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Fact-checks (24417)

Facebook posts stated on April 17, 2024 in a post on Facebook:
Hunter Biden, “BLM rioters” and “COVID criminals” have “0 indictments”
By Madison Czopek• April 24, 2024
Michael Whatley stated on September 06, 2025 in an X post:
Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper “bears direct responsibility” for the fatal stabbing of a woman on the Charlotte rail system.
By Will Doran, Paul Specht• September 12, 2025
Donald Trump stated on July 21, 2016 in his acceptance speech at the Republican Natiional Convention in Cleveland:
"Homicides last year increased by 17 percent in America’s 50 largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years."
By Louis Jacobson• July 22, 2016
Steve Cohen stated on October 31, 2012 in a press release.:
Says Delta Air Lines has "once again broken a promise they made to me and to the people of Memphis."
By Bartholomew Sullivan• November 25, 2012
Donald Trump stated on June 30, 2018 in a tweet:
"I have watched ICE liberate towns from the grasp of MS-13."
By Miriam Valverde• July 9, 2018
Donald Trump stated on March 23, 2026 in remarks at a Memphis event:
"Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating.”
By Amy Sherman, Zoe Weyand• March 25, 2026
Donald Trump stated on August 31, 2016 in a speech in Arizona:
The Secure Communities Program and 287(g) immigration programs "were programs that worked" but were "recklessly gutted" by the Obama administration.
By Miriam Valverde• September 6, 2016
Tom Cotton stated on November 16, 2018 in a tweet:
"There have been no hearings" on a criminal justice bill being considered in the Senate.
By Louis Jacobson• November 20, 2018
Dolores Gresham stated on July 16, 2012 in in an interview with The Commercial Appeal.:
"I didn’t try to push" a bill to reduce lottery scholarship proceeds for students.
By Richard Locker• August 12, 2012
Donald Trump stated on June 16, 2020 in a speech:
“President Obama and Vice President Biden never even tried to fix this (police reforms) during their eight-year period.”
By Miriam Valverde• June 18, 2020
Donald Trump stated on August 01, 2019 in a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio:
Democrats "want virtual immunity for illegal aliens who have created horrible crimes and murder."  
By Jon Greenberg• August 2, 2019
Steve Chabot stated on October 21, 2021 in a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee:
We are seeing “the Justice Department treat American parents as domestic terrorists” under the Patriot Act.
By Jon Greenberg• October 22, 2021
Steve Doell stated on July 19, 2012 in a press release:
Says "About 7 in 10 of Oregon’s inmates are in prison for violent crimes and serious sex offenses."
By Janie Har• August 3, 2012
Tom Fitton stated on April 04, 2023 in a segment on Fox Business:
“President Trump is officially a political prisoner.”
By Madison Czopek• April 6, 2023
Cory Booker stated on March 27, 2019 in a CNN town hall in South Carolina:
Says President Donald Trump "cut funding from the Justice Department to investigate these domestic terrorist groups, these white supremacist groups."
By Amy Sherman• April 11, 2019
Donald Trump stated on November 01, 2022 in a podcast interview:
At the Pelosi house, “the glass it seems was broken from the inside to the out, so it wasn’t a break-in, it was a breakout.”
By Gabrielle Settles• November 2, 2022
Donald Trump stated on April 18, 2017 in a tweet:
"The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Admin. allowed bad MS 13 gangs to form in cities across U.S. We are removing them fast!"
By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde• April 18, 2017
Nancy Mace stated on March 30, 2024 in a post on X:
“Since Joe Biden took office, crime has skyrocketed across our country.”
By Louis Jacobson• April 3, 2024
Tim Kaine stated on August 01, 2016 in a speech.:
Donald Trump says "all Mexicans are rapists."
By Warren Fiske• August 8, 2016
Instagram posts stated on July 18, 2020 in an image:
“Since Trump labeled ANTIFA a terrorist organization their rights were stripped by the Patriot Act which states if someone is labeled a terrorist they are not afforded due process.”
By Daniel Funke• July 21, 2020

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By Miriam Valverde• August 16, 2017

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By Miriam Valverde• April 23, 2018

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By Chris Nichols• August 1, 2018

Donald Trump’s long, false list of things Joe Biden would ban, abolish or destroy

By Miriam Valverde• October 18, 2020

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