FactChecking Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Interview
By Eugene Kiely, Robert Farley and Lori Robertson – Factcheck.org In a wide-ranging interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” President Donald Trump repeated several [...]
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Trump’s Numbers October 2018 Update
By Brooks Jackson – Factcheck.org Summary In the time Donald Trump has been in the White House: The jobless rate dropped to the lowest in nearly half a century, and [...]
FactChecking Trump’s Medicare Op-Ed
By Robert Farley, Lori Robertson and D’Angelo Gore – Factcheck.org In an op-ed for USA Today, President Donald Trump made a series of false and misleading [...]
Falsehoods About Ford
By Angelo Fichera – Factcheck.org In the days after Christine Blasey Ford came forward to describe an alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh [...]
(Fact Check) Trump’s False Medicare Math
By Eugene Kiely – Factcheck.org President Donald Trump on several occasions has taken credit for making Medicare “stronger.” In one instance, he said, “Medicare [...]
(Fact Check) Clinton Goes Too Far in Criticizing Trump
By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org In an op-ed, Hillary Clinton went too far with her criticism that President Donald Trump has shown a “complete unwillingness to [...]
Obama Cherry-Picks Uninsured Figure
By Lori Robertson – Factcheck.org Former President Barack Obama claimed that Republicans’ “sabotage of the Affordable Care Act has already cost more than 3 million [...]
Daily Source Bias Check: Puppet String News
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, overt propaganda, poor or no sourcing to credible information and/or is fake [...]
After McCain’s Death, a False Claim Resurfaces
By Angelo Fichera – Factcheck.org Q: Did John McCain “hide the fact that he ‘accidentally’ killed 134 American sailors”? A: No. He wasn’t responsible for [...]
U.S. Not Ranked the ‘Cleanest’ Country
By D’Angelo Gore – Factcheck.org President Donald Trump recently said “we’ve got the cleanest country in the planet right now” when it comes to “clean [...]
Giuliani Misleads on Trump Tower Meeting
By Eugene Kiely – Factcheck.org Rudy Giuliani falsely claimed that when Donald Trump Jr. and other Trump campaign officials agreed to meet Natalia Veselnitskaya at [...]
Cherry-Picking to Overhype Jobs Gains from Tax Cuts
By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org The GOP cherry-picked states with the largest number of job gains this year to promote its claim that “GOP tax cuts have fueled [...]
The Cost of ‘Medicare-for-All’
By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org Sen. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 14th Congressional District seat, are [...]
A Rally Filled with Repeats
By Robert Farley, D’Angelo Gore and Lori Robertson – Factcheck.org Summary President Donald Trump has embarked on a string of political rallies around the [...]
Fact Check – Ocasio-Cortez Wrong on Cause of Low Unemployment
By Corey Berman and Robert Farley – Factcheck.org Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 14th Congressional District, wrongly [...]
Trump’s Remarks on Putin and the Russia Investigation
By Eugene Kiely and Lori Robertson – FactCheck.org Asked whether he believed U.S. intelligence agencies or Russian President Vladimir Putin on whether Russia [...]
Home Explosion Spawns Clinton Conspiracy Theory
By Angelo Fichera – FactCheck.org Q: Were the victims of a New Jersey home explosion tied to an investigation into the Clinton Foundation? A: No. A viral [...]
Trump’s Numbers (Second Quarterly Update)
By Brooks Jackson – Factcheck.org Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office. Summary In the time Donald Trump has been in the [...]
Daily Source Bias Check: Opposition Report
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, overt propaganda, poor or no sourcing to credible information and/or is fake [...]
Illegal Immigration Statistics
By Lori Robertson – Factcheck.org With the controversy over family separations, much of the political rhetoric in recent weeks has focused on illegal [...]
