CLAIM: A Republican “insulted” legal experts by claiming they had not read transcripts of impeachment testimony.
VERDICT: False. He said they could not have “digested” Adam Schiff’s 300-page report from just one day before.
Fact check – CLAIM: Pete Buttigieg said he would send U.S. troops to Mexico to fight the drug cartels. VERDICT: Mostly true, though he said he would do so in partnership with Mexico.
The “gender pay gap” is widely disparaged, even by liberal publications, as highly misleading at best.
Gabbard: “Our Democratic Party, unfortunately, is not the party that is of, by and for the people.”Guilfoyle’s “fact check”: “Yep. Checks out.”
Warren wants to hike payroll taxes, capital gains taxes, taxes on investment income, and estate taxes. And not just for the mega-rich.
CLAIM: Trump had to “confess” to “illegally diverting charitable contributions that were supposed to go to veterans.” VERDICT: False. The money did go to veterans.
FACT CHECK – CLAIM: Roger Stone’s conviction means “Russia collusion” actually happened. VERDICT: FALSE. Robert Mueller was the prosecutor in both!
CLAIM: Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland confirmed, contrary to earlier testimony, that there had been a “quid pro quo” between President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian government: military aid for “dirt.” VERDICT: FALSE. Sondland said that he “presumed” there
“We’re gonna win because this president has no good answers, and he’s broken every promise that he’s made,” Buttigieg claimed on CNN on Monday.
CLAIM: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is a “third-rate politician.” VERDICT: False. She is at least a second-rate politician.
Climate change was front and center at a marathon town hall last month on CNN, but at Tuesday’s primary debate on the same network, climate change was only mentioned nine times over the course of the three-hour event.
CLAIM: CNN and the New York Times failed to ask a single question about climate change during the fourth Democrat debate on Tuesday evening. VERDICT: True.
CLAIM: Pete Buttigieg claimed in the Democrat that Trump has been silent on Hong Kong. VERDICT: Mostly false. Trump brought it up in his UN speech.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Tuesday claimed that she does not have a “beef” with billionaires, despite repeatedly targeting the wealthy over the course of her political campaign.
During the CNN-New York Times’ Democrat debate on Tuesday night, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) falsely claimed that no Democrat running for president on the stage wanted to “protect billionaires.”
Elizabeth Warren falsely claimed the Mueller report showed that the president obstructed justice, despite the fact that the former special counsel made no such determination.
Yang said the loss of manufacturing jobs in Ohio had driven voters to support Trump. The job losses were even worse than he thinks.
Maybe ABC will reveal Hunter’s semantic dishonesty when the rest of the interview airs later tonight. If not, it is a gross dereliction of duty on the network’s part.
Because alternative media is able to counter Snopes’ lies with truth, these sore losers are going to resort to shameless and subjective acts of emotional blackmail.
CLAIM: The liberal media have been talking about the impeachment of President Donald Trump since he was elected in November 2016. VERDICT: False. They have been talking about it since before he even became the nominee — as early as April 2016.
The Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” column hit House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) with four Pinocchios Friday for falsely claiming that his panel had “not spoken directly” with the partisan CIA officer behind a so-called “whistleblower” complaint about President Donald Trump.
CLAIM: Trump lied when he said that the whistleblower rules had been changed. VERDICT: False. The form was changed — and we don’t know why.
Fact Check – CLAIM: Benjamin Netanyahu will be punished for corruption if he is no longer prime minister. VERDICT: Mostly false. He may face indictment, but there is no serious evidence of corruption.
Fact Check – CLAIM: There were not enough ambulances available to save the victims of a recent mass shooting in Odessa, Texas. VERDICT: FALSE. The City of Odessa said that its ambulances responded to the shooting quickly.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar claimed during Thursday’s Democrat debate that a magazine capacity ban would have saved lives during the El Paso shooting.
CLAIM: Former Vice President claimed, on immigration: “We didn’t lock people up in cages.”
VERDICT: FALSE. The “cages” were built by the Obama-Biden administration.
Despite repeating this lie over and over again over the past couple of weeks, the Post’s left-wing fact checkers let Biden off the hook, and let him do so by telling a new lie to cover up the original lie.
CLAIM: President Donald Trump is now deporting kids with cancer. VERDICT: False. All the Trump administration is doing is moving discretion over individual cases from USCIS to ICE.
Joe Biden continues to lie about Charlottesville while claiming that his campaign stands for “unity over division” and “truth over lies.”
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel group in the U.S., released a comprehensive takedown of the press conference Monday by Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MN), who were denied permission to enter Israel last week en route to a tour that was to be led by a radical Palestinian organization.
PolitiFact offers even more proof that the media’s thoroughly discredited fact checking racket is a total left-wing scam.
CLAIM: Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claims there is a “straw man provision” that allows buyers to walk into a gun store, buy multiple guns, and pass them on to criminals.
VERDICT: FALSE. Straw purchases are illegal under federal law.
CLAIM: President Donald Trump “has talked about white supremacists as fine people.”
VERDICT: FALSE — President Trump said non-violent protesters on both right and left were “very fine people,” but neo-Nazis and white supremacists “should be condemned totally.”
CLAIM: Kamala Harris “put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.”
VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. It was closer to 2,000.
A number of 2020 Democrats during CNN’s Democrat presidential primary debate falsely claimed there are only about 11 million illegal aliens living across the United States.
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) said at the Democrat debate “kids belong in classrooms not cages,” even though the feds provide education services.
Sen. Kamala Harris claimed during the second Democrat debate that 2,700 migrant children are being detained for breaking border laws.
Harris said Trump’s trade policies are forcing families to pay more for consumer goods. That’s just not true.
Former Vice President Joe Biden falsely claimed that adult border crossers arriving at the United States-Mexico border who claim to be fleeing violence in Central America are “entitled to asylum” in America.
Joe Biden claimed Wednesday night during the 2020 Democrat presidential debate that “Obamacare is working” even though premiums, deductibles, and co-pays remain historically high.
