copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Says Joe Biden “has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone.” (Marco Rubio, 2021-01-22)
Evidence (2020-10-16): No president has assaulted individual liberty, free enterprise, and social harmony like Trump has [...] But CEI didn't even take into account the worst aspect of Trump's regulatory overreach: His unprecedented assaults on immigration almost entirely by executive fiat and administrative means. [...] None of this is to suggest that libertarians won't have their work cut out for them in the event of a Biden victory, particularly when it comes to stopping the advance of the soft tyranny of the regulatory state that Democrats have come to embrace. But Trump with his authoritarian taste for the hard power of the police state is an existential threat to libertarian ideals.
Claim: Says Joe Biden “has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone.” (Marco Rubio, 2021-01-22)
Evidence (2024-10-04): Harry S. Truman issued 907 executive orders, with 1,081 orders made by Theodore Roosevelt, 1,203 orders made by Calvin Coolidge, and 1,803 orders made by Woodrow Wilson. Franklin D. Roosevelt has the distinction of making a record 3,522 executive orders.[15] In 2021, President Joseph Biden issued 42 executive orders in the first 100 days of his presidency, more than any other president since Harry Truman.[16] [...] he's far outpacing them on executive orders. Biden has issued 42 to date, more than any president going back to Harry Truman - ^ a b c Gerhard Peters. "The American Presidency Project / Executive Orders". Retrieved August 26, 2015.
Claim: Says Joe Biden “has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone.” (Marco Rubio, 2021-01-22)
Evidence (2021-05-12): As Democratic President Joe Biden signs many executive orders in his first few months in office, many Republicans have rebuked him for issuing the presidential orders instead of relying on Congressional actions. That includes Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, who was critical of Biden’s April 7 order on gun control measures. [...] Rubio said in the video that Biden "has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone." PolitiFact said Rubio’s claim, which came two days after Biden’s inauguration, was true. It cited data from the Office of the Federal Registrar that showed more executive orders — 17 — from Biden than former President Barack Obama’s two and former President Donald Trump’s one in his first two days in office.
Claim: Says Joe Biden “has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone.” (Marco Rubio, 2021-01-22)
Evidence (2021-01-23): President Biden and his team issued 17 executive actions and directives, fielded 28 questions during a news briefing and swore in more than 1,100 people to serve in his administration. And that was just on Day 1. [...] More than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone," Rubio said, referring to the flurry of executive actions Biden has signed. Over about 48 hours, Biden signed more than two dozen executive actions and one piece of legislation — granting his defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, a waiver exempting him from a law requiring the head of the Pentagon to have been out of uniform for at least seven years.
Claim: Says Joe Biden “has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone.” (Marco Rubio, 2021-01-22)
Evidence (2021-01-26): Just hours after taking the oath of office, President Joe Biden signed nine executive orders – far surpassing every other president’s first day on the job in modern history. [...] Biden is not the first U.S. president to issue an executive order, and he certainly won’t be the last. My own research shows executive orders have been a mainstay in American politics – with limitations. [...] As he promised, Biden has already revoked numerous Trump executive orders and issued new ones on some big agenda items. He’ll likely issue more: for example, to tackle racial injustice and student debt.
Claim: Says Joe Biden “has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone.” (Marco Rubio, 2021-01-22)
Evidence (2021-01-27): Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., blasted Biden for issuing "more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever. Second, these aren’t just normal executive fiats, this is literally going down the wish list of the far left and checking all of them off." [...] Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., has been especially vocal about her opposition to Biden’s executive orders. [...] Biden has in fact been on a record-setting pace for executive orders, signing more than 40 of them in his first week in office. Most, however, were written to overturn those of his predecessor, Donald Trump. They have included an end to the travel ban from some majority-Muslim countries, a reversal in Trump’s immigrant enforcement policies, the rejoining of the Paris climate accord, the cancellation of the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline and an end to the policy of prohibiting transgender people from serving in the U.S. military.
Claim: Says Joe Biden “has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone.” (Marco Rubio, 2021-01-22)
Evidence (2024-07-21): In the end, President Joe Biden exited the political stage in isolation. [...] But in the end, the pressure on Biden from party leaders, rank-and-file lawmakers and donors – and the polling showing the perilous and potentially insurmountable path Biden faced amid a growing deficit with Trump – ultimately proved too much. Described as being more isolated than he had ever been, Biden could not withstand the push behind the scenes and in public. The blunt reality became a chorus of voices calling for the president to exit the race, like a boulder rolling down a mountain that only picked up momentum with each passing day. [...] Biden consulted only a very small number of close aides on the decision. Some members of his inner circle were left in the dark until minutes before he posted his announcement on social media, including one of his closest communications advisers, Anita Dunn.
Claim: Says Joe Biden “has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone.” (Marco Rubio, 2021-01-22)
Evidence (2021-01-27): President Joe Biden has begun undoing some inherited policies via executive orders, yet much of what the new administration ultimately hopes to achieve cannot be accomplished by presidential fiat. Like Trump when he was reversing Obama-era regulations, Biden will need cooperation from Congress, including compromises with at least some Republicans in the Senate, to enact significant swaths of his agenda, and he faces a ticking clock to undo some of Trump’s "midnight" rules. [...] ProPublica tracked more than 75 such regulations from Trump’s final months in office, at least 50 of which were finalized before Biden’s inauguration. [...] On his first day in office, Biden issued an executive order describing the wall as a "waste of money that diverts attention from genuine threats to our homeland security." The order pauses construction and spending on the wall "to the extent permitted by law," leaving open the possibility that construction could continue or that money will continue to be spent on the project. Our investigation confirmed that some wall contracts come with hefty termination fees. One agreement stipulates a cancellation fee of nearly $15 million.
Claim: Says Joe Biden “has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone.” (Marco Rubio, 2021-01-22)
Evidence (2021-01-29): Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that Biden’s early reliance on executive action is at odds with the Democrat’s pledge as a candidate to be a consensus builder. The New York Times editorial board on Thursday ran an opinion piece headlined "Ease up on the Executive Actions, Joe." Biden, for his part, on Thursday framed his latest executive actions as an effort to "undo the damage Trump has done" by fiat rather than "initiating any new law." During a brief exchange with reporters in the Oval Office after signing two more executive orders, he noted he was working simultaneously to push his $1.9 trillion COVID aid package through Congress. After being asked by a reporter if he was open to splitting up the relief package, the president responded: "No one requires me to do anything." [...] While Biden has used executive action more frequently out of the gate than recent White House predecessors, he’s not alone in being a heavy user of presidential fiat -- or being criticized by the opposition party for doing so.
Claim: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” (Brigitte Gabriel, 2024-07-02)
Evidence (2024-07-02): Defense Department data shows an 18-month stretch with no U.S. service member combat deaths in Afghanistan after then-President Donald Trump and the Taliban reached a deal to end the war in late February 2021. That includes seven months of President Joe Biden’s administration. There were three service members wounded in combat and four troops who died in noncombat-related deaths during the Trump administration after the deal with the Taliban was reached.
Claim: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” (Brigitte Gabriel, 2024-07-02)
Evidence (2023-07-03): But when the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan in Aug. 2021, the chaotic evacuation turned deadly when a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport killed 13 U.S. service members and dozens of Afghans who were trying to flee the country ahead of the Taliban's takeover. [...] "I know what the deal was that was negotiated with the Taliban. It was made very clear. I was in the room when President Trump told the leader of the Taliban, said, 'Look, you're going to have to cooperate with the Afghan government. You don't harbor terrorists. And you don't harm any American soldiers,'" Pence said. "We went 18 months without a single American casualty to the day at that Kabul airport that we lost 13 brave American service members," he said. "The blame for what happened here falls squarely on the current commander in chief."
Claim: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” (Brigitte Gabriel, 2024-07-02)
Evidence (2024-03-30): "For 18 months, we lost nobody in Afghanistan. And then we had that horrible, horrible withdrawal where we lost 13 soldiers, 38 horribly wounded, left Americans behind," Trump said in remarks after his Super Tuesday victories earlier this month. [...] But two senior Biden administration national security officials told NBC News that the Taliban is holding two Americans that the U.S. government would like to see released. Other Americans in Afghanistan are there of their own volition, they said. [...] "President Trump is absolutely right to call out Joe Biden for his betrayal of Americans in Afghanistan," Leavitt said in a statement. "Biden’s calamitous withdrawal left hundreds, if not thousands, of citizens behind and led to the tragic deaths of 13 U.S. Service Members at Abbey Gate."
Claim: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” (Brigitte Gabriel, 2024-07-02)
Evidence (2024-09-11): "I got involved. And Abdul is the head of the Taliban. He is still the head of the Taliban," Trump said. "And I told Abdul, ‘Don’t do it anymore. You do it anymore, you’re going to have problems.’ And he said, ‘Why do you send me a picture of my house?’ I said, ‘You’re going to have to figure that out, Abdul.’ And for 18 months we had nobody killed." [...] "President Trump looked at the Taliban leader and said this ‘If you harm a hair on a single American, I’m going to kill you,'" Hunt said, noting the use of a satellite photo of the "leader of the Taliban’s home" in the threat. [...] There was an 18-month span in the final months of Trump’s term that stretched into the Biden administration before the Afghanistan withdrawal where no U.S. soldiers were killed.
Claim: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” (Brigitte Gabriel, 2024-07-02)
Evidence (2024-07-02): Latest False Fact-checks on Brigitte Gabriel Brigitte Gabriel stated on July 2, 2024 in an Instagram post: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan." Brigitte Gabriel stated on July 2, 2024 in an Instagram post: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan."
Claim: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” (Brigitte Gabriel, 2024-07-02)
Evidence (2021-08-22): "In the past 18 months, the U.S. has not suffered a single combat casualty there. By the time we left office, the Afghan government and the Taliban each controlled their respective territories, neither was mounting major offensives, and America had only 2,500 U.S. troops in the country—the smallest military presence since the war began in 2001," Pence wrote. [...] Facts First: There is no legitimate argument that Afghanistan experienced anything resembling "stability" after the US deal with the Taliban. While Pence is correct that no more US troops were killed in combat after the deal, the war continued to rage, and large numbers of Afghan troops and civilians continued to be killed or injured. [...] Despite the Taliban’s continued attacks and failure to follow through on areas of the agreement, the US continued to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. On January 15, days before Biden would be inaugurated, Trump’s acting defense secretary Christopher Miller announced that US forces had reached the lowest levels in the country since the beginning of the war.
Claim: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” (Brigitte Gabriel, 2024-07-02)
Evidence (2024-07-05): US Congressman reveals how Trump prevented Taliban from attacking Americans for 18 months [...] "President Trump looked at the Taliban leader and said this – ‘I want to leave Afghanistan, but it’s going to be a conditions-based withdrawal’ … he said ‘if you harm a hair on a single American, I’m going to kill you’ … reached in his pocket, pulled out a satellite photo of the leader of the Taliban’s home, and handed it to him, got up and walked out the room. "Do you know for 18 months not a single American was killed in Afghanistan."
Claim: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” (Brigitte Gabriel, 2024-07-02)
Evidence (2024-08-15): Sam Brown stated on August 15, 2024 in an X post Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen said the Biden administration did a "tremendous job" on the U.S. military’s Afghanistan withdrawal. Brigitte Gabriel stated on July 2, 2024 in an Instagram post "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan." Viral image stated on October 8, 2023 in a Facebook post Video shows an "inflatable decoy plane" at the Kabul airport in 2021. Instagram posts stated on January 26, 2023 in a video The amount the U.S. has spent in Ukraine is "double the U.S. expenditure for its own war in Afghanistan." Tom Tiffany stated on December 8, 2022 in Twitter "Joe Biden left Marines behind in Afghanistan. And now he left a Marine behind in Russia." Joe Biden stated on December 16, 2022 in a speech Says he has been to "Afghanistan, Iraq and those areas" twice as president. Zach Nunn stated on May 9, 2022 in a campaign ad "Zack Nunn saved over 2,000 Americans abandoned in Afghanistan by leading private rescue missions." [...] Brigitte Gabriel stated on July 2, 2024 in an Instagram post "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan."
Claim: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” (Brigitte Gabriel, 2024-07-02)
Evidence (2021-08-17): And the Trump administration kept to the pact, reducing U.S. troop levels from about 13,000 to 2,500, even though the Taliban continued to attack Afghan government forces and welcomed al-Qaeda terrorists into the Taliban leadership. [...] Nov. 16, 2020 — Congressional Republicans, responding to news reports that the Trump administration will rapidly reduce forces in Afghanistan, warn of what Sen. Marco Rubio calls "a Saigon-type of situation" in Afghanistan. "A rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan now would hurt our allies and delight the people who wish us harm," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says. [...] Afghanistan’s First Vice President Amrullah Saleh tells the BBC that the Trump administration made too many concessions to the Taliban. "I am telling [the United States] as a friend and as an ally that trusting the Taliban without putting in a verification mechanism is going to be a fatal mistake," Saleh says, adding that Afghanistan leaders warned the U.S. that "violence will spike" as the 5,000 Taliban prisoners were released. "Violence has spiked," he added.
Claim: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” (Brigitte Gabriel, 2024-07-02)
Evidence (2021-10-26): A key U.S. diplomat is trying to explain what went wrong in Afghanistan. Zalmay Khalilzad left the U.S. government last week. He negotiated a peace deal with the Taliban under President Trump. President Biden kept that commitment, resulting in a chaotic U.S. withdrawal. But Ambassador Khalilzad is defending his work. He talked with Steve Inskeep. [...] KHALILZAD: Well, let's separate issues from each other. First, what did the agreement say, and did they comply? The Taliban agreed to sit with the Afghan government to negotiate. They did that. On the violence issue that you referred to, since the signing of the agreement until the withdrawal, for 18 months, not a single American was killed by the Taliban, although... [...] KHALILZAD: I believe that they did make an agreement that they observed, as I give you the example of not attacking or killing a single American soldier. But it wasn't - we weren't trusting them, that we were monitoring what they were doing. We were responding when we thought it was appropriate.
Claim: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” (Brigitte Gabriel, 2024-07-02)
Evidence (2021-08-26): Eleven American military members were killed in Afghanistan in 2020, including four in combat. But, as the U.S. nears its Aug. 31 deadline for a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan, a social media post falsely claims that there weren’t any U.S. casualties in Afghanistan in the last year-and-a-half of the Trump administration. [...] U.S. military casualties in Afghanistan have diminished considerably in the years leading up to the withdrawal. But an Instagram post claimed, "There wasn’t a SINGLE American casualty in Afghanistan the last year and a half of the Trump admin. The Taliban FEARED President Trump and KNEW he would annihilate them, if they breached their peaceful exit negotiation. The blood is on Biden’s hands." [...] No service members have been killed or wounded in action in Afghanistan in 2021, according to Defense Department reports as of Aug. 23.
Claim: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” (Brigitte Gabriel, 2024-07-02)
Evidence (2024-07-02): A July 2 Instagram post by conservative activist Brigitte Gabriel said, "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan." The Instagram post included a video clip from "The Sage Steele Podcast," in which U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, told a story about Trump negotiating with Taliban leaders over a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Hunt said Trump threatened a Taliban leader, saying that if he harmed any American, he would kill him, then said, "Do you know for 18 months, not a single American was killed in Afghanistan?" [...] So, it’s correct that in an 18-month stretch, no U.S. service members were harmed or died in combat. But Gabriel is incorrect to say Trump was in charge during that period.
Claim: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” (Brigitte Gabriel, 2024-07-02)
Evidence (2024-09-09): Trump claimed no U.S. troops died in Afghanistan for 18 months. Here's a fact check. [...] "When I left office, we had not lost a single service member in combat in Afghanistan in more than 18 months," Trump said at a rally in North Carolina on Aug. 21. [...] According to government data from the Defense Casualty Analysis System, there was no 18-month period that occurred entirely under Trump's presidency in which there were no deaths in combat, or "hostile" deaths, in Afghanistan.
Claim: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” (Brigitte Gabriel, 2024-07-02)
Evidence (2024-07-18): Emboldened by that disaster, Russia invaded Ukraine. They saw this group of people that were incompetent. We took the soldiers out first, no, no. We're going to take the soldiers out second. If they would have followed my plan; we had a great plan. But the plan only kicked in if they did everything perfectly, and they weren't doing things perfectly. So we said it doesn't kick in. You know, 18 months in Afghanistan, we didn't have one — they were killing them left and right, snipers. And I spoke to the head of the Taliban. You've heard this story. Abdul, still there. Still the head of the Taliban. The press got on me, "Why would you speak to him?" I said, "Because that's where the killing is." I don't have to speak to somebody that has nothing to do with it. [...] But he could figure it out. And for 18 months we had not one attack on an American soldier by the Taliban. Eighteen months. And then we had that horrible day where soldiers were killed. I was not there because of a ridiculous election. But we had that horrible attack.
Claim: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” (Brigitte Gabriel, 2024-07-02)
Evidence (2022-08-02): The mission to kill Zawahiri comes almost exactly a year after Biden ended the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan. "I made the decision that, after 20 years of war, the United States no longer needed thousands of boots on the ground in Afghanistan to protect America from terrorists who seek to do us harm," he said at the White House. "And I made a promise to the American people that we'd continue to conduct effective counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan and beyond. We've done just that."