Latest Fact Checks By Jon Greenberg

Atlanta’s finances: Really the best in 40 years?

By Jon Greenberg

January 12, 2018

"Atlanta is on its strongest financial footing in 40 years."  

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Did Obama say he didn’t have the right to issue DACA?

By Jon Greenberg

January 9, 2018

When President Barack Obama "signed the executive order (on DACA, he) actually said he doesn't have the right to do this."  

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A gorilla channel for Donald Trump? Satire tweet fools 1,000s

By Jon Greenberg

January 5, 2018

"White House staff compiled a number of gorilla documentaries into a makeshift gorilla channel" for President Donald Trump.

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Did Attorney General Jeff Sessions reverse on enforcing marijuana laws? No

By Jon Greenberg

January 5, 2018

On rescinding Obama-era marijuana enforcement guidelines.

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Trump wrongly says end of mandate is ‘essentially’ Obamacare repeal

By Jon Greenberg

December 21, 2017

"We essentially repealed Obamacare because we got rid of the individual mandate ... and that was a primary source of funding of Obamacare."  

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Seating Alabama Sen.-elect Doug Jones – does a delay break Senate rules?

By Jon Greenberg

December 18, 2017

Says Sen. Mitch McConnell's delay in seating Alabama Sen.-elect Doug Jones "is a flagrant violation of Senate policy, which requires Jones assume office the instant one…

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Infowars’ Alex Jones wrong about Alabama Senate recount

By Jon Greenberg

December 14, 2017

Says there won't be a recount in Alabama because a Democratic judge said "we're going to erase all the computer files ... on Wednesday morning."

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Convicted mining CEO and GOP candidate says official papers reveal ‘Obama’s deadliest cover-up’

By Jon Greenberg

December 11, 2017

Says "Obama’s deadliest cover-up (in an explosion that killed 29 miners) has been uncovered" by internal government documents.  

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Fake news: No, a Roy Moore accuser was not arrested for lying

By Jon Greenberg

December 11, 2017

"Roy Moore’s accuser arrested and charged with falsification."

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Doug Jones launches misleading attack ad about Roy Moore’s court record on sex crime cases

By Jon Greenberg

December 6, 2017

"In a 2014 case involving a man convicted of abusing two underage girls, Judge Roy Moore disagreed and wrote the dissenting opinion."  

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GOP tax bill and overseas profits: Beware the hype

By Jon Greenberg

December 5, 2017

Says "$3 trillion in offshore money... is coming back into the economy" because of the GOP tax bills.

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Moore’s wife coins new anti-abortion term to attack his Democratic opponent

By Jon Greenberg

November 21, 2017

Says Doug Jones "is for full-term abortion."  

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