Latest Fact-Checks By Jon Greenberg

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Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on November 8, 2022 in election night coverage on Fox News:
“Electronic voting machines didn't allow people to vote” in Maricopa County, Arizona.
False
By Jon Greenberg • November 9, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on November 8, 2022 in a tweet:
“There is no chain of custody” for ballots placed in Box No. 3 at Maricopa, Arizona, polling sites.
False
By Jon Greenberg • November 8, 2022
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on November 1, 2022 in a town hall event:
“J.D. Vance said nothing about” the attack on Paul Pelosi.
False
By Jon Greenberg • November 3, 2022
Mark Kelly
Mark Kelly
stated on October 26, 2022 in a newspaper interview:
Blake Masters “wants to privatize” Social Security.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 28, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on October 25, 2022 in an Instagram post:
The documentary “2,000 Mules proves” Democrats “cheated on the 2020 elections.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Jon Greenberg • October 28, 2022
Blake Masters
Blake Masters
stated on October 15, 2022 in a tweet:
Immigrants illegally in the country are treated “better than military veterans.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 21, 2022
Katie Hobbs
Katie Hobbs
stated on October 9, 2022 in an interview on CBS News' Face the Nation:
Kari Lake has “gone on the record saying she supports Arizona's complete abortion ban. She's called it a great law.”
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 12, 2022
Kari Lake
Kari Lake
stated on October 9, 2022 in an interview on CBS News' Face the Nation:
“Katie Hobbs voted for allowing a baby who survives an abortion — that the hospital would refuse medical care and allow the baby to die on a cold metal tray.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 12, 2022
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on September 27, 2022 in a campaign ad:
“I voted with Trump on trade.”
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 4, 2022
Mark Finchem
Mark Finchem
stated on September 22, 2022 in a Secretary of State debate:
Ballot harvesting “altered the outcome” of a city council election in Yuma County, Arizona.
False
By Jon Greenberg • September 23, 2022
Saving Arizona PAC
Saving Arizona PAC
stated on September 8, 2022 in a campaign ad:
“Mark Kelly voted against the Keystone pipeline, which caused higher gas prices.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 16, 2022
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on August 28, 2022 in an interview on CNN:
"40% of the folks who have student loans do not have a college diploma, four-year diploma. These are people who are truck drivers and who are nail technicians and nurses’ aides.”
True
By Jon Greenberg • September 13, 2022
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 6, 2022 in a tweet.:
“I had zero emails that were classified.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg, Maria Ramirez Uribe • September 13, 2022
Tim Scott
Tim Scott
stated on August 10, 2022 in an interview on Fox News:
“The Congressional Budget Office says 90% of the revenue generated from the new IRS agents will come from people making less than $200,000 … and the revenue generated will be $300-plus billion.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 17, 2022
Bob Good
Bob Good
stated on August 10, 2022 in a tweet.:
“Democrats are voting to add an army of 87,000 IRS agents who will target middle class taxpayers and conduct at least 1 million more audits each year. ”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg, Warren Fiske • August 17, 2022
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 12, 2022 in a statement to the media:
"President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!"
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Jon Greenberg • August 12, 2022
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on August 9, 2022 in a tweet:
“Democrats' new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you — with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75k.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 11, 2022
Blake Masters
Blake Masters
stated on July 22, 2022 in remarks at a Trump rally in Arizona:
Sen. Mark Kelly “voted to legalize abortion up until the moment of birth.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 1, 2022
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on June 17, 2022 in a tweet:
“American oil is … more affordable” than foreign oil.
False
By Jon Greenberg • June 24, 2022
Andy Biggs
Andy Biggs
stated on June 2, 2022 in an opening statement at a House hearing:
The U.S. Justice Department “conservatively estimated that guns are used 1.5 million times per year to save lives.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • June 6, 2022
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