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Latest Fact-Checks In Candidate Biography

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Mehmet Oz
Mehmet Oz
stated on March 17, 2022 an ad
"David McCormick fired Pennsylvanians and bragged about shipping their jobs to Asia."
Mostly False
March 29, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 2, 2021 a Facebook post
"The Biden family is so heavily invested in oil and energy in other countries."
Mostly False
February 10, 2021
Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley
stated on January 4, 2021 a tweet
Says activists threatened his family and “screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door.”
Mostly False
By William Skipworth • January 8, 2021
Kelly Loeffler
Kelly Loeffler
stated on November 13, 2020 an ad
Says Raphael Warnock defended the “hatred” of Jeremiah Wright, the pastor who said “not God bless America, God damn America,” and gave Wright “an award for truth telling.”
Mostly False
December 1, 2020
Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson
stated on November 13, 2020 a tweet
Says Raphael Warnock "ran over his wife" and was "arrested for obstructing an investigation into child abuse."
Mostly False
November 16, 2020
Kelly Loeffler
Kelly Loeffler
stated on November 10, 2020 a tweet
Says Raphael Warnock “celebrated Fidel Castro and welcomed him to his church.”
Mostly False
November 13, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 9, 2020 an event in Detroit
“$400,000 ... is more money than I’ve ever made” in a year.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2020
John James
John James
stated on August 26, 2020 a campaign ad
Says Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., is "known for doing nothing. … (Peters) skipped 84% of small business hearings (and) skipped 89% of hearings on China."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2020
Casey Askar
Casey Askar
stated on July 21, 2020 in an ad
“When Byron Donalds wanted a state job, he lied, claiming he wasn’t a felon despite convictions for drugs and felony theft.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 6, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 28, 2020 a Facebook post
“Epstein’s recruiter Ghislaine Maxwell’s father Robert Maxwell gave Mitt Romney his first $2M investment and started him in business.”
Mostly False
February 18, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 13, 2019 a rally in San Antonio, Texas.
"I (found) the Republican votes for the Recovery Act, Obamacare, help us from falling into a Great Depression."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 21, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Hillary Clinton "paid for a Russian dossier to win an election," her husband "made $500k for a Russian speech," "sold 20% of US Uranium to Russia" and her foundation "received $150M from Russia."
Mostly False
By Daniel Funke • October 28, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 27, 2019 a press conference
Says in his 2000 book "I was talking about Osama bin Laden. I said, ‘You have to kill him. You have to take him out.’"
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Warren Fiske • October 28, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 23, 2019 an event in Hanover, N.H.
Says that as vice president, he pinned a Silver Star on a Navy captain in Afghanistan who had carried a mortally wounded comrade out of a ravine, and resisted receiving a medal for his actions.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • September 4, 2019
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 9, 2019 a Facebook post
A photograph shows Joe Biden with a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
Mostly False
August 15, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 20, 2019 a rally in Montoursville, Pa.
Says Joe Biden "deserted you. … I guess he was born here, but he left you, folks. He left you for another state."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 21, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 22, 2019 a town hall
Says he has "more executive experience than the vice president."  
Mostly False
April 24, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 7, 2019 a tweet
"The Dems and their committees are going ‘nuts.’ The Republicans never did this to President Obama."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2019
Missouri GOP
Missouri GOP
stated on September 10, 2018 a tweet
Says Sen. Claire McCaskill was named "most likely to be the most unpopular senator in the United States for four months in a row!"
Mostly False
By Dylan Sherman • October 28, 2018
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on September 21, 2018 a debate at Southern Methodist University
Says he "did not try to leave the scene of the accident" that led to his arrest for driving while intoxicated.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2018
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