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Revives a dodgy story
Says Ted Kennedy met "with the KGB in order to beat Ronald Reagan in 1984."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, July 18th, 2017
Maybe it was [email protected]$$w0rd
Says John Podesta’s email password was "password."
— PunditFact on Friday, January 6th, 2017
He never heard this case
Says Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland "voted, so the folks know, in Washington, D.C., to keep guns away from private citizens."
— PunditFact on Friday, March 18th, 2016
Polls agree that statistic holds
"The 90 percent statistic of supporting background checks, that's been debunked."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
A cigar mag interview that's full of smoke
"The word progressive ... was created as a substitute for ‘communist’."
— PunditFact on Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
Data show the opposite
"In countries where there are higher, more strict gun laws, there is more gun violence."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
Selective reading of 'services'
"Almost 95 percent of all (Planned Parenthood) pregnancy services were abortions."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, August 4th, 2015
Cuts ≠ Disbanding the reserve
"We don’t have a (military) reserve force if something happens."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
An exaggeration as big as Texas
"50 percent of murders in Texas have been linked to illegal aliens."
— PunditFact on Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
"Most polls" do not show what she says
"Most polls show foreign nations have lower regard for the U.S. now than they did before Obama’s time."
— PunditFact on Thursday, June 4th, 2015
Lots of criticism when it happened
In 2007, when Nancy Pelosi met with President Assad of Syria, "nobody got upset."
— PunditFact on Wednesday, March 18th, 2015
'A bit of a mess'
"It will cost $50,000 per enrollee in Obamacare over the next 10 years."
— PunditFact on Wednesday, January 28th, 2015
Scientific consensus says otherwise
"There is no good data showing secondhand smoke kills people."
— PunditFact on Thursday, December 11th, 2014
Not what 2013 law says
A new Colorado law "literally allows residents to print ballots from their home computers, then encourages them to turn ballots over to ‘collectors.’ "
— PunditFact on Thursday, October 30th, 2014
More like violent vomiting
Some doctors say Ebola can be transmitted through the air by "a sneeze or some cough."
— PunditFact on Sunday, October 19th, 2014
Social science without the science
"We know from the social science that children do best with a mom and a dad."
— PunditFact on Sunday, October 12th, 2014
A sustained surge under Clinton, too
"The last time there was a sustained surge of confidence in government's competence was under Ronald Reagan."
— PunditFact on Sunday, October 5th, 2014
Wasn't true when Obama said it either
The Justice Department’s Fast and Furious gun-walking program "started in the Bush administration."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
There's no public evidence of this
"In 2011, (the Islamic State) attempted to attack Fort Knox."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014
ISIS getting more than 1,600 troops
Says President Barack Obama is "sending a much larger (force) " to deal with Ebola "than ISIS is getting."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014