Q: Have former White House staffers released a “private tape recording” of President Donald Trump? A: No. That claim comes from a false headline on an old story. FULL ANSWER Recordings of various kinds have dogged President Donald Trump
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FactCheck.org→ League of Conservation Voters
Political leanings: Pro-environment/liberal Spending target: Unknown The League of Conservation Voters works to defeat “anti-environment” candidates and elect politicians “who stand up for a clean, healthy environment,”according to its missi
FactCheck.org→ Trump Wrong on Comey ‘Leak,’ McCabe Funds
President Donald Trump claimed a memo that former FBI Director James Comey gave to a friend “in order to get a special counsel against me” was “all classified … totally classified.” That’s wrong. It was unclassified
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking McCarthy’s Statistics
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy got some of his facts wrong during a recent appearance on Fox Business: McCarthy claimed that mandatory spending accounted for just 25 percent of federal spending under President Ronald Reagan. Actually, it average
FactCheck.org→ ESAFund/Ending Spending Inc.
Political leanings: Fiscally conservative Spending target: Unknown Ending Spending Action Fund was launched as a super PAC in 2010 along with its affiliated nonprofit, Ending Spending Inc. Originally, the super PAC was called Taxpayers Against Earmar
FactCheck.org→ Muddying a Trump Loyalty Test
In Republican primaries where loyalty to President Donald Trump’s agenda is a litmus test for many voters, the approval of a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill has become a political weapon — no matter how lawmakers voted. Indiana Republic
FactCheck.org→ Paul Ryan Misleads on Corporate Tax Revenues
House Speaker Paul Ryan misleadingly claimed that corporate tax revenues are “still rising,” even though the 2017 tax law cut tax rates. In the first six months of fiscal year 2018, corporate tax receipts have declined by 22.3 percent from
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Numbers (First Quarterly Update)
Summary In the time Donald Trump has been in the White House: Job growth slowed, but unemployment still sank to the lowest rate in 17 years. Economic growth quickened to 2.3 percent last year, but that was roughly half the rate Trump promised. The gro
FactCheck.org→ Has the Border Wall Begun?
Q: Has President Donald Trump started building the wall between United States and Mexico? A: Congress approved $1.6 billion to replace existing barriers and add some fencing in new areas. The new barriers are not concrete and not like any of Trump̵
FactCheck.org→ Facebook Not Giving Kochs User Data
Q: Is Facebook planning to give Charles and David Koch “unprecedented access” to users’ personal information? A: No. A story making that claim misrepresents a research initiative that is being funded by seven organizations including
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s Immigration Tweets
President Donald Trump fired off a flurry of immigration-related tweets beginning on Easter morning, but his messages included muddled and inaccurate claims. Contrary to Trump’s assertion, there is no “liberal (Democrat)” law requiri
FactCheck.org→ Oh, SNAP! Misleading Claims on Benefit Enrollment
Q: Did “two million people leave the food stamp rolls in Trump’s first year”? A: No. That’s the decline in average monthly enrollment in fiscal year 2017, including almost four months when Trump wasn’t president. FULL QUE
FactCheck.org→ Congressional Race Scorecard
There have been eight congressional special elections since Donald Trump was inaugurated, and Republicans have won five of them. But the president spun that into a 5-0 record “up until last week” in a speech at a National Republican Congres
PolitiFact→ Did Donald Trump’s predecessors congratulate Vladimir Putin’s election win?
President Donald Trump has taken heat for congratulating Vladimir Putin following his successful bid in Russia’s presidential election, which critics have derided as a sham contest. International observers said the election was marred by t
Snopes→ Did Obama’s Justice Department Force the FBI to Delete 500,000 Fugitives from a Background Check Database?
A Justice Department decision made under Obama and implemented under Trump has garnered bipartisan criticism for its effect on the national background check system.
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Canadian Trade Tale
In making his case for renegotiating NAFTA, President Donald Trump told GOP donors that the U.S. has a trade surplus with Canada — but only because the trade balance “doesn’t include energy and timber.” That’s false. Accor
FactCheck.org→ Trump and the Veterans Choice Program
Q: Did President Donald Trump sign an order allowing veterans to get full medical bills paid at hospitals outside the VA? A: No, but Trump has continued a program that allows some veterans to seek outside care. FULL QUESTION There is a FB post going ar
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s MAGA Rally
In a campaign speech supporting the Republican candidate in a special House election in Pennsylvania’s 18th District, President Donald Trump made several false and misleading statements on a range of topics, from drug smuggling to the stock marke
FactCheck.org→ The Facts on Media Violence
In the wake of the Florida school shooting, politicians have raised concern over the influence of violent video games and films on young people, with the president claiming they’re “shaping young people’s thoughts.” Scientists s
FactCheck.org→ Tax Cut Ads Preview Midterm Elections Ahead
Summary In a preview of this fall’s midterm elections, Democrats and Republicans are airing TV ads in Pennsylvania’s special House election and in swing congressional districts across the country that stretch the facts about the impact of
FactCheck.org→ Video: Gun Violence
In this video, CNN’s Jake Tapper reviews claims made by members of both parties about gun violence in the U.S. The video covers President Donald Trump’s statement Feb. 28 in a bipartisan meeting with members of Congress at the White House.
FactCheck.org→ The Gun Debate
President Donald Trump and some members of Congress met Feb. 28 at the White House for a freewheeling discussion on how to reduce gun violence at schools. The meeting came two weeks after the mass shooting in Florida in which 17 people were killed, in
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Misleading Gun Rhetoric
In a bipartisan meeting with members of Congress, President Donald Trump made false and misleading claims about his predecessors’ actions on gun control legislation and shootings in “gun-free zones.” Trump criticized past presidents
NPR→ FACT CHECK: Trump’s Meeting With Lawmakers About Gun Policy
The president hosted members of Congress from both parties to discuss legislation on school safety and guns on Wednesday. NPR journalists have annotated a transcript of their remarks.(Image credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Internet Archive→ President Discusses Community & School Safety : CSPAN : February 28, 2018 6:42pm-7:48pm EST
President Trump and a bipartisan group of lawmakers discussed how to prevent gun violence in communities and schools. The president urged Congress to come up with one comprehensive gun bill and said he would sign an executive order to ban so-called bum
PolitiFact→ Democrats’ memo pushes back on GOP claims about Russia probe
The House Intelligence Committee's partisan divide deepened with the Feb. 24 release of a Democratic memo fending off Republican claims that the investigation into collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is political
FactCheck.org→ Trump on Health Insurance Costs
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, President Donald Trump boasted that “we’re having tremendous plans coming out now — health care plans — at a fraction of the cost that are much better than Obamacare.R
FactCheck.org→ Trump Puts New Twist on Visa Misinformation
President Donald Trump repeatedly has mangled the facts about the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program — as we have documented. This week, he found a new way to misrepresent the program. Trump said those who win the diversity visa lottery are awarded
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s ‘Deficit Reduction’
White House press aides are claiming President Donald Trump’s budget contains trillions in “deficit reduction,” when it actually calls for larger deficits for the next several years and would add $7 trillion to the national debt over
PolitiFact→ Will millennials be the largest voting bloc in 2018, as Rock the Vote predicts?
Rock the Vote, a group that is focused on increasing young registered voters, says that the youth vote has reached a pivotal status. "Millennials are the largest and most diverse generation and this year we will be the largest voting block,"
PolitiFact→ The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter: PolitiFact’s methodology for independent fact-checking
Fact-checking journalism is the heart of PolitiFact. Our core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting and clear writing. The reason we publish is to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democ
PolitiFact→ National Republican Senatorial Committee – Misleading NRSC ad paints Heidi Heitkamp as Donald Trump contrarian
The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False | Misleading NRSC ad paints Heidi Heitkamp as Donald Trump contrarian A North Dakota National Republican Senate Committee ad portrays Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., as a contrarian to President Donald Trump. "
FactCheck.org→ Trump on Britain’s Universal Health Care
President Donald Trump tweeted that while Democrats are pushing for universal health care, “thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U[niversal] system is going broke and not working.” But the London demonstrators marched in
Snopes→ What the GOP Memo Says (and Doesn’t Say)
After more than a week of partisan bickering and social media-fueled buildup, the #releasethememo crowd got their wish.
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Misleading DACA Boast
President Donald Trump boasted in his State of the Union address that his legislative proposal to make the DACA program permanent will “generously” cover 1.8 million people — “almost three times more people than the previous a
FactCheck.org→ Groundhog Friday, Groundhog Day Edition
Politicians often make the same claims over and over again, leaving us fact-checkers empathizing with Bill Murray’s character in that 1993 classic “Groundhog Day.” This week was no different. To highlight the repeats we’ve debun
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s State of the Union
Summary President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address was filled with several repeat claims about the economy, tax cuts and immigration that we’ve fact-checked before, as well as new false and misleading statements on auto pla
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Donald Trump wrong again that recent tax bill is biggest ever
The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Donald Trump wrong again that recent tax bill is biggest ever President Donald Trump repeated in his State of the Union address one of his most frequent talking points — and one that has been repeatedly debunke
Snopes→ Trump to Herald Economic Progress in State of the Union
President Donald Trump will herald a robust economy and push for bipartisan congressional action on immigration in his State of the Union address.
Truth or Fiction?→ Karin McQuillian Writes “What I Learned in the Peace Corp: President Trump Was Right”-Authorship Confirmed!
Karin McQuillian Writes “What I Learned in the Peace Corps: President Trump Was Right”-Authorship Confirmed! Summary of eRumor: A former Peace Corp volunteer named Karin McQuillian wrote that her experiences in Africa had taught her that &#