Fact Check - Page 5

CLAIM: Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), during Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence, claimed more people are killed annually with knives than are killed with rifles.

Biden falsely claimed that Justice Clarence Thomas said the Court should reconsider contraception, one of many false statements about the Dobbs Decision.

Oil production is still short of the record highs achieved under the Trump administration.

Bill Nye, the “Science Guy,” falsly claimed in a recent tweet that the last slaves weren’t officially freed until June 19, 1865, or on “Juneteenth.”

President Joe Biden falsely claimed that “nothing” was done, but Republican-led Florida passed new gun and school safety laws.

President Joe Biden claimed Thursday that mass shootings tripled after the assault weapons ban expired in 2004, but that is an exaggeration.

CLAIM: On Memorial Day 2022 President Biden claimed a 9mm bullet will “blow the lung out of the body.”

CLAIM: During Wednesday’s signing ceremony for police reforms President Biden again repeated his claim that the Second Amendment did not allow early Americans to buy cannons. 

Brandi Buchman, a leftist who self-identifies as a “senior staff writer” for leftist blog Daily Kos “covering Jan. 6 probe,” has been caught spreading disinformation about the January 6 investigation, Breitbart News has learned.

Biden’s attack on MAGA is not only false, but flagrantly violates his commitment in in Inaugural Address to govern in the spirit of bipartisan unity.

CLAIM: Democrat Cindy Axne claimed that there is “no logic” behind the claim that the Biden administration’s green policies are causing havoc to oil companies and their production.

Biden’s claim is probably false, as his Senate salary placed him among the country’s elite earners, and his sister helped care for his sons.

Vulnerable Democrat Rep. Cindy Axne (IA) claimed inflation is not caused by the increase in government spending mainly advanced by Democrats during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

The Florida bill bars inappropriate instruction about sexuality and gender for children in kindergarten through third grade. It says nothing hateful about “LGBTQI+”.

In fact, the overwhelming majority of American taxpayers received a tax cut through the Trump Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Vulnerable Democrat Rep. Tom Malinowski (NJ), during a recent town hall, claimed that the “economy is incredibly strong” and that it is “booming.” He also noted that “it is doing far better than anybody thought.”

Mitt Romney included Trump among those he blamed for Russia invading Ukraine, even though Putin never invaded any other country during Trump’s term in office.

CLAIM: Conservative Florida legislators are targeting vulnerable gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex children.

VERDICT: FALSE. The legislation does not mention any particular sexuality and applies to teaching in “primary grades.”

Iran was expanding its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities, as well as pursuing proxy wars throughout the Middle East, even under the Iran deal.

While there is a record number of hospitalized children from coronavirus, the number is about 4,000, not 100,000, as Sotomayor falsely claimed.

CLAIM: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday suggested that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has dropped the ball and failed to advocate vaccines for the Chinese coronavirus in his state.

While there have been improvements at the ports, thanks both to public and private initiatives, the cargo crunch is almost bad as it has ever been.

Facebook’s supposed “fact check” operation is actually a vehicle for the opinions of the third-party media outlets Facebook employs as fact-checkers.

Scientists do not actually know if there is a correlation between storms and a warmer climate, and tornadoes may actually have become less intense.

Biden visited Israel six years after the Six Day War; he was just a student in 1967, and Golda Meir did not become prime minister until 1969.

Jen Psaki tried for the second time this year to defend Joe Biden from charges of hypocrisy after he imposed a travel ban on South Africa, after calling Trump’s travel ban “hysterical xenophobia.”

Biden tries to pass the buck for inflation to gas stations. The data do not support his claim.

Poland’s national conservative government has fact-checked CNN on the migrant crisis engineered on the European Union’s eastern border by Alexander Lukashenko’s Belarus. 

Democrat Rep. Cindy Axne (D-IA) claimed last week that President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda will cost Iowans “literally nothing.”

The Bidens avoided over $500,000 in Medicare and Obamacare taxes by filing as an S-corp; a Congressional Research Service report suggests they could owe back taxes.

Jen Psaki falsely claimed that Trump was silent about human rights abuses in China. Meanwhile, the Biden administration, and Biden personally, has been soft or ineffective on China.

President Joe Biden repeated his false claim Tuesday that his multitrillion-dollar spending agenda would cost the country “zero” dollars.

Liberal media outlets issued bizarre “fact-checks” after the Polish government revealed migrants have videos of executions and illegal sex acts on their phones, objecting that a bestiality video featured a mare rather than a cow, for example.

Biden is correct that the deal did not require both sides to reach an agreement, but he left out the fact that it did require negotiations towards sharing power.

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan lied about what President Biden told the American people in his April and July speeches on Afghanistan.

Operation Allies Refuge is smaller than other airlifts thus far, and would, at completion, likely be smaller than the airlift of Indian citizens from Iraq and Kuwait in 1990.