copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-17): Neither the White House nor Biden’s campaign provided evidence to back Biden’s statement that this kind of violence is "unheard of" in the U.S. The comment ignores that U.S. history shows numerous occasions during which political leaders were targeted by politically-motivated violence, including in recent years. [...] "America has a long history of episodic political violence, from violence against Catholics and immigrants by the Know Nothing party in the early 1800s, to the blood-soaked Kansas-Missouri borderlands in the abolitionist and slave fights of the 1850s, the Civil War, and then the fight against civil rights 1950s to 1960s," Kleinfeld said. She added that from 1963 to 1968 alone, assassins killed Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and both John F. and Robert Kennedy. [...] Sam Oliker-Friedland, executive director at the Institute for Responsive Government, a group that works to make government and elections more accessible, said, "Political violence has been a troubling, consistent issue, less driven by idealogues executing a strategy than troubled people with access to guns who read the news. And from the reporting I'm reading today, this fits that pattern."
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2023-09-05): People who commit political violence have aggressive personalities.23 Many who commit forms of political violence that do not include preplanning—such as most hate crimes, threats, and violence at rallies—also have poor self-control or have lowered their self-control temporarily (by drinking, for instance).24 These traits are shared across individuals who commit all forms of violence. What is unique about political violence is that it does not arise from interpersonal friction. Instead, for people with low self-control (a large pool that includes, for instance, teenage boys and anyone who has drunk in excess) and aggressive personalities (which limits that pool somewhat) to turn to violence, they need to be enraged and have that anger directed at a group of people they don’t know. They also need to believe that they will not face severe consequences or not care about consequences (because they are too impulsive to care or because they think the consequences are worth it). [...] 177 Rachel Kleinfeld, "The Rise of Political Violence in the United States," Journal of Democracy 32, no. 4 (2021): 160–176, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-rise-of-political-violence-in-the-united-states; and Lee Drutman, "The Case for Proportional Voting," National Affairs 56 (2018): https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-case-for-proportional-voting.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-13): Biden said political violence was 'unheard of' in US. There's a long (and recent) history [...] Neither the White House nor Biden’s campaign provided evidence to back Biden’s statement that this kind of violence is "unheard of" in the U.S. The comment ignores that U.S. history shows numerous occasions during which political leaders were targeted by politically-motivated violence, including in recent years. [...] The New York Times, Political violence may be un-American, but it is not uncommon, July 15, 2024
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-14): "But the bottom line is, the -- the Trump rally was a rally that he should’ve been able to be conducted peacefully without any problem," Biden said. "But the idea, the idea that there's political violence or violence in America like this, is just unheard of, it’s just not appropriate." [...] "Praying for President Donald Trump. There is never any place for political violence," said House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a California Republican. [...] "There is absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy," former President Barack Obama posted on X. "Although we don’t yet know exactly what happened, we should all be relieved that former President Trump wasn’t seriously hurt, and use this moment to recommit ourselves to civility and respect in our politics. Michelle and I are wishing him a quick recovery."
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-13): WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden denounced political violence during brief remarks Saturday night after a shooting abruptly ended a campaign rally that Donald Trump was holding in Pennsylvania and injured the former president. [...] "There is no place in America for this kind of violence. It’s sick," Biden said. "It’s one of the reasons why we have to unite this country. We cannot allow for this to be happening. We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this." [...] "The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of, it’s just not appropriate," Biden said. "Everybody must condemn it."
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-14): Americans Know Political Violence All Too Well [...] Biden was surely right when he decried the shooting as "sick" and said, "Everybody, everybody must condemn it." Unfortunately, the historical record does not support the president’s assertion that "the idea that there’s political violence, or violence in America like this, is just unheard of." The reality is that political violence has been a feature of the American experiment for much of its 248 years. Four presidents have been shot and killed while in office—Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy. Another president, Ronald Reagan, was nearly killed by an assassin in 1981. President Gerald Ford was the target of two assassination attempts in September of 1975. Former US attorney general and New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy was murdered after winning California’s 1968 Democratic presidential primary. Four years later, Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot—by a 21-year-old Milwaukeean—and left paralyzed, as he campaigned in Maryland for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-18): The Biden administration would be wise to adopt the more assertive stance against political violence set by the president on Saturday. Up to now, that has not been the case. For example, Haines and her colleagues went out of their way to note that, though the Iranians are clearly involved in the anti-Jewish violence that has become a staple of so much of American urban and collegiate life these past eight months, many of those participating in anti-Israeli demonstrations did so of their own accord, with nonviolent intentions, and without any knowledge of Iranian involvement. "I want to be clear that I know Americans who participate in protests are, in good faith, expressing their views on the conflict in Gaza," Haines said in her statement. "This intelligence does not indicate otherwise." [...] Survey the landscape of political violence in America, then, in the summer of 2024. We have a foreign enemy that has funded and organized campaigns that have resulted in violence against American citizens on American soil. We have an administration that acknowledges these attacks but needs to do more to stop them. We have local officials seeking to give the perpetrators a pass. And we have elite institutions that, while affected by the violence, rush to excuse it and to protect the worst offenders. President Biden is right to call out political violence. His administration acknowledges Iran’s role in provoking it. Now he needs to do something about it.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-14): The sentiment is undeniably admirable. But it is not factually correct. The thesis that political violence in America is "unheard of" runs up against a long history of American political violence. Indeed, a different post could focus on the systemic use of force in preventing Black voters from exercising their rights to suffrage after the Civil War. [...] Yes, America has a long history of political violence [...] All of which is to say that political violence has had a prominent place in the United States across its history. It would be nice to think things have changed and that such violence is indeed beyond the pale, literally unthinkable. But the July 13 attack on former president Trump shows that the past is very much with us.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-14): "There's no place in America for this kind of violence," the president said. "It's sick. It's sick. That's one of the reasons why we have to unite this country. You cannot allow for this to be happening. We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this." [...] "But the idea, the idea that there's political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of," he said. [...] "I have been briefed on the shooting at Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania," Mr. Biden said in a statement. "I'm grateful to hear that he's safe and doing well. I'm praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally, as we await further information. Jill and I are grateful to the Secret Service for getting him to safety. There's no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it."
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2024-05-17): The Trump administration didn’t give taxpayer money to Foxconn — Wisconsin did. Somewhere between 100 and 130 properties were demolished for the project — not "hundreds." Yes, more than $500 million was spent, but officials say it also helped lead to a massive new investment by Microsoft Corp.
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2022-03-07): The grant money went to more than 200 cities in Wisconsin, including many Republican ones, not just the five heavily Democratic ones mentioned. [...] Michael Gableman, the former state Supreme Court justice overseeing a Republican-ordered, taxpayer-funded review of Wisconsin’s long-settled 2020 election, has made many factually-challenged statements. [...] But it’s unclear why he would have then given the money to communities poised to deliver votes to Donald Trump, or have spent money in states where the outcome was never in doubt, instead of just swing states like Wisconsin.
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2024-01-04): Trump companies got millions from foreign governments, Democrats say [...] They found that China was responsible for more than $5.5m of those payments, which Mr Trump is accused of accepting in violation of the US constitution. [...] Representative Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said the investigation showed Mr Trump "put lining his pockets with cash from foreign governments seeking policy favors over the interests of the American people".
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2024-09-24): Joe Biden stated on May 16, 2024 in News release "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Facebook posts stated on June 13, 2024 in a post on Facebook "Saudi Arabia will stop using the US dollar for oil sales and will not renew the 50-year petro-dollar agreement with the U.S." Load more [...] Tim Walz stated on September 21, 2024 in in Bethlehem, Pa. "Donald Trump added more to the national debt than any other president, ever." [...] Joe Biden stated on May 16, 2024 in News release "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company.
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2021-04-23): The administration of former President Donald Trump obstructed an investigation looking into why officials withheld about $20 billion in hurricane relief for Puerto Rico following the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, one of the deadliest U.S. natural disasters in over 100 years, a new report says. [...] The Office of Inspector General said its oversight authorities do not allow for a review or official opinion of actions taken by Trump administration officials. The Trump administration's OMB also insisted on overhauls to Puerto Rico’s property management records, suspension of its minimum wage on federal contracts and other prerequisites to access relief funds, according to the report. Some HUD officials worried such requirements were potentially beyond HUD’s authority to impose on grantees.
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2021-03-29): Twitter, State Rep. Rick Gundrum, March 29, 2021
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2024-02-01): Email, David Kreling, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Feb. 15, 2024.
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2022-02-03): In a Feb. 3, 2022 tweet, Grothman said: "The US has made strides in reducing carbon emissions that other parts of the world have not. Meanwhile, @POTUS is trying to send taxpayer dollars to manufacturers overseas that do not abide by the same standards we do at home." [...] "There’s been a law on the books for almost a century to make sure taxpayers’ dollars support American jobs and businesses. Every Administration says they’ll do it, but we are actually doing it. We will buy American to make sure everything from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the steel on highway guardrails are made in America." [...] Grothman claimed Biden "is trying to send taxpayer dollars to manufacturers overseas that do not abide by the same (carbon emission) standards we do at home."
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2019-04-27): In January 2019, there were reports Foxconn was reconsidering its investment. More recently, Gov. Tony Evers said Foxconn officials said they wanted to rewrite a contract that lays out what size investments Foxconn must make in Wisconsin in order to receive taxpayer subsidies. [...] The New York Times "Foxconn reconsidering plans for a Wisconsin factory heralded by Trump," Jan. 30, 2019. [...] Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Wisconsin’s high-subsidy Foxconn project seen as ‘pawn’ in U.S.-China trade war," Feb. 8, 2019.
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2022-04-01): "The reports of ongoing negotiations with Iran raise serious concerns about why the Administration is willing to engage and provide U.S. taxpayer dollars to a country adverse to America’s interest." — Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), interview on Fox News, March 19 [...] But Noronha told the Fact Checker that he was referring to the unfreezing of $7 billion worth of Iranian oil sales held (in dollars) in South Korean banks that were originally frozen from Iranian access by U.S. sanctions in 2018 and 2019. "It would not be accurate to say these are U.S. taxpayer dollars," he said.
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2024-07-26): Trump must share responsibility for this record with Republicans in the Senate. [...] The federal debt held by the public went up by half under Trump, and deficits also increased each fiscal year on his watch.
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2024-05-16): Latest Half-True Fact-checks on Joe Biden Joe Biden stated on May 16, 2024 in News release: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Joe Biden stated on May 24, 2024 in a campaign email: "The last administration oversaw the largest increase in murders ever recorded." Joe Biden stated on June 4, 2024 in an interview with Time magazine: "Wage increases have exceeded" the cost of inflation. Joe Biden stated on May 19, 2024 in a speech: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. Joe Biden stated on March 19, 2024 in a speech: Insulin for Medicare beneficiaries "was costing 400 bucks a month on average. It now costs $35 a month." Joe Biden stated on March 7, 2024 in his State of the Union address: The Trump administration "added more to the national debt than any presidential term in American history." [...] Joe Biden stated on May 16, 2024 in News release: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company.
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2024-01-04): Twenty foreign governments made the payments to Trump's businesses during the two-year period that the committee was able to review. The information in the report was first reported by The New York Times and CNN. [...] "This is a limited window on a far-broader universe of foreign government spending that took place," Raskin told reporters Thursday on Capitol Hill. Raskin said in the report that the information demonstrates that Trump violated the Constitution's foreign emoluments clause, which he said prohibits the president from accepting money payments or gifts "'of any kind whatever' from foreign governments and monarchs unless he obtains 'the Consent of the Congress' to do so."
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2020-10-31): In the administration's debut budget in 2017, that looked like catastrophic news for those who came in second: the rest of the world, particularly low- and middle-income countries. [...] Even those working in the administration, such as Mark Green, who led the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for nearly three years until he stepped down in mid-March, admits that it was a little disconcerting. [...] But in a pattern that has been repeated every year since, Congress - where foreign aid has bipartisan support - rejected the cuts and kept spending roughly where it has been for years, at $52.5bn in 2020. That's despite attempts every year by the administration to reduce funding by between 20 and 30 per cent.
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2024-05-16): Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn," the Biden-Harris campaign said in a May 16 news release. [...] So, saying that "$500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn" is a bit muddy at best. [...] Finally, although it’s true that more than $500 million was spent on preparing for Foxconn, local officials say the preparation that went into Foxconn is now being put to use for the Microsoft development.
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2023-08-22): It might be funny, she added — except that local and state governments spent roughly $500 million to buy land, bulldoze houses and build infrastructure for an unfulfilled manufacturing megasite that was supposed to include dozens of futuristic buildings and a factory to produce flat-panel displays for televisions. [...] By the time the Foxconn deal was slimmed down, the Village of Mount Pleasant and Racine County had already borrowed more than a combined $300 million to buy land and lay water and sewer pipes required by the originally promised LCD factory. State taxpayers and a local utility, meanwhile, were in the process of spending nearly $300 million on roads and power lines, according to the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau. [...] Soon after the initial grand promises, Foxconn began repeatedly changing plans for the site, throwing out so many ideas that locals lost track. First it said the LCD factory would be scaled down to produce smaller flat-panel displays. Then, even as houses were being demolished in early 2019, a Foxconn executive told Reuters: "In Wisconsin we’re not building a factory." A conversation with Trump prompted the company to backtrack again and recommit to an LCD plant.
Claim: "The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." (Joe Biden, 2024-05-17)
Evidence (2012-01-06): Wikileaks shows the US government and especially the State Dept. work on behalf of the big moneyed interests which historically were US organizations but not so much today. I'm just waiting for the day a leak shows them going to bat for Chinese interests. [...] Not to mention that Brian Mulroney was caught taking envelopes full of hundreds of thousands of dollars, cash, in shady hotel rooms.