Glenn Kessler fact-checks Republicans for a living at the Washington Post, but on Sunday he got fact-checked for improperly accusing former President Trump of being dishonest about President Joe Biden’s inability to reopen schools.
Biden’s false claims echoes repeated false statements by members of his administration that they were “starting from scratch” on the vaccination effort.
President Joe Biden repeated the false claim that Trump did not condemn the Proud Boys. He also blamed the police and military for spreading white supremacy.
Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) declared Tuesday that one of the “takeaways” from President Joe Biden’s inauguration is that “Truth matters again.”
President-elect Joe Biden repeated his false claims that Trump had cleared protesters with “tear gas” and held a Bible “upside-down.”
Hollywood star Debra Messing falsely alleged in a tweet that incumbent Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) flashed a “white power” hand sign for the camera during an October rally in Georgia.
Georgia Democrat Senate candidate Raphael Warnock released an ad Saturday claiming without evidence that Sen. Kelly Loeffler “was caught campaigning with” a known white supremacist.
Deb Haaland would be the first Native American Cabinet secretary, as Secretary of the Interior, but Vice President Charles Curtis was the first Native American to serve in the Cabinet.
Georgia’s consent decree makes validating ballot signatures so difficult — and personally risky for the officials involved — that it is practically impossible.
Joe Biden says he would not shut down the economy. Earlier, he said he would — if “the scientists” said so.
Joe Biden said Trump would cut Social Security. He challenged his audience: “Google it.” So people did, and found out that Biden was lying.
President Donald Trump has lowered drug prices and issued several executive orders on lowering Medicare drug prices, though critics say more action is needed.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) repeated several well-worn lies in a speech to voters in Reno, Nevada, on Tuesday in which she claimed that President Donald Trump is a racist.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) told an audience at a rally in Atlanta that President Donald Trump is a racist, citing five proven lies in two minutes.
President Trump trounced Joe Biden during their final debate Thursday night in Tennessee. It wasn’t even close. Biden was looking at his watch because he couldn’t wait to get the hell out of the ring (I’m also told the debate took place in the middle of a Matlock marathon.) I was looking at my watch because I didn’t want it to end.
President Trump during the debate noted that the United States overcame the coronavirus spike that slammed the nation this summer.
Joe Biden claimed that the laptop with Hunter Biden’s emails was “Russia disinformation,” but there is no evidence of that.
CLAIM: Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden said during the last debate Thursday night that President Donald Trump has done nothing to help small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic.
CLAIM: 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed that President Donald Trump is responsible for 220,000 deaths.
Joe Biden tried to claim that he wasn’t referring to the Trump’s China travel ban in January as “xenophobia.” But he was.
Barack Obama repeated a number of false statements, going even farther than the Atlantic’s debunked claim about what Trump said about soldiers.
Joe Biden repeated his false claim that Trump told people to “put bleach in your arm.” Trump was talking about experimental UV light therapy.
Ted Cruz debunked Democrats’ false claim that Abraham Lincoln set a precedent for not filling a vacancy on the Supreme Court close to an election.
Kamala Harris falsely said Obamacare depends on Barrett; that she’d overturn it; and 100 million with pre-existing conditions depend on it.
Sen. Dick Blumenthal claimed he had a “direct quote” from Amy Coney Barrett’s dissent in Kanter v. Barr. He did not.
Joe Biden lied to an audience of seniors, misquoting what Trump had said about the coronavirus and young people as if he were talking about the elderly.
Unlike Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar did not make up a fake Lincoln quote. But like Harris, she also misconstrued the history.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) falsely claimed that Amy Coney Barrett “laid out the case for blocking” Judge Merrick Garland — and she fact-checked him on the spot.
A video of Pete Buttigieg making the false claim that most women have late-term abortions due to “devastating medical news” has resurfaced.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, falsely claimed that Trump has “refused to condemn white supremacists.”
Joe Biden repeated a false claim about Amy Coney Barrett. She criticized the way the 2012 Obamacare case was decided but not the law itself.
Leftwing media falsely claim treatments Trump was given for the coronavirus infection were developed using fetal tissue from aborted babies.
Kamala Harris made up a false quote from Abraham Lincoln and misrepresented why he delayed nominating a Supreme Court justice.
Kamala Harris recycled an old attack from Tim Kaine in the 2016 VP debate — and it was misleading the first time, too.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris repeated Joe Biden’s false claim about a “Muslim ban” at the debate.
“Joe Biden believes that you measure the health and strength of America’s economy based on the health and the strength of the American worker and the American family. On the other hand, you have Donald Trump, who measures the strength of the economy based on how rich people are doing,” Kamala Harris said at Wednesday’s vice presidential debate.
At long last, the Charlottesville “very fine people” hoax was debunked on the national stage. Kamala Harris used it, and Mike Pence killed it.
At Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) claimed that President Donald Trump “passed a tax bill benefitting the top one percent, leading to a two trillion dollar deficit that the American people are going to have to pay for.”
Kamala Harris cited the discredited claim that Trump called soldiers “suckers” and “losers” — and the moderator interrupted Mike Pence when he tried to respond.
CLAIM: During the Vice Presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Harris claimed that “Joe Biden will not end fracking.”
