Latest Fact-Checks In Foreign Policy

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Ritchie Torres
Ritchie Torres
stated on July 20, 2025 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
“Since Donald Trump's inauguration, we have seen an 11% decline in the value of the dollar, the steepest decline in more than a half a century.”
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By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2025
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 18, 2024 a speech in North Carolina
“Today, America has record energy production and we are energy independent.”
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By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2024 a speech in Washington D.C.
In 2020, “only nine NATO allies were spending 2%” of their GDP on defense. “This year, 23 will spend at least 2%.”
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By Madison Czopek • July 12, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 4, 2024 a speech
“Due to the arrangements that I've reached with (Mexico) President Obrador, the number of migrants coming … to our shared border unlawfully in recent months has dropped dramatically.”
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By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • June 5, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 14, 2022 a speech to the National League of Cities
“Make no mistake: The current spike in gas prices is largely the fault of Vladimir Putin.”
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By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 8, 2022 a speech
The oil industry has "9,000 permits to drill now. They could be drilling right now, yesterday, last week, last year."
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By Amy Sherman, Yacob Reyes • March 9, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 17, 2021 on social media
The man next to Mike Pompeo in a November 2020 photo “is the guy the Trump administration helped get out of jail in 2018 and who is now the 'president' of Afghanistan."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 18, 2021
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 25, 2020 a speech at the RNC
Says Joe Biden “voted for the Iraq War … He supported war in Serbia, Syria, Libya.”
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By Miriam Valverde • August 26, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 24, 2020 an ad
“Trump lost a trade war that he started.”
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By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 23, 2020 an interview on CBS News' "60 Minutes"
“When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program.”
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By Jon Greenberg • February 24, 2020
Val Demings
Val Demings
stated on January 29, 2020 the impeachment trial
“All of the aid has not arrived” to Ukraine.
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By Amy Sherman • February 3, 2020
William Taylor
William Taylor
stated on November 13, 2019 impeachment inquiry testimony
"The Russians are violating all of the rules, treaties, understandings that they committed to that actually kept the peace in Europe for nearly 70 years."
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November 14, 2019
Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar
stated on February 27, 2019 a tweet
"#MichaelCohen: Convicted of lying to Congress re: Russia investigation … #ElliottAbrams: Convicted of lying to Congress re: arming Contra death squads"
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By Jon Greenberg • March 1, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 1, 2018 a White House press event
"Since NAFTA’s adoption, the United States racked up trade deficits totaling more than $2 trillion."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 1, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 31, 2018 a blog post
Says Donald Trump contradicted his own administration when he said the decision to allow blueprints for 3D-printed guns to be distributed "doesn’t seem to make much sense."
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By Bill McCarthy • August 2, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 8, 2018 a tweet
"Canada charges the U.S. a 270% tariff on Dairy Products! They didn’t tell you that, did they? Not fair to our farmers!"
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By Louis Jacobson • June 13, 2018
Kevin Nicholson
Kevin Nicholson
stated on May 4, 2018 an interview
"Tammy Baldwin cosponsored legislation that wanted to establish the Department of Peace and Nonviolence."  
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May 9, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 11, 2018 a Facebook post
Say Sean Hannity said in 2008 that Obama’s willingness to meet with North Korea was "disturbing" while Trump’s "willingness to meet with North Korea is a huge foreign policy win."
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By Jon Greenberg • March 14, 2018
Angus King
Angus King
stated on March 4, 2018 in an interview
"China, my understanding is, supplies 4 percent of the steel in the U.S."
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By John Kruzel • March 8, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 6, 2017 remarks at the White House
The Jerusalem Embassy Act "passed Congress by an overwhelming bipartisan majority and was reaffirmed by a unanimous vote of the Senate only six months ago."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 6, 2017
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