Latest Fact-Checks By Paul Specht

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North Carolina Army National Guard delivers supplies to hurricane victims in in Elk Park, N.C. 10-8-24

Claim about Trump rejecting Helene relief for North Carolina lacks context s

April 24, 2025

Trump “just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene.”

Batch Senate Hearing

Democrat wrongly says NC ‘always had nonpartisan judicial races’ until Republicans took over

March 28, 2025

North Carolina “always had nonpartisan judicial races, and when the Republicans took over several years ago they changed it.”

Hurricane Helene damage near Asheville, N.C., 10-2-2024

Fact-check: Trump misleads about North Carolina storm victims and FEMA housing

January 29, 2025

"The Biden administration kicked 2,000 displaced North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20-degree weather," earlier in January.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and FEMA in Charlotte, NC, 10-5-24

Roy Cooper says Hurricane Helene relief bill ‘took money’ from hurricane victims. Not exactly.

January 29, 2025

North Carolina Republicans “took money out of western North Carolina” with Hurricane Helene relief bill.

Asheville, N.C., after Hurricane Helene, 09-30-24

Are North Carolina’s Helene victims still required to pay property taxes? Yes, and here’s why.

January 17, 2025

Buncombe County “is still demanding property taxes on homes destroyed by Hurricane Helene based on pre-Helene assessments that no longer apply.”

Hurricane Helene damage near Asheville, N.C., 10-2-2024

No evidence N.C. law enforcement stole generators donated for Hurricane Helene victims

January 6, 2025

Mitchell County, North Carolina, sheriff’s deputies “stole” generators intended for Hurricane Helene victims.

Aerial shot of hurricane damage in Asheville, N.C., 10-2-2024

How much temporary housing has FEMA provided to NC-based Helene victims?

December 10, 2024

FEMA delivered “only four” temporary housing units to Helene victims in North Carolina as of Nov. 20.

WRAL screenshot from footage outside a Red Cross shelter in western North Carolina, 10-25-2024

No evidence of officials threatening to ‘keep’ children of Helene victims who can’t find shelter

November 18, 2024

“Red Cross is set to close shelters across North Carolina on Nov. 15. Families staying in these shelters are being told: ‘If you don’t have…

North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore at the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C., 9-11-2024

Misleading: State House Speaker says White House didn’t call him after Helene hit North Carolina

October 31, 2024

“I’ve not gotten a single call from the White House.”

North Carolina State Senate District 13

NC Democrat falsely claims her Republican opponent campaigned for ‘largest ever’ school funding cut

October 25, 2024

Scott Lassiter “repeatedly campaigned to promote” North Carolina's “largest-ever” school funding cut, sending public school money to “unaccountable private schools” and ending science education.

Gazebo under water after Hurricane Helene, Morganton, North Carolina, Sept. 27, 2024

Trump said North Carolina Gov. Cooper, Democrats blocked aid. That’s not what their actions show

October 12, 2024

“It has just come out that Democrats in Washington and the Democrat Governor’s Office of North Carolina (Roy Cooper) were blocking people and money from…

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Democrats falsely claim Ashlee Adams ‘campaigned for Mark Robinson and his radical agenda’

October 12, 2024

Republican state Senate candidate Ashlee Adams “campaigned for Mark Robinson and his radical agenda.”

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