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PolitiFact | "You know what (Saddam Hussein) did well? He killed terrorists." | 2016-07-07 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/07/donald-trump/was-saddam-hussein-good-killing-terrorists-donald-/ | Mostly False | Donald Trump | 2016-07-05 |
PolitiFact | "Second Roy Moore Accuser Works For Michelle Obama Right NOW" | 2017-11-14 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/nov/14/thelastlineofdefenseorg/headline-tying-roy-moore-accuser-obamas-fake/ | Pants on Fire | Internet Rumors | 2017-11-11 |
PolitiFact | "The major immigration issue was about Poles, and Bulgarians, and Romanians," and that they weren’t contributing economically. "The unemployment rate among Poles in Britain is lower than the unemployment rate among Brits." | 2016-06-26 | https://www.politifact.com/global-news/statements/2016/jun/26/david-miliband/david-miliband-link-between-jobs-immigration-and-b/ | True | David Miliband | 2016-06-26 |
PolitiFact | Marijuana is a Schedule I drug, "which you understand means that you can’t do any research about it." | 2016-04-26 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/apr/26/hillary-clinton/hillary-clintons-hazy-claim-researchers-cant-study/ | Mostly False | Hillary Clinton | 2016-04-21 |
PolitiFact | "At this very moment, large, well-organized caravans of migrants are marching towards our southern border. Some people call it an invasion. It’s like an invasion. They have violently overrun the Mexican border." | 2018-11-03 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/nov/02/heres-latest-migrant-caravans/ | Needs more context | Donald Trump | 2018-11-01 |
FactCheck.org | Says “insurers can charge thousands more” for preexisting conditions under the House GOP health care bill. | 2017-06-21 | http://www.factcheck.org/2017/06/preexisting-condition-spin/ | Not the Whole Story | AARP | 2017-06-12 |
PolitiFact | "Even with a permanent income tax increase... the budget is more than $1 billion out of balance…" | 2017-09-20 | https://www.politifact.com/illinois/statements/2017/sep/20/bruce-rauner/rauners-right-illinois-budget-balancing-act-ongoin/ | Mostly True | Bruce Rauner | 2017-09-07 |
FactCheck.org | Claims Hillary Clinton knew about $675,000 in donations to the campaign of an FBI official's wife and implies they were made to influence an FBI investigation of Clinton’s private email system. | 2016-10-26 | https://www.factcheck.org/2016/10/clintons-connection-to-fbi-official/ | No Evidence | Donald Trump | 2016-10-24 |
FactCheck.org | "Vietnam is ordering at least $12 billion worth of Boeings." | 2017-11-16 | https://www.factcheck.org/2017/11/factchecking-trumps-business-boasts/ | Unsupported | Donald Trump | 2017-11-14 |
PolitiFact | "Just last year, alone, 710 police officers" were assaulted in New York state. | 2017-02-11 | https://www.politifact.com/new-york/statements/2017/feb/11/martin-golden/police-assaults-new-york-have-decreased-recent-yea/ | Mostly True | Martin Golden | 2017-01-30 |
Washington Post | “In the U.S., some 300,000 children are at risk each year for commercial sexual exploitation.” | 2017-04-21 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/05/28/the-bogus-claim-that-300000-u-s-children-are-at-risk-of-sexual-exploitation/ | Four Pinocchios | Joyce Beatty | 2015-05-19 |
PolitiFact | "Breaking: Shep Smith to be canned because he can’t control his hate for Donald Trump." | 2018-06-13 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jun/13/newsflash/hoax-continues-circulate-foxs-shepard-smith-fired/ | Pants on Fire | Newsflash | 2018-06-10 |
PolitiFact | "Idaho mother sentenced to prison after multiple citations for breastfeeding in public." | 2017-02-13 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/feb/13/theseattletribunecom/idaho-woman-was-not-sentenced-prison-breastfeeding/ | Pants on Fire | TheSeattleTribune.com | 2016-09-03 |
PolitiFact | The Keystone XL pipeline "doesn’t even have any oil for America." | 2017-04-17 | https://www.politifact.com/new-york/statements/2017/apr/16/kirsten-gillibrand/will-oil-keystone-xl-pipeline-stay-us/ | Mostly False | Kirsten Gillibrand | 2017-03-27 |
FactCheck.org | Viral posts claim President Donald Trump called for the "death penalty" for "suicide bombers." | 2019-05-08 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/05/trump-quote-originated-as-satire/ | False | Social media posts | 2019-05-03 |
PolitiFact | "The Obama administration was actively supporting Al Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorist group that became the Islamic State." | 2016-06-15 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/15/donald-trump/donald-trump-suggests-barack-obama-supported-isis-/ | Pants on Fire | Donald Trump | 2016-06-15 |
PolitiFact | Says Sen. Rob Portman says Ted Strickland earned $400,000 a year as a lobbyist after leaving Ohio for Washington. | 2016-10-20 | https://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2016/oct/20/rob-portman/portman-strickland-duel-over-whos-richer/ | Half True | Rob Portman | 2016-10-17 |
PolitiFact | "MEDIA SO DISHONEST: (Flashback) Obama Calls to Congratulate Putin" | 2018-03-21 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/mar/21/did-donald-trumps-predecessors-congratulate-vladim/ | Obama Called in 2012 | Laura Ingraham | 2018-03-21 |
PolitiFact | Says Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. has said Black Lives Matter "is a terrorist movement, a hate group and calls it, Black LIES Matter." | 2017-04-17 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2017/apr/17/sheriff-david-clarke-us-senate/pro-sheriff-david-clarke-group-says-clarke-called-/ | True | Sheriff David Clarke for U.S. Senate | 2017-04-05 |
FactCheck.org | "My policy is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months." | 2017-01-30 | https://www.factcheck.org/2017/01/trumps-faulty-refugee-policy-comparison/ | Distorts The Facts | Donald Trump | 2017-01-29 |
FactCheck.org | "Senator Elizabeth Warren has been on Risperdal since first being prescribed the drug in 2011." | 2019-01-11 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/01/phony-claim-on-elizabeth-warrens-health/ | False | Internet rumor | 2019-01-01 |
FactCheck.org | "The McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 bans Muslims from holding public office in the United States." | 2018-11-29 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/11/viral-posts-misinform-on-mccarran-walter-act/ | False | Social media posts | 2018-11-24 |
PolitiFact | Alison Alter "has exploited a campaign finance loophole to obtain over $64,000 in public dollars to fund her campaign." | 2016-12-08 | https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/dec/08/sheri-gallo/sheri-gallo-says-alison-alter-landed-64000-runoff-/ | Half True | Sheri Gallo | 2016-11-29 |
PolitiFact | "Black and Latino people in NYC are arrested at TEN times the rate of white people for virtually the same rate of marijuana usage." | 2018-04-25 | https://www.politifact.com/new-york/statements/2018/apr/25/kirsten-gillibrand/are-people-color-arrested-more-often-marijuana-new/ | True | Kirsten Gillibrand | 2018-04-20 |
PolitiFact | "I did not support the war in Iraq … The record shows that I’m right." | 2016-09-27 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/sep/26/donald-trump/donald-trump-claims-again-he-was-against-war-iraq/ | False | Donald Trump | 2016-09-26 |
PolitiFact | "If he wants to talk about receipts, not a Hamilton ticket, but $145,000 of taxpayer money, why won’t you release those receipts?" | 2018-10-25 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2018/oct/24/hamilton-tickets-taxpayer-tabs-fact-checking-final/ | No detailed receipts | Andrew Gillum | 2018-10-24 |
Washington Post | “The ads attacking Jeff Denham? Independent fact checkers say the charges aren’t true." | 2018-10-19 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/19/hey-attack-ad-honchos-stop-stealing-our-pinocchios/ | Four Pinocchios | Congressional Leadership Fund | 2018-10-12 |
The Washington Post | “The deal is so bad for rich people, I had to throw in the estate tax just to give them something.” | 2017-11-09 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/09/trumps-claim-that-the-house-gop-bill-is-so-bad-for-rich-people/ | Four Pinocchios | Donald Trump | 2017-10-07 |
PolitiFact | Says Debbie Wasserman Schultz "voted repeatedly to send terminally ill patients to prison." | 2016-05-11 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/feb/26/drug-policy-alliance/pro-pot-group-says-debbie-wasserman-schultz-repeat/ | Mostly False | Drug Policy Alliance | 2015-02-19 |
PolitiFact | "Tammy Baldwin voted for $5 trillion in higher taxes." | 2017-11-01 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2017/nov/01/freedom-partners/koch-backed-group-half-true-claiming-tammy-baldwin/ | Half True | Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce | 2017-10-26 |
PolitiFact | "Mitch McConnell was one of the few senators that voted after Tiananmen Square not to have punitive actions against China for human rights violations." | 2018-05-03 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/may/03/don-blankenship/fact-checking-don-blankenship-mitch-mcconnell-chin/ | False | Don Blankenship | 2018-05-01 |
FactCheck.org | "Bombshell numbers out of Fulton County, Georgia show that a vast amount of the provisional ballots submitted in the Democrat stronghold were rejected for being duplicate ballots." | 2018-11-16 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/11/partisan-site-spins-falsehoods-in-georgia-election/ | False | Bigleaguepolitics.com | 2018-11-11 |
FactCheck.org | Muslim nurses now have the "option of participating in medical operations without washing their hands." | 2018-04-20 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/04/muslim-nurses-not-exempt-from-hand-washing/ | False | Various websites | 2018-03-12 |
PolitiFact | "San Juan city council votes unanimously to impeach Trump-hating mayor." | 2017-10-18 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/oct/17/asamericanasapplepieorg/fake-blog-posts-say-san-juan-city-council-impeache/ | Pants on Fire | AsAmericanAsApplePie.org | 2017-10-15 |
The Washington Post | “It’s important to note that every United States administration, Republican and Democratic, has opposed settlements as contrary to the prospects for peace.” | 2017-10-11 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/03/fact-checking-john-kerrys-speech-on-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/ | Needs context | John F. Kerry | 2016-12-28 |
Washington Post | “Now, let’s be clear — this is not amnesty, this is not immunity. This is not a path to citizenship.” | 2017-09-07 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/09/07/did-obama-allow-a-backdoor-to-citizenship-through-daca/?utm_term=.9a1ca638a349 | In dispute | Barack Obama | 2012-06-15 |
PolitiFact | Says that except for Donald Trump, "every other major party nominee" for the past 40 years has released their tax returns. | 2016-09-28 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2016/sep/28/tammy-baldwin/donald-trump-only-major-party-nominee-40-years-not/ | Mostly True | Tammy Baldwin | 2016-09-19 |
PolitiFact | In April, "the vast majority will be (filling out their taxes) on a single postcard." | 2017-12-21 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/dec/21/ivanka-trump/ivanka-trump-wrong-april-vast-majority-will-be-fil/ | False | Ivanka Trump | 2017-12-21 |
FactCheck.org | Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke posed with an elephant he shot. | 2017-12-04 | https://www.factcheck.org/2017/12/false-caption-dead-elephant-photo/ | False | A Facebook page | 2017-11-22 |
Washington Post | "Nearly 3 in 4 individuals convicted of terrorism-related charges are foreign-born." | 2018-01-22 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/01/22/president-trumps-claim-that-nearly-3-in-4-convicted-of-terrorism-are-foreign-born/ | Four Pinocchios | Donald Trump | 2018-01-16 |
Washington Post | "NAFTA was signed by Bill Clinton... NAFTA was given to us by Clinton." | 2016-05-09 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/05/09/history-lesson-more-republicans-than-democrats-supported-nafta/ | Two Pinocchios | Donald Trump | 2016-05-06 |
Washington Post | “This disastrous deal gave this regime — and it’s a regime of great terror — many billions of dollars, some of it in actual cash — a great embarrassment to me as a citizen and to all citizens of the United States.” | 2018-05-09 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/05/09/fact-checking-president-trumps-reasons-for-leaving-the-iran-nuclear-deal/ | Not the whole story | Donald Trump | 2018-05-08 |
PolitiFact | Fact-checking Donald Trump's statement on Saudi Arabia, Khashoggi murder | 2018-11-29 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2018/nov/21/tammy-baldwin/us-sen-tammy-baldwin-strikes-out-marijuana-researc/ | Mostly False | Tammy Baldwin | 2018-09-14 |
PolitiFact | Andrew Gillum's "city, Tallahassee, is known as the most corrupt in Florida, and one of the most corrupt in the nation." | 2018-10-31 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2018/oct/31/city-tallahassee-most-corrupt-florida-president-tr/ | FBI probe ongoing | Donald Trump | 2018-10-29 |
FactCheck.org | Seahawks player "was captured on camera burning an American flag." | 2017-10-17 | https://www.factcheck.org/2017/10/seahawks-players-didnt-burn-flag/ | False | Multiple websites | 2017-10-10 |
PolitiFact | "One year ago, (Republicans) would not fill seats vacated for people who went to the administration because of the cost of those elections. Now, they’re talking about changing the rules to add additional elections that will cost millions of dollars of taxpayer expense." | 2018-11-29 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2018/nov/28/gordon-hintz/state-rep-hintz-hits-target-claim-against-republic/ | Mostly True | Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh, | 2018-11-14 |
FactCheck.org | "British Intelligence Seizes Clinton Foundation Warehouse, $400 Million In Cash." | 2018-03-30 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/03/no-seizure-of-clinton-foundation-cash/ | False | Various websites | 2017-11-10 |
PolitiFact | Says each of the past three years "has been the hottest on record." | 2017-06-15 | https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2017/jun/15/derrick-crowe/democrat-lamar-smith-three-years-hottest-record-ea/ | True | Derrick Crowe | 2017-06-03 |
Washington Post | "300,000 children are used as soldiers worldwide" | 2017-04-21 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/01/22/the-zombie-claim-that-300000-children-are-used-as-child-soldiers/ | Four Pinocchios | UNICEF USA | 2016-01-22 |
PolitiFact | Democrats "don’t want money" to go to the Florida Panhandle for Hurricane Michael aid | 2019-05-09 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2019/may/09/donald-trump/trump-wrongly-says-democrats-oppose-hurricane-disa/ | Mostly False | Donald Trump | 2019-05-08 |
PolitiFact | "The chairman of the party of Florida, who is an avid and outward supporter of Marco Rubio, gets to appoint 30 of those delegates." | 2016-04-19 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2016/apr/19/corey-lewandowski/donald-trump-manager-corey-lewandowski-botches-cla/ | False | Corey Lewandowski | 2016-04-17 |
PolitiFact | "When Trump wanted to turn a taxpayer-owned building into an $800 a night hotel, (Congressman Jeff Denham, R-CA) helped broker the deal and bragged about it." | 2016-10-28 | https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2016/oct/28/dccc-lgo/dccc-makes-false-claim-about-denhams-role-trump-ho/ | False | Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee | 2016-10-04 |
FactCheck.org | "GOP congressional candidate" admits "to being a pedophile." | 2018-06-05 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/06/pedophile-advocate-but-not-gop-candidate/ | False | Blue State Daily | 2018-06-01 |
PolitiFact | "In year No. 1, 14 million Americans lose coverage," according to the CBO. | 2017-03-22 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/mar/22/chris-murphy/house-gop-health-care-bill-would-cause-14-million-/ | Mostly True | Chris Murphy | 2017-03-16 |
PolitiFact | "No court has held (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) unconstitutional." | 2017-09-11 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/sep/11/eric-schneiderman/has-daca-been-ruled-unconstitutional/ | True | Eric Schneiderman | 2017-09-06 |
FactCheck.org | "President Obama separated the children. … I’m the one that stopped it.” | 2019-04-10 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/04/more-family-separation-spin/ | False | Donald Trump | 2019-04-09 |
PolitiFact | "Drug-related offenses make up as much as 75-85 percent of inmate populations" in Wisconsin | 2019-02-22 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2019/feb/22/tony-evers/evers-claims-drug-crimes-prison-inmates/ | Pants on Fire | Tony Evers | 2019-02-18 |
PolitiFact | Says the NC elections board received "no calls" after alerting Bladen County voters to possible absentee ballot fraud. | 2019-01-30 | https://www.politifact.com/north-carolina/statements/2019/jan/30/dallas-woodhouse/gop-official-falsely-says-bladen-voters-didnt-call/ | False | Dallas Woodhouse | 2019-01-17 |
Washington Post | "A hedge fund in New York takes control of a great Wisconsin business, shuts down a factory and 450 people lose their jobs." | 2018-04-11 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/04/11/did-a-hedge-fund-bankrupt-a-wisconsin-town/ | Three Pinocchios | Tammy Baldwin | 2018-03-27 |
PolitiFact | "You take Pulse nightclub. If you had one person in that room that could carry a gun and knew how to use it, it wouldn’t have happened, or certainly to the extent that it did." | 2018-03-01 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/mar/01/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-about-pulse-nightclub-shooting/ | False | Donald Trump | 2018-02-28 |
PolitiFact | Coal production up 7.8% in past year. Down 31.5% last 10 years. #endingwaroncoal." | 2017-11-06 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/nov/06/donald-trump/trump-pairs-recent-rise-coal-output-ending-war-coa/ | Mostly True | Donald Trump | 2017-10-31 |
PolitiFact | "I’ve cut a half a billion (dollars) out of the EPA just in the last two years. We’ve cut 3,000 jobs out of the EPA." | 2018-04-26 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/apr/26/evan-jenkins/how-much-have-republicans-cut-epa-budget-staff-two/ | Mostly True | Evan Jenkins | 2018-04-23 |
PolitiFact | The House Zika bill "limits access to birth control services needed to help curb the spread of the virus" in Puerto Rico. | 2016-06-28 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2016/jun/28/bill-nelson/democrats-zika-impact-planned-parenthood-exclusion/ | Half True | Bill Nelson | 2016-06-23 |
PolitiFact | Says Rep. Mike Coffman "is the one who said" he would support Trump. | 2016-08-09 | https://www.politifact.com/colorado/statements/2016/aug/09/democratic-congressional-campaign-committee/dccc-ads-says-rep-coffman-said-youd-support-trump-/ | Mostly False | Democratic Congressional Campaign Committtee | 2016-08-04 |
PolitiFact | "Two-thirds of the (Hurricane Sandy relief) bill had nothing to do with Sandy." | 2017-08-30 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/aug/30/ted-cruz/ted-cruzs-mostly-false-claim-two-thirds-sandy-reli/ | Mostly False | Ted Cruz | 2017-08-28 |
PolitiFact | Abortion providers perform almost 60,000 procedures in Texas every year. | 2019-04-05 | https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2019/apr/05/donna-campbell/how-many-abortions-are-performed-annually-texas/ | Mostly True | Donna Campbell | 2019-04-01 |
The Washington Post | “If you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls. A lot of them didn’t make calls. I like to call when it’s appropriate, when I think I am able to do it.” | 2017-10-17 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/10/16/trumps-claim-that-obama-didnt-make-calls-to-families-of-the-fallen/ | False | Donald Trump | 2017-10-16 |
PolitiFact | "Roy Cooper's refusal to do his job is costing taxpayers money." | 2016-10-12 | https://www.politifact.com/north-carolina/statements/2016/aug/16/pat-mccrory/text/ | Mostly False | Pat McCrory | 2016-08-02 |
PolitiFact | "90% of rural women and 55% of all women are illiterate" in Morocco. | 2016-07-14 | https://www.politifact.com/global-news/statements/2016/jul/14/snapchat/snapchat-highlights-decades-old-data-part-michelle/ | False | Snapchat | 2016-06-30 |
PolitiFact | If a lawsuit backed by Josh Hawley succeeds, "nearly 2.5 million Missourians with pre-existing conditions could lose their health care coverage." | 2018-07-26 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jul/26/missouri-democratic-party/would-25-million-missourians-lose-health-coverage-/ | Half True | Missouri Democratic Party | 2018-07-17 |
FactCheck.org | "There was nobody that was in the history of our country more transparent than me. I said give them every document, give them every person. … I gave them White House counsel, I gave them other lawyers – anybody you want you can talk to.” | 2019-05-09 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/05/trump-17-repeats-in-17-hours/ | He Refused to Talk | Donald Trump | 2019-05-09 |
FactCheck.org | "The RAISE Act prevents new migrants and new immigrants from collecting welfare ... They’re not going to come in and just immediately go and collect welfare. That doesn’t happen under the RAISE Act. They can’t do that." | 2017-08-03 | https://www.factcheck.org/2017/08/trump-overstates-impact-immigration-bill/ | False | Donald Trump | 2017-08-02 |
PolitiFact | California’s proposed tobacco tax "diverts 82 percent of the new taxes to line the pockets of wealthy special interests like insurance companies who don't have to help even one more patient." | 2016-10-25 | https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2016/oct/25/no-56-campaign/tobacco-industry-misleads-prop-56-doctor-advertise/ | Mostly False | No on 56 | 2016-10-07 |
PolitiFact | Says Donald Trump "thinks stop-and-frisk is fine." | 2016-12-09 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2016/dec/09/gwen-moore/us-rep-gwen-moore-d-milwaukee-says-donald-trump-th/ | True | Gwen Moore | 2016-11-18 |
PolitiFact | Obamacare "was invented by liberal academic theorists." | 2016-12-05 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2016/dec/05/rick-scott/rick-scott-misleads-about-inventors-obamacare-igno/ | Mostly False | Rick Scott | 2016-11-30 |
FactCheck.org | Claims Zika “will be everywhere in the United States.” | 2016-05-06 | https://www.factcheck.org/2016/05/what-zika-means-for-americans/ | Twists the Facts | Heidi Heitkamp | 2016-04-28 |
FactCheck.org | A viral meme attributes a quote about how "to anger" a conservative and a liberal to President Theodore Roosevelt. | 2019-05-21 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/05/unverified-teddy-roosevelt-quotation-lives-on/ | No Evidence | Viral image | 2019-05-16 |
Washington Post | “98 percent of mass public shootings in the United States since 1950 have taken place in gun-free zones.” | 2018-05-10 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/05/10/do-98-percent-of-mass-public-shootings-happen-in-gun-free-zones/ | Two Pinocchios | Donald Trump | 2018-05-04 |
PolitiFact | Says former FBI Director James Comey lied to Congress | 2018-04-18 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/apr/18/fact-checking-donald-trumps-tweets-about-former-fb/ | Unproven claim | Donald Trump | 2018-04-15 |
FactCheck.org | "We’ve seen the Chinese now say for among the first times that they believe the correct answer has to be a denuclearized peninsula." | 2017-08-14 | https://www.factcheck.org/2017/08/pompeo-distorts-chinas-nuclear-policy/ | Distorts The Facts | Mike Pompeo | 2017-08-13 |
PolitiFact | In Milwaukee, "murder is up an astonishing 57 percent." | 2018-01-03 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2018/jan/03/jeff-sessions/milwaukee-murders-are-coming-down-peak-theyre-not-/ | Mostly False | Jeff Sessions | 2017-12-18 |
PolitiFact | Says "CNN Journalist Of The Year Fired For Creating Fake News Stories," with image of CNN reporter Jim Acosta. | 2018-12-20 | https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2018/dec/20/blog-posting/fired-cnn-journalist-year-was-not-jim-acosta-or-an/ | Half True | Bloggers | 2018-12-19 |
PolitiFact | Medicaid "is contributing to 70 percent of our budget deficit right now. It’s the one that is in our lap because of Obamacare." | 2017-07-12 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/12/pat-toomey/medicaid-driving-budget-deficit-pat-toomey-said/ | Mostly False | Pat Toomey | 2017-07-10 |
PolitiFact | "In Chicago, they've had thousands of shootings, thousands since Jan. 1. Thousands of shootings." | 2016-09-27 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/sep/27/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-chicago-has-experienced-thousand/ | True | Donald Trump | 2016-09-26 |
PolitiFact | "Bill Gates’ Former Doctor Says Billionaire ‘Refused To Vaccinate His Children’" | 2018-05-02 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/may/02/yournewswirecom/Website-falsely-claims-Bill-Gates-refused-to-vacci/ | Pants on Fire | yournewswire.com | 2018-02-07 |
PolitiFact | Says Bruce Poliquin "voted to strip 117,000 Mainers of their insurance." | 2018-10-05 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/oct/05/maine-democratic-party/did-bruce-poliquin-vote-strip-117000-people-health/ | Half True | Maine Democratic Party | 2019-10-01 |
PolitiFact | "Tear gas was used on average once a month during the Obama administration for very similar circumstances." | 2018-11-28 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/nov/28/sarah-huckabee-sanders/sarah-sanders-says-obama-tear-gas-border-month/ | Mostly True | Sarah Huckabee Sanders | 2018-11-27 |
PolitiFact | "Immigrants are not ‘animals.’ The president’s statement was deeply offensive and racist." | 2018-05-17 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/may/17/context-donald-trumps-comments-about-immigrants-an/ | Needs context | Dianne Feinstein | 2018-05-16 |
PolitiFact | Says Mike Pence said that "allowing rape victims to have abortions will lead to women trying to get raped." | 2017-02-02 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/feb/02/blog-posting/mike-pence-did-not-say-women-would-seek-out-sexual/ | Pants on Fire | Bloggers | 2017-07-17 |
PolitiFact | "The high cost of child care is the No. 1 reason people give for having fewer children than they’d like." | 2019-02-25 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/feb/25/elizabeth-warren/warren-top-reason-having-fewer-kids-child-care/ | Half True | Elizabeth Warren | 2019-02-19 |
PolitiFact | "The overwhelming amount of the money that we're raising is not going to Hillary (Clinton) to run for president. ... It's going to the congressmen and senators to try to take back Congress." | 2016-08-11 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/may/05/george-clooney/george-clooney-decries-big-money-politics-says-mos/ | Half True | George Clooney | 2016-04-16 |
Washington Post | "Every member of Congress, they pay for their own insurance, too. We are put into the exchange. We’re not a federal employee. We go into the D.C. exchange and we personally have to pay for 100 percent of it." | 2017-04-17 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/04/17/do-members-of-congress-pay-for-100-percent-of-their-health-insurance/ | Three Pinocchios | Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) | 2017-04-10 |
PolitiFact | Says Dontre Hamilton "was shot 14 times by police for resting on a park bench in Milwaukee." | 2017-08-01 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2017/aug/01/gwen-moore/case-dontre-hamilton-did-milwaukee-police-shoot-ma/ | Mostly True | Gwen Moore | 2017-06-29 |
FactCheck.org | "When Ronald Reagan was president, the discretionary spending, all those appropriations, was 75 percent of the budget, the mandatory was 25." | 2018-04-24 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/04/factchecking-mccarthys-statistics/ | False | Rep. Kevin McCarthy | 2018-04-23 |
PolitiFact | "Saudi Arabia put up hundreds of billions of dollars of money going into buying our planes and our military equipment and investing in our country." | 2017-07-13 | http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/jul/13/fact-checking-president-donald-trumps-interview-ch/ | Many deals not set | Donald Trump | 2017-07-13 |
PolitiFact | Wisconsin payday loans have a 574% average annual interest rate, "exploitative lending that keeps Americans trapped in debt" | 2019-05-16 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2019/may/14/bernie-sanders/bernie-sanders-payday-loans-wisconsin/ | Mostly True | Bernie Sanders | 2019-05-10 |
FactCheck.org | Says over the last 400 years “it has taken every single country at least 10 years to get over a financial crisis this severe.” | 2016-05-18 | http://www.factcheck.org/2016/05/bill-clintons-economic-exaggerations/ | Not Every Country | Bill Clinton | 2016-05-12 |
PolitiFact | "NASA announced that it communicated with four races of aliens." | 2018-06-25 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jun/25/blog-posting/no-nasa-has-not-communicated-aliens/ | Pants on Fire | Internet Rumors | 2018-06-23 |
PolitiFact | Says Arizona congressional candidate Ray Strauss is "a ‘Champion of Big Government’ for his votes to raise taxes while on the local city council." | 2016-08-18 | https://www.politifact.com/arizona/statements/2016/aug/18/sarah-palin/sarah-palin-claims-arizona-congressional-candidate/ | Half True | Sarah Palin | 2016-08-11 |
PolitiFact | "Each year ICE detains someone, it costs taxpayers over $50,000. For comparison, by the way, that's four times the amount the federal government spends on each child in our public schools." | 2018-05-11 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/may/11/patty-murray/does-detaining-immigrant-year-cost-4-times-federal/ | Half True | Patty Murray | 2018-05-08 |