Latest Fact Checks By Mark Dent

The Black Lives Matter protest outside a Philly police officer’s home was not ‘illegal occupation’

By Mark Dent

September 1, 2017

"It is shocking to me that Police Commissioner Richard Ross and Mayor Jim Kenney allowed this illegal occupation to go on for hours without taking…

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Will Philly’s murder rate be the highest this decade, as AG Jeff Sessions said?

By Mark Dent

July 24, 2017

Preliminary murder rates in Philadelphia "will put the murder rate at the highest of this decade in the city."

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Pat Toomey says ‘radical’ Philly is an ‘extremely dangerous’ sanctuary city; Is it?

By Mark Dent

July 8, 2017

"Sanctuary cities are extremely dangerous."

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Toomey ‘conflates two things’ in latest health care claim

By Mark Dent

June 27, 2017

"Remember, Obamacare created a new category of eligibility. Working-age, able-bodied adults with no dependents for the first time became eligible for Medicaid if their income…

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Philly DA candidate blasts investigative journalism: I never repped a client on Death Row

By Mark Dent

May 2, 2017

"In my 30 year career including dozens of capital cases, not a single client of mine has ever been sentenced to death."

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Philly Rep. Sims: Martina White wants to deport all immigrants; she never said that

By Mark Dent

April 5, 2017

"Finally, I will continue to fight against Republicans like Martina White, who like Trump, wants to deport all of our hard working immigrant brothers and…

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‘Uspoln’ puts rape pregnancy words in ex-US Sen. Rick Santorum’s mouth

By Mark Dent

April 2, 2017

Says former Sen. Rick Santorum said, "Sometimes pregnancy is God’s way of comforting rape victims."

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Pepsi exec’s words twisted by anti-Philly Soda Tax group

By Mark Dent

March 24, 2017

"We offer a tremendous amount of low calorie, no calorie options, like waters, unsweetened products, low calorie diet items. All of which unfortunately are taxed…

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Western PA congressman backs off ‘strange’ Obama shadow government claim

By Mark Dent

March 14, 2017

He’s only there for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to run a shadow government that is gonna totally upset the new…

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What’s missing from Amtrak’s claim that we rely ‘more than ever’ on trains

By Mark Dent

February 21, 2017

"More than ever our nation and the traveling public rely on Amtrak for mobility."  

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Donald Trump falsely tells GOP Philly homicides are ‘terribly increasing’

By Mark Dent

January 26, 2017

"Here in Philadelphia murder has been steady — I mean — just terribly increasing."

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Did word of Trump’s inauguration concert cause a Jackie Evancho sales surge?

By Mark Dent

January 5, 2017

"Jackie Evancho’s album sales have skyrocketed after announcing her inauguration performance."

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