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Latest Fact-Checks By Miriam Valverde

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Pramila Jayapal
Pramila Jayapal
stated on August 30, 2021 in an Instagram post:
“The average hospital stay for a case of COVID-19 costs about $17,064. The vaccine is free.”
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • September 2, 2021
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 29, 2021 in a CNN interview:
The Trump administration worked to free 5,000 Taliban prisoners.
True
By Miriam Valverde • August 31, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 20, 2021 in a press conference:
There has been “no question of our credibility from our allies around the world” regarding how the U.S. is withdrawing from Afghanistan.
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • August 26, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 16, 2021 in a Facebook post:
COVID-19 vaccinations are “a violation of the Nuremberg code."
False
By Miriam Valverde • August 20, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 4, 2021 in a press conference:
Says Joe Biden has driven the current coronavirus surge because he “imported more virus from around the world by having a wide open southern border.”
False
By Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde • August 6, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 16, 2021 in a press conference:
“That meth … it’s almost all coming across the southern border and it’s been accelerating for the last six months.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on June 4, 2021 in an Instagram post:
"920 women lose their unborn babies after getting vaccinated."
False
By Miriam Valverde • June 8, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 26, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Police defunding is to blame for “skyrocketing murder rates” in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Portland, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • May 28, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 25, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“Biden agrees to Pelosi's request to resign.”
Pants on Fire!
By Miriam Valverde • May 26, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 17, 2021 in social media posts:
“Gas prices highest in a decade. Worst jobs report in 2 decades. Highest inflation in 3 decades. Highest increase in illegal immigration in 4 decades.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde • May 26, 2021
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on May 12, 2021 in a statement to reporters:
"I don't think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election."
Pants on Fire!
By Miriam Valverde • May 14, 2021
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on May 4, 2021 in a speech:
“The global cost of corruption is as much as 5% of the world's GDP.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • May 7, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 19, 2021 in a speech:
“If you look at some of these places that (reduced police funding), they’ve already seen crime go up."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • May 4, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on April 22, 2021 in an Instagram post:
"Mountains of data" show drug ivermectin "basically obliterates" COVID-19 transmission.
False
By Miriam Valverde • April 23, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 7, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says the nation is locked down and there’s “a wide open border.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • April 15, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 23, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“We spent billions on a border wall and quit when it was 90% finished.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 29, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 25, 2021 in a press conference:
Says there was a “28% increase in children to the border in my administration” and “31% … in 2019.” The increase in migration in January, February and March “happens every year.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 26, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 25, 2021 in press conference:
“We’re sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • March 25, 2021
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 21, 2021 in a statement to the media:
"We proudly handed the Biden administration the most secure border in history. All they had to do was keep this smooth-running system on autopilot.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde • March 24, 2021
Alejandro Mayorkas
Alejandro Mayorkas
stated on March 21, 2021 in in an ABC News interview:
The border surge is “challenging” because the immigration system that had been in place for decades “was dismantled in its entirety by the Trump administration.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 24, 2021
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