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Fact-checking Trump’s claims about a border emergency
Fact-checking O'Rourke's claim about border land departures
Yes, Dems held majority for almost every minimum wage raise
Trump's claim of border invasion needs facts
FEC records back up campaign
Chinese workers made "90,000 banners" for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign and the president chose to hire "Chinese workers instead of American workers"
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, February 15th, 2019
She didn't get a penny
Says U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a "$10 million payout from Netflix."
No systematic approach
When visa holders exit the United States and enter Mexico, "if they leave through a land port of entry we literally have no clue if they are still here or have returned to their country of origin."
— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, February 15th, 2019
Jumping the gun with flip claim
On Evers' support for a $15 minimum wage
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Actual number could be much higher
"More than a million Californians" do not have "clean water to bathe in or drink."
— PolitiFact California on Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Three years isn't so long ago
"Violent crime is now going down for the first time in a long while."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Not the biggest donor, not the same oligarch
Says Mitch McConnell's "biggest donor" is a "Russian oligarch that the GOP just lifted sanctions on."
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Death toll is high
"In 2011, for example, the United Kingdom had 146 deaths due to gun violence; Denmark, 71; Portugal, 142; and Japan, 30. But last year, in the United States, almost 40,000."
Take this claim to the curb
Quotes Beto O’Rourke as saying, "If I could throw two kinds of people in the garbage it would be the elderly and wounded veterans. When a tool breaks you don’t fix it, you throw it in the damn trash."
Some amendments were bundled
Since 1938 the minimum wage has been increased "23 times" and was raised "21 times during Democratic congresses, and only twice during Republican ones."
Johnny Appleseed on steroids
"By rubber-stamping the Bayer-Monsanto merger, the Justice Department is handing control over one quarter of the world's seeds and pesticides market to one ginormous agribusiness."
A reasonable prediction
"Expanding Medicaid would bring 40,000 jobs to North Carolina."
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Wednesday, February 13th, 2019
Refunds not the same as tax burden
"The average tax refund is down about $170 compared to last year. Let’s call the President’s tax cut what it is: a middle-class tax hike to line the pockets of already wealthy corporations and the 1%."
— PolitiFact California on Wednesday, February 13th, 2019
Dems' 96 platform was tough
"In 1992, the Democratic Party had in their platform provisions that said that illegal aliens were coming in this country, committing felonies, sent back and then they were right back across the border to do the same thing."
— PolitiFact Florida on Wednesday, February 13th, 2019
Worth 28 percent less than 60's average
"Today’s minimum wage worker making $7.25 an hour has less buying power than a minimum wage worker in the 1960s."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Wednesday, February 13th, 2019
Photos prove otherwise
Says that at Beto O’Rourke’s rally in El Paso, there were "200 people, 300 people."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
Groups temporary construction jobs with real hiring
Foxconn has already "made a positive impact across Wisconsin with more than 1,000 new jobs."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
Gap is wide but number is wrong
"In 2017, the CEO of McDonalds got paid $21.8 million. The median pay for a McDonald's worker that year was $7,000. This is a moral outrage. We need a $15 minimum wage so that no one is paid a poverty wage."
More than George W. Bush
"I have more military experience than anybody who’s arrived behind that desk since George H.W. Bush."
Smells Like a Fake Quote
Quotes Kurt Cobain saying in 1993 that he wouldn’t be surprised if his generation eventually elected a "true outsider" a "business tycoon who can’t be bought" … "someone like Donald Trump"
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
