copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: A Turning Point USA meme claims a quote about socialized medicine is attributable to Vladimir Lenin (Turning Point USA, 2019-04-24)
Evidence (2018-12-13): Turning Point USA, a group for young conservatives, has used a fake quote to distort an actual quote. [...] But the Turning Point USA meme plucked out only eight words, which is misleading on its own. Putting that truncated, out-of-context quote next to a fake quote that suggests she was talking about her own work on the Supreme Court is deceptive.
Claim: A Turning Point USA meme claims a quote about socialized medicine is attributable to Vladimir Lenin (Turning Point USA, 2019-04-24)
Evidence (2024-10-04): - According to barrypopik.com, There is no evidence Lenin ever said this. It more likely comes from a book by Rajani Palme Dutt, Fascism and Social Revolution: A Study of the Economics and Politics of the Last Stages of Capitalism in Decay (1935). This quote was cited as being from Lenin in print in 1968. [...] - A: Lenin thought so. He declared: socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state. [...] - First misattributed to Lenin in this form in 2001 in an antiwar article by George Galloway.
Claim: A Turning Point USA meme claims a quote about socialized medicine is attributable to Vladimir Lenin (Turning Point USA, 2019-04-24)
Evidence (2018-06-10): A Turning Point USA meme that claimed to showcase poverty in Venezuela co-opted an unrelated ima ...
Claim: A Turning Point USA meme claims a quote about socialized medicine is attributable to Vladimir Lenin (Turning Point USA, 2019-04-24)
Evidence (2024-10-04): Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for conservative politics on high school, college, and university campuses.[3][4][5][6][7] It was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery.[5][8] TPUSA's affiliate groups include Turning Point Endowment, Turning Point Action and TPUSA Faith.[9][10][11] TPUSA has been described as the fastest growing organization of campus chapters in America, and according to The Chronicle of Higher Education, is the dominant force in campus conservatism.[3][12] [...] Turning Point USA supports the NRA and the use of fossil fuels,[59] and opposes groups such as Black Lives Matter.[60] Turning Point USA and Turning Point UK promote the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory and said they are working to "combat it" in universities. Kirk described universities as "islands of totalitarianism".[61][62]
Claim: A Turning Point USA meme claims a quote about socialized medicine is attributable to Vladimir Lenin (Turning Point USA, 2019-04-24)
Evidence (2019-05-03): The conservative youth organization Turning Point USA posted a meme on Facebook that claimed Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin once said "socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of a socialist state." [...] Turning Point often posts quotes to its Facebook page, attributing this one to Lenin, the revolutionary who established communist rule in Russia. "Well, At Least He Admitted It … Today’s Politicians Are Trying To Fool The American People Into Unknowingly Adopting Socialism #SocialismSucks," reads the post caption. While the statement about socialized medicine has been widely attributed to Lenin for more than 60 years, there is no evidence to suggest he ever actually said or wrote it.
Claim: A Turning Point USA meme claims a quote about socialized medicine is attributable to Vladimir Lenin (Turning Point USA, 2019-04-24)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Lenin [edit]Jokes about Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917, typically made fun of characteristics popularized by propaganda: his supposed kindness, his love of children (Lenin never had children of his own), his sharing nature, his kind eyes, etc. Accordingly, in jokes Lenin is often depicted as sneaky and hypocritical. A popular joke set-up is Lenin interacting with the head of the secret police, Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, in the Smolny Institute, the seat of the revolutionary communist government in Petrograd, or with khodoki, peasants who came to see Lenin.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2023-06-10): The purported remark does not appear in Trump’s TRUTH Social feed. The image of the alleged post can be traced back to Twitter user @gvnzng, who admitted it was fake.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2023-06-26): FACT CHECK: No, Trump Did Not Make A Truth Social Post Saying He ‘Forgot To Give Back Some Paperwork’ An image shared on Twitter claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he "forgot to give back some paperwork" in a recent TRUTH Social post. [...] "I HAD A PERFECT CALL AND FORGOT TO GIVE BACK SOME PAPERWORK TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIEVES [sic] AND SUDDNELY [sic] FOR TRUMP IT’S SUCH A BIG DEAL. I ALREADY KNOW IN MY MIND I WILL BE PRESIDENT AGAIN IN 2024 SO IT WON’T MATTER. AND JUST WAIT. THEY WILL ALL PAY!" the purported TRUTH Social post, shared via Twitter and viewed over 29,000 times, purports.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Former President Donald Trump is disputing a report that he has had "as many as seven" phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin since he left the White House, and that, back when he was in office, Trump secretly sent Putin a COVID-19 testing kit for his personal use.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2023-10-26): In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote "Comcast, with its one-side and vicious coverage by NBC NEWS, and in particular MSNBC, often and correctly referred to as MSDNC (Democrat National Committee!), should be investigated for its ‘Country Threatening Treason.’ Their endless coverage of the now fully debunked SCAM known as Russia, Russia, Russia, and much else, is one big Campaign Contribution to the Radical Left Democrat Party. I say up front, openly, and proudly, that when I WIN the Presidency of the United States, they and others of the LameStream Media will be thoroughly scrutinized for their knowingly dishonest and corrupt coverage of people, things, and events." [...] In a Dec. 3, 2022, Truth Social post, Trump alleged election fraud in 2020 and wrote that "massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!" [...] Donald Trump, Truth Social, Sept. 24, 2023
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2024-09-12): The former president’s false claims — widely debunked as misinformation, or outright lies — aren’t new: He’s been saying for years that the US electoral system is rife with voter fraud. [...] More recently, on September 7, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that, if he wins in November, "those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences".
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2023-06-14): Former President Donald Trump made numerous false and misleading claims in a speech he delivered Tuesday night following his afternoon arraignment in Miami federal court to face charges of illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing the federal investigation into his conduct. [...] Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. Again, the Presidential Records Act says that the moment a president leaves office, NARA gets custody and control of all presidential records from his administration. Nothing in the law says there should be a negotiation between a former president and NARA over a former president’s return of presidential documents – much less that there should have been a monthslong battle after NARA first contacted Trump’s team in 2021 to try to get some of the records that had not been handed over at the end of his presidency. [...] Facts First: It’s not true that "just about every other president" has done what Trump has done, as the National Archives and Records Administration itself pointed out in a statement in 2022. No president since the Presidential Records Act took effect with President Ronald Reagan’s records in the 1980s has taken home troves of official documents or engaged in anything like Trump’s protracted post-presidency refusal to return official documents sought by NARA and the Justice Department.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2022-12-03): "Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution," Trump wrote in a post on the social network Truth Social and accused "Big Tech" of working closely with Democrats. "Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!" Trump’s post came after the release of internal Twitter emails showing deliberation in 2020 over a New York Post story about material found on Hunter Biden’s laptop. [...] Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, an outspoken Trump critic, denounced the former president’s Truth Social statement on Sunday. Cheney, who serves as vice chair of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, tweeted that Trump’s statement "was his view on 1/6 and remains his view today."
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2022-04-08): Former President Donald Trump’s keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference included several false and misleading claims, some of which we’ve fact-checked before. Here we focus on assertions about foreign policy and energy.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2023-08-02): WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday on charges he conspired to defraud the country he used to lead and attempted to prevent the peaceful transfer of presidential power to Joe Biden. [...] "Why didn’t they do this 2.5 years ago? Why did they wait so long? Because they wanted to put it right in the middle of my campaign. Prosecutorial Misconduct!" his Truth Social post said.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2022-12-03): But neither mechanism fits with what Trump said in his Truth Social post. Both are time-consuming — the first option has been successful only 17 times after the enactment of the Bill of Rights, and the second has never been put into practice. [...] Truth Social, Donald Trump post, Dec. 3, 2022 Truth Social, Donald Trump post, Dec. 5, 2022
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2023-08-02): In a campaign statement, fundraising email and Truth Social posts, Trump downplayed his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, compared the indictment with Nazi Germany and highlighted instances when Democrats objected to past elections. [...] Truth Social, Trump campaign release, Aug. 1, 2023 [...] Truth Social, Trump video, Aug. 1, 2023
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2022-12-06): In early December 2022, former U.S. President Donald Trump continued his election denialism push and called for the termination of the Constitution, among other "rules and regulations," in order to reinstate him to power. Trump's controversial comments were posted on Truth Social on Dec. 3, after a report came out detailing Twitter's deliberations leading up to its decision to suppress links to a 2020 article in the New York Post describing emails allegedly found on a laptop computer belonging to Hunter Biden, then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's son. [...] In sum, Trump posted on Truth Social that, what he believed to be, election fraud in the 2020 presidential election allows "for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution." For that reason, we rated this claim "Correct Attribution." Some onlookers of the Truth Social post interpreted the statement to mean that he was calling for the termination of the Constitution. After that, Trump issued a follow-up statement denying that claim, arguing that, in the original Truth Social post, he meant "steps must be immediately taken to RIGHT THE WRONG" of election fraud.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2024-05-04): Former President Donald Trump delivered a bombardment of dishonesty in his interviews with Time magazine. [...] Time reporter Eric Cortellessa asked Trump, "You once wrote on Truth Social that you might have to terminate parts of the Constitution. What did you mean by that?" Trump responded, "I never said that at all. I never said that at all. When I talk about certain things, we are, there is nothing more important than our Constitution." Facts First: Trump’s claim that "I never said that at all" is false. He wrote on his social media platform Truth Social in December 2022: "Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution."
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2024-10-08): Former President Donald Trump did a Monday interview focused on foreign policy. And he repeated a bunch of his regular false claims on that subject and others – while sprinkling in some new inaccuracy for good measure – making at least 11 false claims in all.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2024-02-01): He talks a lot — in TV interviews, on social media, at campaign rallies that stretch for nearly two hours. As president, Trump made Twitter essential reading, before the social media platform exiled him after the Capitol riot. Of the tweets we checked, about 79% rated Mostly False or lower. So far, on his Truth Social platform, we have not yet rated a claim higher than Mostly False. [...] Each of the 1,000 fact-checks has a formal Truth-O-Meter rating. Sometimes, we instead write articles about claims without rating them. Examples include summaries of multiple claims made in a debate, rally or major speech. Other times, a statement is a prediction, or too vague for us to rate, or involves an unanswerable question, such as how courts will rule in the classified documents case. In those cases, we’ll write an explanatory story without a rating. These are not captured in Trump’s Truth-O-Meter scorecard.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2023-12-01): Trump, who has been charged with illegally retaining classified documents after his presidency, claimed in an October speech in Florida that, as a former president, "I come under the Presidential Records Act" and so "I can do whatever I want." Facts First: This is false. The Presidential Records Act does not say a president can do whatever they want with official documents. Rather, it says that all presidential records belong to the federal government the moment the president leaves office. By having official records at Mar-a-Lago after his presidency, Trump was in clear contravention of the law. [...] Trump didn’t mention it in the October speech, but he has previously claimed that a district court decision in a civil case related to former President Bill Clinton gave Trump the right to do whatever he wants with presidential records. That’s not true.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2024-02-02): Donald Trump makes so many patently false claims that are recycled from earlier claims, but with some slight variation. How do you decide whether it’s worth it to fact-check these kinds of endless falsehoods? [...] We will sometimes fact-check something that’s substantially the same as something we’ve talked about before. Usually, if we do that, it tends to be that he said it once in a random speech, but then, at a high-profile event, he said it again. But generally speaking, if Trump or anybody else repeats something that they have said before, we’ll maybe do a social media post. Because it takes time. It takes time to research experts. When a claim comes up in debate, if it’s straightforward enough, it might just require some statistics, and we can get that up within an hour. But if it’s a novel claim that we haven’t looked into and that requires a decent amount of reporting, it’s going to take us, most likely, until the next morning to publish something substantive on that.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2024-08-11): Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said Saturday that it has been hacked and suggested Iranian actors were involved in stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2020-12-09): "Whether it is the president of the United States or a failed gubernatorial candidate, disinformation regarding election administration should be condemned and rejected," Raffensperger said, referring both to Trump’s claims and to Stacey Abrams’s 2018 Democratic run for governor. "Integrity matters. Truth matters." [...] Trump claim: Trump has repeated unfounded claims that election officials in Democratic-leaning Clark County manipulated a machine used to verify signatures to "allow large numbers of ballots to be counted that otherwise would never have passed muster." In a 46-minute video posted online, Trump claimed that officials had "intentionally lowered" the machine’s standard for matching a ballot signature to signatures on file. "This machine was set at the lowest level, according to one report," he said. "They said you could sign your name as Santa Claus and it would be accepted." [...] Trump claim: The president brought up again a baseless claim that postal workers have tampered with ballots. At his Dec. 5 rally in Georgia, Trump said whistleblowers in multiple states have testified to witnessing postal workers and election workers illegally backdating thousands of ballots, fixing ballots, filling out false birthdays, registering ineligible voters and much more. On Nov. 11 and Nov. 15, Trump tweeted about a Pennsylvania postal worker, Richard Hopkins, who alleged that two days after the election, he heard the Erie postmaster say to a supervisor that they had "messed up" by failing to backdate the postmark on ballots that arrived after Election Day.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2023-10-11): And Trump — who was present for the first three days of the trial last week — said in front of the press and on his social media platform Truth Social multiple times that it was unfair he couldn’t have a jury in the case.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2023-03-24): The conduct of former President Donald Trump in repeatedly and falsely claiming that the 2020 election was stolen has markedly raised the potential for an actual stolen election in the United States. Millions of Trump’s Republican supporters now believe the false claim of a stolen election, and some Republican elected officials have pursued sham "audits" and taken other steps that undermine voter confidence in the fairness of the election process. States have passed new laws not only restricting the vote but also making it easier to sabotage election results. Threats of violence and intimidation have led to unprecedented attrition among election administrators, and some exiting officials are being replaced by those who may not have allegiance to the integrity of the election system. Those Republican election officials who stood up to President Trump in 2020 and saved the United States from a potential constitutional and political crisis have been censured, stripped of power, and challenged for office by those embracing the "Big Lie." Together, these actions serve both to delegitimate the election of Democrats, including President Joe Biden in 2020, and to open the door to election manipulation in future elections.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2024-07-02): "Today’s Historic Decision by the Supreme Court should end all of Crooked Joe Biden’s Witch Hunts against me, including the New York Hoaxes — The Manhattan SCAM cooked up by Soros backed D.A., Alvin Bragg, Racist New York Attorney General Tish James’ shameless ATTACK on the amazing business that I have built, and the FAKE Bergdorf’s 'case,'" Trump wrote on his social media page Truth Social, adding in all capital letters: "Proud to be an American." [...] Former President Donald Trumps oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., posted on Truth Social after the Supreme Court ruling. [...] Minutes after the Supreme Court ruled that he has some immunity in his federal election case, Trump took to his Truth Social platform to tout the ruling.
Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2024-04-01): WASHINGTON (AP) — The video shared by former President Donald Trump features horror movie music and footage of migrants purportedly entering the U.S. from countries including Cameroon, Afghanistan and China. Shots of men with tattoos and videos of violent crime are set against close-ups of people waving and wrapping themselves in American flags. "They’re coming by the thousands," Trump says in the video, posted on his social media site. "We will secure our borders. And we will restore sovereignty." In his speeches and online posts, Trump has ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric as he seeks the White House a third time, casting migrants as dangerous criminals "poisoning the blood" of America. Hitting the nation’s deepest fault lines of race and national identity, his messaging often relies on falsehoods about migration. But it resonates with many of his core supporters going back a decade, to when "build the wall" chants began to ring out at his rallies. WATCH: Trump under fire again for violent language and dehumanizing anti-immigrant rhetoric President Joe Biden and his allies discuss the border very differently.