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…
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(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 stop”…
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 the fatal 1967…
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 air”…
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…
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 country to support Republican candidates and…
Bogus Claim About LGBT History Lessons
By Saranac Hale Spencer – Factcheck.org Q: Is California forcing “schools to show kids ‘gay sex’”? A: No. California law requires the state’s history curriculum to include “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 claimed that the low U.S. unemployment rate was “because everyone…
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 meddled in the 2016 election,…
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…
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 immigration. We thought it…
Sessions vs. Sessions on Separating Families
By Lori Robertson – Factcheck.org Attorney General Jeff Sessions now says that the administration “never really intended” to separate families as part of its zero tolerance…
Sanders’ Misleading Wage Claim
By Brooks Jackson and Robert Farley – Factcheck.org Sen. Bernie Sanders claims that “the average American worker today, despite the strong economy, is not getting ahead.” Not so….
FactChecking Trump’s Nashville Rally
By Eugene Kiely and D’Angelo Gore – Factcheck.org At a campaign rally in Nashville, President Donald Trump repeated a bushelful of false and misleading claims, and added a few…
Who’s to Blame for Higher Gas Prices?
By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org With gasoline prices rising, Sen. Chuck Schumer placed the blame on President Donald Trump, and specifically his decision to pull out…
Facts on Food Stamp Work Requirements
By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org The rhetoric has been heated on both sides of the aisle as House Republicans pursue a bill that would expand the…
Trump’s Misleading Attack on Mueller Team
By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org President Donald Trump made several misleading comments when questioning the impartiality of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III and his investigative…
Pelosi Misrepresents Childhood ‘Hunger’ Data
By Eugene Kiely – Factcheck.org In talking about the importance of the 2018 midterm congressional elections, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi misrepresented government data to claim…
Trump Wrong on Comey ‘Leak,’ McCabe Funds
By Eugene Kiely and D’Angelo Gore – FactCheck.org President Donald Trump claimed a memo that former FBI Director James Comey gave to a friend “in order to get a…
