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Did O'Rourke, Gillibrand say they'd tear down border wall?
Inslee says Washington had world's worst air after fires
Was Sanders silent on race, gender at top of kickoff speech?
Trump falsely says Obama didn't give documents to Congress
No one knows
"Almost every day another 9/11 survivor or responder dies from a 9/11-related cancer."
— PolitiFact New York on Saturday, March 9th, 2019
Climate change not only factor
"The forest fires were so grotesque last year that we had the worst air in the world in Washington."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, March 8th, 2019
Hundreds of thousands of documents shared
When Congress sought documents from President Barack Obama, the White House "didn’t do anything. They didn’t give one letter of the request. Many requests were made. They didn’t give a letter."
Check the elections board website
Says NC absentee voters have "no way" to know if ballots are delivered
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
Claim leaves out additional comments, context
Says Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand "have both said they would tear down the wall if elected president."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
No gaps in this claim
"Since 2011, the gap in high school graduation rates between African-American students and all students has been cut in half, from 6.4 percent to 3.1 percent."
Not so historic
"I’ve already traveled to Washington, D.C., and secured a historic commitment from the Trump administration to provide assistance to the communities that Michael battered."
— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
48th in revenue per mile
"We maintain this (Missouri highway) system with one of the lowest levels of funding in the country."
— PolitiFact Missouri on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
It's a bird, it's a plane!
Facebook video purports to show man flying a hoverboard at over 103 miles per hour.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
Uses a flawed comparison
"Tax revenue went up, actually, $14 billion last year after the tax cut actually occurred. We had greater revenue."
Voter suppression claim still doesn't ring true
In Wisconsin, because a key provision of the Voting Rights Act was not in effect, "somewhere between 40,000 and 80,000 people were turned away from the polls (in 2016) because of the color of their skin" and other factors.
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
Not quite as deep as claimed
Says President Donald Trump "came forth with a budget — a trillion dollar cut in Medicaid, $500 billion to Medicare, and $72 billion for the Social Security Disability Fund."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
$160 million in donations, plus high taxes, knocked her off the list
Says author J.K. Rowling was the first billionaire to fall off Forbes billionaire list because of charitable giving.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
Since 1999, at least
"This is the largest cumulative surplus for the first six months of any fiscal year in state history."
— PolitiFact West Virginia on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
The math checks out
"Just two weeks ago, Customs and Border Protection seized enough fentanyl to kill every person in West Virginia 32 times over."
In the right ballpark
"Right now, four in 10 public schools in our state are at least 50 years old."
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
Not a Bernie pic
Says Bernie Sanders marched with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in Cuba.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
It only exists in the viral warnings
Says a challenge called "Momo" is appearing online in apps and children’s programs and threatens kids in an attempt to force them into performing harmful acts.
Let's check the tape
Says Bernie Sanders "did not mention race or gender until 23 minutes into this speech" announcing his 2020 presidential run.
— PunditFact on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
That's in 2027
With the Trump tax law, "70 percent of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1 percent."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
