Latest Fact Checks By Amy Sherman

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Trump after docs indictments, 6-13-2023

Fact-check: Trump’s bogus claim on Fox News that ballots in 2020 were ‘fake’

June 22, 2023
In 2020 the ballots that were counted "were fake ballots."
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Trump in Bedminster, N.J. No. 2, 6-13-2023

Trump shares misleading, decade-old photo in attack on Biden and DOJ

June 21, 2023
Photo shows President Joe Biden sitting with “Lisa Monaco, second in charge of the DOJ, probably working on future Plots and Schemes against Republicans.”
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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence honored by Dodgers 6-16-2023

Did Dodgers play to empty stadium after honoring LGBTQ+ activists who parody nuns? Evidence says no

June 19, 2023
Protests of (Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence) at a Los Angeles Dodgers game led to a "virtually empty stadium for the game itself.”
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Chris Christie in NH 6-6-23 with portrait of Trump in background

Trump did not sign any major immigration laws, but he did issue orders that changed policy

June 12, 2023
Donald Trump “never changed one immigration law.”
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Haley makes a point, 5-24-2023

Nikki Haley falsely links transgender athletes with teen girls’ suicidal ideation

June 6, 2023
Having "biological boys … in their locker rooms” is a reason why “a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide last year."
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Ron DeSantis in Iowa, 5-13-2023

Ron DeSantis said that not ‘a single book’ was banned in Florida. Districts have removed dozens.

May 31, 2023
“There's not been a single book banned in the state of Florida.”
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Joe Biden in Valhalla, New York, 5-10-2023

Biden casts GOP budget as specific on law enforcement cuts, but it’s unknown

May 18, 2023
"The Republican plan would cut federal law enforcement officers — 30,000 — including 11,000 FBI agents, 2,000 border agents, DEA agents, and so on."
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Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, 3-29-2019

Pro-Trump PAC says DeSantis pushed 23% national sales tax in Congress, omitting key details

May 16, 2023
“In Congress Ron DeSantis pushed a 23% national sales tax.”
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Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, 3-29-2019

Trump suggested raising Social Security retirement age in 2000, but hasn’t backed it since

May 12, 2023
“Donald Trump himself wrote a book where he was talking about the need to increase the age of eligibility for Social Security to 70.”
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Crosses with the names of the Uvalde shooting victims at school on May 26

Trump said ‘many’ teachers are ex-soldiers. Data shows 2%.

May 11, 2023
“Many of these teachers are soldiers, ex-soldiers, ex-policeman.”
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Allen, Texas, outlet mall shooting memorial, 5-8-2023

Gavin Newsom misleads in claim that Texas “cut” mental health funds, omits that money was restocked

May 9, 2023
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “cut $211 million in mental health funding.”
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Texas Capitol, 1-10-2023

Yes, a Texas bill would give GOP power to call election do-overs in left-leaning Harris County

May 4, 2023
“Texas Republicans just voted to give a Republican appointee the power to single-handedly CANCEL election results in the state’s largest Democratic county.”
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