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Washington Post | “We’ve signed more bills — and I’m talking about through the legislature — than any president ever.” | 2017-07-17 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/07/17/no-president-trump-youve-havent-signed-more-bills-than-any-president/ | Very Wrong | Donald Trump | 2017-07-17 |
PolitiFact | "One third of all federal prisoners today are illegal immigrants." | 2016-08-25 | https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/aug/25/lamar-smith/mostly-false-lamar-smith-claim-one-third-federal-i/ | Mostly False | Lamar Smith | 2016-07-19 |
PolitiFact | Florida "passed a law where former felons can now vote. We've had more ex-felons register as Republicans than Democrats." | 2019-04-08 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2019/apr/08/jared-kushner/have-more-florida-felons-registered-republicans/ | Mostly False | Jared Kushner | 2019-04-01 |
PolitiFact | "Hillary on child aliens in 2014: Send them back." | 2019-01-03 | https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/jan/02/blog-posting/did-hillary-clinton-say-migrant-children-should-be/ | Mostly True | Bloggers | 2018-12-17 |
PolitiFact | "Iran just test-fired a Ballistic Missile capable of reaching Israel." | 2017-09-26 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/sep/26/donald-trump-tweeted-about-iranian-missile-test-di/ | Evidence says maybe not | Donald Trump | 2017-09-23 |
PolitiFact | "Eight in 10 people this year can find plans for $75 a month or less." | 2017-11-06 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/nov/06/barack-obama/can-eight-10-people-get-health-coverage-under-75-n/ | Half True | Barack Obama | |
FactCheck.org | Will Medicare stop covering cancer treatment under the GOP tax bill? | 2017-12-15 | https://www.factcheck.org/2017/12/medicare-cancer-tax-bill/ | No | Ask FactCheck | 2017-12-15 |
PolitiFact | "California is 49th out of 50 in the United States in per capita housing units. Only Utah can lay claim to being lowest in per capita production." | 2018-03-21 | https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/mar/21/gavin-newsom/true-california-ranks-49th-capita-housing-supply/ | True | Gavin Newsom | 2018-03-08 |
PolitiFact | "Lettuce killed more Americans this year than undocumented immigrants." | 2019-01-15 | https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/jan/15/viral-image/did-lettuce-kill-more-americans-undocumented-immig/ | False | Viral image | 2019-01-09 |
PolitiFact | Says "James Comey Has Been Having An Affair With" Debbie Wasserman Schultz. | 2017-07-10 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/jul/10/freedomcrossroadsus/its-fake-news-james-comey-and-debbie-wasserman-sch/ | Pants on Fire | FreedomCrossroads.us | 2017-06-21 |
FactCheck.org | "Last year alone, we lifted 1 million Americans out of poverty, which is a record." | 2018-12-17 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/12/trump-wrong-about-poverty-record/ | False | Donald Trump | 2018-12-12 |
PolitiFact | "We got to almost universal coverage in health care in Colorado." | 2019-04-11 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/apr/11/john-hickenlooper/hickenlooper-expanded-medicaid-created-state-run-m/ | Mostly True | John Hickenlooper | 2019-03-21 |
PolitiFact | "Nearly $2 billion in cash was flown over to Iran, money that the Obama administration has admitted is being used for terrorists and to support further activities there." | 2017-06-07 | https://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2017/jun/06/karen-handel/Handel-pushes-details-Iran-deal-terror-support/ | Half True | Karen Handel | 2017-06-06 |
PolitiFact | "Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan." | 2018-07-30 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jul/30/donald-trump/has-donald-trump-had-highest-poll-numbers-any-gop-/ | False | Donald Trump | 2018-07-29 |
PolitiFact | Alabama is "the most generous state in the union in terms of what we give to charities." | 2017-09-22 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/sep/22/luther-strange/alabama-ranks-high-charitable-giving-not-no-1-luth/ | Half True | Luther Strange | 2017-09-21 |
Washington Post | “Puerto Rico has been given more money by Congress for Hurricane Disaster Relief, 91 Billion Dollars, than any State in the history of the U.S.” | 2019-05-07 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/07/president-trumps-claim-that-puerto-rico-has-been-given-billion/ | Three Pinocchios | Donald Trump | 2019-05-06 |
PolitiFact | "The Alamo has been consistently listed as one of the most disappointing landmarks in our nation." | 2017-10-20 | https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2017/oct/20/george-p-bush/alamo-consistently-listed-among-nations-most-disap/ | Half True | George P. Bush | 2017-10-16 |
FactCheck.org | "I wanted it to be here. And we had lots of choices. I wanted it to be in Ohio. I recommended Ohio." | 2016-07-20 | https://www.factcheck.org/2016/07/trump-recommended-ohio-for-convention/ | No Evidence | Donald Trump | 2016-07-18 |
Washington Post | "The Department of Justice, the State Department and the FBI colluded, got together, to make Hillary Clinton look less guilty ." | 2016-10-19 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/10/19/trumps-claim-of-collusion-by-the-fbi-and-state-to-make-hillary-clinton-look-less-guilty/ | Three Pinocchios | Donald Trump | 2016-10-17 |
FactCheck.org | Said of the National Climate Assessment: "And you have to look at the fact that this report is based on the most extreme modeled scenario." | 2018-12-26 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/12/trump-administration-distorts-the-facts-on-climate-report/ | False | Sarah Sanders | 2018-11-27 |
PolitiFact | "There aren't too many people outside protesting" his speech at the Phoenix Convention Center. | 2017-08-23 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/aug/23/donald-trump/trumps-false-claim-there-werent-too-many-peop/ | False | Donald Trump | 2017-08-22 |
PolitiFact | "Smart! 'Kuwait issues its own Trump-esque visa ban for five Muslim-majority countries.' " | 2017-02-07 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/feb/07/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-say-kuwait-followed-his-lead-vi/ | Mostly False | Donald Trump | 2017-02-02 |
FactCheck.org | "I don’t know if you noticed, but deficits seem to be coming down." | 2019-02-21 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/02/trump-disinformation-on-deficits/ | False | Donald Trump | 2019-02-19 |
FactCheck.org | "Mike Pence slashed education funding in Indiana." | 2016-07-25 | http://www.factcheck.org/2016/07/clinton-pence-mislead-on-indiana-education/ | False | Hillary Clinton | 2016-07-23 |
FactCheck.org | In 2013, President Barack Obama “shut down the government to force Obamacare.” | 2019-01-11 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/01/social-posts-distort-facts-of-2013-shutdown/ | Misleading | Viral posts | 2019-01-06 |
PolitiFact | "We have the most educated … workforce in the entire nation." | 2018-08-16 | https://www.politifact.com/illinois/statements/2018/aug/05/jb-pritzker/pritzker-called-illinois-workforce-nations-most-ed/ | False | JB Pritzker | 2018-07-31 |
PolitiFact | "Hurricane Irma could be a Category 6 by the time it hits East Coast." | 2017-09-06 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/sep/06/blog-posting/no-hurricane-irma-cant-be-category-6-storm/ | Pants on Fire | Bloggers | 2017-09-06 |
PolitiFact | The Democrats propose "a government-controlled health care plan that will deprive roughly 120 million Americans of their current health care coverage." | 2016-07-15 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/may/19/mike-pence/120-million-deprived-health-care-not-correct/ | False | Mike Pence | 2009-05-12 |
PolitiFact | Mergers and integration in agribusiness "squeeze" family farms, and "the result is that farmers are getting a record-low amount of every dollar Americans spend on food." | 2019-04-04 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/apr/04/elizabeth-warren/why-do-farmers-get-so-little-our-food-dollars-us/ | Half True | Elizabeth Warren | 2019-03-27 |
PolitiFact | Says chiefs from the American Indian Nation gave Donald Trump a plaque of his new Indian name, "Walking Eagle," which actually depicts "a bird so full of s*** it can no longer fly." | 2019-05-09 | https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/may/08/facebook-posts/no-american-indian-group-did-not-jokingly-give-don/ | Pants on Fire | Facebook posts | 2019-05-06 |
PolitiFact | "The steel industry is producing as much steel in the United States as it ever was. It’s just (that) it needs one-tenth of the workers that it used to." | 2016-07-05 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/05/barack-obama/barack-obama-wrong-about-size-us-steel-production-/ | False | Barack Obama | 2016-06-29 |
PolitiFact | "Fox Sports cancels all NFL broadcasts ‘until players respect the flag.’ " | 2017-09-25 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/sep/25/thelastlineofdefenseorg/fox-still-broadcast-nfl-games-after-protests-despi/ | Pants on Fire | TheLastLineOfDefense.org | 2017-09-24 |
Washington Post | Hillary Clinton "politically attacked sexual harassment victims" | 2016-05-19 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/05/19/did-clinton-laugh-about-a-rapists-light-sentence-and-attack-sexual-harassment-victims/ | Three Pinocchios | National Republican Senatorial Committee | 2016-05-13 |
PolitiFact | "Not a single Democrat opposed Neil Gorsuch's confirmation in 2006." | 2017-02-03 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2017/feb/03/mitch-mcconnell/democrats-didnt-object-neil-gorsuchs-2006-confirma/ | True | Mitch McConnell | 2017-02-01 |
PolitiFact | An image of a woman buried up to her neck and drinking a spoonful of water was from Iran and taken just before she was "stoned to death" under Sharia Law. | 2019-04-23 | https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/apr/23/viral-image/image-colombian-protester-falsely-described-exampl/ | Pants on Fire | Viral Image | 2019-04-19 |
FactCheck.org | Claims GOP Rep. Joe Heck of Nevada voted "23 times" against banning terrorists from buying guns. | 2016-08-26 | https://www.factcheck.org/2016/08/opposition-overreach-in-nevada/ | Distorts The Facts | Senate Majority PAC | 2016-08-24 |
PolitiFact | Says Donald Trump is "the first person running for president, Republican or Democrat, who refused to say that he would respect the results of this election." | 2016-10-25 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/25/hillary-clinton/trump-first-ever-candidate-not-say-hell-accept-ele/ | Mostly True | Hillary Clinton | 2016-10-24 |
PolitiFact | "The FBI has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton ... and discovered another 650,000 emails." | 2016-11-02 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/nov/01/donald-trump/fact-checking-donald-trump-fbi-probe-clinton-email/ | Half True | Donald Trump | 2016-10-31 |
PolitiFact | "West Virginia spends more tax dollars on public education than all but 13 other states and the District of Columbia." | 2019-05-11 | https://www.politifact.com/west-virginia/statements/2019/may/10/west-virginia-republican-party/does-west-virginia-rank-top-quarter-states-educati/ | False | West Virginia Republican Party | 2019-04-05 |
PolitiFact | Every dollar of foreign aid for agricultural research "will bring $4 in trade with the countries and the United States ... generating employment back in the U.S." | 2017-03-03 | https://www.politifact.com/global-news/statements/2017/mar/03/shenggen-fan/fuzzy-math-foreign-aid-and-trade/ | Mostly False | Shenggen Fan | 2017-02-02 |
PolitiFact | A Virginia principal "expelled two kids for wearing a crucifix around their necks saying, ‘there is no place for religion at school.’" | 2019-02-06 | https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/feb/06/viral-image/no-virginia-principal-didnt-expel-students-wearing/ | Pants on Fire | Viral image | 2019-01-30 |
PolitiFact | "80 percent of the (individual mandate) tax falls on those who make $50,000 a year or less." | 2017-11-17 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/nov/17/john-thune/sen-thune-individual-mandate-fine-falls-mainly-peo/ | Mostly True | John Thune | 2017-11-15 |
Washington Post | “That was going to happen — the baby boomers retiring was going do that. These deficit — trillion-dollar projections have been out there for a long, long time." | 2018-04-18 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/04/18/dissecting-house-speaker-ryans-remarks-on-deficits-and-spending/ | Not the Whole Story | Paul Ryan | 2018-04-15 |
PolitiFact | Claim says Target installed urinals in a women’s bathroom to "accommodate the ones who have giblets." | 2016-07-11 | https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2016/apr/26/facebook-posts/viral-facebook-claim-about-target-adding-urinals-w/ | Pants on Fire | Viral Facebook post | 2016-04-22 |
PolitiFact | Just 6 percent of Americans say Russia is the country’s most important issue, yet the story receives "75 percent of the coverage" in the media. | 2017-07-23 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/23/kellyanne-conway/does-russia-take-75-percent-media-coverage/ | Mostly False | Kellyanne Conway | 2017-07-22 |
Washington Post | “Republicans have now spent more than two years and nearly $7 million of taxpayer funds.” | 2016-05-17 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/05/17/have-republicans-really-spent-7-million-on-the-benghazi-committee/ | Two Pinocchios | Elijah E. Cummings | 2016-05-08 |
PolitiFact | Says Chuck Todd said the Roy Moore story "felt completely orchestrated." | 2017-11-15 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/nov/15/steve-bannon/behind-stephen-bannons-misrepresentation-chuck-tod/ | False | Steve Bannon | 2017-11-13 |
FactCheck.org | A video claims to show a "Muslim Rally in New York City demanding their Sharia Rights!" | 2019-04-03 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/04/deceptive-facebook-post-distorts-rally-against-hate/ | False | Viral video | 2019-03-25 |
PolitiFact | Says Roy Moore is "on the wrong side of Trump’s border wall." | 2017-09-18 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/sep/18/senate-leadership-fund/gop-super-pac-says-alabamas-roy-moore-doesnt-back-/ | Mostly False | Senate Leadership Fund | 2017-09-14 |
PolitiFact | "Hillary Clinton lied many times to the FBI." | 2017-12-05 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/dec/05/donald-trump/donald-trump-falsely-claims-hillary-clinton-lied-f/ | False | Donald Trump | 2017-12-04 |
PolitiFact | "Rather than work to secure the border, (Marco Rubio) supported Obama’s amnesty plan for illegal immigrants." | 2016-07-08 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2016/jul/08/carlos-beruff/carlos-beruff-wrongly-attacks-marco-rubios-record-/ | Mostly False | Carlos Beruff | 2016-07-08 |
PolitiFact | Says "Obama orders life-sized bronze statue of himself to be permanently installed in White House." | 2017-01-27 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/jan/27/blog-posting/fake-news-theres-no-bronze-statue-president-barack/ | Pants on Fire | Bloggers | 2017-01-18 |
FactCheck.org | “Heidi Heitkamp: She rubber stamps the Washington liberal agenda.” | 2018-09-14 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/09/ad-stretches-facts-to-paint-heitkamp-as-liberal-rubber-stamp/ | Distorts the Facts | Senate Leadership Fund | 2018-09-11 |
Washington Post | Democrats "want to have illegal immigrants pouring into our country, bringing with them crime, tremendous amounts of crime. | 2018-01-18 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/01/18/trumps-claim-that-immigrants-bring-tremendous-crime-is-still-wrong/ | Four Pinocchios | Donald Trump | 2017-12-06 |
PolitiFact | "This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should've won." | 2017-05-12 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/may/12/donald-trump/trump-calls-trump-russia-story-made-/ | Pants on Fire | Donald Trump | 2017-05-11 |
FactCheck.org | Claimed Sam Clovis, a senior White house adviser in the Department of Agriculture, called scientists "dumb, regular people" who think "the earth is somehow getting warmer." | 2017-06-06 | https://www.factcheck.org/2017/06/fake-dig-dumb-scientists/ | False | Newslo | 2017-05-14 |
PolitiFact | The Trans-Pacific Partnership "knocks out 18,000 tariffs that other countries place on American products and goods." | 2016-08-04 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/aug/04/barack-obama/barack-obama-trans-pacific-partnership-eliminates-/ | Mostly True | Barack Obama | 2016-08-02 |
FactCheck.org | "CDC Caught Flying Diseased Caravan Migrants Into U.S. for Medical Treatment" | 2018-12-03 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/12/the-caravan-the-cdc-and-a-false-flight/ | False | Right of the Right | 2018-11-28 |
PolitiFact | There are"thousands of Georgia workers that are misclassified as independent contractors," who lose benefits, including health care. | 2017-08-10 | https://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2017/aug/10/stacey-evans/are-georgia-firms-cheating-1000s-workers-out-healt/ | Mostly True | Stacey Evans | 2017-08-05 |
FactCheck.org | "We’ve achieved a historic increase in defense spending." | 2017-07-27 | http://www.factcheck.org/2017/07/factchecking-trumps-rally-ohio/ | False | Donald Trump | 2017-07-25 |
PolitiFact | The stimulus bill contains "$20 million for the removal of small to medium-sized fish passage barriers" and "$25 million to rehabilitate off-roading trails for ATVs." | 2016-07-15 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/feb/04/mike-pence/stimulus-has-money-help-fish-roaders/ | True | Mike Pence | 2009-02-03 |
Washington Post | “Thank you @realdonaldtrump for seeing my conviction for what it is: a political witch hunt by holdovers in the Obama justice department!” | 2017-08-30 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/08/30/was-former-arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaios-criminal-conviction-an-obama-political-witch-hunt/?utm_term=.584ca46b7ca3 | Four Pinocchios | Joe Arpaio | 2017-08-25 |
PolitiFact | “As President ... I have the absolute right to” share classified information. | 2017-05-16 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/may/16/reports-say-trump-shared-highly-classified-intel-r/ | Exempt from laws | Donald Trump | 2017-05-16 |
PolitiFact | "Florida pays our teachers $10,000 a year less than the national average." | 2017-03-07 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2017/mar/07/janet-cruz/how-much-does-florida-teacher-pay-lag-behind-natio/ | Mostly True | Janet Cruz | 2017-03-07 |
PolitiFact | "I have always been there with" Donald Trump. | 2018-08-08 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2018/aug/08/leah-vukmir/leah-vukmir-supported-donald-trump-after-he-won-pr/ | False | Leah Vukmir | 2018-07-31 |
PolitiFact | "Half of all NC legislative candidates are unopposed because of gerrymandering." | 2016-08-10 | https://www.politifact.com/north-carolina/statements/2016/aug/09/common-cause/common-cause-video-says-half-all-nc-legislative-ra/ | Mostly True | Common Cause | 2016-07-19 |
The Washington Post | "I had a sexual harassment policy when I was governor in the eighties" | 2018-06-05 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/06/05/fact-checking-bill-clintons-meltdown-on-nbcs-today-show/?utm_term=.cf4fb355f8d0 | Three Pinocchios | Bill Clinton | 2018-06-04 |
PolitiFact | Says President Barack Obama’s policy known as DACA "contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border." | 2017-09-05 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/sep/05/jeff-sessions/jeff-sessions-questionable-claim-daca-helped-cause/ | Mostly False | Jeff Sessions | 2017-09-05 |
PolitiFact | Says Joe Donnelly "voted to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, including criminals, drunk drivers, domestic violence, and worse." | 2018-09-12 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/sep/12/one-nation-pac/immigration-joe-donnelly-amnesty-criminals-indiana/ | Mostly False | One Nation | 2018-08-31 |
PolitiFact | Says HHS Secretary Alex Azar called family separations at the border and detention of children in cages "one of the great acts of American generosity and charity" and "is now in charge." | 2018-08-02 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/aug/02/equity-forward/ad-targets-hhs-secretary-alex-azar-generosity-and-/ | Mostly False | Equity Forward | 2018-07-23 |
PolitiFact | Says a Wisconsin welcome sign includes a message warning "criminals and terrorists" that over "170,000 Wisconsin residents have a legal permit to carry a handgun." | 2019-05-30 | https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/may/30/viral-image/viral-wisconsin-welcome-sign-image-warning-visitor/ | Pants on Fire | Viral Image | 2013-04-16 |
PolitiFact | The ammunition used in the Orlando shooting "is banned by Geneva Convention. It enters the body, spins & explodes." | 2016-06-23 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/jun/23/michael-moore/liberal-filmmaker-michael-moore-says-ar-15-bullets/ | False | Michael Moore | 2016-06-14 |
PolitiFact | “Americans received the biggest tax cut in history last year.” | 2018-06-04 | https://www.politifact.com/north-carolina/statements/2018/jun/04/patrick-mchenry/nc-republican-repeats-false-tax-claim/ | False | Patrick McHenry | 2018-05-29 |
PolitiFact | "In Austin, Texas, the average homeowner is paying about $1,300 to $1,400 just for recapture," meaning funds spent in non-Austin school districts. | 2016-12-16 | https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/dec/16/kirk-watson/kirk-watson-says-average-austin-homeowner-pays-130/ | True | Kirk Watson | 2016-11-29 |
PolitiFact | Georgia "has the lowest minimum wage in the country." | 2018-02-05 | https://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2018/feb/05/stacey-evans/does-georgia-have-lowest-minimum-wage-country/ | Mostly True | Stacey Evans | 2018-01-26 |
FactCheck.org | "We have large trade deficits ... with Canada." | 2018-03-08 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/03/trumps-trade-mistweet/ | False | Donald Trump | 2018-03-05 |
Washington Post | “Under GOP plan, U.S. families making ~$86k see avg tax increase of $794.” | 2017-11-02 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/02/senate-democrats-falsely-claim-gop-tax-plan-will-raise-taxes-for-most-working-class-families/?utm_term=.701ea1f91d0e | Four Pinocchios | Jeff Merkley | 2017-10-24 |
PolitiFact | "UPDATE: ‘Thousands’ voted for Doug Jones in Alabama town with population of 2,256" | 2017-12-15 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/dec/15/blog-posting/fake-news-spreads-about-doug-jones-and-votes-ficti/ | Pants on Fire | Ladies of Liberty | 2017-12-13 |
PolitiFact | "Twitter shadow banning prominent Republicans." | 2018-07-26 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/jul/26/shadow-banning-did-twitter-try-boost-dems-and-hurt/ | Twitter fixed a glitch | Donald Trump | 2018-07-26 |
PolitiFact | "Official: Rudy Giuliani officially resigns, Trump’s legal team on it's last leg." | 2018-05-16 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/may/15/political-voice/no-rudy-giuliani-didnt-quit-trump-legal-team/ | False | The Political Voice | 2018-05-12 |
PolitiFact | In Georgia, "25 percent of rural residents" are "without access to high speed internet." | 2018-02-12 | https://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2018/feb/12/brian-kemp/does-25-percent-rural-georgia-lack-access-high-spe/ | True | Brian Kemp | 2018-02-07 |
PolitiFact | "Trump’s Top Scientist Pick: ‘Scientists Are Just Dumb Regular People That Think Dinosaurs Existed And The Earth Is Getting Warmer’" | 2017-06-06 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/jun/06/uspoln/no-trumps-reported-pick-usda-chief-scientist-did-n/ | Pants on Fire | USPOLN.com | 2017-05-20 |
PolitiFact | "Republicans Looking To Cut Social Security As Much As 50 percent Immediately." | 2016-12-14 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/dec/14/new-century-times/website-makes-dubious-claim-gop-will-cut-social-se/ | False | New Century Times | 2016-12-09 |
PolitiFact | Says Joe Scarborough is party to an "unsolved mystery" from his time as a congressman in Florida. | 2017-11-29 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/nov/29/donald-trump/donald-trumps-pants-fire-unsolved-mystery-attack-j/ | Pants on Fire | Donald Trump | 2017-11-29 |
PolitiFact | "215 members of Congress just voted to let your ISP spy on what type of underwear you buy and sell that data to advertisers." | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/mar/30/fight-future/congress-let-internet-providers-spy-your-underwear/ | Mostly True | Fight for the Future | 2017-03-28 |
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PolitiFact | Inside the stimulus package "is anti-Christian legislation that will stop churches from using public schools for meeting on Sundays, as well as Boy Scouts and student Bible study groups." | 2016-07-15 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jun/08/newt-gingrich/stimulus-bill-wont-change-status-sunday-school/ | Pants on Fire | Newt Gingrich | 2009-05-30 |
PolitiFact | "Some of the things that (Megyn Kelly) said, I didn’t say." | 2016-05-20 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/aug/10/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-women-viciously-attacked-him-fir/ | False | Donald Trump | 2015-08-09 |
PolitiFact | "Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs. Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and can barely feed their family." | 2018-07-18 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jul/18/alexandria-ocasio-cortez/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wrong-several-counts-abou/ | Pants on Fire | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | 2018-07-13 |
PolitiFact | Treasury Department's inspector general found "there's $4 billion a year in excess payments" going to people that shouldn’t get them. "These are mostly Mexicans." | 2017-04-27 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/apr/27/jeff-sessions/sessions-says-4-billion-tax-credits-go-mostly-mexi/ | Half True | Jeff Sessions | 2017-04-23 |
PolitiFact | Tornado carries mobile home 130 miles, family inside unharmed. | 2017-08-10 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/aug/10/blog-posting/no-tornado-did-not-carry-mobile-home-130-miles-awa/ | Pants on Fire | Bloggers | 2017-08-06 |
PolitiFact | Troy Balderson backs a "massive tax giveaway" for corporations "by slashing Medicare and Social Security." | 2018-09-26 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/sep/26/danny-oconnor/danny-oconnors-ad-ohio-really-slashes/ | Mostly False | Danny O'Connor | 2018-09-25 |
Washington Post | “Repeat sex offenders pose an especially grave risk to children. ‘When convicted sex offenders reenter society, they are much more likely than any other type of offender to be rearrested for a new rape or sexual assault.’” | 2017-06-21 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/06/21/justice-alitos-misleading-claim-about-sex-offender-rearrests/ | Three Pinocchios | Samuel A. Alito | 2017-06-19 |
PolitiFact | "Black lung cases are at a 25-year high." | 2018-10-24 | https://www.politifact.com/west-virginia/statements/2018/oct/23/joe-manchin/are-black-lung-cases-25-year-high/ | True | Joe Manchin | 2018-08-23 |
PolitiFact | "New York consistently ranks as one of the worst voting turnout states in the nation." | 2018-02-01 | https://www.politifact.com/new-york/statements/2018/feb/01/andrea-stewart-cousins/new-york-consistently-ranks-low-voter-turnout/ | True | Andrea Stewart-Cousins | 2018-01-23 |
PolitiFact | Californians pay "the highest electricity bills" in the nation. | 2017-11-16 | https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/nov/16/john-cox/does-california-have-highest-electricity-bills-nat/ | False | John Cox | 2017-10-21 |
PolitiFact | "We now have several hundred teachers that are over 100 years old and what I've read recently is that a baby born today, their age expectancy is 110, at least." | 2019-03-26 | https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2019/mar/26/bob-hall/how-many-retired-teachers-texas-are-over-100-years/ | Half True | Bob Hall | 2019-03-25 |
PolitiFact | "Matt Rosendale supports plans that don’t have to cover (pre-existing conditions)." | 2018-10-31 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/oct/31/jon-tester/montanas-matt-rosendale-supports-plans-dont-cover-/ | True | Jon Tester | 2018-10-10 |
PolitiFact | Says Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Milton Hirsch "is constantly overturned." | 2017-07-11 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2017/jul/11/richard-corcoran/richard-corcoran-fails-prove-claim-miami-judge-mil/ | False | Richard Corcoran | 2017-07-03 |
Washington Post | “Since the fourth quarter of last year until most recently, we’ve added almost 50,000 jobs in the coal sector." | 2017-06-06 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/06/06/pruitts-claim-that-almost-50000-jobs-have-been-gained-in-coal/ | Four Pinocchios | Scott Pruitt | 2017-06-04 |
PolitiFact | Says Johnny Depp died after being apprehended for threatening President Donald Trump’s life. | 2017-06-27 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/jun/27/blog-posting/fake-news-saga-said-depp-threatened-trump-died-fed/ | Pants on Fire | Internet rumors | 2017-06-24 |