Latest Fact Checks By Amy Sherman

Congress put roadblocks in front of efforts to close Gitmo, as Biden said.

By Amy Sherman

December 20, 2019

"You have to have congressional authority" to close Guantanamo Bay prison.  

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Biden misstates Delaware’s black population

By Amy Sherman

December 16, 2019

Delaware has the "eighth-largest black population in the country"

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GOP representative says terrorists in Iraq had more due process rights than Trump. He’s wrong

By Amy Sherman

December 10, 2019

"We provided terrorists in Iraq more rights and due process in the Central Criminal Court of Iraq" than House Democratic leadership has afforded President Donald…

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In 2019, few Florida felons got their voting rights back through clemency board

By Amy Sherman

November 21, 2019

While previous clemency boards granted restoration of civil rights to thousands of Floridians,  "so far this year, under this clemency board, four (felons) have gotten…

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Trump inaccurately disparages Yovanovitch in Somalia, Ukraine

By Amy Sherman

November 15, 2019

"Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad," including Somalia and Ukraine. 

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Pro-Trump Facebook ad takes text in Obama’s book wildly out of context

By Amy Sherman , Jon Greenberg

November 12, 2019

Says Obama said black people have the "worst jobs, the worst housing" and face rampant police brutality, "but when so-called black committeemen came around election…

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Rand Paul’s false equivalence about Trump, Biden on Ukraine

By Amy Sherman

November 11, 2019

President Donald Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president "sounds exactly like what Joe Biden did."

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Florida GOP chair twists’ response by Democrats at debate on health care for undocumented immigrants

By Amy Sherman

November 8, 2019

"All the Democrats on the entire stage — every Democratic candidate said they want to give free health care to illegals."

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Donald Trump distorts Stacey Abrams’ position on noncitizens voting

By Amy Sherman

November 6, 2019

Says "Stacey Abrams wants to give illegal aliens the right to vote."

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Post that says Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has ‘numerous DUIs’ is wrong

By Amy Sherman

November 1, 2019

"Matt Gaetz has had numerous DUIs and his dad got him off each time. He was part of a company that had to pay 75…

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Trump did not threaten to rename White House for Astros after World Series boos

By Amy Sherman

October 28, 2019

Quotes Trump as saying, "Fine you boo me DC? Go #Astros, Texas loves me, I get the best kind of love there. I’ll be renaming…

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Again, Trump boasted that he called to take out Osama bin Laden in 2000. He didn’t

By Amy Sherman , Warren Fiske

October 28, 2019

Says in his 2000 book "I was talking about Osama bin Laden. I said, ‘You have to kill him. You have to take him out.’"

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