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Border stops
"17,000 individuals with criminal records were apprehended trying to cross the border" in 2018.
— PunditFact on Friday, January 11th, 2019
She suffered H1N1 flu and encephalitis
A woman died mysteriously after reporting on Robert Mueller destroying text messages.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Monday, January 7th, 2019
Pages of Page (and Strzok) texts
Says 19,000 text messages exchanged between former FBI officials that were "purposely and illegally deleted ... would have explained (the special counsel investigation) hoax."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, December 19th, 2018
Whoops! Wrong house.
Uses a picture of a mansion to say that Rep. Nancy Pelosi lives surrounded by "a high perimeter wall with gun toting security."
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, December 13th, 2018
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
Claim is baseless
Photo of migrant mother at U.S.-Mexico border running from tear gas with children "was a staged hoax."
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, November 29th, 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 ridiculous leap
"Kavanaugh accuser’s brother’s firm linked to Fusion GPS."
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, September 21st, 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
