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Poll didn't ask about a 70% rate
"Seventy percent of the American public agree with" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "on having the top marginal (tax) rate for the rich" at 70 percent, and "that's a Fox News Poll saying that."
— PunditFact on Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
How soaked are the rich?
"According to the Tax Foundation, the top 10 percent of earners already pay almost 80 percent of all taxes."
— PunditFact on Thursday, January 24th, 2019
An easy case, scholars say
"Kamala Harris is NOT eligible to be President."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
Bar none
"Nancy Pelosi's bill for alcohol on her flights from Washington to San Fran every week? We pay for it. 1000 dollars. On average 52,000 Bucks, a year for BOOZE. Tax payer money."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
Border stops
"17,000 individuals with criminal records were apprehended trying to cross the border" in 2018.
— PunditFact on Friday, January 11th, 2019
A back of envelope estimate
"In the United States, if there was equal participation of women in the labor market, GDP would be up by 5 percent."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, December 12th, 2018
Cold spells on back burner
"We need to also recognize that we just had two of the coldest years, biggest drop in global temperatures that we have had since the 1980s, the biggest in the last 100 years. We don't talk about that."
— PunditFact on Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
Baseless claim
"We are watching, you know, millions of illegal immigrants cross our borders, and many of them voting in the past election that's what, just a couple weeks ago."
— PunditFact on Friday, November 16th, 2018
D, not R
Says "Brenda Snipes in Broward County is a Republican."
— PunditFact on Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
Manufactured accusation
"Democrats and their allies (...) are manufacturing voters."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
Pally rally
On being on stage campaigning with the president
— PunditFact on Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
Baseless
Says explosive devices mailed to prominent Democrats and Trump critics confirm the "deep state (is) launching false flag against (mainstream media)/Dems to blame Trump & pro-America forces."
— PunditFact on Thursday, October 25th, 2018
Letter of the law?
A letter to President Donald Trump from 22 senators "is a way of saying to the president, ‘You are now under an affirmative requirement, legal requirement, to investigate' " journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance and suspected murder.
— PunditFact on Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
Not yet
In Wisconsin, Foxconn has "4,000 jobs, people making $53,000 a year."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, October 12th, 2018
False verdict
The 5-4 decisions the Supreme Court reaches "are going up."
— PunditFact on Friday, October 12th, 2018
Not #MeToo
Says #MeToo movement sign suggested assaulting First Lady Melania Trump.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, October 11th, 2018
A flood of falsehoods
Says CNN’s Anderson Cooper stood in a ditch during Hurricane Florence to exaggerate water levels.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
Hannity said that, but O'Rourke didn't send text
Says Sean Hannity told listeners of his radio show that "Beto O’Rourke is asking for help in getting undocumented to vote."
— PunditFact on Friday, September 14th, 2018
Yes, though not purely GOP's fault
"President Trump’s Republican Party will create more debt in one year than was generated in the first 200 years of America’s existence."
— PunditFact on Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
ISPs under fire
"We saw the true danger of the FCC's net neutrality repeal when Verizon was caught throttling California fire fighters."
— PunditFact on Friday, September 7th, 2018
