Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Chris Murphy after Uvalde

Fact-checking Sen. Chris Murphy on the ages of mass shooters

May 25, 2022

“Most of these killers tend to be 18, 19 years old.”

No, Stacey Abrams didn’t support the baseball All-Star game boycott of Atlanta

May 24, 2022

Stacey Abrams "supported the MLB boycott."

Raphael Warnock may love puppies. But that beagle was borrowed

May 23, 2022

In 2020, when Raphael Warnock ran a campaign ad featuring himself with a beagle, “that wasn’t his dog.”

Georgia Pecans 2018 photo

Georgia GOP candidate (and state ag secretary) gets it wrong on agriculture’s footprint in state

May 19, 2022

Agriculture “is still the No. 1 sector of the economy” in Georgia.

Nancy Pelosi repeats outdated economic theory on link between unemployment, inflation

May 17, 2022

“When unemployment goes down, inflation goes up.”

First U.S. vaccination

White House errs on vaccine availability, then corrects it

May 16, 2022

“When President Biden took office … there was no vaccine available.”

Kathy Barnette with flag

Kathy Barnette largely correct on course of inflation under Joe Biden

May 13, 2022

Joe Biden “inherited inflation of 1.7%. Now we're well over 8% and growing.”

Kathy Barnette portrait

Kathy Barnette is wrong that agriculture is Pennsylvania’s No. 1 industry

May 13, 2022

“Agriculture is the No. 1 industry here in Pennsylvania.”

Biden speaking on the economy

Fact-checking Joe Biden on paying down the federal debt

May 13, 2022

“My Treasury Department is planning to pay down the national debt this quarter, which never happened under my predecessor.”

Biden at NC A&T

Fact-checking Joe Biden on being a full professor for four years

April 22, 2022

"For four years, I was a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania."

Gas station in Marietta, Georgia 4-8-22

Fact-checking Warnock’s statement that a drop in oil prices doesn’t cause major drop in gas prices

April 20, 2022

“While the initial increase in oil prices resulted in a near instantaneous increase in gas prices for consumers, the subsequent decrease in crude oil prices…

Ron Klain

Ron Klain exaggerates turnaround in jobs on Joe Biden’s watch

April 4, 2022

The economy was "dead in the water when we got here. Virtually no jobs created."

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