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Fact-checks (2220)

Michele Bachmann stated on September 22, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Orlando:
"President Obama has the lowest public approval ratings of any president in modern times."
By Louis Jacobson• September 23, 2011
Barack Obama stated on April 10, 2014 in speech at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library:
During Lyndon B. Johnson’s first 20 years in Congress, "he opposed every civil rights measure that came up for a vote."
By W. Gardner Selby• April 14, 2014
Donald Trump stated on July 12, 2017 in a CBN interview:
"I've gotten rid of the Johnson Amendment … I signed an executive order so that now ... ministers and and preachers and rabbis and whoever it may be, they can speak. You know, you couldn’t speak politically before, now you can."  
By Miriam Valverde• July 18, 2017
Ari Melber stated on November 18, 2013 in a talk on MSNBC's "The Cycle":
Says Barack Obama’s approval rating "is right in the average" for second-term presidents at this point.
By Katie Sanders• November 20, 2013
Donald Trump stated on April 23, 2019 in a tweet:
"In the ‘old days’ if you were president and you had a good economy, you were basically immune from criticism."
By Louis Jacobson• April 23, 2019
Drunk History stated on July 02, 2019 in an episode:
Says the late Lady Bird Johnson sicced the CIA on actress and singer Eartha Kitt after Kitt spoke out against the Vietnam War during a White House luncheon in January 1968.
By Kelsey Bradshaw• August 15, 2019
Mitt Romney stated on January 16, 2012 in a tweet:
"More Americans have lost their jobs under Barack Obama than any president in modern history."
By Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead• January 17, 2012
Facebook posts stated on March 25, 2014 in a meme on the Internet:
The percentage of black children born without a father in the home has risen from 7 percent in 1964 to 73 percent today, due to changes from President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.
By Louis Jacobson• March 25, 2014
Steve Southerland stated on January 12, 2014 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
"If you have a job in this country, (there's a) 97 percent chance that you're not going to be in poverty."
By Louis Jacobson• January 14, 2014
Karl Rove stated on December 16, 2009 in a 'Wall Street Journal' column:
President Obama has "the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year."
By Louis Jacobson• December 17, 2009
Tom Price stated on September 14, 2009 in a fundraising letter:
"Medicare began as a public option and now holds 97 percent of the market share."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• September 16, 2009
Facebook posts stated on June 29, 2020 in a Facebook post:
The longest filibuster in U.S. history was 75 days and “took place in 1964, when Democrats tried to block the Civil Rights Act.”
By Samantha Putterman• July 30, 2020
Donald Trump stated on October 24, 2018 in a rally in Mosinee, Wis.:
"Many presidents don’t get the chance to put a Supreme Court justice on."
By Louis Jacobson• October 25, 2018
Joe Scarborough stated on April 10, 2014 in comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
Before "our last three presidents, you have to go back to the 1800s, early 1800s to find three presidents in a row being consecutively re-elected."
By Aaron Sharockman• April 10, 2014
Tim Kaine stated on October 18, 2012 in a debate.:
Bill Clinton presided over "the biggest expansion of the American economy since World War II."
By Nancy Madsen• October 29, 2012
Donald Trump stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech at the Republican convention:
"An amendment, pushed by Lyndon Johnson many years ago, threatens religious institutions with a loss of their tax-exempt status if they openly advocate their political views."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• July 22, 2016
Howard Dean stated on August 25, 2009 in an interview on the Rachel Maddow Show:
"All the really great programs in American history, Social Security, was done without Republicans. Medicare was done without Republican support until the last vote where they realized they had to get on board."
By Catharine Richert• August 28, 2009
Facebook posts stated on January 25, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says Biden's Rolex belonged to his late son Beau.
By Samantha Putterman• January 27, 2021
John Cornyn stated on June 11, 2020 in an interview:
The United States has not completed a “top-to-bottom review of our criminal justice system at the national level since 1965.”
By Taylor Goldenstein• July 2, 2020
Jimmy Carter stated on September 20, 2010 in Former President Jimmy Carter, Sept. 20, during an NBC interview about his latest book :
Said that his batting average with Congress is higher than every other president since Dwight D. Eisenhower except Lyndon Johnson.
By Willoughby Mariano• October 5, 2010

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Was that Clinton? Or Chester Arthur?

By Alexander Lane• July 18, 2008

Truth-O-Meter spent week detecting exaggerations

By Willoughby Mariano• October 10, 2010

Checking the facts on claims about your rights

By W. Gardner Selby• April 8, 2014

Tracing civil rights legislation before and after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death

By Amy Sherman• June 8, 2020

How unprecedented is it for President Joe Biden to drop out this late? Very

By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson• July 21, 2024

What Biden video keeps, ignores about Marjorie Taylor Greene’s speech seemingly praising him

By Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa, Louis Jacobson• July 20, 2023

Bruce Elfant says U.S. voter turnout about 100th among industrialized nations; Texas not high either

By W. Gardner Selby• August 25, 2015

Obama, Dewhurst and a climate change musical figured into readers’ favorite April fact checks

By W. Gardner Selby• May 4, 2014

Not every claim was questionable this year

By Louis Jacobson• December 27, 2010

Carly Fiorina, Texas native schooled in California, and the Truth-O-Meter

By W. Gardner Selby• May 4, 2015

Turning it over to readers

By Tom Kertscher• May 13, 2013

Barack Obama, Lyndon Johnson, 6.1 billion hours of tax preparation: PolitiFact Oregon Roundup

By Dana Tims• April 15, 2014

Texas-born Carly Fiorina on the Truth-O-Meter

By W. Gardner Selby• August 10, 2015

Fact-checking the Nov. 2 news shows

By Lauren Carroll, Katie Sanders, Aaron Sharockman• November 2, 2014

Fact-checking the Feb. 14 Sunday shows

By Jon Greenberg, Linda Qiu• February 14, 2016

PunditFact fact-checks the Nov. 2 Sunday shows

By Lauren Carroll, Katie Sanders, Aaron Sharockman• November 2, 2014

Donald Trump said he's done more for African Americans than any president. Historians disagree

By Louis Jacobson• August 1, 2019

Fact-checking claims about the 80-year SCOTUS nomination ‘tradition’

By Linda Qiu• February 17, 2016

Did Trump kill ‘Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965’? Here’s why that claim caused confusion

By Jeff Cercone• January 24, 2025

Blazing the way on health care reform claims

By Tom Feran• June 28, 2012