Latest Half-True Fact-checks in National Facebook posts stated on September 7, 2020 in a Facebook post: “In 1983, Joe Biden voted in favor of taxing 50% of Social Security” and in 1993, Biden “was the deciding vote in raising the percentage taxed on Social Security from 50% to 85%.” Joe Biden stated on September 7, 2020 in a Labor Day event: Says Donald Trump “let federal contractors double offshoring jobs in his first 18 months in office.” Joe Biden stated on August 31, 2020 in a speech: "When I was vice president, violent crime fell 15% in this country. ... The murder rate now is up 26% across the nation this year under Donald Trump." Doug Jones stated on August 6, 2020 in a campaign ad: Says Tommy Tuberville “is for privatizing Social Security and cutting Medicare.” Joe Biden stated on May 14, 2020 in an interview on MSNBC: The U.S. had 44 CDC staffers “in China to observe what was going on. (President Trump) brought home the vast majority of them, I think left only four in place.” Donald Trump stated on May 14, 2020 in a speech: “You have areas of Pennsylvania that are barely affected and [the governor wants] to keep them closed.” Pat Toomey stated on April 15, 2020 in a Politico interview: “In a matter of days, and in some cases the moment may even have passed, that we’ve reached the peak of the rate of infections.” Brian Fitzpatrick stated on March 23, 2020 in comments he made on the radio: “We’ve got to give the American public a rough estimate of how long we think this is going to take, based mostly on the South Korean model, which seems to be the trajectory that we are on, thankfully, and not the Italian model.” Brad Parscale stated on February 25, 2020 in a Tweet: “Did you see President Trump’s RECORD TURNOUT? Iowa - 32,389 Republicans.” Joe Biden stated on March 15, 2020 in the Democratic debate in Washington D.C.: Says Bernie Sanders voted against the auto bailout Mike Pence stated on March 4, 2020 in in a press briefing: “With regard to the cost, let me be very clear: HHS has designated the coronavirus test as an essential health benefit. That means, by definition, it's covered in the private health insurance of every American, as well as covered by Medicare and Medicaid." Bloggers stated on February 24, 2020 in a post on Facebook: "Cuba has a lung cancer vaccine we in the US had no access to because we sanctioned Cuba.” Tim O'Brien stated on February 25, 2020 in a CNN interview: Says Bernie Sanders has said “things like women get cancer from having too many orgasms, or toddlers should run around naked and touch each others' genitals to insulate themselves from porn … He's written about women's rape fantasies." Gavin Newsom stated on February 19, 2020 in a State of the State Address: "Back in 2005, when we did that first point-in-time count, there were over 188,000 thousand people that were deemed homeless in the state of California. … That’s 35,000 more than we have today.” Donald Trump stated on February 4, 2020 in the State of the Union: “Under my administration, 7 million Americans have come off of food stamps, and 10 million people have been lifted off of welfare.” Donald Trump stated on February 4, 2020 in the State of the Union: “I have also overseen historic funding increases for high-quality child care, enabling 17 states to help more children, many of which have reduced or eliminated their waitlists altogether.” Donald Trump stated on February 2, 2020 in an interview on Fox News: “Cory Booker and all these people couldn't get any of the things that (Michael) Bloomberg's getting now" with respect to DNC debate rules. Andrew Yang stated on December 20, 2019 in a Democratic presidential primary debate: "They banned face masks in Hong Kong. Why? Because they have AI technology that now is using facial recognition to identify protesters if they so much as do anything on the street, so they can follow up with them and detain them later." Bernie Sanders stated on October 19, 2019 in a rally in New York City: Says Congress gave Wall Street "trillions of dollars of zero interest loans." Ilhan Omar stated on October 12, 2019 in a tweet: "The 1% is paying less in taxes than everyone else." Donald Trump stated on September 22, 2019 in a speech: "For the first time in history, most new hires of prime working age are minorities and women." Donald Trump stated on September 24, 2019 in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly: "80% of the world’s population lives in countries where religious liberty is in significant danger or even completely outlawed." Joe Biden stated on September 12, 2019 in a tweet: "The Obama-Biden Administration did not conduct workplace raids—in fact, it ended them." Donald Trump stated on September 12, 2019 in a speech: The United States is "very energy independent." Elizabeth Warren stated on September 12, 2019 in a Democratic debate in Houston: "54 senators said, let's do background checks, let's get rid of assault weapons, and with 54 senators it failed because of the filibuster." Elizabeth Warren stated on September 4, 2019 in a CNN town hall on climate change: "70% of the pollution of the carbon that we're throwing into the air comes from three industries." Pete Buttigieg stated on August 28, 2019 in a tweet: Says President Donald Trump has been "taking money Congress authorized to protect people facing disaster in order to indefinitely detain asylum seekers." Ken Cuccinelli stated on August 22, 2019 in a panel discussion: A federal pilot program to DNA test illegal immigrants showed "something like 30% (of test subjects) are fake families." 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."
Facebook posts stated on September 7, 2020 in a Facebook post: “In 1983, Joe Biden voted in favor of taxing 50% of Social Security” and in 1993, Biden “was the deciding vote in raising the percentage taxed on Social Security from 50% to 85%.” Joe Biden stated on September 7, 2020 in a Labor Day event: Says Donald Trump “let federal contractors double offshoring jobs in his first 18 months in office.” Joe Biden stated on August 31, 2020 in a speech: "When I was vice president, violent crime fell 15% in this country. ... The murder rate now is up 26% across the nation this year under Donald Trump." Doug Jones stated on August 6, 2020 in a campaign ad: Says Tommy Tuberville “is for privatizing Social Security and cutting Medicare.” Joe Biden stated on May 14, 2020 in an interview on MSNBC: The U.S. had 44 CDC staffers “in China to observe what was going on. (President Trump) brought home the vast majority of them, I think left only four in place.” Donald Trump stated on May 14, 2020 in a speech: “You have areas of Pennsylvania that are barely affected and [the governor wants] to keep them closed.” Pat Toomey stated on April 15, 2020 in a Politico interview: “In a matter of days, and in some cases the moment may even have passed, that we’ve reached the peak of the rate of infections.” Brian Fitzpatrick stated on March 23, 2020 in comments he made on the radio: “We’ve got to give the American public a rough estimate of how long we think this is going to take, based mostly on the South Korean model, which seems to be the trajectory that we are on, thankfully, and not the Italian model.” Brad Parscale stated on February 25, 2020 in a Tweet: “Did you see President Trump’s RECORD TURNOUT? Iowa - 32,389 Republicans.” Joe Biden stated on March 15, 2020 in the Democratic debate in Washington D.C.: Says Bernie Sanders voted against the auto bailout Mike Pence stated on March 4, 2020 in in a press briefing: “With regard to the cost, let me be very clear: HHS has designated the coronavirus test as an essential health benefit. That means, by definition, it's covered in the private health insurance of every American, as well as covered by Medicare and Medicaid." Bloggers stated on February 24, 2020 in a post on Facebook: "Cuba has a lung cancer vaccine we in the US had no access to because we sanctioned Cuba.” Tim O'Brien stated on February 25, 2020 in a CNN interview: Says Bernie Sanders has said “things like women get cancer from having too many orgasms, or toddlers should run around naked and touch each others' genitals to insulate themselves from porn … He's written about women's rape fantasies." Gavin Newsom stated on February 19, 2020 in a State of the State Address: "Back in 2005, when we did that first point-in-time count, there were over 188,000 thousand people that were deemed homeless in the state of California. … That’s 35,000 more than we have today.” Donald Trump stated on February 4, 2020 in the State of the Union: “Under my administration, 7 million Americans have come off of food stamps, and 10 million people have been lifted off of welfare.” Donald Trump stated on February 4, 2020 in the State of the Union: “I have also overseen historic funding increases for high-quality child care, enabling 17 states to help more children, many of which have reduced or eliminated their waitlists altogether.” Donald Trump stated on February 2, 2020 in an interview on Fox News: “Cory Booker and all these people couldn't get any of the things that (Michael) Bloomberg's getting now" with respect to DNC debate rules. Andrew Yang stated on December 20, 2019 in a Democratic presidential primary debate: "They banned face masks in Hong Kong. Why? Because they have AI technology that now is using facial recognition to identify protesters if they so much as do anything on the street, so they can follow up with them and detain them later." Bernie Sanders stated on October 19, 2019 in a rally in New York City: Says Congress gave Wall Street "trillions of dollars of zero interest loans." Ilhan Omar stated on October 12, 2019 in a tweet: "The 1% is paying less in taxes than everyone else." Donald Trump stated on September 22, 2019 in a speech: "For the first time in history, most new hires of prime working age are minorities and women." Donald Trump stated on September 24, 2019 in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly: "80% of the world’s population lives in countries where religious liberty is in significant danger or even completely outlawed." Joe Biden stated on September 12, 2019 in a tweet: "The Obama-Biden Administration did not conduct workplace raids—in fact, it ended them." Donald Trump stated on September 12, 2019 in a speech: The United States is "very energy independent." Elizabeth Warren stated on September 12, 2019 in a Democratic debate in Houston: "54 senators said, let's do background checks, let's get rid of assault weapons, and with 54 senators it failed because of the filibuster." Elizabeth Warren stated on September 4, 2019 in a CNN town hall on climate change: "70% of the pollution of the carbon that we're throwing into the air comes from three industries." Pete Buttigieg stated on August 28, 2019 in a tweet: Says President Donald Trump has been "taking money Congress authorized to protect people facing disaster in order to indefinitely detain asylum seekers." Ken Cuccinelli stated on August 22, 2019 in a panel discussion: A federal pilot program to DNA test illegal immigrants showed "something like 30% (of test subjects) are fake families." 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."
Facebook posts stated on September 7, 2020 in a Facebook post: “In 1983, Joe Biden voted in favor of taxing 50% of Social Security” and in 1993, Biden “was the deciding vote in raising the percentage taxed on Social Security from 50% to 85%.”
Joe Biden stated on September 7, 2020 in a Labor Day event: Says Donald Trump “let federal contractors double offshoring jobs in his first 18 months in office.”
Joe Biden stated on August 31, 2020 in a speech: "When I was vice president, violent crime fell 15% in this country. ... The murder rate now is up 26% across the nation this year under Donald Trump."
Doug Jones stated on August 6, 2020 in a campaign ad: Says Tommy Tuberville “is for privatizing Social Security and cutting Medicare.”
Joe Biden stated on May 14, 2020 in an interview on MSNBC: The U.S. had 44 CDC staffers “in China to observe what was going on. (President Trump) brought home the vast majority of them, I think left only four in place.”
Donald Trump stated on May 14, 2020 in a speech: “You have areas of Pennsylvania that are barely affected and [the governor wants] to keep them closed.”
Pat Toomey stated on April 15, 2020 in a Politico interview: “In a matter of days, and in some cases the moment may even have passed, that we’ve reached the peak of the rate of infections.”
Brian Fitzpatrick stated on March 23, 2020 in comments he made on the radio: “We’ve got to give the American public a rough estimate of how long we think this is going to take, based mostly on the South Korean model, which seems to be the trajectory that we are on, thankfully, and not the Italian model.”
Brad Parscale stated on February 25, 2020 in a Tweet: “Did you see President Trump’s RECORD TURNOUT? Iowa - 32,389 Republicans.”
Joe Biden stated on March 15, 2020 in the Democratic debate in Washington D.C.: Says Bernie Sanders voted against the auto bailout
Mike Pence stated on March 4, 2020 in in a press briefing: “With regard to the cost, let me be very clear: HHS has designated the coronavirus test as an essential health benefit. That means, by definition, it's covered in the private health insurance of every American, as well as covered by Medicare and Medicaid."
Bloggers stated on February 24, 2020 in a post on Facebook: "Cuba has a lung cancer vaccine we in the US had no access to because we sanctioned Cuba.”
Tim O'Brien stated on February 25, 2020 in a CNN interview: Says Bernie Sanders has said “things like women get cancer from having too many orgasms, or toddlers should run around naked and touch each others' genitals to insulate themselves from porn … He's written about women's rape fantasies."
Gavin Newsom stated on February 19, 2020 in a State of the State Address: "Back in 2005, when we did that first point-in-time count, there were over 188,000 thousand people that were deemed homeless in the state of California. … That’s 35,000 more than we have today.”
Donald Trump stated on February 4, 2020 in the State of the Union: “Under my administration, 7 million Americans have come off of food stamps, and 10 million people have been lifted off of welfare.”
Donald Trump stated on February 4, 2020 in the State of the Union: “I have also overseen historic funding increases for high-quality child care, enabling 17 states to help more children, many of which have reduced or eliminated their waitlists altogether.”
Donald Trump stated on February 2, 2020 in an interview on Fox News: “Cory Booker and all these people couldn't get any of the things that (Michael) Bloomberg's getting now" with respect to DNC debate rules.
Andrew Yang stated on December 20, 2019 in a Democratic presidential primary debate: "They banned face masks in Hong Kong. Why? Because they have AI technology that now is using facial recognition to identify protesters if they so much as do anything on the street, so they can follow up with them and detain them later."
Bernie Sanders stated on October 19, 2019 in a rally in New York City: Says Congress gave Wall Street "trillions of dollars of zero interest loans."
Ilhan Omar stated on October 12, 2019 in a tweet: "The 1% is paying less in taxes than everyone else."
Donald Trump stated on September 22, 2019 in a speech: "For the first time in history, most new hires of prime working age are minorities and women."
Donald Trump stated on September 24, 2019 in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly: "80% of the world’s population lives in countries where religious liberty is in significant danger or even completely outlawed."
Joe Biden stated on September 12, 2019 in a tweet: "The Obama-Biden Administration did not conduct workplace raids—in fact, it ended them."
Donald Trump stated on September 12, 2019 in a speech: The United States is "very energy independent."
Elizabeth Warren stated on September 12, 2019 in a Democratic debate in Houston: "54 senators said, let's do background checks, let's get rid of assault weapons, and with 54 senators it failed because of the filibuster."
Elizabeth Warren stated on September 4, 2019 in a CNN town hall on climate change: "70% of the pollution of the carbon that we're throwing into the air comes from three industries."
Pete Buttigieg stated on August 28, 2019 in a tweet: Says President Donald Trump has been "taking money Congress authorized to protect people facing disaster in order to indefinitely detain asylum seekers."
Ken Cuccinelli stated on August 22, 2019 in a panel discussion: A federal pilot program to DNA test illegal immigrants showed "something like 30% (of test subjects) are fake families."
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."