Latest Fact Checks By Miriam Valverde

Gaetz misleads in claim about immigrants, crime

By Miriam Valverde

August 30, 2017

"As of 2014, illegal aliens made up roughly 3.5 percent of our population, and committed over 10 percent of all murders."

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Trump’s False claim that there weren’t too many people protesting his Phoenix rally

By Miriam Valverde

August 23, 2017

"There aren't too many people outside protesting" his speech at the Phoenix Convention Center.

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Perdue cites data on immigrant households benefiting from social welfare programs

By Miriam Valverde

August 14, 2017

"Half of all immigrant households receive benefits from our social welfare system."  

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No, a tornado did not carry a mobile home 130 miles away. That’s fake news

By Miriam Valverde

August 10, 2017

Tornado carries mobile home 130 miles, family inside unharmed.

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Trump claims new U.N. sanctions cost North Korea over $1 billion

By Miriam Valverde

August 6, 2017

"United Nations Resolution is the single largest economic sanctions package ever on North Korea. Over one billion dollars in cost to N.K."

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False: Trump’s claim about illegal immigration under past administrations

By Miriam Valverde

August 3, 2017

"The border is down 78 percent. Under past administrations, the border didn’t go down -- it went up."

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Did Cher move to Canada because of Donald Trump?

By Miriam Valverde

July 26, 2017

Cher "is moving to Canada because of President Trump."  

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Jeff Sessions cites study on sanctuary cities, researchers say he misrepresented it

By Miriam Valverde

July 24, 2017

"According to a recent study from the University of California Riverside, (sanctuary) cities with these policies have more violent crime on average than those that…

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It’s fake news that an American killed North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un

By Miriam Valverde

July 20, 2017

"Kim Jong Un dead: North Koreans calling Trump an assassin"

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Trump claims he got rid of the Johnson Amendment. Is that true?

By Miriam Valverde

July 18, 2017

"I've gotten rid of the Johnson Amendment … I signed an executive order so that now ... ministers and and preachers and rabbis and whoever…

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No, Obama did not follow Trump to G20 summit in Germany

By Miriam Valverde

July 11, 2017

"Obama goes to G20 summit ...  Everywhere President Donald Trump goes, Obama shows up, too."

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Trump falsely claims his administration has deported half of MS-13 gang members

By Miriam Valverde

June 30, 2017

"We're pretty much at the 50 percent mark" on deportations of MS-13 gang members.

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