Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

Posts correct about Trump administration’s role in releasing key Taliban leader

By Louis Jacobson

August 18, 2021

The man next to Mike Pompeo in a November 2020 photo “is the guy the Trump administration helped get out of jail in 2018 and…

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Ron DeSantis’ effort to blame COVID-19 spread on migrants is short on evidence

By Louis Jacobson , Miriam Valverde

August 6, 2021

Says Joe Biden has driven the current coronavirus surge because he “imported more virus from around the world by having a wide open southern border.”

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Nancy Pelosi’s dubious claim about who can extend the eviction moratorium

By Louis Jacobson

August 3, 2021

"The CDC has the power to extend the eviction moratorium.”

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Joe Biden is wrong when he says car prices are back to pre-pandemic levels

By Louis Jacobson

July 23, 2021

"The cost of an automobile, it's kind of back to what it was before the pandemic."

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Fact-checking Joe Biden’s figure on unvaccinated COVID-19 deaths

By Louis Jacobson

July 22, 2021

“Ten thousand people have recently died. 9,950 of them, thereabouts, are people who hadn’t been vaccinated."

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Fact-checking Joe Biden on voter turnout in 2020

By Louis Jacobson

July 13, 2021

"In 2020, more people voted in America than ever in the history of America, in the middle of a once-in-a-century pandemic."

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Joe Biden’s boast on early job gains neglects timing, pandemic context

By Louis Jacobson

July 9, 2021

“We have now created over 3 million jobs since I took office, more jobs than have ever been created in the first five months of…

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Fact-checking Donald Trump on there being ‘no reason’ for shooting Ashli Babbitt

By Louis Jacobson

July 8, 2021

"The person that shot Ashli Babbitt — boom — right through the head — just boom — there was no reason for that."

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Did the national debt become bigger than the U.S. economy? Yes, before Biden took office

By Jason Asenso , Louis Jacobson

July 2, 2021

“The national debt is now bigger than our economy. That hasn’t happened since World War Two – and we’re in peacetime. Joe Biden is digging…

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Anthony Fauci did not privately back hydroxychloroquine to family while questioning it publicly

By Louis Jacobson

June 24, 2021

Says Dr. Anthony Fauci in an email "advises a family member to use (hydroxychloroquine) and antibiotic therapy, the same evening in which in a press…

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Despite popular misconception, Supreme Court 9-0 rulings aren’t that rare

By Louis Jacobson

June 23, 2021

A 9-0 Supreme Court ruling is very rare.

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Joe Biden wrong about voting records of Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema

By Louis Jacobson

June 2, 2021

"Two members of the Senate," Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, "voted more with my Republican friends" than with the president from their own party.

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