Latest Fact Checks By Victoria Knight

Trump’s wrong. 15% natural immunity doesn’t equal a vaccine.

By Victoria Knight

December 15, 2020

The percentage of Americans with natural immunity from getting COVID-19 is “a very powerful vaccine in itself.”

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A $10,000 Obamacare penalty? Doubtful.

By Victoria Knight

October 28, 2020

“Because our family couldn’t afford health insurance, Obama/Biden penalized us about $10,000, then took that $10,000 and used it to pay for others’ free Obamacare.…

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Did Trump confuse the public option with Medicare for All?

By Victoria Knight

October 23, 2020

“They have 180 million people, families under what he wants to do, which will basically be socialized medicine — you won’t even have a choice…

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Trump says he prevented 2 million COVID-19 deaths. Where does he get that number?

By Victoria Knight

October 21, 2020

“We saved 2 million people” from dying of COVID-19.

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No, the WHO didn’t change its lockdowns stance or ‘admit’ Trump was right

By Victoria Knight

October 15, 2020

“The World Health Organization just admitted that I was right. Lockdowns are killing countries all over the world. The cure cannot be worse than the…

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Mike Pence said Joe Biden copied Trump’s pandemic response plan. Pants on Fire!

By Victoria Knight

October 13, 2020

“The reality is when you look at the Biden plan, it reads an awful lot like what President Trump and I and our task force…

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Biden’s in the ballpark on how many people have preexisting conditions

By Victoria Knight

October 1, 2020

“There's 100 million people that have preexisting conditions.”

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Pence in RNC speech praises Trump’s COVID-19 ‘seamless’ response, leaves out his state feuds

By Amy Sherman , Jon Greenberg , Victoria Knight

August 27, 2020

“President Trump marshalled the full resources of our federal government from the outset. He directed us to forge a seamless partnership with governors across America…

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GOP Senate ad misrepresents Montana governor’s stance on rural hospitals, public option

By Victoria Knight

August 17, 2020

“[Steve] Bullock’s health care plan will force rural hospitals to close. Medicare as we know it will change, replaced by a government-run program with fewer…

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Social media image about mask efficacy right in sentiment, but percentages are ‘bonkers’

By Victoria Knight

July 1, 2020

COVID-19’s “contagion probability” between two people is 70% if the carrier is not masked, 5% if the carrier is masked, and 1.5% if both parties…

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Democratic super PAC uses familiar political play to hit Trump on Medicare

By Victoria Knight

May 29, 2020

Says President Donald Trump is trying to make $451 billion in Medicare cuts "in the middle of a deadly pandemic."

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Evidence counters McConnell claim that Obama team left no pandemic ‘game plan’ for Trump

By Victoria Knight

May 14, 2020

“Clearly, the Obama administration did not leave any kind of game plan for something like this.”

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