copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-04-16): Anyone following the US presidential race may have noticed independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a particularly harsh-sounding voice. The cause is a neurological condition called spasmodic dysphonia.
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-10-03): What to know about RFK Jr., the controversial conspiracy theorist who ran for president and joined Donald Trump's campaign - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 70, is John F. Kennedy's nephew. [...] Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer who has promoted baseless public-health conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine misinformation, dropped out of the presidential race in August and endorsed Donald Trump. Trump went on to add Kennedy Jr., along with Tulsi Gabbard, to his transition team to help shape his administration if he wins the election in November. [...] Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a member of one of America's most famous political dynasties.
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-10-04): Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954), also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, anti-vaccine activist, and conspiracy theorist. He is the chairman and founder of Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy group that is a leading proponent of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.[1][2] He was an independent candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election.[3] A member of the Kennedy family, he is a son of the U.S. attorney general and senator Robert F. Kennedy, and a nephew of the U.S. president John F. Kennedy and senator Ted Kennedy. [...] - ^ "Robert F. Kennedy, Jr". JW Howard Attorneys. Archived from the original on May 2, 2023. Retrieved May 2, 2023. [...] Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer, is a leading vaccine skeptic and purveyor of conspiracy theories who has leaned heavily on misinformation as he mounts his long-shot 2024 campaign for the Democratic nomination.
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-09-19): Joe Biden stated on May 19, 2024 in a speech: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. Tom Tiffany stated on April 30, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: "The science is clear — the gray wolf has met and exceeded recovery goals." Jared Polis stated on May 15, 2024 in an X post: Tariffs are a "direct, regressive tax on Americans" and President Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods will "hit every family." Donald Trump stated on May 2, 2024 in an X post: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID "racist," calls NRA a "terrorist organization" and supports affirmative action. Nancy Pelosi stated on April 29, 2024 in an interview with MSNBC: Former President Donald Trump "has the worst record of job loss of any president." [...] Donald Trump stated on May 2, 2024 in an X post: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID "racist," calls NRA a "terrorist organization" and supports affirmative action.
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-04-22): RFK Jr railing against 'racially rancid' voter ID laws in unearthed writings [...] The material reviewed by Fox News Digital was published throughout 2008 in the run-up to that year's presidential election, and included Kennedy referencing voter ID laws as "racially rancid," and claiming voter fraud was "non-existent." [...] Original article source: RFK Jr railing against 'racially rancid' voter ID laws in unearthed writings
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-05-16): Fact-check: Trump claims on RFK Jr.’s positions on voter ID, the NRA and affirmative action [...] A Trump campaign X post said Kennedy Jr. called voter ID "racist," calls NRA a "terrorist organization" and supports affirmative action. [...] This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Fact-check: RFK Jr.’s positions on voter ID, the NRA, affirmative action
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-08-24): Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is no stranger to FactCheck.org. He is a prominent anti-vaccine advocate who has been on our radar for years, primarily as the founder of Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit that spreads anti-vaccine misinformation. [...] In April, Kennedy — the son of a former attorney general and presidential candidate, and nephew of President John F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated in the 1960s — officially entered politics for the first time, announcing his bid for the presidency as a Democrat challenging President Joe Biden. He has virtually no chance of nabbing the nomination, but he has received more media attention in the following months that has allowed him to spread false and misleading health claims. [...] Update, Aug. 23: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his campaign on Aug. 23 and encouraged his supporters in key swing states to vote for former President Donald Trump.
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-08-26): A day after Vice President Kamala Harris officially accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference to announce he was suspending his campaign and throwing his support behind Republican nominee Donald Trump. [...] Despite his deep Democratic family roots, Kennedy in October dropped his bid for the Democratic nomination in order to run as an independent. His campaign drew voters who were often otherwise undecided between the Republican option — former President Trump — and Democrat President Joe Biden, whose candidacy drew low voter enthusiasm, polls showed. [...] Kennedy’s campaign was unconventional and made for unconventional headlines.
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-08-24): Excluded from the CNN presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on June 27, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. livestreamed a parallel debate on social media, answering the same questions put to the major party candidates. [...] Update, Aug. 23: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his campaign on Aug. 23 and encouraged his supporters in key swing states to vote for former President Donald Trump. [...] Kennedy, son of the late U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy, misleading claimed that "the only thing Putin wanted was to keep NATO out of the Ukraine," falsely adding that Putin "didn’t even want to take Ukraine."
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-08-26): Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who suspended his campaign on Friday and endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump, has a long history of criticizing the man he now supports, including calling Trump a "threat to democracy," and, as recently as July, a "terrible president." [...] A Kennedy campaign spokesperson did not return CNN’s request for comment. [...] That’s in sharp contrast to how Kennedy has talked about Trump in the past, including accusing him of discrediting American democracy and saying that his late father, former US Senator and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, would have disapproved of Trump.
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2023-07-21): Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was given a platform by pro-Trump Republicans because his conspiracies about vaccine and Covid-19, and claims that the government has tried to censor him gel with their efforts to shield Trump by claiming that the political weaponization of government is a Democratic and not a GOP transgression. [...] In an odd flipping of the normal political order, Democrats in the hearing effectively sought to undermine the candidacy of the son and nephew of assassinated party heroes, former Attorney General Robert Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy. The top Democrat on the House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett, for instance, condemned committee chair Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan for letting Kennedy air what Democrats regard as extreme views. "It’s a free country. You absolutely have a right to say what you believe," she said, adding: "But you don’t have the right to a platform, public or private."
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2023-07-20): RFK Jr. defends himself against complaints of racist and antisemitic online misinformation Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended himself Thursday against accusations that he traffics in racist and hateful online conspiracy theories, testifying at a House hearing on government censorship despite requests from outside groups to disinvite the Democratic presidential candidate after his recent antisemitic remarks. [...] Kennedy defended his social media posts, which have delved into race, vaccine safety and other issues, as not "racist or antisemitic." He said his family has long believed in the 1st Amendment right to free speech.
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-05-02): Fact-check: RFK Jr.’s positions on voter ID, the NRA and affirmative action [...] Kennedy walked back calling the NRA a "terror group" in an October 2023 interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. [...] A Trump campaign X post said Kennedy Jr. called voter ID "racist," calls NRA a "terrorist organization" and supports affirmative action.
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-07-16): National Rifle Association, Institute for Legislative Action, "New Zealand Experience Further Proves Registration Facilitates Confiscations," July 8, 2019b.
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-09-11): - We Need You to Act Now to Protect Executive Action - We Need You to Act Now to Protect Executive Action - imges - Advocacy Sheets - Archive - Busca a tus Representantes - Congressional Activity & Resources - Copy of Find Your Representatives - Find Your Representatives - Free Ricardo Fierro - Infrastructure - Issues - Action Alert: Rally for Action on Delayed Amnest Cases - Affirmative Action - American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) & Association For Residency and Citizenship of America (ARCA)
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-09-23): Biden has supported affirmative action policies.[47]
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2018-07-17): That's how you do it. Signed, Americans tired of our politicians bathing in the blood of the innocent for a few million dollars from the terrorist organization NRA.
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2023-06-20): Opinion, The NRA as a Terrorist Organization? San Francisco Took One Step Too Far, The Hill (Sept. 5, 2019, 12:00 PM), https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/460090-the-nra-as-a-terrorist-organization-san-francisco-took-one-step-too-far. [...] Opinion, Kennedy’s Decisions May Not Last. It Might Be His Own Fault, Wash. Post (June 28, 2018), https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/kennedys-decisions-may-not-last-it-might-be-his-own-fault/2018/06/28/e39c3298-7a87-11e8-aeee-4d04c8ac6158_story.html.
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-04-08): Suing the NRA for Damages, 69 Emory Law Journal 1077 (2020)
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-10-06): Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, repeated their demand to put "demilitarization" — a code word for the withdrawal of British troops at the top of the agenda. [...] NRA and its supporters was viewed by some as an incitement to violence. [...] Affirmative Action (Washn)By William Douglas= (c) 1995, Newsday=
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2024-05-02): Donald Trump stated on May 2, 2024 in an X post: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID "racist," calls NRA a "terrorist organization" and supports affirmative action. Chris Murphy stated on February 11, 2024 in an interview: The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act led to "a 12% reduction in urban homicides in this country." Shannon Watts stated on October 25, 2023 in a post on X: "It is harder to buy Sudafed than an AR-15 in Maine." Thom Tillis stated on August 14, 2023 in a campaign email: A Democrat-sponsored bill proposes a "1,000% gun tax on most firearms." Mike Pence stated on April 14, 2023 in a speech to the National Rifle Association: "In the 1960s, liberals emptied our psych wards." Chris Murphy stated on April 3, 2023 in a tweet: "The 5 states with the highest gun homicide rates in the nation all have loose gun laws" while "the 5 states with the lowest rates have some of the toughest laws." Viral image stated on February 20, 2023 in a Facebook post: Canada has only "had 11 school shooting deaths … in history." Donald Trump stated on May 2, 2024 in an X post: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID "racist," calls NRA a "terrorist organization" and supports affirmative action.
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2000-08-14): Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was one of the proudest moments of our nation's history and a sterling testament to our aspirations as a people. Yet, despite undeniable progress over the last several decades, inequality and polarization nevertheless persist in far too many American workplaces, schools, and communities. Over the last eight years, we have fought hard to end discrimination. We have increased funding for civil rights enforcement - so that the laws on our books are not just pleasant words, but pledges of justice. Al Gore has strongly opposed efforts to roll back affirmative action programs. He knows that the way to lift this nation up is not by pulling the weakest down, but by continuing to expand opportunities for everyone who wants to achieve. The Clinton-Gore Administration has appointed the most diverse administration in American history, demonstrating that pursuing excellence means including the all of the best that our nation has to offer.
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (1999-12-09): La Pierre eventually beat back the attack and North and his supporters were forced to resign, but media coverage from that point on dwelled on the severe problems the NRA was facing, from a serious decline in revenue to the launch of an investigation by the New York State Attorney General, Leticia James, into its finances and tax-exempt status. Headlines described an organization riven by scandal and division. [...] The sample of tweets below showing the relationship between mentions of "Philando Castile" and the "NRA" are just a few examples of how gun safety advocates have explicitly called out the NRA as a racist and white supremacist organization in recent years. [...] The NRA is no longer the most powerful lobby.
Claim: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action. (Donald Trump, 2024-05-02)
Evidence (2019-04-09): F. Kennedy in 1963, and for over 55 years we have stood on the front lines of the fight for justice. We lead one of the most robust anti-hate and anti-extremism projects in the Nation.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-04-29): Donald Trump is the first president in almost a century to see employment decline nationally between his first and last days in office. Experts widely agree that the president during the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, also saw jobs lost on his watch, and earlier presidents who served before standardized employment data was collected likely did, too. Economists say the coronavirus pandemic — the primary reason for the employment decline under Trump — was so unusual that it merits an asterisk to his record.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-05-03): Fact check: Pelosi says Trump has 'the worst record of job loss of any president' [...] Pelosi said April 29 that Trump "has the worst record of job loss of any president." [...] Pelosi said Trump had the worst jobs record of "any president." Hoover almost certainly fared worse, and we don’t know about earlier presidents, who served before reliable records were kept.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2021-01-08): No other modern president has left the U.S. with a smaller workforce than it had when they took office. Since the government started keeping track in 1939, no other president has even seen significant job losses during a single presidential term — though job growth during George W. Bush’s first four years in office was essentially flat. [...] And the catastrophic job losses during Trump’s presidency were not sparked by his labor-market policies, at least at first. They were caused by the arrival of a deadly novel coronavirus, and the slumping consumer demand and business closures that followed. [...] Under Trump, the leisure and hospitality sector lost 2.9 million jobs, and retail lost another 659,000, losses that are not surprising amid a retail apocalypse and an actual apocalypse. But the pandemic and the crises that came with it also completely erased Trump’s much-touted gains in blue-collar sectors such as manufacturing, which is down 60,000 jobs over his term, and mining, which is down 19,000.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-09-10): In their first debate of the 2024 election, Vice President Kamala Harris blamed former President Donald Trump for causing the worst U.S. unemployment in decades. "Donald Trump left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression," Harris said. "Donald Trump left us the worst public health epidemic in a century. Donald Trump left us the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War." [...] According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment during Trump's presidency peaked in April 2020 at 14.8%, heavily due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-04-17): In the video, Biden said, "There are only two presidents on record in all of American history that left office with fewer jobs than when they entered office. Herbert Hoover and yes, Donald 'Herbert Hoover' Trump." Here at the facts: When Trump left office in January 2021, U.S. job growth had dipped and unemployment had soared to its highest peak since the Great Depression — when Hoover was in office. Also, when Hoover's term ended, he left office with a massive unemployment rate of 24.9%, according to The New York Times. In other words, Biden was technically correct in his assertion of presidents on record, according to as far back as the data is available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. [...] Trump Admin's Jobs Record and COVID-19
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2021-01-08): Trump leaving with worst jobs record in modern U.S. history [...] And the catastrophic job losses during Trump’s presidency weren’t sparked by his labor-market policies, at least at first. They were caused by the arrival of a deadly novel coronavirus, and the slumping consumer demand and business closures that followed. [...] Under Trump, the leisure and hospitality sector lost 2.9 million jobs, and retail lost another 659,000, losses that are not surprising amid a retail apocalypse and an actual apocalypse. But the pandemic and the crises that came with it also completely erased Trump’s much-touted gains in blue-collar sectors such as manufacturing, which is down 60,000 jobs over his term, and mining, which is down 19,000.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2021-06-30): The results from my fellow historians are now in: Donald Trump is not our worst president. Instead, James Buchanan continues to hold the bottom spot. Trump ranks in 41st place, with three presidents beneath him. [...] Public opinion equally mirrored the new conventional wisdom. In December 2020, a Fox News poll found that 42% of voters said history would remember Trump as one of the worst presidents. Of course, this initial polling about Trump’s place in history took place before the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the ramifications of which are ongoing. A recent Gallup poll on the question, conducted over January 4 to 15, 2021, revealed that fully six in 10 Americans thought Trump would be rated either "below average" or "poor." [...] Beyond inertia, however, a longer view of history also explains why Trump did not finish last. While it may have been common to call Trump the worst president in American history, the passions of the immediate moment tend to cool over time. Perhaps, too, historians take a somewhat longer view of events.