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Live fact-checking from the staff of @PolitiFact
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LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump's boasts about record-low unemployment rates for Blacks and Hispanics. Before the pandemic, Trump had a point. Mostly True.
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President Donald Trump and his team found several positives to tout from the newest round of employment numbers. On Jan.
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Donald Trump has said that he thinks windmills cause cancer. "Idiotic," said Sen. Chuck Grassley. "It’s ridiculous," said Sen. Joni Ernst. https://t.co/p6Fd0piXwS
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"Idiotic," said Sen. Chuck Grassley. "It’s ridiculous," said Sen. Joni Ernst. Iowa’s two Republican senators were talkin
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LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump talks about a $100 trillion climate plan. He's talking about the Green New Deal, which Joe Biden isn't proposing. The number is also incorrect. False
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Critics of the Green New Deal have circulated numerous false claims about the resolution — saying it would do everything
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LIVE FACT-CHECK. Joe Biden says we're 10 years away from a "point of no return" on climate. That's the message climate science experts make. Mostly True.
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In a recent campaign email, U.S. Rep. Sean Casten repeated a talking point often used by Democrats about how little time
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LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump says people with immigration cases don't show up for court. Biden says that's wrong. Biden is right. Around 60-75% of non-detained migrants attended their immigration court proceedings
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Defenders of President Donald Trump’s aggressive approach to illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings say the country faces
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LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump tries to pin the child separation policy on the Obama administration. That's False. Trump attempts to change the narrative about family separations. Obama did not pass down to Trump a policy to separate families.
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President Donald Trump, in an interview with the Spanish-language TV network Telemundo, adamantly claimed that the separ
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Raising the minimum wage does have an impact on the larger jobs picture but the specific matter.
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At the Fox Business Network debate, it didn’t take long for the topic of the minimum wage to come up. During a back-and-
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LIVE FACT-CHECK. Biden says the chief actuary of the Social Security Administration says Trump's tax deferral plan would bankrupt Social Security by 2023. Mostly False. The discussion was more hypothetical than tied to a specific plan.
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A new Joe Biden ad paints a bleak picture for Social Security under President Donald Trump. Here’s the full text from th
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LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump says Biden wants to stop fracking. That's not what Biden's position has been. False. https://t.co/SuNeGM59tA
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Was the U.S. on the brink of war with North Korea before Trump? Donald Trump has said he thinks so, but the experts we talked to said no.
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Was the United States on the verge of war against North Korea during the presidency of Barack Obama? Donald Trump has sa
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LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump says China is paying billions to farmers through tariffs. That's False. The tariffs imposed by Trump have been paid almost entirely by U.S. importers, who pass much of that on to consumers through price increases. https://t.co/MQcTk7nsf6
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With farmers across the nation whipsawed by falling commodity prices and rising tariffs, the industry needed some good n
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LIVE FACT-CHECK. Biden says the deficit with China is "up not down" under Donald Trump. That's Mostly False. The most inclusive measurement, for goods and services, shows that the U.S. trade deficit with China was smaller under Trump in 2019.
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During the first presidential debate, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden went after President Donald Trump over
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Ask PolitiFact: Why did Hunter Biden leave the Navy? https://t.co/DUDlj9AakX
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In one of the most contentious exchanges of the first 2020 presidential debate, President Donald Trump interrupted Democ
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LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump says Joe got $3.5 million from the mayor of Moscow. The allegation is actually about Hunter Biden, and it's unproven.
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President Donald Trump, who himself faces questions about his ties to Russia, hinted at some sort of murky dealings invo
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LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump says we have the best testing in the world, which is why we have so many cases. That's False. The U.S. still has a high positivity rate.
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President Donald Trump’s explanation for rising counts of U.S. coronavirus cases is that we’re testing more people for t
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LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump says 99% of people recover. Based on identified cases, the CDC shows a cumulative case death rate of 4.5%. FALSE.
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In a Fourth of July celebration with jets flying overhead and soldiers parachuting through the air, President Donald Tru
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LIVE FACT-CHECK. Joe Biden says 40 countries had acted to close their borders with China before the United States. Before, he said 45. HALF TRUE. Experts say Biden is wrong to say that the U.S. travel restriction was slow.
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President Donald Trump routinely claims that he went against everyone’s wishes when he decided to restrict travel from C
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LIVE FACT-CHECK. Trump says Biden called Trump's decision to close the border with China "xenophobic." MOSTLY FALSE. Biden has not directly said that the restrictions were xenophobic. https://t.co/9eUETZ2WUf
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Amid criticism of his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump routinely flags one
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