39 People 24234 Fact-checks 7978 Articles People (39) Left Action Vance Smith Erika Harold Erika Sanzi Kirk Cox JD Vance Mark Kirk Charlie Kirk Kirk Watson The Charlie Kirk Show Georgia Lottery Georgia Voice EmpowerED Georgia Georgia Democrats Georgia politicians Georgia Department of Transportation Georgia Restaurant Association Get Georgia Right Libertarian Party of Georgia ACLU Foundation of Georgia Fact-checks (24234) X posts stated on February 06, 2022 in a tweet: Turning Point USA is a white nationalist organization. By Caleb McCullough• February 16, 2022 X posts stated on September 23, 2025 in posts on X: “Erika Kirk is banned from Romania because her Evangelical group was accused of trafficking children out of Romanian villages.” By Madison Czopek• September 26, 2025 Bernie Moreno stated on September 09, 2024 in an Instagram post: “Illegal” Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are “reportedly killing and eating pets.” By Seth A. Richardson• September 18, 2024 JD Vance stated on July 28, 2024 in an interview: Vice President Kamala Harris is “calling for an end to the child tax credit.” By Samantha Putterman• July 30, 2024 JD Vance stated on October 15, 2025 in an episode of The Charlie Kirk Show: "Political violence, it's just a statistical fact that it's a bigger problem on the left.” By Amy Sherman• October 20, 2025 Everytown for Gun Safety stated on December 10, 2014 in a recent report: Georgia has had 12 school shootings in the two years since the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than any other state. By April Hunt• December 19, 2014 Kamala Harris stated on July 17, 2024 in a campaign video: "Unlike Mike Pence, (JD) Vance said he would have carried out Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 election." By Amy Sherman• July 18, 2024 Kwame Raoul stated on September 04, 2018 in a TV ad: Says "we know" Erika Harold would "discriminate against a loving gay couple who want to adopt a child, favoring an abusive straight couple instead." By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller• September 17, 2018 Club for Growth stated on April 26, 2022 in an attack ad: Says J.D. Vance said, “People who voted for Trump voted for him for racist reasons.” By Jon Greenberg• April 28, 2022 X posts stated on September 11, 2025 in an X post: A book on Amazon titled “The Shooting of Charlie Kirk” with a Sept. 9 publication date is evidence the event was staged. By Samantha Putterman• September 12, 2025 Instagram posts stated on October 13, 2024 in an Instagram post: “GA election official Gabriel Sterling says audits will take place after election day because it’s ‘nerve-racking’ to count ballots in front of poll watchers.” By Sofia Ahmed• October 21, 2024 Charlie Kirk stated on January 26, 2021 in an Instagram post: "Joe Biden admits he is governing like a 'dictator.'" By Daniel Funke• January 28, 2021 Elizabeth Warren stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview: “JD Vance actually sent a letter last year to the Department of Justice saying, ‘enforce the Comstock Act.’” By Samantha Putterman• August 30, 2024 Donald Trump stated on October 23, 2024 in a post on X: Vice President Kamala Harris has been “going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler.” By Samantha Putterman, Amy Sherman• October 24, 2024 Tim Ryan stated on November 01, 2022 in a town hall event: “J.D. Vance said nothing about” the attack on Paul Pelosi. By Jon Greenberg• November 3, 2022 Donald Trump stated on August 15, 2023 in a Truth Social post: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis “campaigned and raised money on, ‘I will get Trump.’” By Amy Sherman• August 18, 2023 X posts stated on August 14, 2024 in a post: Photo from an Aug. 14 campaign event in Michigan shows “JD Vance couldn’t fill a small room.” By Sara Swann• August 15, 2024 JD Vance stated on October 16, 2024 in a campaign event: Says former President Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election. By Amy Sherman• October 17, 2024 Facebook posts stated on December 03, 2020 in Facebook posts: Video footage from Georgia shows suitcases filled with ballots pulled from under a table and illegally counted after election observers were told to leave. By Bill McCarthy• December 4, 2020 JD Vance stated on September 04, 2022 in an interview: “Tim Ryan called police the new Jim Crow.” By Louis Jacobson• September 8, 2022 Articles (7978) Charlie Kirk is dead after being shot at a Utah college event. What we know By Grace Abels, Katie Sanders• September 10, 2025 Who is Tim Walz? What to know about Kamala Harris’ new running mate By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Amy Sherman• August 6, 2024 Trump’s baseless ‘manipulated’ data claim in firing BLS chief Erika McEntarfer follows long history By Louis Jacobson• August 1, 2025 Ask PolitiFact: Did JD Vance benefit from DEI initiatives at Yale Law? By Gideon Hess• February 19, 2025 Fact-checking Tim Walz before his 2024 DNC speech – plus the attacks on his record By Amy Sherman• August 21, 2024 In Context: Here’s what JD Vance said about school shootings being a ‘fact of life’ (transcript) By Jeff Cercone• September 9, 2024 'Rough road ahead': Charlie Kirk’s assassination highlights the rise in US political violence By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• September 11, 2025 Fact-checking viral claims about Joe Biden at D-Day anniversary event By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Sara Swann• June 6, 2024 Tyler Robinson: What's known about Charlie Kirk shooting suspect's politics, bullet casing etchings By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• September 12, 2025 Trump VP pick JD Vance says media twisted remarks on abortion, domestic violence. We looked closer By Maria Ramirez Uribe• July 16, 2024 ‘I am afraid’: The aftermath of Springfield, Ohio, misinformation on Haitians who live there By Maria Ramirez Uribe• September 13, 2024 Charlie Kirk tributes sounded like Adele and Bieber, but were AI. How to spot synthetic music By Loreben Tuquero• October 1, 2025 What Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has said about election fraud, QAnon and other conspiracy theories By Daniel Funke• February 2, 2021 ‘They’re eating the pets:’ Trump, Vance earn PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year for claims about Haitians By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• December 17, 2024 Fact-checking the Gordon Sondland impeachment hearing about Trump, Ukraine By Louis Jacobson, Bill McCarthy• November 20, 2019 Tracking Trump's abortion position: Harris says he'll ban it, but he now says it's up to states. By Samantha Putterman• August 28, 2024 Trump is talking more about 'the enemy from within' near Election Day. Who is he talking about? By Amy Sherman• October 30, 2024 2024 RNC fact-check: Trump appears with Vance, allies talk economy on Day 1 By Louis Jacobson• July 16, 2024 In Context: What Stacey Abrams said about the economic aspect of abortion By Madison Czopek• October 26, 2022 How Donald Trump’s untimely and untrue ‘death’ unfolded on social media By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Loreben Tuquero• September 2, 2025
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X posts stated on February 06, 2022 in a tweet: Turning Point USA is a white nationalist organization. By Caleb McCullough• February 16, 2022 X posts stated on September 23, 2025 in posts on X: “Erika Kirk is banned from Romania because her Evangelical group was accused of trafficking children out of Romanian villages.” By Madison Czopek• September 26, 2025 Bernie Moreno stated on September 09, 2024 in an Instagram post: “Illegal” Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are “reportedly killing and eating pets.” By Seth A. Richardson• September 18, 2024 JD Vance stated on July 28, 2024 in an interview: Vice President Kamala Harris is “calling for an end to the child tax credit.” By Samantha Putterman• July 30, 2024 JD Vance stated on October 15, 2025 in an episode of The Charlie Kirk Show: "Political violence, it's just a statistical fact that it's a bigger problem on the left.” By Amy Sherman• October 20, 2025 Everytown for Gun Safety stated on December 10, 2014 in a recent report: Georgia has had 12 school shootings in the two years since the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than any other state. By April Hunt• December 19, 2014 Kamala Harris stated on July 17, 2024 in a campaign video: "Unlike Mike Pence, (JD) Vance said he would have carried out Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 election." By Amy Sherman• July 18, 2024 Kwame Raoul stated on September 04, 2018 in a TV ad: Says "we know" Erika Harold would "discriminate against a loving gay couple who want to adopt a child, favoring an abusive straight couple instead." By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller• September 17, 2018 Club for Growth stated on April 26, 2022 in an attack ad: Says J.D. Vance said, “People who voted for Trump voted for him for racist reasons.” By Jon Greenberg• April 28, 2022 X posts stated on September 11, 2025 in an X post: A book on Amazon titled “The Shooting of Charlie Kirk” with a Sept. 9 publication date is evidence the event was staged. By Samantha Putterman• September 12, 2025 Instagram posts stated on October 13, 2024 in an Instagram post: “GA election official Gabriel Sterling says audits will take place after election day because it’s ‘nerve-racking’ to count ballots in front of poll watchers.” By Sofia Ahmed• October 21, 2024 Charlie Kirk stated on January 26, 2021 in an Instagram post: "Joe Biden admits he is governing like a 'dictator.'" By Daniel Funke• January 28, 2021 Elizabeth Warren stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview: “JD Vance actually sent a letter last year to the Department of Justice saying, ‘enforce the Comstock Act.’” By Samantha Putterman• August 30, 2024 Donald Trump stated on October 23, 2024 in a post on X: Vice President Kamala Harris has been “going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler.” By Samantha Putterman, Amy Sherman• October 24, 2024 Tim Ryan stated on November 01, 2022 in a town hall event: “J.D. Vance said nothing about” the attack on Paul Pelosi. By Jon Greenberg• November 3, 2022 Donald Trump stated on August 15, 2023 in a Truth Social post: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis “campaigned and raised money on, ‘I will get Trump.’” By Amy Sherman• August 18, 2023 X posts stated on August 14, 2024 in a post: Photo from an Aug. 14 campaign event in Michigan shows “JD Vance couldn’t fill a small room.” By Sara Swann• August 15, 2024 JD Vance stated on October 16, 2024 in a campaign event: Says former President Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election. By Amy Sherman• October 17, 2024 Facebook posts stated on December 03, 2020 in Facebook posts: Video footage from Georgia shows suitcases filled with ballots pulled from under a table and illegally counted after election observers were told to leave. By Bill McCarthy• December 4, 2020 JD Vance stated on September 04, 2022 in an interview: “Tim Ryan called police the new Jim Crow.” By Louis Jacobson• September 8, 2022
Charlie Kirk is dead after being shot at a Utah college event. What we know By Grace Abels, Katie Sanders• September 10, 2025 Who is Tim Walz? What to know about Kamala Harris’ new running mate By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Amy Sherman• August 6, 2024 Trump’s baseless ‘manipulated’ data claim in firing BLS chief Erika McEntarfer follows long history By Louis Jacobson• August 1, 2025 Ask PolitiFact: Did JD Vance benefit from DEI initiatives at Yale Law? By Gideon Hess• February 19, 2025 Fact-checking Tim Walz before his 2024 DNC speech – plus the attacks on his record By Amy Sherman• August 21, 2024 In Context: Here’s what JD Vance said about school shootings being a ‘fact of life’ (transcript) By Jeff Cercone• September 9, 2024 'Rough road ahead': Charlie Kirk’s assassination highlights the rise in US political violence By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• September 11, 2025 Fact-checking viral claims about Joe Biden at D-Day anniversary event By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Sara Swann• June 6, 2024 Tyler Robinson: What's known about Charlie Kirk shooting suspect's politics, bullet casing etchings By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• September 12, 2025 Trump VP pick JD Vance says media twisted remarks on abortion, domestic violence. We looked closer By Maria Ramirez Uribe• July 16, 2024 ‘I am afraid’: The aftermath of Springfield, Ohio, misinformation on Haitians who live there By Maria Ramirez Uribe• September 13, 2024 Charlie Kirk tributes sounded like Adele and Bieber, but were AI. How to spot synthetic music By Loreben Tuquero• October 1, 2025 What Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has said about election fraud, QAnon and other conspiracy theories By Daniel Funke• February 2, 2021 ‘They’re eating the pets:’ Trump, Vance earn PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year for claims about Haitians By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• December 17, 2024 Fact-checking the Gordon Sondland impeachment hearing about Trump, Ukraine By Louis Jacobson, Bill McCarthy• November 20, 2019 Tracking Trump's abortion position: Harris says he'll ban it, but he now says it's up to states. By Samantha Putterman• August 28, 2024 Trump is talking more about 'the enemy from within' near Election Day. Who is he talking about? By Amy Sherman• October 30, 2024 2024 RNC fact-check: Trump appears with Vance, allies talk economy on Day 1 By Louis Jacobson• July 16, 2024 In Context: What Stacey Abrams said about the economic aspect of abortion By Madison Czopek• October 26, 2022 How Donald Trump’s untimely and untrue ‘death’ unfolded on social media By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Loreben Tuquero• September 2, 2025
