Fact Check Posts – Politifact

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stated on June 7, 2026 in an X post:

This video shows a June 2026 earthquake in the Philippines.

By Loreben Tuquero • June 8, 2026

Jared Moskowitz
stated on January 22, 2026 in an X post:

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s “backlog of unanswered disaster assistance applications has exploded to the largest in its history.”

By Samantha Putterman • January 28, 2026

X posts
stated on October 26, 2025 in a post on X:

Video shows Hurricane Melissa hitting Jamaica on Oct. 26, 2025.

By Maria Briceño • October 27, 2025

TikTok posts
stated on July 16, 2025 in a Threads post:

Elk, grizzly bears, bison and mountain lions are fleeing Yellowstone National Park to Salt Lake City, Utah.

By Maria Briceño • August 7, 2025

X posts
stated on July 29, 2025 in a post:

Oprah Winfrey refused to open her private Maui road during July 29, 2025, tsunami warnings.

By Maria Briceño • July 30, 2025

X posts
stated on July 12, 2025 in an X post:

The Kerr County, Texas, sheriff “said he would apply for a green card for the Mexican rescue team that saved his family.”

By Maria Briceño • July 14, 2025

Social Media
stated on July 5, 2025 in posts on social media:

The Rainmaker Technology Corp.’s cloud seeding caused the July 4 flooding in Texas.

By Madison Czopek • July 7, 2025

Brian Tyler Cohen
stated on April 12, 2025 in an X post:

Trump “just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene.”

By Paul Specht • April 24, 2025

Adam Schiff
stated on January 26, 2025 in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press:

“As a Californian, we have given more to the recovery of other states than any other state in the union.”

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2025

TikTok posts
stated on January 24, 2025 in a video on TikTok:

“JD Vance is in North Carolina, and he’s found furnished apartments to put the people in that have been living in tents.”

By Madison Czopek • January 30, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on January 24, 2025 in remarks in North Carolina:

"The Biden administration kicked 2,000 displaced North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20-degree weather," earlier in January.

By Amy Sherman, Paul Specht • January 29, 2025

Facebook posts
stated on January 21, 2025 in a Facebook post:

“FEMA has been directed back to North Carolina with $2 billion in emergency funds: ‘We transferred it from the programs that fund welfare for illegals. They don’t be needing it.’”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 24, 2025

Dana Loesch
stated on January 6, 2025 in an X post:

Buncombe County “is still demanding property taxes on homes destroyed by Hurricane Helene based on pre-Helene assessments that no longer apply.”

By Paul Specht • January 17, 2025

Facebook posts
stated on January 10, 2025 in a post on Facebook:

“So (Los Angeles), Hollywood, and California (get) 100% aid for the next 180 days while Western North Carolina got $750.”

By Madison Czopek • January 16, 2025

Instagram posts
stated on January 14, 2025 in a post on Instagram:

The Biden administration is offering only “$770 for people who lost everything” in the Los Angeles wildfires.

By Madison Czopek • January 15, 2025

Instagram posts
stated on January 10, 2025 in a post:

The Los Angeles wildfires were planned in preparation for the 2028 Olympics.

By Sara Swann • January 14, 2025

X posts
stated on January 8, 2025 in a post:

“FEMA spent billions on illegal immigrants and now has no money for California!”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • January 10, 2025

Threads posts
stated on January 8, 2025 in a post:

The Los Angeles Police Department is “looking for three ‘persons of interest’ all tied to a MAGA website who were spotted at the source of all three major LA fires.”

By Sara Swann • January 9, 2025

X posts
stated on November 20, 2024 in an X post:

FEMA delivered “only four” temporary housing units to Helene victims in North Carolina as of Nov. 20.

By Paul Specht • December 10, 2024

Facebook posts
stated on November 12, 2024 in a video:

FEMA brought 300 semi trucks to Michigan’s Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • November 21, 2024

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