Latest Half-True Fact-checks Clear Any Rating True Mostly True Half True Mostly False False Pants on Fire Full Flop Half Flip No Flip Any Speaker Any Date Range Last 3 Months Last 6 Months Last 12 Months 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Any Category Dan McCready stated on August 8, 2019 in a tweet: Says "Dan Bishop doubles down on removing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. Under his sham ‘association health plans,’ insurance companies don't have to pay for medications for pre-existing conditions." Bernie Sanders stated on August 15, 2019 in an interview with Cardi B: "We have something like one out of four young black men in this country end up in the criminal justice system. They may end up in jail, they may end up on parole, they may end up on probation." Amy Klobuchar stated on August 12, 2019 in an interview: The "boyfriend loophole" means that "if you commit a serious crime of domestic abuse against your wife, you can't get a gun, but if you do it against your girlfriend, you can." Rob Schmitt stated on August 14, 2019 in a "Fox & Friends First" discussion: Says the Trump administration’s new policy for legal immigrants on welfare "has been around for a while. This is not a new thing that the president is trying to implement here, that the United States has been this way." Bernie Sanders stated on August 5, 2019 in a Facebook meme: "In 2016, counties hosting a Trump rally saw a 226% spike in hate crimes." Andrew Cuomo stated on July 19, 2019 in a radio interview: Property taxes have "nothing to do with the state." Pete Buttigieg stated on August 5, 2019 in a Medium post: "The Trump Administration cut funding allocated to the Department of Homeland Security to combat white nationalism." John Cornyn stated on July 22, 2019 in an advertisement: Says Royce West stood with Wendy Davis "to support painful late-term abortions." Donald Trump stated on August 4, 2019 in remarks in Morristown, N.J.: Asked what his administration would be doing about "the gun problem," said, "We have done much more than most administrations. … We’ve done, actually, a lot." Bernie Sanders stated on August 5, 2019 in a video on Twitter: "There are more assault rifles, as I understand it, in the hands of private citizens than in the hands of the United States military. We're talking about 5 to 10 million assault weapons in the hands of private citizens." Bill Clinton stated on August 5, 2019 in a tweet: "After (the assault weapon ban) passed in 1994, there was a big drop in mass shooting deaths. When the ban expired, they rose again." Viral image stated on July 19, 2019 in post on Facebook: "Ida B. Wells refused to give up her seat 71 years before Rosa Parks did. At age 33, she owned the first African American newspaper in Chicago, the Chicago Conservator. Why do you never hear about her? Because she was a Republican." Donald Trump stated on August 1, 2019 in a rally: "The homicide rate in Baltimore is significantly higher than El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala. ... I believe it’s higher than Afghanistan." Kirsten Gillibrand stated on July 31, 2019 in the Detroit debate: "When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, ‘create the deterioration of family.’ He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, ‘avoiding responsibility.’" Marianne Williamson stated on July 28, 2019 in an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation": "We are the only advanced industrialized nation that bases our educational funding on property taxes." Richard Durbin stated on July 11, 2019 in a speech: Says President Trump "has ended up attracting larger numbers of people coming to the United States presenting themselves for asylum status at our border than we’ve ever seen." Elizabeth Warren stated on July 22, 2019 in a post on Medium: "The country is now in a manufacturing recession." Donna Shalala stated on July 21, 2019 in an interview on CBSMiami with Jim DeFede: Says children at Homestead migrant facility "get 30 minutes over a month to talk to family members. If they were in a prison — a federal prison — they would get 300 minutes." Dan Bishop stated on July 17, 2019 in a speech at a Trump rally: Says "Dan McCready took money from Ilhan Omar" North Carolina Healthcare Association stated on July 7, 2019 in in a paid advertisement in the News & Observer: Says the changes to the State Health Plan "will DENY North Carolina state employees, retirees, and their families of in-network access to critical healthcare services." Weston Pagano stated on June 24, 2019 in an essay on Medium: Says Joe Biden "voted to expand deportations and indefinite detention for immigrants multiple times." Ron Johnson stated on June 12, 2019 in a Facebook post: Obama-era ban on whole and 2% milk in schools has caused "notable decline" in student milk consumption. Ken Cuccinelli stated on July 7, 2019 in a Fox News Sunday interview: "Last year, we were in the range of 850,000 and that was the most in five years. … We are letting more people become citizens than has happened in years." Rick Scott stated on July 8, 2019 in a tweet: "Americans are traveling to Canada to pay 12 times less for insulin than they would here in the US." Michael Burgess stated on June 24, 2019 in an MSNBC interview: Of shelters for immigrant children: "You know what? There's not a lock on the door. Any child is free to leave at anytime, but they don't. You know why? Because they are well taken care of." Viral image stated on July 3, 2019 in posts on the Internet: When asked if the United States should have a military parade to "show off its might," President Dwight Eisenhower said, "Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak." Beto O'Rourke stated on June 13, 2019 in an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: "The Census is predicting a 6% undercount that will be targeted against nonwhites in this country — so Hispanics, African Americans, communities of color" if a citizenship question is asked. Kamala Harris stated on June 27, 2019 in a Democratic presidential debate: Says "I disagreed" with President Obama’s Secure Communities deportation program Florida Democratic Party stated on June 17, 2019 in a press release: The Trump administration has denied "4.2 million American workers overtime." Bernie Sanders stated on June 20, 2019 in a tweet: "30,000 Americans a year die waiting for health care because of the cost."
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Dan McCready stated on August 8, 2019 in a tweet: Says "Dan Bishop doubles down on removing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. Under his sham ‘association health plans,’ insurance companies don't have to pay for medications for pre-existing conditions." Bernie Sanders stated on August 15, 2019 in an interview with Cardi B: "We have something like one out of four young black men in this country end up in the criminal justice system. They may end up in jail, they may end up on parole, they may end up on probation." Amy Klobuchar stated on August 12, 2019 in an interview: The "boyfriend loophole" means that "if you commit a serious crime of domestic abuse against your wife, you can't get a gun, but if you do it against your girlfriend, you can." Rob Schmitt stated on August 14, 2019 in a "Fox & Friends First" discussion: Says the Trump administration’s new policy for legal immigrants on welfare "has been around for a while. This is not a new thing that the president is trying to implement here, that the United States has been this way." Bernie Sanders stated on August 5, 2019 in a Facebook meme: "In 2016, counties hosting a Trump rally saw a 226% spike in hate crimes." Andrew Cuomo stated on July 19, 2019 in a radio interview: Property taxes have "nothing to do with the state." Pete Buttigieg stated on August 5, 2019 in a Medium post: "The Trump Administration cut funding allocated to the Department of Homeland Security to combat white nationalism." John Cornyn stated on July 22, 2019 in an advertisement: Says Royce West stood with Wendy Davis "to support painful late-term abortions." Donald Trump stated on August 4, 2019 in remarks in Morristown, N.J.: Asked what his administration would be doing about "the gun problem," said, "We have done much more than most administrations. … We’ve done, actually, a lot." Bernie Sanders stated on August 5, 2019 in a video on Twitter: "There are more assault rifles, as I understand it, in the hands of private citizens than in the hands of the United States military. We're talking about 5 to 10 million assault weapons in the hands of private citizens." Bill Clinton stated on August 5, 2019 in a tweet: "After (the assault weapon ban) passed in 1994, there was a big drop in mass shooting deaths. When the ban expired, they rose again." Viral image stated on July 19, 2019 in post on Facebook: "Ida B. Wells refused to give up her seat 71 years before Rosa Parks did. At age 33, she owned the first African American newspaper in Chicago, the Chicago Conservator. Why do you never hear about her? Because she was a Republican." Donald Trump stated on August 1, 2019 in a rally: "The homicide rate in Baltimore is significantly higher than El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala. ... I believe it’s higher than Afghanistan." Kirsten Gillibrand stated on July 31, 2019 in the Detroit debate: "When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, ‘create the deterioration of family.’ He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, ‘avoiding responsibility.’" Marianne Williamson stated on July 28, 2019 in an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation": "We are the only advanced industrialized nation that bases our educational funding on property taxes." Richard Durbin stated on July 11, 2019 in a speech: Says President Trump "has ended up attracting larger numbers of people coming to the United States presenting themselves for asylum status at our border than we’ve ever seen." Elizabeth Warren stated on July 22, 2019 in a post on Medium: "The country is now in a manufacturing recession." Donna Shalala stated on July 21, 2019 in an interview on CBSMiami with Jim DeFede: Says children at Homestead migrant facility "get 30 minutes over a month to talk to family members. If they were in a prison — a federal prison — they would get 300 minutes." Dan Bishop stated on July 17, 2019 in a speech at a Trump rally: Says "Dan McCready took money from Ilhan Omar" North Carolina Healthcare Association stated on July 7, 2019 in in a paid advertisement in the News & Observer: Says the changes to the State Health Plan "will DENY North Carolina state employees, retirees, and their families of in-network access to critical healthcare services." Weston Pagano stated on June 24, 2019 in an essay on Medium: Says Joe Biden "voted to expand deportations and indefinite detention for immigrants multiple times." Ron Johnson stated on June 12, 2019 in a Facebook post: Obama-era ban on whole and 2% milk in schools has caused "notable decline" in student milk consumption. Ken Cuccinelli stated on July 7, 2019 in a Fox News Sunday interview: "Last year, we were in the range of 850,000 and that was the most in five years. … We are letting more people become citizens than has happened in years." Rick Scott stated on July 8, 2019 in a tweet: "Americans are traveling to Canada to pay 12 times less for insulin than they would here in the US." Michael Burgess stated on June 24, 2019 in an MSNBC interview: Of shelters for immigrant children: "You know what? There's not a lock on the door. Any child is free to leave at anytime, but they don't. You know why? Because they are well taken care of." Viral image stated on July 3, 2019 in posts on the Internet: When asked if the United States should have a military parade to "show off its might," President Dwight Eisenhower said, "Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak." Beto O'Rourke stated on June 13, 2019 in an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: "The Census is predicting a 6% undercount that will be targeted against nonwhites in this country — so Hispanics, African Americans, communities of color" if a citizenship question is asked. Kamala Harris stated on June 27, 2019 in a Democratic presidential debate: Says "I disagreed" with President Obama’s Secure Communities deportation program Florida Democratic Party stated on June 17, 2019 in a press release: The Trump administration has denied "4.2 million American workers overtime." Bernie Sanders stated on June 20, 2019 in a tweet: "30,000 Americans a year die waiting for health care because of the cost."
Dan McCready stated on August 8, 2019 in a tweet: Says "Dan Bishop doubles down on removing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. Under his sham ‘association health plans,’ insurance companies don't have to pay for medications for pre-existing conditions."
Bernie Sanders stated on August 15, 2019 in an interview with Cardi B: "We have something like one out of four young black men in this country end up in the criminal justice system. They may end up in jail, they may end up on parole, they may end up on probation."
Amy Klobuchar stated on August 12, 2019 in an interview: The "boyfriend loophole" means that "if you commit a serious crime of domestic abuse against your wife, you can't get a gun, but if you do it against your girlfriend, you can."
Rob Schmitt stated on August 14, 2019 in a "Fox & Friends First" discussion: Says the Trump administration’s new policy for legal immigrants on welfare "has been around for a while. This is not a new thing that the president is trying to implement here, that the United States has been this way."
Bernie Sanders stated on August 5, 2019 in a Facebook meme: "In 2016, counties hosting a Trump rally saw a 226% spike in hate crimes."
Andrew Cuomo stated on July 19, 2019 in a radio interview: Property taxes have "nothing to do with the state."
Pete Buttigieg stated on August 5, 2019 in a Medium post: "The Trump Administration cut funding allocated to the Department of Homeland Security to combat white nationalism."
John Cornyn stated on July 22, 2019 in an advertisement: Says Royce West stood with Wendy Davis "to support painful late-term abortions."
Donald Trump stated on August 4, 2019 in remarks in Morristown, N.J.: Asked what his administration would be doing about "the gun problem," said, "We have done much more than most administrations. … We’ve done, actually, a lot."
Bernie Sanders stated on August 5, 2019 in a video on Twitter: "There are more assault rifles, as I understand it, in the hands of private citizens than in the hands of the United States military. We're talking about 5 to 10 million assault weapons in the hands of private citizens."
Bill Clinton stated on August 5, 2019 in a tweet: "After (the assault weapon ban) passed in 1994, there was a big drop in mass shooting deaths. When the ban expired, they rose again."
Viral image stated on July 19, 2019 in post on Facebook: "Ida B. Wells refused to give up her seat 71 years before Rosa Parks did. At age 33, she owned the first African American newspaper in Chicago, the Chicago Conservator. Why do you never hear about her? Because she was a Republican."
Donald Trump stated on August 1, 2019 in a rally: "The homicide rate in Baltimore is significantly higher than El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala. ... I believe it’s higher than Afghanistan."
Kirsten Gillibrand stated on July 31, 2019 in the Detroit debate: "When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, ‘create the deterioration of family.’ He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, ‘avoiding responsibility.’"
Marianne Williamson stated on July 28, 2019 in an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation": "We are the only advanced industrialized nation that bases our educational funding on property taxes."
Richard Durbin stated on July 11, 2019 in a speech: Says President Trump "has ended up attracting larger numbers of people coming to the United States presenting themselves for asylum status at our border than we’ve ever seen."
Elizabeth Warren stated on July 22, 2019 in a post on Medium: "The country is now in a manufacturing recession."
Donna Shalala stated on July 21, 2019 in an interview on CBSMiami with Jim DeFede: Says children at Homestead migrant facility "get 30 minutes over a month to talk to family members. If they were in a prison — a federal prison — they would get 300 minutes."
Dan Bishop stated on July 17, 2019 in a speech at a Trump rally: Says "Dan McCready took money from Ilhan Omar"
North Carolina Healthcare Association stated on July 7, 2019 in in a paid advertisement in the News & Observer: Says the changes to the State Health Plan "will DENY North Carolina state employees, retirees, and their families of in-network access to critical healthcare services."
Weston Pagano stated on June 24, 2019 in an essay on Medium: Says Joe Biden "voted to expand deportations and indefinite detention for immigrants multiple times."
Ron Johnson stated on June 12, 2019 in a Facebook post: Obama-era ban on whole and 2% milk in schools has caused "notable decline" in student milk consumption.
Ken Cuccinelli stated on July 7, 2019 in a Fox News Sunday interview: "Last year, we were in the range of 850,000 and that was the most in five years. … We are letting more people become citizens than has happened in years."
Rick Scott stated on July 8, 2019 in a tweet: "Americans are traveling to Canada to pay 12 times less for insulin than they would here in the US."
Michael Burgess stated on June 24, 2019 in an MSNBC interview: Of shelters for immigrant children: "You know what? There's not a lock on the door. Any child is free to leave at anytime, but they don't. You know why? Because they are well taken care of."
Viral image stated on July 3, 2019 in posts on the Internet: When asked if the United States should have a military parade to "show off its might," President Dwight Eisenhower said, "Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak."
Beto O'Rourke stated on June 13, 2019 in an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: "The Census is predicting a 6% undercount that will be targeted against nonwhites in this country — so Hispanics, African Americans, communities of color" if a citizenship question is asked.
Kamala Harris stated on June 27, 2019 in a Democratic presidential debate: Says "I disagreed" with President Obama’s Secure Communities deportation program
Florida Democratic Party stated on June 17, 2019 in a press release: The Trump administration has denied "4.2 million American workers overtime."
Bernie Sanders stated on June 20, 2019 in a tweet: "30,000 Americans a year die waiting for health care because of the cost."
