Latest Fact-Checks By Jon Greenberg

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Trump March 15

Donald Trump botches Japanese bowling ball on the car hood test

March 15, 2018

In Japan, "they take a bowling ball from 20 feet up in the air and they drop it on the hood of the car. And…

Hannity Trump to meet with Un

Hannity’s double standard on North Korea, Trump and Obama?

March 14, 2018

Say Sean Hannity said in 2008 that Obama’s willingness to meet with North Korea was "disturbing" while Trump’s "willingness to meet with North Korea is a huge…

Trump rockets

Donald Trump takes dig at NASA, extols private rocketeers

March 12, 2018

The last private rocket launch "cost $80 million. If the government did it, the same thing would have cost probably 40 or 50 times that…

Obama 2013 gun plan

Did Obama cut $300 million for school safety? Not really

March 9, 2018

"The Obama administration had cut $300 million from school safety."  

Oklahoma teacher protest

Are Oklahoma teachers the lowest paid? Nearly

March 7, 2018

Oklahoma teachers "are the poorest paid teachers in the US, in a state that gives nearly $500 million in tax handouts to energy companies."

Simmons on Fla senate floor

Florida lawmaker mangles Nazi gun control history

March 6, 2018

"Adolf Hitler confiscated all the weapons — took all the weapons, had a registry of everybody — and then on the night of June 30,…

German steel

Fox Business host makes 2 errors with steel tariffs and Electrolux deal

March 5, 2018

"Electrolux, Sweden's largest appliance maker, has just abandoned a $250 million investment in the United States because of the steel tariffs. That is retaliation."

Smith adn Wesson 15 rifle

Rep. Tom Cole: Half of Oklahoma homes have a gun

March 2, 2018

"Probably one out of every two households in Oklahoma has a gun."

Stoneman Douglas HS

NRA’s Loesch cherry-picks terrorism deaths in France to argue against assault weapon ban

February 27, 2018

In comparing mass shootings, "France had a higher casualty rate in one year than the entire two administrations of Barack Obama."  

Guns Florida capitol

Florida lawmaker repeats dodgy claim about crimes by cops vs. concealed permit holders

February 23, 2018

"A law enforcement officer is more likely to commit a crime than a CWP (concealed weapons permit) holder."

LaPierre CPAC 2018

Did NRA’s LaPierre once call for gun-free schools?

February 23, 2018

Says NRA head Wayne LaPierre said, "We believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America’s schools. Period."  

Trump thumbs up

Donald Trump falsely says he never denied Russian meddling

February 19, 2018

"I never said Russia did not meddle in the election."  

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