Q: Were the victims of a New Jersey home explosion tied to an investigation into the Clinton Foundation? A: No. A viral conspiracy theory is spreading that claim without any evidence. Investigators told us they “found no evidence of foul play&
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FactCheck.org→ Sen. Harris Didn’t ‘Lie’ About Integration
Q: Was Sen. Kamala Harris “lying” when she tweeted about integration in the Berkeley public schools? A: No. The school district fully integrated in 1968, and Harris began attending school in 1969. FULL ANSWER Politicians on the left ha
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Numbers (Second Quarterly Update)
Summary In the time Donald Trump has been in the White House: The economy added 3.2 million jobs, unemployment fell to the lowest level in 18 years, and the number of job openings grew larger than the number of job-seekers for the first time on record
PolitiFact→ Charles Schumer – Trump's Supreme Court pick said presidents shouldn't be investigated, Schumer said
The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Trump's Supreme Court pick said presidents shouldn't be investigated, Schumer said Democrats pounced on a years-old statement by president Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh to drum up c
PolitiFact→ Charles Schumer – Trump's Supreme Court pick said presidents shouldn't be investigated, Schumer said
The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Trump's Supreme Court pick said presidents shouldn't be investigated, Schumer said Democrats pounced on a years-old statement by president Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh to drum up c
FactCheck.org→ Trump Wrong About Wisconsin Election Results
President Donald Trump got his election history wrong when he said that Ronald Reagan lost Wisconsin, and that before his 2016 win, no GOP presidential candidate had won the state since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. Trump is forgetting that President Eise
FactCheck.org→ Calls to Abolish ICE Not ‘Open Borders’
Despite President Donald Trump’s repeated claims, Democrats are not advocating open borders, not even the ones who are calling to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The small minority of Democrats in Congress calling for the end of ICE
FactCheck.org→ Video: Rep. Ellison on Trump’s ‘Travel Ban’
This week’s video from CNN’s Jake Tapper and FactCheck.org explains Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison’s tweet that the Supreme Court “ratified Donald Trump’s ‘total and complete shutdown’ of Muslims entry into the United State
FactCheck.org→ Partisan Websites Spin Mexican Campaign Rhetoric
Q: Did the front-runner in the presidential race in Mexico call for an “invasion” of migrants to the U.S.? A: No. Andrés Manuel López Obrador pledged to “defend migrants … who of necessity have to leave their villages.” FULL AN
FactCheck.org→ Sanders Didn’t Call Christianity Insulting
Q: Did Sen. Bernie Sanders say that Christianity is an insult to Muslims? A: He didn’t say that. He criticized a statement made by a presidential nominee as Islamophobic. FULL ANSWER In June 2017, Sen. Bernie Sanders criticized a presidentia
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s ‘Travel Ban’ Doesn’t Affect All Muslims
Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison tweeted that the Supreme Court “ratified Donald Trump’s ‘total and complete shutdown’ of Muslims entry into the United States.” That is a Trump quote from the presidential campaign. But his actual executive actio
FactCheck.org→ Rhode Island Tax Returns Bill Didn’t Pass
Q: Did Rhode Island pass a bill “to keep Trump off the 2020 ballot”? A: No. Only one chamber passed a bill to require presidential candidates to disclose their federal tax returns. FULL ANSWER A misleading headline posits that a certain
FactCheck.org→ Sessions vs. Sessions on Separating Families
Attorney General Jeff Sessions now says that the administration “never really intended” to separate families as part of its zero tolerance policy on illegal immigration. But Sessions had previously acknowledged that that’s what woul
FactCheck.org→ Did the Obama Administration Separate Families?
In defending its “zero tolerance” border policy that has caused the separation of families, the Trump administration has argued that the Obama and Bush administrations did this too. That’s misleading. Experts say there were some separ
FactCheck.org→ Emily’s List/Women Vote!
Political leanings: Liberal Spending target: Undisclosed Emily’s List and Women Vote! are affiliated political action committees devoted to electing Democratic women candidates who support a legal right to abortion. Both operate from the same of
FactCheck.org→ Trump Misleads on IG Report
President Donald Trump said he thinks former FBI Director James Comey committed “very criminal acts.” But the facts don’t support the president’s opinion. The Justice Department inspector general’s report released June 14 doesn’t ma
FactCheck.org→ Video: Has Trump’s Wall Construction Begun?
In this fact-checking video, CNN’s Jake Tapper reviews President Donald Trump’s repeated claim that construction has begun on his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump has been making this claim since he signed the signed the bipartisa
FactCheck.org→ No ‘Treason’ or ‘Bust’ for Obama
Q: Have the “feds bust[ed] Barack Obama” on felony charges? A: No. That claim is based on the false assertion that the former president committed treason in his last few months in office. FULL ANSWER A story making the rounds online ha
FactCheck.org→ Trump Misleads on Opioid Epidemic Fight
President Donald Trump implied that his administration’s funding to fight the opioid epidemic had caused the “numbers” to come “way down.” But the most recent data we have on opioid-related deaths — which are still r
FactCheck.org→ Was Mueller’s Appointment ‘Unconstitutional’?
In his latest attack on the Russia investigation, President Donald Trump tweeted, “The appointment of the Special Counsel is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL!” This amounts to Trump’s opinion, and is a matter of debate among constitutional sc
Snopes→ Did President Trump Donate His First-Quarter 2018 Salary to the Department of Veterans Affairs?
In keeping with his campaign promise to forgo a presidential salary, the White House announced in May 2018 that Trump is donating $100,000 to Veterans Affairs.
FactCheck.org→ Navajo Didn’t Support Shrinking Bears Ears
Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke claimed the Navajo people who “live close” to Bears Ears National Monument “were all in support” of President Donald Trump’s decision to shrink the protected land. But tribe rep
FactCheck.org→ A Lobbyist in Congress? Not Exactly.
Has someone “been a lobbyist” if the person was registered as such but never had any clients? What if that registration was later retroactively deactivated? Those are the questions in a dispute in the Ohio Senate race. Democratic Sen. Sherr
PolitiFact→ The facts behind Donald Trump’s pardoning Dinesh D’Souza
President Donald Trump announced he would pardon controversial conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza on May 31, 2018: "Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D’Souza today. He was treated very unfairly by our government!" Trump tweet
FactCheck.org→ Bezos Didn’t Endorse Michelle Obama for 2020
Q: Is Jeff Bezos running full-page “Michelle Obama for President” ads on Amazon? A: No. Amazon vendors sell items expressing support for numerous possible 2020 presidential candidates, including Obama. FULL ANSWER Amazon shoppers have
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s Nashville Rally
At a campaign rally in Nashville, President Donald Trump repeated a bushelful of false and misleading claims, and added a few new ones: Trump said the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act was “so unconstitutional.” The
FactCheck.org→ Who’s to Blame for Higher Gas Prices?
With gasoline prices rising, Sen. Chuck Schumer placed the blame on President Donald Trump, and specifically his decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. But experts say that decision has had only a modest effect so far on rising prices at the pu
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Misleading L.A. Story
President Donald Trump claimed that federal immigration officials asked the Los Angeles Police Department in January to detain an “illegal immigrant,” but the police “let him go, and he killed somebody.” That’s not how it
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Did ex-intelligence chief Clapper say FBI spied on Trump campaign? No
The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Did ex-intelligence chief Clapper say FBI spied on Trump campaign? No President Donald Trump has hinted that the Obama administration inserted a mole in his presidential campaign to undercut his candidacy. In an earl
FactCheck.org→ Trump Misquotes Clapper on FBI ‘Spy’
In a morning tweetstorm on the Russia investigation, President Donald Trump misquoted James Clapper. Trump claimed the former intelligence director said, “Trump should be happy that the FBI was SPYING on his campaign,” when, in fact, Clappe
FactCheck.org→ National Rifle Association
Political leanings: Conservative/Gun Rights Spending target: Unknown The National Rifle Association of America is a tax-exempt 501(c)(4) nonprofit that advocates for gun rights and claims more than 5 million members. The NRA has a political action com
FactCheck.org→ Schiff Shanks Trump Golf Cart Story
Rep. Adam Schiff mistakenly claimed that the Secret Service has paid the Trump Organization “over $150,000 … for the privilege of renting Donald Trump golf carts to protect Donald Trump on his rounds.” In fact, the federal agency rent
FactCheck.org→ Sessions Not ‘Caught Colluding’ With Obama
Q: Was Attorney General Jeff Sessions “caught colluding” with Barack Obama on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election? A: No. That’s the headline on a story critical of Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia prob
FactCheck.org→ The President and Military Pay Raises
At an event honoring the mothers and spouses of military members, President Donald Trump mistakenly said that the recently approved budget raised military pay for the “first time in 10 years.” That isn’t true, as the White House admit
FactCheck.org→ What Michelle Obama Actually Said
Q: Did Michelle Obama call women who voted for President Donald Trump “stupid”? A: No. But the former first lady did say she was concerned about the role women played in electing Trump. FULL ANSWER Former first lady Michelle Obama made headlines
FactCheck.org→ Trump Spins Rise in Job Openings
The number of job openings has been rising since mid-2009, contrary to President Donald Trump’s boast that under his stewardship “all of a sudden, we have jobs.” The president made his remarks during an appearance in Ohio to talk abou
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Misleading Attack on Mueller Team
President Donald Trump made several misleading comments when questioning the impartiality of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III and his investigative team. Trump said, “In all fairness, Bob Mueller worked for [President] Obama for eight years
FactCheck.org→ Q&A on Stormy Daniels’ Payment
In a series of early morning tweets on May 3, President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time that he reimbursed his personal attorney for the $130,000 payment that was made to porn star Stormy Daniels. Still, there are many unanswered questions
PolitiFact→ The timeline of Donald Trump’s explanations for the Stormy Daniels payment
President Donald Trump and his team repeatedly denied that Trump had a relationship with adult film actress Stormy Daniels, and left unclear Trump’s role in furnishing hush money to silence the porn star about their alleged 2006 affair. But state
Snopes→ Did Mike Huckabee Complain About Michelle Wolf After Mocking ‘Triggers’ on Twitter?
Two tweets by the former GOP presidential candidate were combined to highlight a discrepancy in his views regarding what should be considered comedy.