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PolitiFact | "The facts are, the majority of opioids and all kinds of other things that are connected to the opioids are coming through the point of entry." | 2019-01-14 | https://www.politifact.com/new-york/statements/2019/jan/14/nita-lowey/majority-opioids-come-us-through-points-entry-lowe/ | True | Nita Lowey | 2019-01-07 |
PolitiFact | In 1928 "school boards sent home letters with children saying that if Al Smith is elected president, you will not be allowed to have or read a Bible." | 2016-10-25 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/24/hillary-clinton/clinton-school-boards-anti-catholic-scare-tactics-/ | Half True | Hillary Clinton | 2016-10-20 |
FactCheck.org | “In all fairness, Bob Mueller worked for Obama for eight years.” | 2018-05-04 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/05/trumps-misleading-attack-on-mueller-team/ | False | Donald Trump | 2018-05-04 |
PolitiFact | Says Mahmoud Abbas, Ali Khamenei, Vladimir Putin met each other "in the class of 1968 at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow." | 2016-04-19 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/09/ben-carson/ben-carson-says-mahmoud-abbas-ali-khamenei-vladimi/ | Pants on Fire | Ben Carson | 2015-10-08 |
PolitiFact | Hurricane Irma is "predicted to come through Mexico, hit us and everything in between up to Houston." | 2017-09-01 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/sep/01/blog-posting/map-showing-hurricane-irma-path-hit-houston-fake-n/ | Pants on Fire | Bloggers | 2017-08-31 |
PolitiFact | "NASA will pay you $100,000 to stay in bed for 60 days!" | 2018-07-16 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jul/16/blog-posting/dont-believe-nasa-will-pay-you-100000-stay-bed/ | False | World Facts FTW | 2017-09-03 |
PolitiFact | President Obama has spent over $2 million in legal fees defending lawsuits about his birth certificate. | 2016-09-16 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/apr/12/donald-trump/donald-trump-claims-obama-has-spent-2-million-lega/ | False | Donald Trump | 2001-04-07 |
PolitiFact | Congressional Republicans "want to take health care from millions of Americans in order to pay for" a tax bill. | 2017-11-16 | https://www.politifact.com/new-york/statements/2017/nov/16/andrew-cuomo/what-impact-will-eliminating-individual-mandate-ha/ | Half True | Andrew Cuomo | 2017-11-14 |
PolitiFact | With a late-term abortion, "the mother meets with the doctor. They take care of the baby, they wrap the baby beautifully. And then the doctor and the mother determine whether or not they will execute the baby." | 2019-04-29 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/apr/29/donald-trump/donald-trump-repeats-falsely-doctors-mothers-decid/ | False | Donald Trump | 2019-04-27 |
PolitiFact | "As chairman of the Fulton board of commissioners, I turned a $100 million deficit into a balanced budget." | 2017-04-14 | https://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2017/apr/14/karen-handel/karen-handels-dicey-balanced-budget-claim/ | Half True | Karen Handel | 2017-03-21 |
PolitiFact | "While Hillary Clinton plans a massive, and I mean massive, tax increase, I have proposed the largest tax reduction of any candidate who has run for president this year, Democrat or Republican." | 2016-07-22 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/21/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-he-had-biggest-tax-cuts-any-2016/ | Mostly True | Donald Trump | 2016-07-21 |
FactCheck.org | "You catch a criminal, and you have to release him," referring to people caught trying to enter the U.S. illegally. | 2019-02-15 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/02/factchecking-trumps-national-emergency-remarks/ | False | Donald Trump | 2019-02-15 |
FactCheck.org | Jennifer Lawrence links 9/11 to Trump's election | 2018-09-20 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/09/bogus-jennifer-lawrence-quote-on-9-11-trump/ | False | Viral image | 2018-09-14 |
PolitiFact | "A Trump fan was just charged with trying to murder Maxine Waters on same day Trump threatened her." | 2018-06-28 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jun/28/blog-posting/no-trump-supporter-did-not-try-murder-rep-maxine-w/ | False | Internet Rumors | 2018-06-25 |
PolitiFact | Joe Radinovich "was cited 30 times for not paying court fines." | 2018-09-10 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/sep/10/congressional-leadership-fund/joe-radinovich-no-stranger-traffic-court/ | Mostly True | Congressional Leadership Fund | 2018-08-17 |
Washington Post | “If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL,or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect....our Great American Flag (or Country) and should stand for the National Anthem. If not, YOU'RE FIRED. Find something else to do!” | 2017-10-05 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/10/05/the-nfl-and-the-first-amendment-a-guide-to-the-debate/?utm_term=.38401f2b7745 | Needs Context | Donald Trump | 2017-09-23 |
FactCheck.org | "You know, I haven’t been here very long, the trade deficit really went down very big this last month, and people are saying, 'Whoa.' I told you so. That’s what I do. That’s what I do." | 2019-02-14 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/02/factchecking-trumps-el-paso-rally/ | Distorts the Facts | Donald Trump | 2019-02-11 |
PolitiFact | 80 percent of Americans oppose sanctuary cities. | 2017-10-02 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/feb/24/anatomy-statistic-do-80-percent-americans-oppose-s/ | Polls depend on wording | Bloggers | 2017-02-22 |
PolitiFact | "They found 60 votes in the Senate in 2006 and 2013" for immigration legislation, and "each time the House Republican majority refused to take it up." | 2018-01-26 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jan/26/ronald-brownstein/did-senators-pass-immigration-reform-bills-2006-20/ | True | Ronald Brownstein | 2018-01-23 |
PolitiFact | Says marijuana use among Colorado high school students "has not increased since legalization." | 2016-10-06 | https://www.politifact.com/arizona/statements/2016/oct/06/campaign-regulate-marijuana-alcohol/has-colorado-teen-pot-use-not-increased-legalizati/ | Half True | Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol | 2016-09-27 |
FactCheck.org | The Green New Deal would "permanently eliminate all Planes, Cars, Cows, Oil, Gas & the Military." | 2019-02-15 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/02/the-facts-on-the-green-new-deal/ | False | Donald Trump | 2019-02-09 |
FactCheck.org | "Well, as I have said many times ... I was absolutely permitted" to use a private email system. | 2016-05-27 | https://www.factcheck.org/2016/05/ig-report-on-clintons-emails/ | IG Says 'False' | Hillary Clinton | 2016-05-08 |
FactCheck.org | "Thirty percent of the people who voted for Donald Trump had voted for President Obama." | 2018-03-22 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/03/durbin-wrong-on-trump-democrats/ | False | Dick Durbin | 2018-03-18 |
FactCheck.org | Says he did not use the alias "John Miller" in a 1991 phone interview. "it was not me on the phone." | 2016-06-02 | https://www.factcheck.org/2016/06/expert-voice-analyst-its-trump/ | Voice Analyst: It's Trump | Donald Trump | 2016-05-13 |
PolitiFact | Every 10th dollar spent by the Social Security Administration on its program for the poor is "waste, or fraud, they can’t validate that the people should have gotten it," totaling about $8 billion a year. | 2016-07-15 | https://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2011/jun/24/newt-gingrich/gingrich-says-large-percent-social-security-paymen/ | Mostly True | Newt Gingrich | 2011-06-15 |
Washington Post | "His actions were improper and likely could have been illegal.” | 2017-09-15 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/09/15/did-james-comey-violate-federal-laws/ | Two Pinocchios | Sarah Huckabee Sanders | 2017-09-12 |
PolitiFact | "We took Wisconsin from the Bottom 10 for business to the Top 10." | 2017-08-23 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2017/aug/23/scott-walker/testing-scott-walkers-top-10-business-ranking-clai/ | Mostly False | Scott Walker | 2017-07-19 |
PolitiFact | Claims that Democratic candidate for governor Matt Flynn "told one child predator to ‘wait and see,’ when he should have turned him in to authorities." | 2018-08-10 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2018/aug/10/republican-party-wisconsin/wisconsin-gop-radio-ad-takes-aim-democratic-candid/ | Half True | Wisconsin Republican Party | |
FactCheck.org | "Clint Eastwood Leaves His Estate To The Trump 2020 Campaign" | 2018-05-08 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/05/eastwood-not-leaving-estate-to-trump-campaign/ | False | Various websites | 2018-05-01 |
Washington Post | "You were here long before any of us were here, although we have a representative in Congress who, they say, was here a long time ago. They call her Pocahontas." | 2017-11-27 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/06/28/why-donald-trump-calls-elizabeth-warren-pocahontas/ | Needs Context | Donald Trump | 2017-11-27 |
FactCheck.org | "We had arrested 17,000 criminals at the southern border so far — well, actually, just last year." | 2019-01-08 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/01/misleading-border-crime-statistic/ | Misleading | Mick Mulvaney | 2019-01-06 |
PolitiFact | John Adcock, GOP plan for health care "would get rid of coverage altogether for thousands of families and raise premiums on the rest of us." | 2018-10-23 | https://www.politifact.com/north-carolina/statements/2018/oct/23/sydney-batch/democrat-falsely-links-newly-appointed-republican-/ | False | Sydney Batch | 2018-10-23 |