Did Judge Juan Merchan tell former President Donald Trump he could not attend his son Barron's high school graduation on May 17, 2024? No, that's not true: The Manhattan judge in Trump's hush-money criminal trial hasn't ruled on the reque
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PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Donald Trump said all legal scholars, ‘on both sides,’ wanted Roe v. Wade overturned. That’s wrong.
"All legal scholars, both sides, wanted, and in fact demanded” that Roe v. Wade be overturned.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Biden Calling Man ‘F*gg*t’ — Biden Said ‘Thank You’
Did a video show President Joe Biden calling a man a "f*gg*t"? No, that's not true: A representative for the man -- a TikToker named Harry Daniels -- denied the claim and told Lead Stories that Biden responded with "thank you" after Danie
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence AOC Said ‘I Get My Food From The Grocery Store’ In Response To Supply Disruptions From Collapsed Baltimore Bridge — It’s Satire
Did Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) say supply disruptions caused by the Baltimore bridge collapse don't concern her because she "get[s] her food from the grocery store?" No, that's not true: This quote comes from a satirical website
PolitiFact→ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – RFK Jr. said that Jan. 6 ‘protestors carried no weapons.’ Evidence shows that's Pants on Fire!
On Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol “protestors carried no weapons.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Chick-fil-A Did NOT Announce It Is ‘Moving To Fake Chicken’ — Company Said It’s Shifting Policy On Animal Antibiotics
Did Chick-fil-A announce that the company was "moving to fake chicken"? No, that's not true: Pointing out that a social media post making the claim appeared on April 1, 2024, the company told Lead Stories: "The Instagram post from April F
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Brag He Ogled ‘Miss Teen’ Contestants As They Dressed Backstage — He Said Miss USA and Miss Universe
Did former President Donald Trump once brag about going backstage at the "Miss Teen USA show" when "everyone's getting dressed and ready," as a post on Facebook claimed? No, that's not true: There is no record of Trump having made such a
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden said he commuted by train and car as a senator, including over the Baltimore Key Bridge
President Joe Biden recently said he commuted by both train and car as a senator, including over the Baltimore Key Bridge. Social media posts about his statement omitted context.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Marine Officer Said ‘I Have Spent Over 15 Years On Mars In Secret Space Program’ — NO Humans Have Set Foot On Mars As Of March 2024
Did a U.S. Marine Officer spend over 15 years on Mars in a secret space program? No, that's not true: A NASA spokesperson told Lead Stories that NASA has "not yet sent humans to Mars" and has a goal of "having astronauts walk on Mars by 2
PolitiFact→ In Context: What Trump said about a ‘bloodbath’ and Biden’s actions on the car industry
Former President Donald Trump was talking about the auto industry when he said, “If I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath.” Here’s context for that remark and others from his Ohio rally.
The Dispatch→ Everybody Said ‘Never Again’
Two contemporary studies in genocide.
PolitiFact→ Ron DeSantis – Ron DeSantis said Citizens Property Insurance ‘is not solvent.’ That’s misleading
Citizens Property Insurance “is not solvent.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Hillary Clinton Specifically Said She ‘Would Like To See People Like Donald Trump Run For Office’
Did Hillary Clinton say in 2013 that she "would like to see people like Donald Trump run for office"? No, that's not true: In the extensive publicly accessible record of Clinton statements, Lead Stories found only that she said in 2013 th
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Biden said Medicare drug price negotiations cut the deficit by $160 billion. That's years away.
“We cut the federal deficit by $160 billion because Medicare will no longer have to pay those exorbitant prices to Big Pharma.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Erewhon, a trendy California grocer, didn’t open in New York. Video creators said it was a spoof
Video shows Erewhon grocery store in Brooklyn.
PolitiFact→ Is Donald Trump’s NATO talk a warning or a negotiating tactic? Here’s what he has said
Donald Trump has criticized NATO since his 2016 presidential campaign. But it is difficult to predict if he would withdraw from the alliance if elected for a second term. His public comments fall short of that.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No proof Taylor Swift said she’d leave the U.S. if Donald Trump won
Taylor Swift said she “will leave the United States if Donald Trump becomes President in 2024.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trudeau Misspoke When He Said ‘Russia Must Win This War’ — He Corrected, Saying ‘Ukraine Must Win This War’
Did Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau say that Russia must win this war? Yes: Trudeau did misspeak at the end of a news conference in Poland. While speaking of how aid and military equipment would be supplied to Ukraine, he accidenta
PolitiFact→ Sorting out what Marco Rubio said about Senate immigration bill’s ‘asylum corps’
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said the Senate’s immigration bill created an “asylum corps” of thousands of “bureaucrats” making asylum easier to get. The bill expanded asylum officers’ powers, but they already existed.
Full Fact→ Has the Scottish government said it plans to ‘maintain funding’ for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees?
Although the Scottish First Minister has denied funding to a UN agency for Palestinian refugees has been “paused”, the Scottish government says it currently has no plans to give more aid.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce Said They Would Leave US If Trump Wins In 2024
Did Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce say they would leave the United States if Donald Trump wins in 2024? No, that's not true: There is no proof that either of them ever said that. No news outlets have reported that the singer or the footbal
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking claims about what special counsel report said about Biden
Special Counsel Robert Hur, in his report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, didn’t call Biden a criminal, contrary to social media claims. Nor did he say Biden was incompetent for trial or mentally unfit for office.
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – President Biden said he didn’t have highly classified documents. The special counsel says otherwise.
On classified documents in his possession, “none of it was high classified.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: John Kirby Did NOT Say Zero Civilians Had Died In Gaza — He Said ‘The Right Number Of Civilian Casualties Is Zero’
Did Assistant to the Secretary of Defense John Kirby say that the "true number of civilians deaths in Gaza is zero"? No, that's not true: That is a misquote that drastically changes the meaning of what Kirby said. No such quote is found i
PolitiFact→ Sen. Chris Murphy said ‘the border never closes.’ What does that mean?
Republican senators used an X post by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., that “the border never closes” to bolster their opposition to an immigration bill. What did Murphy mean?
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Is inflation down to 2%, as Joe Biden said? It depends on your metric
“Inflation has been at the pre-pandemic level of 2% over the last half year.”
PolitiFact→ Nikki Haley – Nikki Haley said Texas could secede from the U.S. Here’s why that’s wrong
If Texas says, “‘We don’t want to be part of America anymore’ … that’s their decision to make.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Said Judge Kaplan Took $5 Million Bribe To Convict Trump
Did Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba say that U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan took a $5 million bribe to convict Trump? No, that's not true: There is no proof that Habba ever accused Kaplan of taking a bribe to convict the former presid
PolitiFact→ Scott Walker – Scott Walker said college voters’ No. 1 issue is the economy, not abortion. Is he right?
"(The) top issue for college students is the economy."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Jennifer Lopez Did NOT Promote A ‘Rice Hack’ On An Episode Of Dr. Oz — She Said ‘Lots Of Water’
Did Jennifer Lopez appear on TV with Dr. Oz to promote a weight-loss "Rice Hack"? No, that's not true: A promotion on Facebook contains old video footage of Lopez which has an altered audio track, putting words in the singer's mouth and t
PolitiFact→ X posts – Dean Phillips didn’t win the NH primary. He said so himself.
“Rep. Dean Phillips received almost twice as many votes as Biden did in the New Hampshire primary.”
PolitiFact→ Did the world know about global warming a century ago, as Dean Phillips said?
Dean Phillips, President Joe Biden’s Democratic primary challenger, recently said, “We knew 100 years ago what would happen by burning fossil fuels." Some climate change historians say that’s an exaggeration.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Ellen DeGeneres And Tom Hanks Said They Will ‘Leave The US If Trump Becomes President in 2024’
Did comedian Ellen DeGeneres and actor Tom Hanks pledge to move abroad if Donald Trump is elected president in 2024? No, that's not true: No credible news outlets have reported that. The claim was promoted, among others, by an online stor
PolitiFact→ Nikki Haley – Nikki Haley said Donald Trump wanted to raise the gas tax as president. His support was flimsy.
Donald Trump “proposed when he was president” that “he wanted to raise the gas tax up to 25 cents."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Netanyahu Once Said ‘America Is A Golden Calf And We Will Suck It Dry,’ ‘Destroy’ It
Did Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once say, "America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry," and then "destroy" it? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that Netanyahu said this years before the Hamas-Israel war, or ev
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Trump said he won the Iowa caucus three times. Wrong. He lost to Ted Cruz in 2016
“This is the third time we’ve won but this is the biggest win” in Iowa caucus.
PolitiFact→ Nikki Haley said ‘DeSantisLies.com’ 16 times in Iowa debate. How accurate is the website?
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley directed Iowa debate viewers to a website chronicling what she said are Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ many “lies.” Here’s a fact-checker’s review of “DeSantisLies.com.”
PolitiFact→ Ron DeSantis said a NYC school displaced students to house migrants. Here’s what happened.
During the Iowa debate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claimed a NYC school displaced students to house migrants. This characterization omits key details. He’s referring to a single-day displacement because of severe weather. No migrants remain in the sch
PolitiFact→ Ron DeSantis – Is income growth in Florida No. 1 in the U.S., as Ron DeSantis said?
In Florida, “income growth is top of the chart.”
PolitiFact→ Mark Green – FBI director never said Hamas militants can walk right into the U.S. through the southern border
Says FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress “that with the border wide open and a war in Israel, Hamas can just walk right in.”