yeezus." PolitiFact bows to no self-proclaimed God . And we rate this Facebook post !
Statement: Ann Kuster "supports the government takeover of healthcare, which robs Medicare of over $700 billion.
Speaker: charles bass
About the speaker: Charlie Bass is a U.S. representative from New Hampshire.
Date: August 27, 2012
Location: new hampshire
Topics: health care;message machine 2012
Context: and around New Hampshire.”
Fact-check justification: Our Ruling: Had Bass been careful in his wording, there might have been some  to his claims. Kuster has expressed support for the Affordable Care Act, and the law has been shown to reduce Medicare spending by $700 billion. But, instead, the Congressman repeated past claims that the Care Act constitutes a "government takeover" of health care, and that it "robs" $700 billion from Medicare. The government takeover part is so  it's been rated ; the Medicare part is . On balance, we rate the full  .
Statement: In Wisconsin, "we have a bill that would allow hidden, deadly weapons -- every single person to carry one -- no training, no background check, even around schools.
Speaker: chris taylor
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Rep. Chris Taylor, a Madison Democrat, was elected to the Assembly in a special election in August 2011. An attorney, she is the former public policy director of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin.
Date: October 4, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;education;crime;government regulation;guns
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: As for around schools, anyone who can legally possess a firearm could generally carry it concealed within 1,000 feet of a school, under the bill. For a statement that is accurate but needs additional information, our rating is . Note: This item was updated on Oct. 6, 2017 to make reference to the federal law on carrying a weapon near a school. This does not change the rating. div class='artembed'>
Statement: Less than half of the poorest American households have a home Internet subscription.
Speaker: julián castro
About the speaker: Julián Castro is a former U.S. secretary of Housing & Urban Development. He was the youngest member of Barack Obama’s cabinet, serving from 2014 to 2017. Just before he became secretary of HUD, he was the mayor of San Antonio, elected in 2009. Castro received a bachelor’s degree in political science and communications from Stanford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out on Jan. 2, 2020.
Date: July 27, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: census;families;income;poverty;wealth
Context: his year-in-review speech
Fact-check justification: Castro said that "less than half of the poorest American households have a home Internet subscription." About 48 percent of the nation’s poorest quintile of households--the bottom 20 percent--reported a home Internet connection in 2013. Home web access correlates with income, it appears. We rate this  .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Ten retired nuns were barred from voting in the 2008 Indiana Democratic primary.
Speaker: leticia van de putte
About the speaker: Leticia Van de Putte, a pharmacist, was the 2014 Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor. She previously served in the Texas House.
Date: January 25, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: elections
Context: remarks on the floor of the Texas Senate
Fact-check justification: Smessaert said that several of the nuns who were unable to vote have since died and that the others couldn’t be interviewed because of health reasons. So, were the nuns barred from voting, as Van de Putte says? According to media reports and a spokeswoman for Saint Mary’s convent, the elderly nuns were barred from casting a regular ballot because they lacked proper identification. But they were not barred from voting in another way, such as casting provisional ballots — though their votes wouldn’t have counted unless the sisters took additional steps to meet state qualifications. We rate Van de Putte’s statement as .
Statement: The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly approved "only one out of 376 amendments offered by Assembly Democrats" in 2011.
Speaker: brett hulsey
About the speaker: Democrat Brett Hulsey of Madison, the owner of an energy and environmental consulting firm, was elected to the Wisconsin Assembly in 2010. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the Aug. 12, 2014 Democratic primary for governor.
Date: August 27, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: bipartisanship
Context: an opinion column
Fact-check justification: yes votes by Assembly Democrats on the bills. That means, on average, 7.5 of the 38 Democrats voted yes on each of the 44 bills. Our conclusion Hulsey said the Republican-controlled state Assembly adopted only one of nearly 400 amendments offered by Democrats to bills that were adopted by the Assembly. Complete official data is not available, but GOP leaders don’t dispute that only one Democratic amendment was approved. We rate Hulsey’s statement .
Statement: Muslims' disturbing plan comes out after grocery stores go bare to prepare for Irma.
Speaker: freedom daily
About the speaker: Freedom Daily bills itself as “a forum for discussing meaningful conservative American and world news."
Date: September 6, 2017
Topics: environment;fake news;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: That photo was shot on Sept. 5 at a Publix supermarket in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. by the Palm Beach Post — two days after SITE’s report came out. The Miami Herald and several other outlets also reported on Sept. 5 about empty shelves at stores as Floridians prepared for Hurricane Irma. The New York Times on Sept. 4 also noted there were bare water shelves in Puerto Rico as they also braced for the storm. Freedom Daily’s story itself contains  information, but the headline ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Says Gov. Chris Christie has embarked on a tour to "demand that New Jersey's Democratic legislature approve an immediate tax cut that would disproportionately benefit the wealthiest.
Speaker: barbara buono
About the speaker:  Barbara Buono is a Democratic state senator representing part of Middlesex County. Buono previously served in the State Assembly from 1994 to 2001.
Date: August 27, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: taxes
Context: Politico
Fact-check justification: Buono said that Christie embarked on an "Endless Summer" tour to "demand that New Jersey’s Democratic legislature approve an immediate tax cut that would disproportionately benefit the wealthiest." Christie first proposed an across-the-board income tax cut that would have benefited higher income filers more than lower income filers. But Christie has since backed off that plan. Before the governor kicked off his "Endless Summer" tour, he signed on to a version of the Senate Democrats’ plan to give an income tax credit based on individuals’ property tax bills. We rate Buono’s statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: We have roughly between 85,000 (and) 95,000 open jobs in Wisconsin.
Speaker: rebecca kleefisch
About the speaker: Rebecca Kleefisch was the lieutenant governor of Wisconsin from 2011-19 under Gov. Scott Walker. She previously worked as a TV anchor and reporter, most recently with WISN-TV in Milwaukee. Kleefisch was defeated August 9, 2022 in her Republican primary bid for Republican nomination for governor.
 
Date: December 21, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: radio interview
Fact-check justification: The in-state listings appear largely legitimate, based on checks with the largest employers and a search for repeated or out-of-date listings. But that is still short of the range Kleefisch asserted. The database changed somewhat between her statement and the data we analyzed, but not by enough to put the Wisconsin tally in line with her statement. We rate her  . (Editor's note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin, rather than Froedtert Health, which covers jus tthe Froedtert portion of the operation).
Statement: The economy bled $24 billion" due to the government shutdown.
Speaker: doonesbury
About the speaker: Doonesbury is a Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip by G.B. Trudeau.
Date: December 1, 2013
Topics: economy;federal budget;health care;punditfact
Context: the Sunday comics
Fact-check justification: Doonesbury , aka Garry Trudeau, said the government shutdown cost the economy $24 billion. That is based on the highest of the independent estimates. The others are lower. Three prominent forecasters, Goldman Sachs, IHS and Moody’s assessed the damage at $20 billion. A survey of economists set $16 billion as the most likely figure. There is broad agreement that the political impasse produced uncertainty that puts an ongoing, if unquantified, damper on growth. Trudeau likes to say he aims for verisimilitude and he achieved that with his use of a high but defensible estimate from an independent source. We rate the  .
Statement: Obama admits he is not a citizen.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: August 3, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: candidate biography;obama birth certificate
Context: referring to a YouTube video
Fact-check justification: But on the YouTube page, the word "contrived" is not visible, unless a viewer opens the full description box. However, nothing in the video itself warns viewers that the Obama clip is fabricated and the video includes a photo -- proven  more than a year ago by our friends at Snopes.com -- of Obama holding a landline telephone receiver upside down. By Aug. 4, 2010, the  Matters video had been viewed over a million times on YouTube, 176 times more often than the original ObamaSnippets.com video, where its humorous nature is clear.  does matter, but not to the makers of the  Matters video or to the creators of the "Obama admits" e-mail. We rate them both as . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/27b5599a-0629-4b38-a5e5-67d74dc36f83