Latest Fact-Checks By Jon Greenberg

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Barnette with attendees at Pa forum

Pennsylvania US Senate candidate Kathy Barnette wanted Obama statue, but never voted for him

May 13, 2022

“Kathy Barnette wants to build a statue of Barack Obama right next to the one of Abraham Lincoln on Capitol Hill."

Clinic escort vest

Fact-checking Lindsey Graham on the US allowing abortions at 20 weeks

May 13, 2022

“We’re one of the seven nations in the world that allow abortion on demand at 20 weeks.”

Abortion demonstrators US SCOTUS 05.03.2022

Do Republicans want to throw doctors who break abortion laws in jail? Their plans say yes

May 5, 2022

“Republicans DO NOT want to throw doctors” in jail.

Vance at Delaware, Ohio rally

Attack ad twists JD Vance’s words on racism and Trump voters

April 28, 2022

Says J.D. Vance said, “People who voted for Trump voted for him for racist reasons.”

Shoppers at grocery store

Biden’s American Rescue Plan fueled inflation. So did post-COVID shortages

April 20, 2022

Joe Biden's spending “has sent prices skyrocketing."

MTG at State of the Union 2022

Greene twists logic and facts in pedophilia charge against GOP senators

April 6, 2022

Says Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Mitt Romney “are pro-pedophile.”

LNG ships under construction in SK

Does the US lead in cutting greenhouse gases? It depends on how you look at it

April 6, 2022

In cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the United States is “the leader in the world by far.”

Mike Gibbons Ohio GOP senate debate

In Ohio, GOP candidate falsely says more votes than registered voters in 2020 election

April 4, 2022

According to the Census Bureau, “5 million more people voted than were registered to vote” in the 2020 election.

Bread in bag in store

Donald Trump says stores don’t have bread. They do

March 30, 2022

“You go to a store, they don’t have bread.”

Wind turbine blade arrives

A GOP Senate candidate’s muddled claim about windmills and greenhouse gas emissions

March 28, 2022

“If you look at windmills” and the greenhouse gas emissions from building to retiring them, “the overall return is negative.”

KBJ-Hawley montage

Josh Hawley misleads on Judge Jackson and child pornography sentencing

March 24, 2022

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson “gave child porn offenders sentences below the guidelines and below what the prosecutors were requesting,” showing she is “soft on child…

Ohio’s Josh Mandel repeats false claim of stolen 2020 election

March 1, 2022

The 2020 election “was stolen from Donald J. Trump.”

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