Latest Fact Checks By Paul Specht

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

By Paul Specht

April 24, 2025

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

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

By Paul Specht

March 28, 2025

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

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

By Amy Sherman , Paul Specht

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.

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

By Paul Specht

January 29, 2025

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

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

By Paul Specht

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.”

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

By Paul Specht

January 6, 2025

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

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

By Paul Specht

December 10, 2024

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

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

By Paul Specht

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…

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

By Paul Specht

October 31, 2024

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

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

By Paul Specht

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.

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

By Amy Sherman , Paul Specht

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’

By Paul Specht

October 12, 2024

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

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