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Latest Fact-Checks In Race and Ethnicity

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Byron Donalds
Byron Donalds
stated on October 13, 2024 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“Wages adjusted for inflation were massively up under Donald Trump for Black men. … The (Black-white) wage gap in 2019 was actually shrinking under Donald Trump's administration.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2024
Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk
stated on August 6, 2024 a Threads post:
“During Covid, Tim Walz rationed access to monoclonal antibody treatments based on skin color.”
Mostly False
By Jeff Cercone • August 14, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on March 14, 2024 an interview with Fox News:
Says “100% of net job creation under the Biden administration has gone to the foreign-born.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2024
Dave Murphy
Dave Murphy
stated on November 7, 2023 Wisconsin Assembly:
"Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo signed a three-year contract for $186 million. He and his family, being African American, could receive benefits under affirmative action.”
Mostly False
By Ricardo Torres • January 17, 2024
Dean Phillips
Dean Phillips
stated on November 13, 2023 a speech at Dartmouth College:
"Half of American high school students are not familiar with the Holocaust."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 20, 2023
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on January 29, 2023 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":
"I got a list of 20 jurisdictions that defunded the police to the tune of over $1 billion total."
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • February 1, 2023
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on September 4, 2022 an interview:
“Tim Ryan called police the new Jim Crow.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2022
Candace Owens
Candace Owens
stated on May 3, 2022 a tweet:
“79% of Planned Parenthood clinics are in minority neighborhoods. This is not by accident. That is by its founder, Margaret Sanger's, eugenicist design."
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • May 18, 2022
Aaron Lieberman
Aaron Lieberman
stated on April 28, 2022 an ad:
"Kari Lake has been appearing at rallies with neo-Nazis," while "two federal juries have found" Katie Hobbs "guilty of racial discrimination."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • May 12, 2022
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on November 8, 2021 in a CNN interview:
"In 2015, when Terry McAuliffe was governor, the Virginia Department of Education promoted incorporating critical race theory lens in education...They were trying to indoctrinate kids.”
Mostly False
By Gabrielle Settles • November 16, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on November 3, 2021 an Instagram post:
"Arizona Department of Education gives green light on face mask and vaccine mandates, as well as implementing Critical (Race) Theory.”
Mostly False
By Jeff Cercone • November 10, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 13, 2021 a Facebook post:
"Tennessee new law passed 48 hours ago now makes it illegal to teach Black history in the grades K-12."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • October 19, 2021
FreedomWorks
FreedomWorks
stated on September 28, 2021 a Facebook post:
“The Democrats want you American taxpayers to shell out $3 billion for ‘non-racist’ trees.”
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • September 29, 2021
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on August 26, 2021 a TikTok video:
"Verizon promotes defunding the police and (the) idea that America is fundamentally racist."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • September 27, 2021
Kayleigh McEnany
Kayleigh McEnany
stated on July 6, 2021 a TV segment:
“We know most of our forefathers, all of our main Founding Fathers were against slavery, recognized the evils of it.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • July 9, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 20, 2021 a Facebook post:
Maxine Waters could be “sentenced” for “jury tampering.”
Mostly False
By Sasha Hupka • April 23, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 1, 2021 remarks with Mexico's president:
"The fastest-growing population in the United States is Hispanic."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 3, 2021
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 9, 2021 a tweet:
Said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies “blocked a resolution condemning anti-Semitism — which I passed unanimously in the Senate.”
Mostly False
By Landon Allison, Julia Schneider • February 18, 2021
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2020 the final 2020 presidential debate:
“President Obama would never give them long-term funding, and I did … I saved historically Black colleges and universities.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • October 27, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 24, 2020 a campaign rally:
"We have a mayor in D.C. who formed a commission with recommendations. Her recommendation is: Take down the Washington Monument, close up the Lincoln Monument."
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • October 26, 2020
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