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Marco Rubio stated on May 20, 2014 in an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly:
Surface temperatures on Earth "have stabilized."
By Louis Jacobson• May 27, 2014
Mary Matalin stated on October 22, 2009 in CNN's Situation Room program:
"For the last decade the climate has been cooling."
By Catharine Richert• October 27, 2009
Ted Cruz stated on March 17, 2015 in an interview on "Late Night with Seth Meyers":
"Many of the alarmists on global warming, they’ve got a problem because the science doesn’t back them up. In particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there’s been zero warming."
By Lauren Carroll• March 20, 2015
Facebook posts stated on July 16, 2023 in una publicación en Facebook:
Video muestra "camión de la ONU traficando con niños” en Senegal.
By Maria Briceño• October 13, 2023
Steve Goreham stated on August 05, 2013 in a commentary in The Providence Journal:
"Global surface temperatures have been flat for 16 years."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• August 25, 2013
Facebook posts stated on March 25, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook:
"El logo del canal de cable de niños Nickelodeon es la Isla pedofila de Epstein”.
By Jeff Cercone• March 27, 2024
Facebook posts stated on March 28, 2025 in una publicación en Facebook:
“Trump ordena ataques militares en los túneles del Vaticano - Laboratorios de (adrenocromo) dirigidos por la CIA cerrados por las fuerzas especiales de EE.UU”.
By Maria Briceño• April 4, 2025
TikTok posts stated on July 17, 2023 in una publicación en TikTok:
A las personas que van a ver ‘Sound of Freedom’ “en medio de la película se les va la luz, les hacen unas alarmas de bomberos o simplemente dicen que tienen que evacuar”.
By Jeff Cercone, Nuria Diaz Muñoz• July 25, 2023
Facebook posts stated on November 30, 2023 in una publicación en Facebook:
"Neumonia misteriosa ya está golpeando" a niños en Estados Unidos "lo mismo que está pasando en China".
By Maria Briceño• December 18, 2023
Bill White stated on October 05, 2010 in a news story:
Says Rick Perry told students he couldn't attend a gubernatorial forum due to scheduling conflicts, then on forum day "tweeted that he'd just been running with his dog."
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 14, 2010
X posts stated on May 12, 2023 in a tweet:
“JUST IN: A MASSIVE CARAVAN of illegal aliens is forcing their way into the US!”
By Marta Campabadal Graus• May 18, 2023
John McCain stated on August 16, 2008 in Saddleback Valley Community Church in Orange County, Calif.:
"It (Georgia) was one of the earliest Christian nations. The king of then-Georgia in the third century converted to Christianity."
By Alexander Lane• August 19, 2008
Beto O'Rourke stated on February 08, 2019 in a blog post:
When visa holders exit the United States and enter Mexico, "if they leave through a land port of entry we literally have no clue if they are still here or have returned to their country of origin."
By Miriam Valverde• February 15, 2019
Greg Abbott stated on August 26, 2010 in an interview:
Says a highway was closed in El Paso because of bullets flying across the border.
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• September 1, 2010
Bloggers stated on October 09, 2015 in social media posts, blogs:
Latina who enthusiastically supported Donald Trump on stage in Las Vegas in October 2015 has been deported.
By Miriam Valverde• December 5, 2016
Viral image stated on November 15, 2022 in an Instagram post:
Photo shows “ballots not counted in California and this is only one polling location. Yet Gavin Newsom was declared governor minutes after polling stations closed.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• November 17, 2022
Janet Freedman stated on January 13, 2013 in an interview on 10 News Conference:
Tide gauges measuring sea level in Rhode Island since 1930 have risen "maybe about 10 inches since that time."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• February 8, 2013
Jim Bridenstine stated on June 11, 2013 in a House floor speech:
"This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning."
By Louis Jacobson• June 14, 2013
Rush Limbaugh stated on June 24, 2014 in a broadcast of the "Rush Limbaugh Show":
"Obama regime planned the influx of illegal alien children at the border."
By Jon Greenberg• June 30, 2014
Donald Trump stated on February 11, 2019 in a speech in El Paso, Texas:
Says that at Beto O’Rourke’s rally in El Paso, there were "200 people, 300 people."
By Louis Jacobson• February 12, 2019

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By Samantha Putterman• April 27, 2026

In Nov. 1 Milwaukee rally, Trump offers falsehoods on economy, climate change

By Louis Jacobson• November 2, 2024

Fact-checking Nayib Bukele and Trump officials on Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s deportation

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• April 14, 2025

Verificamos los discursos del primer día de la Convención Nacional Demócrata

By PolitiFact Staff • August 20, 2024

Verificando el discurso de Joe Biden sobre el Estado de la Unión en 2024

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• March 8, 2024

Donald Trump’s ‘s---hole countries’ remark and its policy history

By Miriam Valverde• January 12, 2018

Trump skewed the facts about Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, MS-13 gang and deportation

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• April 23, 2025

Year of the Lies: ‘Worst of the worst’? ICE deports brothers after years of check-ins, good conduct

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• December 18, 2025

Fact-checking recent claims about climate change

By Amy Sherman• May 30, 2014

Fact-checking Donald Trump's Long Island speech to law enforcement

By John Kruzel, Aaron Sharockman, Manuela Tobias• July 28, 2017

Servicio militar obligatorio: ¿Qué es? ¿Aplica a inmigrantes?

By Louis Jacobson, Zoe Weyand• March 10, 2026

Fact-checking recent claims about climate change

By Amy Sherman• May 29, 2014

ISIS camp near El Paso? FALSE

By W. Gardner Selby• April 17, 2015

Fact-checking Greg Abbott’s claims that Biden has ‘open border’ policies

By Nusaiba Mizan• April 26, 2022

Attacks and claims about climate change heat up the Truth-O-Meter

By Amy Sherman• May 29, 2014

Fact-checking claims on immigration

By Lauren Carroll, Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Molly O'Connor, W. Gardner Selby• July 15, 2014

Trump’s falsehoods about mail voting in Nevada, fact-checked

By Amy Sherman• September 13, 2020

What we know about images of Border Patrol and Haitian migrants

By Amy Sherman• September 24, 2021

Fact-checking Club for Growth's attack ad about Beto O'Rourke

By Madlin Mekelburg• March 14, 2019

President Donald Trump called for a judge’s impeachment. It’s unlikely to happen.

By Amy Sherman• March 19, 2025